🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇺⚡️ — EU countries are limiting Hungary’s access to sensitive information and holding smaller, closed-door meetings over concerns about potential leaks to Russia but are avoiding formal action for now due to the possible impact on Hungary’s upcoming election, POLITICO reports.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️ — The Saudi Ministry of Defense says air defenses have intercepted a drone over the Northern Borders Province.

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — US/Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — US/Israeli airstrikes in Karaj, Iran.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇴⚡️ — Two ballistic missiles were fired at the joint UK-U.S. base about 3,800 km away: the first was intercepted by a missile from a U.S. warship, while the second fell short after traveling roughly 3,200 km, about 600 km from the island, The Times reports.

➡️ Experts believe the Khorramshahr-4 was likely used.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⌛️ — 24 hours remaining of President Trump's ultimatum to Iran.

🇺🇸⚡️ — The U.S. State Department has issued a security alert calling on Americans worldwide, especially in the Middle East, to "exercise increased caution."

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — US/Israeli airstrikes in Tabriz, northwestern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — A buildup of U.S. forces and escalating threats against Iran’s energy infrastructure are shaping what U.S. and Israeli security officials increasingly see as the war’s likely endgame: a fight for control of the Strait of Hormuz and key oil facilities, WaPo reports.

➡️ With goals like regime change now seen as unlikely, reopening the strait has become the primary objective, potentially allowing President Trump to claim victory, ease the global energy crisis, and weaken Iran’s leverage.

➡️ An Israeli official told WSJ that the new U.S. deployment of 4,500 U.S. sailors and Marines signals a plan “to take the [Kharg] island and the strait,” while Iran has warned it will retaliate by striking U.S.-linked infrastructure across the region.

🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️ — NEW: The Iranian missile attacks on QatarEnergy’s Ras Laffan complex last week involved "sophisticated missiles" that were "maneuverable" and able to evade US-made Patriot air defense systems, according to FT, citing an official briefed on the attack.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is wounded, isolated, and not responding to messages being relayed to him, according to WaPo, citing U.S. and Israeli security officials.