Iran's Fars:

Most essential goods are reportedly imported into Israel from Azerbaijan and Greece, making the country heavily dependent on these two suppliers.

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Iran says its defensive operations will continue until its conditions are met.

The first condition for ending the war is a halt to attacks and assassinations.

Tehran has conveyed through a regional intermediary that it will continue defending itself.

Iran also says it will not allow Trump to dictate the timing of the war’s end.

Source: Press TV, Iranian official

BREAKING: Iranian media report 5 conditions to end the war:

1- A full halt to “aggression and assassinations” by the enemy.

2- Concrete guarantees that war will not be imposed on Iran again.

3- Guaranteed and clearly defined war reparations.

4- An end to the war across all fronts, including for all resistance groups in the region.

5- International recognition and guarantees of Iran’s sovereign authority over the Strait of Hormuz.

A 23-year-old Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force officer was arrested after breaking into the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo with a knife.

According to reports, he wanted to confront the Chinese ambassador over Beijing’s stance toward Japan and allegedly threatened to kill him if he was refused.

No one was hurt, but China lodged a formal protest, calling it a serious diplomatic security breach, while Japan called the incident “deeply regrettable.”

U.S. Air Force losses in the Iran war (confirmed/claimed):

1× F-35 – damaged by Iranian air defense.
3× F-15E Strike Eagle – shot down by Kuwaiti forces (friendly fire).
1× KC-135 – destroyed in a mid-air collision.
1× KC-135 – damaged in a mid-air collision.
5× KC-135 – damaged in Iranian strikes on an airbase.
12× MQ-9 Reaper drones – shot down by Iranian air defense.
1× UH-60 helicopter – damaged by an FPV drone at an airbase.

Source: EGYOSINT (at X)

Former U.S. Sec. of Defense Jim Mattis on Iran War:

15,000 targets have been hit.

There have been significant military successes, but they are not matched by strategic outcomes.

Now, some of the strategic outcomes floated early on — unconditional surrender, regime change, “we’re going to dictate who the next supreme leader is” — were clearly nonsense.

They were delusional.

German Chancellor Merz:

Not all those who belong to the Islamic faith are at the same time Islamists.

German Chancellor Merz on gas prices:

The best way to bring prices back under control is an end to the war in Iran.

German Chancellor Merz:

Germany must continue to have the ability to import oil and gas in the future — and possibly even produce gas itself.

If we completely phase out oil and gas, then large parts of our industry — particularly the chemical industry in Germany — would no longer be viable.

That is not the path the federal government is pursuing.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari:

Iran has been here for millennia. Nobody is going anywhere.

Total annihilation is not an option.

No people or country will disappear from existence by the wish or whim of any political actor.

We will live next to each other. We will be neighbors for the future of humankind, and we have to find ways of living next to each other.

We will have to find a way past this. This is a very difficult moment, but we will find our way out of it.

German Chancellor Merz on Iran:

We are trying everything to persuade the United States of America and Israel to now seek a diplomatic solution to this war.

Some of what is being said there is not entirely clear to us in its strategic dimension.

German Chancellor Merz on Iran:

Peace requires willingness on all sides — including on the side of Iran — and that willingness is, at the moment, not apparent.

INTERESTING: German Chancellor Merz notably avoided his usual labels like “terror regime” or “mullah regime” when referring to Iran, instead using the neutral term “Iran.”

In the same speech, however, he described the Russian government as the “Moscow regime.”

German Chancellor Merz on Iran:

A few days after the beginning of this war — it was a coincidence in terms of timing — I spoke with Trump in Washington and expressed my concerns.

I had another longer phone call with him last Sunday and pointed out the risks that this war poses to the global economy, and not least the opportunities it creates for the regime in Moscow to continue its war against Ukraine.

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Netanyahu on Iran:

The campaign with Iran is still ongoing—contrary to what is being reported in the media.

NEW: An Iranian military source warns that if the enemy launches ground or naval action against Iran, Tehran could open new fronts, including a potential threat to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

The source said Iran is fully prepared to escalate and cautioned the U.S. that trying to solve Hormuz could end up creating another maritime crisis at Bab el-Mandeb.

Source: Tasnim