🇸🇦🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 WaPo: President Trump launched strikes on Iran after a weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia, according to four people familiar with the matter.

U.S. intelligence assessments saw no imminent threat, but regional allies argued to strike.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, the four people said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, continued his long-running public campaign for U.S. strikes against what he views as an existential enemy of his country.

The combined effort helped lead Trump to order a massive aerial campaign against Iran’s leadership and military, which in its initial hour led to the death of Khamenei and several other senior Iranian officials.

The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade. Saturday’s attack on Iran was a break from decades of U.S. decision-making to hold back from a full-scale effort to depose the regime of a country of more than 90 million people. It also marked a stark shift from Trump’s own previous military forays, which until now have been far narrower in scope.

📝 Carolina Lion: The fact you are starting to see the blame game starting only 24 hours in is not a good sign. If everything was going fine responsibility for starting this war wouldn't be currently tossed around like a hot potato.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷 Tehran

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️Fierce strikes have been carried out on the capital of Iran.

The center of Tehran is engulfed in flames

🇮🇱🇮🇷 Tehran

🇴🇲Omani Maritime Security Center: An oil tanker flying the Palau flag was targeted about 5 nautical miles off Mussandam in Oman.

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The U.S. Central Command published new footage of its operations against the Iranian military and Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps destroying 4 Transporter erector launchers (TELs)

🔗 CENTCOM

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani:

In the previous war, we suffered many casualties, but yesterday the number of our martyrs was very low; the armed forces are fully in control thanks to their prior experience.

In the coming days, we will have ups and downs, but the overall outlook will be bright.