⚡️🇺🇸🇩🇪❌🇮🇷 - The USAF is deploying yet another "E-11A" BACN Aircraft to the CENTCOM. The aircraft departed Georgia's "Robins" Airbase and is likely to land in Germany's "Ramstein" Airbase.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 — An attack on Iran is within days according to Yedioth Ahronot Israeli news outlet.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 — Channel 12 citing an American official:

Iran has a deadline until the end of this month to make significant concessions in the nuclear negotiations.

⚡️🇮🇷✈️ - NOTAM's issued in Iran today (18/Feb):
- (A0605/26): Closed airspace in designated areas for "Rocket" launches on the 19th of February for a period of 10 hours, starting 3:30 UTC, to 13:30 UTC.

📝 Attached is the designated corridor area mapped.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 — Barak Ravid (Axios, Channel 12 correspondent) says:

A senior American official told me that the round of talks with Iran in Geneva was "just an empty hamburger bun". This is one of the reasons why Trump is about to make a decision on waging war against Iran.

✈️ — FlightRadar24 is down.

Edit: It is back up.

🇮🇷🤝🇷🇺 — The Iranian ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali:

We have been concluding arms purchase deals with Russia for years, and the influx of Russian cargo planes comes in this context.

🇻🇪🤝🇺🇸 — US Embassy in Venezuela announces a visit by SOUTHCOM commander General Francis L. Donovan to Caracas. Donovan met with Venezuelan authorities to ensure the implementation of President Trump's peace plan and "advance the objective of a Venezuela aligned with the United States".

🇺🇸 — High traffic observed at Arnold Avenue near the entrance to Whiteman Air Force Base, home of the B-2 "Spirit" stealth strategic bomber.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — IAF raids ongoing against alleged Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🍕 — The past three days, there has been heavy pizza-ordering activity at pizza restaurants near MacDill AFB, home of US CENTCOM.

📝 Anytime between 4:00 PM ET on Friday to 9:00 PM ET on Sunday is when the first USAF strikes will begin on Iran; admin believes that it will begin on Sunday once the USS Gerald R. Ford arrives, but everything is in place to have the attacks start earlier. Markets close at 4 PM on Friday, and it will become Monday morning in Iran at 9 PM Sunday Eastern Time.

One variable I haven't seen bought up is Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday. Trump will want to talk about him striking Iran during this address. He will frame it as a major success and spin it as the pinnacle of his already interventionist foreign policy. This is a major reason Trump will strike before Tuesday specifically.

Also of note is the War Powers act being made by Representatives Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, which seeks to prohibit attacks in Iran without Congressional approval. This will be introduced next week.

🇬🇧❌📁 — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, also known as "Prince Andrew", has been arrested for "suspicion of misconduct in public office".

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇷 — Six of the twelve F-22 "Raptor" air superiority fighter jets had arrived at RAF Lakenheath days ago, but the other six were forced to turn back due to an aerial refueling issue. Another tanker escorted the six remaining F-22s to RAF Lakenheath earlier today, meaning the planned twelve are now fully present.

🇰🇷 — Former president Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to life in prison for attempting an insurrection when he declared martial law and attempted to establish military rule in 2024.

🇺🇸🇧🇬🇮🇷 — Six KC-135R "Stratotanker" aerial refueling planes present at Sofia International Airport, Bulgaria, as the airport seemingly turns into a staging ground to support future USAF movement/strikes in CENTCOM.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 — An unmarked C32-B "Gatekeeper" belonging to US Special Operations Command landed in Tel Aviv earlier today. The C32-B is a highly secretive plane that exclusively participates in sensitive missions, and its specific capabilities are not well-known. It is possible this plane covertly carried senior American military officials to Israel.