🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️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.

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

Trump is the complete symbol of plundering.

The Americans have fallen into the trap of the Zionists, and it seems the first priority for America is Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 The death toll in Iranian girls school in Minab has increased to 148 dead now, per Mehr news agency.

The school was hit by an Israeli / US strike.

Most of them are children

🔗 Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu)

🇺🇸🕊🇮🇷 President Trump told CBS News that with the assassination of Sayyed Ali Khamenei, peace with Iran is "much easier now".

Trump said that with Khamenei and some IRGC generals gone, Tehran would be willing to make peace, in other words, surrender to all of his demands.

📝: Trump assassinating Ali Khamenei is the first time since 1979 when a head of state was killed by another country's military during a war.

In 1979, the president of Afghanistan, Hafizullah Amin was killed by Soviet special forces as part of Operation Storm-333. Amin's assassination started the Soviet-Afghan War which lasted for 10 more years until the USSR withdrew its army from the country.

Amin's replacement, Babrak Karmal, struggled to retain control of the country as his government was weak and lacked popular support requiring the Soviet Army to stay and fight the Mujahideen.

Trump and Netanyahu's success in the war against Iran hinges on Iranians rising up and choosing to become friends with the two countries that just bombed them and killed their leaders. Sheer insanity.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Axios: The negotiations were a ruse, never intended to actually produce any results! The decision to assassinate Sayyed Ali Khamenei was taken at Mar-a-Lago back in December 2025

The joint U.S.-Israeli operation that killed Khamenei was the culmination of two months in which President Trump pursued both diplomacy and war — on parallel tracks. On Friday, he chose war.

The seeds of Saturday's operation were planted in late December, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

Netanyahu used the meeting to discuss a follow-up to last year's joint strikes — mostly focused on Iran's ballistic missile capabilities — tentatively planned for around May.

On Jan. 14, Trump was on the verge of ordering strikes but pulled back. Instead, he ordered a massive military buildup in the Middle East, and began secretly planning a joint operation with Israel.

Over the following weeks, the Mossad director visited D.C. twice, followed by the Israeli military intelligence chief and the IDF chief of staff — all coordinating what would become Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion.

At the same time, Trump explored whether military leverage could produce a deal with Iran on his terms.

Trump wanted to try to reach an agreement, and the Iranians were told explicitly that military strikes "would occur if we did not see real progress on a real deal very quickly," a U.S. official said.

A week before the Geneva meeting, the U.S. and Israel agreed on a potential window for launching the attack — the coming Saturday, when Khamenei held a routine meeting with his top aides at his government compound.

But they faced a specific challenge: keeping Khamenei from suspecting anything and retreating to his underground bunker.

On Saturday morning, Khamenei convened his aides as U.S. and Israeli planners had anticipated.

Two other gatherings of Iranian security and intelligence officials were taking place above ground in Tehran at the same time. Minutes later, all three were struck simultaneously.

🔗 https://archive.ph/AnziZ

🇬🇧🇨🇾🇧🇭❌🇮🇷 — UK Defense Ministry:

"Two missiles were launched toward Cyprus, where thousands of British troops are stationed.

Missiles and Iranian drones landed just hundreds of meters from our forces at a base in Bahrain".

🇮🇷⚔️🇧🇭🇶🇦🇦🇪🇰🇼🇸🇦 In a matter of hours, Iran imposed a total naval and air blockade of the Gulf Countries, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and partially Saudi Arabia.

Iran is more than capable to keep the airports in all of these countries closed for the coming weeks causing billions of dollars not just in material damage but also in lost revenue.

Loss of air traffic is going to be especially painful to Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE whose commercial airlines generate billions in revenue yearly. The Gulf Monarchies spent billions developing airports which they now can't use.

Tens of thousands of foreign tourists and expats who came to those countries to launder money and escape taxation elsewhere now have to live in permanent threat of drones and missiles.

2025 was the best year for aviation in the history of the UAE. The Dubai Airport (DXB) handled a record 95.2 million passengers while baggage volumes reached a record 86.75 million. DXB is now connected to 291 destinations in 110 countries, served by 108 international airlines.

Abu Dhabi Airports recorded more than 33 million passengers in 2025, the highest annual traffic in its history.

The UAE's main commercial airline, Emirates had revenues of 40 billion$ 5 billion of whom were pure profit. Qatar Airways saw over 25 billion in revenue and 2.5 billion in profits.

In October 2025 GE Aerospace was writing that the aviation industry in the Middle East was expected to grow by 134% in the next decade.

The report titled, "Lifting Economies: The Impact of the Aviation Sector on Middle Eastern Economies," reveals that aviation's contribution to regional GDP will surge by more than 150% by 2043, reaching $730 billion and cementing the industry's position as a key driver of economic development across the region. More than 530 million passengers, twice the current number, are projected to travel through the region, with a 3.9% annual traffic growth rate.

Several key factors are fueling this growth trajectory. Middle Eastern governments have made strategic, long-term commitments to aviation through massive infrastructure investments, airline development, and supportive regulatory frameworks. This government-led approach, combined with the region's unique geographic position connecting major global markets, has created the right conditions for positive aviation sector impact.

The same article mentioned that the aviation industry accounted for 18% of the GDP of the UAE, with Saudi Arabia and Qatar planning massive investments into their airports hoping to draw away traffic from the UAE to their airports.

How long will the Gulf Monarchies allow this state of affairs to continue and resist Iran knowing that their main ally, the U.S, who was supposed to protect them, failed to do so?

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