John Bolton on Iran:

This isn’t something that is going to end in days or weeks.

I think it is going to be months if we are going to be successful.

Hormuz Strait: Oil tankers and cargo ships are backed up in a miles-long queue.

Since the strait handles about 20% of global oil trade, the disruption is driving oil and gas prices higher.

Israel carried out a special operation to evacuate its embassy staff from the United Arab Emirates — including Dubai and Abu Dhabi — back to Israel.

John Bolton on Iran:

Regime change does not consist of eliminating the Supreme Leader and replacing him with another Supreme Leader.

It is the entire structure of the Ayatollahs and the IRGC that needs to be removed.

NOW: A building belonging to Iran's Assembly of Experts — the body responsible for selecting Khamenei’s successor — has been attacked by Israel.

John Bolton on Iran:

I think the isolationists within the Trump administration are very worried because they suddenly see that Trump doesn’t necessarily share their philosophy.

He doesn’t have a philosophy to share.

Iranian multi-drone attack on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh caused structural damage, partially collapsed the roof, and filled the building with smoke.

Source: Washington Post

BREAKING: Western sources say Qatar carried out strikes inside Iran in the past 24 hours.

Source: Amit Segal

Iraqi oil officials to Reuters:

Iraq will be forced to cut its production by more than 3 mln bpd in a few days if oil tankers cannot move freely and reach loading ports.

Israeli official to Fox News:

We targeted the Assembly of Experts leadership council during a meeting to select a new Supreme Leader.

BREAKING: Israel hit 88 members of the council while they were holding ballots to choose the next Iranian Supreme Leader.

Not all members were present, but the attack reportedly occurred during the vote count.

UPDATE: Iran's state TV IRIB says the buildings had been evacuated in advance, and no casualties were reported.

Iran's Defense Ministry spokesperson:

Each commander has at least three designated successors, and we will not face a leadership vacuum if commanders are killed.

The enemy believed that assassinating our leader at the start of the imposed war would cause collapse, but that was a miscalculation.

Zelensky:

Our military could go to help Arab countries if their leaders reach a ceasefire agreement with Russia.

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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov:

U.S. actions could push Iran to pursue nuclear weapons.

Those who have a nuclear bomb are not attacked by the United States.

BREAKING: Trump is open to backing armed anti-regime groups inside Iran, including Kurdish factions.

No final decision yet on weapons or intelligence support.

Source: WSJ

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov on Iran's nuclear ambitions:

If this logic is now promoted, then I guarantee you that forces will emerge in Iran, influential movements will emerge to do exactly what the United States wants to avoid.

To acquire a nuclear bomb, because the US does not attack those who have nuclear bombs.

And there are people there who cite the example of Muammar Gaddafi.

He voluntarily abandoned the development program, which means nuclear weapons.

And some of our interlocutors in the countries of the global south remind us of this. You see, Gaddafi refused and what did they do to him?

Israel and the U.S. attacked Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport.

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:

This war that they have now unleashed against Iran, it, firstly, can stimulate movement in favor of creating nuclear weapons, and not only in Iran.

Such a movement will immediately appear in the countries—Arab countries that neighbor the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Therefore, paradoxically, an announced noble goal to start a war so that there is no proliferation of nuclear weapons can stimulate completely opposite trends.

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov:

The risk is now growing that the problem of nuclear non-proliferation will begin to get out of control.

In Europe, they talk about it openly and loudly.

There are alarming trends also in Northeast Asia, where the United States, together with South Korea, introduce nuclear components into the program.