🇺🇸🇮🇷 — New York Times, citing American and European officials, reports that during talks with Iran, the United States has demanded a permanent end to Iranian nuclear enrichment, limits on the range and number of Iran's ballistic missiles, and ending all support to pro-Iran groups throughout the Middle East.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 — Supreme Leader Khamenei's strategic adviser Ali Shamkhani has posted a message in Farsi, Arabic, and Hebrew warning that any military action, including a limited strike, against Iran will result in targeting both US armed forces and Tel Aviv, Israel.

The limited strike is an illusion. Any military action by America, from any source and at any level, will be considered the beginning of a war, and the response will be immediate, comprehensive, and unprecedented, directed at the aggressor, at the heart of Tel Aviv, and at all its supporters.

🇷🇺 — A Russian Aerospace Forces Su-34 fighter-bomber aircraft crashed due to a technical malfunction in Kursk Oblast, Russia.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Four KC-46A Pegasus refueling aircraft are supporting six EA-18G Growler electronic warfare fighter jets as they fly to Spain, with a further deployment towards CENTCOM likely.

🇮🇷 — Both the Iranian Navy and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy will soon conduct naval exercises.

The IRGC Navy will be conducting live-fire naval exercises in the eastern Strait of Hormuz, including areas where international shipping operates. Disruption is expected, and this exercise is likely to show Iran's capabilities in disrupting shipping should the United States attack.

The Iranian Navy, in coordination with the Russian Navy and the People's Liberation Army Navy, will be conducting naval exercises in the Sea of Oman. Notably, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier was spotted there a few days ago, according to public flight tracking data showing US Navy aircraft takeoffs in the area.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — The USS Delbert D. Black guided missile destroyer has arrived in the Middle East and will soon dock in Eliat, Israel.

🇮🇷 — Map of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp's live-fire naval exercises; international shipping is warned to avoid the area on Sunday and Monday.

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The U.S. has deployed 8 destroyers and an aircraft carrier near the Middle East, with a total of 756 VLS cells available for strike and air defense missiles

The buildup comes as the US begins to surge additional fighters and air defense assets amid escalating tensions with Iran.

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