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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) continues to release footage of strikes against targets in Iran, with the below video showing the destruction of two ballistic missile launchers as well as what appears to be a Sukhoi Su-22 in service with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGCASF).
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U.S. Army M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) launch ATACMS against military targets in Iran last week and early this week in support of Operation Epic Fury.
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The U.S. Department of Stateโ€™s Diplomatic Security Service is offering Iranians up to $10 million for information on a number of key leaders within Iranโ€™s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani.
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The U.S. Army has sent 10,000 Merops AI-enabled interceptor drones developed in Ukraine by the California-based defense venture Project Eagle to the Middle East, as it looks to repel Iranian one-way drone attacks without using up high-cost missile defense systems, according to a statement Friday by U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.
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After Iranโ€™s latest ballistic missile strikes on Central Israel, damage can be seen in one town as fires burn after an impact of a missile on the roof of a building.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met today in Paris with the Exiled Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi, amid the ongoing war in the Middle East between Iran, Israel, and the United States.
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Formula 1 has cancelled the Grand Prix in both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, citing the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
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Kilmeade: โ€œYou think Putin is helping them [Iran]?โ€

President Trump: โ€œI think he might be helping them a little bit, yeah, I guess, and he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right?โ€

Kilmeade: โ€œAnd you are, right?โ€

President Trump: โ€œYeah, we're helping them also, and so he says that, and China would say the same thing, you know. It's like, hey, they do it and we do it, in all fairness. They do it, we do it.โ€
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released footage showing B-2A โ€œSpiritโ€ Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers with the 509th Bomb Wing taking off from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, for strikes against targets in Iran under Operation Epic Fury.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump has denied statements from the Pentagon and Ukraineโ€™s Volodymyr Zelensky stating that the United States had requested and been granted direct assistance from Ukraine in order to help counter the threat posed by Iranian one-way attack drones across the Middle East.

Kilmeade: โ€œAre they [Ukraine] helping us with drone defense too?โ€

Trump: โ€œNo, we don't need their help with drone defense. We know more about drones than anybody. We have the best drones in the world, actually.โ€
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump claims in a post on TruthSocial that Iran had plans of โ€œtaking over the entire Middle East, and completely obliterating Israel,โ€ which he states are now dead โ€œJUST LIKE IRAN ITSELF.โ€
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Following U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegsethโ€™s announcement that the next 24 hours will see some of the most significant strikes of the war so far, intense strikes are now ongoing across Iran, specifically Tehran, as a part of joint U.S.-Israeli operations against Iran.
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Per an Israeli official to Israeli media outlets on strikes against Iran: There is an intention to launch attacks on Iranian nuclear targets and sites soon.
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The Israeli Air Force announced that, under the guidance of Military Intelligence, they conducted a strike yesterday that killed Marthsa Hussein Sarour, who was responsible for the production of weapons for Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) and also the brother of LHโ€™s now dead head of their aerial forces.
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According to Axios, citing an unnamed source close to the matter, U.S. President Donald J. Trump rejected a proposal from Russian President Vladimir Putin to move Iranโ€™s enriched uranium to Russia in order to end the war in the Middle East. The move by the U.S. leader took place during a call this week with his Russian counterpart. While Russia has served in this capacity in past deals and has the capacity to store Iranian uranium, a U.S. official told Axios that Russian proposals were repeatedly denied by the Trump Administration.
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Video shows the launch of Iranian one-way attack drones against, Israel, their Gulf neighbors, and U.S. bases and infrastructure across the Middle East.
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According to CNN, citing a senior Iranian official, Iran is now mulling the possibility of letting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz only if the oil on board is traded in Chinese Yuan. As opposed to the majority of international oil trades, which are done in U.S. Dollars.
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According to a post on TruthSocial earlier from U.S. President Donald J. Trump, at his direction, U.S. Central Command โ€œobliterated every MILITARY target in Iranโ€™s crown jewel, Kharg Island.โ€ Extremely notably, President Trump said that he has chosen not to target the vast oil infrastructure on Iranโ€™s economically important island and should Iran continue to interfere with the safe passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, the islandโ€™s oil infrastructure will be targeted on Kharg Island.
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Citing a U.S. official, the New York Times has elaborated on the previously reported strikes on Iranโ€™s economically important Kharg Island. The official confirmed President Donald J. Trumpโ€™s earlier statements that only military infrastructure was targeted, adding that missile and mine storage sites were also targeted in the strikes.
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