CENTCOM’s Operation Epic Fury struck nearly 2,000 targets in Iran using 2,000+ munitions, degrading air defenses, destroying missiles, drones, and ships, with 50,000 U.S. troops involved, signaling the largest Middle East buildup in a generation.

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Senior aide to Khamenei:

Americans have been trying to cause Iran to break apart since the beginning of the Revolution.

The United States is not trying to take over Iran, but rather wants Iran to be divided.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

The position of the Spanish government in this situation is clear and consistent. It is the same one we have maintained in Ukraine and also in Gaza.

First of all, no to the violation of international law that protects us all, especially the most vulnerable, the civilian population.

Secondly, no to assuming that the world can only solve its problems through conflicts, through bombs. And finally, no to repeating the mistakes of the past.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

Twenty-three years ago, another US administration dragged us into a war in the Middle East. A war that, in theory, it was said at the time, was being fought to eliminate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, bring democracy and ensure global security.

But which in reality, seen in perspective, produced the opposite effect, it unleashed the greatest wave of insecurity that our continent has suffered since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Iraq War generated a drastic increase in jihadist terrorism, a serious migration crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and a generalized increase in energy prices.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

The position of the Government of Spain is: no to war.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

And it is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure and, in the process, fill the pockets of a few.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

You cannot respond to one illegality with another, because that is how humanity's great disasters begin.

BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez to Trump:

We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some.

We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country.

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

When complex nuclear negotiations are treated like a real estate transaction, and when big lies cloud realities, unrealistic expectations can never be met.

The outcome? Bombing the negotiation table out of spite.

Mr. Trump betrayed diplomacy and Americans who elected him.

IDF Spokesperson:

An Adir (F-35I) aircraft of the Israeli Air Force recently shot down an Iranian Yak-130 fighter jet over the skies of Tehran.

This is the first time in the world that a manned fighter aircraft has been shot down by an F-35.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson on Iran:

We have no ability to get into nation building. We are not the world’s policeman. We have enough trouble of our own.

But I think this is a great development for the Iranians.

Trump - A Man With No Plan on Iran

🗣 Trump is all about himself, his own ego and interests.

Trump thinks he cannot afford to lose the midterms.

Pressure will then likely now be increasingly put on the US, from Israel and the Gulf for this regime change scenario in Iran.

Opinion by Timothy Ash

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NEW: At least 101 people are missing and 78 injured after a submarine attack on an Iranian ship near Sri Lanka.

Source: Reuters