Post made minutes ago by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs: “Americans should leave Iran now. Consider departing by land to Türkiye or Armenia, if safe to do so. Protests across Iran continue to escalate. Increased security measures, road closures, public transportation disruptions, and internet blockages are ongoing. The Government of Iran has restricted access to mobile, landline, and national internet networks. Airlines continue to limit or cancel flights to and from Iran, with several suspending service.”

Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar have privately been lobbying the Trump Administration against a strike on Tehran, after the U.S. warned them to be prepared for such an attack, concerned an attempt to topple the Iranian Regime would rattle oil markets and ultimately hurt the economy of the United States, according to Arab Gulf officials who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.

Arab Gulf States fear strikes on Iran risk disrupting oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz, through which passes around a fifth of the world’s oil shipments, with Saudi officials having assured Tehran that they wouldn’t get involved in a potential conflict or allow the Americans to use their airspace for strikes, in an effort to distance themselves from and stave off military action by the United States.

Speaking to reporters earlier after landing at Joint Base Andrews, President Donald J. Trump states: “I’m going back to the White House now, we’re going to look at the whole situation that’s going on in Iran. It’s really bad stuff… Iran is on my mind, when I see the kind of death that is happening over there, we think… We’ll get some accurate numbers as to what’s happening with regard to the killing. The killing looks like it’s significant but we don’t know for certain.”

Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA), a non-governmental organization based in Washington and dedicated to the promotion and defense of human rights in Iran, has raised its death toll from the ongoing protests to 2,403, with arrests numbering at least 18,137.

Republican Senator John N. Kennedy describes Lindsey Graham in his recent best-selling book, “If you want to stump Lindsey, just ask him to name a country he wouldn’t bomb,” Mr. Kennedy writes, adding later that the Senator from South Carolina is also unpredictable. “Invite him to dinner, and you don’t know if he’ll sit down for an intelligent conversation or get drunk and vomit in the fish tank. But that’s why I like him.”

President Donald J. Trump appears to put up his middle finger at and mouth “fuck you” to a worker who yelled “pedophile protector,” earlier today while touring the Ford Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

Arguments by members of the Trump Administration against a strike on Iran include the danger of an accident or failure as the U.S. military and spy services attempt more high-risk operations, as well as the possibility that the fall of the Government in Iran could lead to a more militant regime or another failed state in the Middle East, according to officials and people close to the White House who spoke on the condition of anonymity to the Washington Post.

Despite supporting President Trump’s decision last June to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities alongside Israel, Vice President JD Vance is still worried the United States could be “pulled deeper into a Middle East entanglement,” if it intervenes in the anti-regime protests in Iran.

OVRLD01, a U.S. Navy MQ-4C “Triton” High-Altitude Surveillance Drone, has departed from Al Dhafra Air Base in Abu Dhabi for a routine patrol over the Strait of Hormuz, only miles off the coast of Iran.

The unidentified 48-year-old driver of a U-Haul Truck that drove through an Iranian pro-monarchist, anti-regime march in Los Angeles, California this past Sunday was released on Monday by authorities, who have so far declined to formally charge him under any criminal statute, with him being arrested immediately after the incident on suspicion of reckless driving by the Los Angeles Police Department.

No reliable, verifiable reports have stated that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, has arrived at the White House, despite claims being made by certain accounts on X.

Despite public saber-rattling against Iran, President Donald J. Trump has sounded uncertain in private about potential military action, with some describing him as less enthusiastic than before the bombings last June and another calling it “a coin flip” whether he decides to order strikes against Iran, people close to the White House told the Washington Post.

Two European officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information, said their countries were asked Monday by the Trump Administration to share intelligence on possible targets within Iran, according to the Washington Post.

Over 132 hours now without internet service in Iran.

Some personnel have been advised to depart Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar by Wednesday evening, three diplomats tell Reuters.

The Indian Embassy in Tehran has issued an updated advisory suggesting that all Indian Nationals immediately leave Iran.

An Israeli Boeing 767-338ER, known as the “Wing of Zion” which operates as an Air Force One for the Prime Minister and President, suddenly departed Nevatim Airbase in Southern Israel earlier this morning bound for the Greek island of Crete, similar to what was seen in the lead up to previous strikes against Iran. After landing in Greece, the Boeing 767 made a quick turn around and is now returning to Israel, in a reported “evacuation drill” by the Israeli Air Force.

No immediate signs of a large-scale evacuation of troops from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar as took place in the hours before an Iranian missile attack last year, with today’s advised departure of some personnel from the base more of a “posture change” rather than an “ordered evacuation,” a diplomat told Reuters.

Some personnel and servicemembers are being withdrawn from several U.S. military bases across the Middle East as a “precaution given elevated regional tensions,” a U.S. official tells Reuters.