🇺🇸📞🇱🇧❗️ — BREAKING: Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with the Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and PM Benjamin Netanyahu over the last two days to push for a ceasefire in Lebanon.

▶️ A proposed first step was for Hezbollah to stop all attacks and, in return, Israel would refrain from escalation in Beirut—terms Hezbollah would certainly reject, since it would mean Israel could still strike southern Lebanon.

▶️ Although Aoun was reportedly open to advancing the proposal, Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, was "evasive and disappointing", and asked for Israel to stop shooting first.

📰 Axios

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧❗️ — In practice, Hezbollah rejecting this deal (which is likely to happen) would mean an implicit U.S. green light for further Israeli escalation against Lebanon and in Beirut.

🇪🇬🕊🇱🇧❗️ — The Secretary General of the League of Arab States (LAS), Ahmed Aboul Gheit, strongly condemned the "brutal Israeli agression against Lebanon", and urged the LAS to stand in solidarity with the Lebanese.

▶️ He also called upon the Security Council to work towards a ceasefire and a full Israeli retreat from Lebanese soil.

🇪🇬💬 Full statement:

"Aboul Gheit strongly condemns Israeli aggression against Lebanon

Mr. Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, condemned in the strongest terms the brutal Israeli aggression against Lebanon, the continued encroachment upon Lebanese territory, the ongoing destruction of villages and historical landmarks in southern Lebanon, and the targeting and displacement of civilians in a flagrant violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and a serious breach of international law and international humanitarian law.

Gamal Roshdy, the official spokeperson for the Secretary-General, stressed the urgent need for an immediate halt to this brutal Israeli aggression, which poses a serious threat to security and stability in the region. He affirmed the importance of the United Nations Security Council assumingits responsibilities in this regard and obliging Israel to cease fire and fully implement Security Council Resolution 1701.

The spokesperson further asserted the League of Arab States' solidarity with Lebanon and its people, and its support for the Lebanese state in addressing the onsequences of this aggression. He reiterated the League's backing for all measures undertaken by the Lebanese government to restore security and stability and to extend state sovereignty over its entire territory, including its call upon the Security Council to work towards an immediate ceasefire, the full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon, and the facilitation of the return of displaced persons to their areas and homes."

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧❗️ — Axios' reporter Barak Ravid appears to agree with our prediction.

🇰🇼❌🏴⁉️ — BREAKING: Air raid sirens sounding in Kuwait, per an al-Jazeera correspondent!

🇰🇼❌🏴❗️ — Kuwait confirms its armed forces are engaging enemy missiles and drones.

▶️ Their origin is still unknown, they could he either Iranian or Iraqi.

🇰🇼❌🇮🇷⁉️ — Unconfirmed reports of Iranian missile launches from Khuzestan province.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧❗️ — Air raid alerts in northern Israel due to fears of a drone incursion.

🇰🇼❌🇮🇷❗️ — Preliminary reports of a missile interception near Ali Salem airbase in Kuwait.

📝 The presence of a ballistic missile all but confirms that the Iranians were involved.

🇰🇼🇮🇳🚫🇮🇷❗️ — A flight from Chennai (MAA) to Kuwait City (KWI), operated by aircraft 9K-AKS, turned away while on final approach to Kuwait.

🇺🇸🌏❌🇮🇷❗️ — URGENT: U.S. CENTCOM confirms strikes against Iranian radar and command sites for drones in Goruk and Qeshm Island sometime this weekend!

▶️ It's likely the missile launch against Kuwait was a reprisal for this attack.

🇰🇼🇧🇩🚫🇮🇷❗️ — Additionally, a Kuwait Airways flight KAC284 from Dhaka entered a holding pattern over the Persian Gulf amid reported missile activity and air defense operations near Kuwait.

🇺🇸🌏❌🇮🇷❗️ — The U.S. strikes appear to be themselves a reprisal for Iran's "aggressive actions", including the shootdown of an MQ-1 drone, which the CENTCOM claims was U.S.-operated.

🇺🇸🇰🇼❌🇮🇷❗️ — The U.S. Central Command confirms no injuries or damage are to be reported following the Iranian attack on Ali Salem airbase.

🇺🇸🇰🇼❌🇮🇷❗️ — Visual confirmation shows a missile launched from Iran’s Khuzestan Province toward Kuwait, providing strong indication that the projectile intercepted by Kuwaiti air defenses was headed in the direction of the U.S. Ali Al Salem Air Base.

🇺🇸🌏❌🇮🇷❗️ — Iranian outlet Tasnim News confirms a telecommunications tower in Sirik Island was targeted by the U.S., and the launches against Kuwait are a direct reprisal to that strike.

▶️ The IRGC claims their targets were destroyed, and warn that another attack will have a different, likely more aggressive response.

📰 Tasnim News

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧❗️ — Air raid sirens sounding in Kiryat Shmona and its surroundings after another Hezbollah drone attack.

🇺🇸🇰🇼❌🇮🇷❗️ — The IRGC confirmed that, in response to a U.S. airstrike on a telecommunications tower on Sirik Island roughly one hour earlier, it carried out a retaliatory strike against what it described as the originating airbase, believed to be Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait.

🇫🇷❌🇷🇺🚢❗️ — French forces intercepted and boarded a sanctioned Russian tanker, the Tagor, yesterday (May 31) morning. The operation was carried out in international waters and with British support.

🇫🇷💬 Statement by President Macron:

"The French Navy intercepted a new tanker under international sanctions yesterday morning, originating from Russia: the Tagor. Our determination is steadfast and unwavering.

This operation was carried out in the Atlantic, in international waters, with the support of several partners including the United Kingdom, in strict compliance with the law of the sea.

It is unacceptable for ships to circumvent international sanctions, violate the law of the sea, and fund the war that Russia has been waging against Ukraine for more than 4 years.

These vessels, which fail to adhere to the most basic rules of maritime navigation, also pose a threat to the environment and to everyone's safety."