Leb army commander Heikal considered that coordination with Hezbullah is safer for everyone, but PM Salam opposed it, rejecting the suggestion that the implementation of the law needs agreement

Satellite imagery of damage at Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura refinery following Iranian drone attack

📷: @VantorTech

Israeli attack in Iqleem al-Tuffah

Are the Syrian Gov accounts still hacked lol?

NEW from @nytimes: The definitive story of how Trump took an almost inevitable path to a new US war in the Middle East: Netanyahu repeatedly urged him to attack Iran with Israel, and no aides voiced opposition. Netanyahu also undermined diplomacy. Regime change became the goal.

Something interesting I found yesterday on (qouted as is):

From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong.

They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel. They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary.

Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood

Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

Lack of experienced experts in US team means they were seemingly relying on outside sources to interpret it for them. Aka Israel

🇱🇧 A house was attacked in Arab Saleem.

More attacks near Baflieh and Arzoun

Would only make sense because the 358 is blind (no camera)

The second confirmed Hermes-900 to be shot down over Iran.

The AD has camera which id assume is the 359 AD missile.

—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 WATCH: IRGC Air Defense Forces shoot down an Israeli TP 'Heron' drone above Khorramabad

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Looks good. The older 3 footage from June are all different: https://t.me/LebUpdate/53658

The war has cost the US taxpayer $1.9 billion so far

✍ It's actually much more if you consider the salaries, logistics, fuel, food, maintenance...all the way to replenishment

I know you guys hate me for this claim

But the U.S does not hide deaths.

I would only note one this here that is very odd unlike ALL past events:

They didn't release the names and photos of those dead even after 24 hours have passed. Trump is doing this intentionally to avoid having the photo of dead Americans on TV as the face of his war and his actions.

The local soldier killed is not even technically Kuwaiti.

He, nor his family and children are eligible for Kuwait citizenship for some messed up reason only Kuwait knows why

For months now, they took the citizenship from thousands including people who survived the country from ambassadors to soldiers... claiming fraud or a different ethnic Arab background

Situation so ironic, the other Arab Gulf states would host them and give them the title as stateless but with an Iqama.

According to details in Lebanon, the IDF tried to assassinate a list of senior Hezbullah leadership during that wave of attacks which they mentioned overnight and in the morning.

Most if not all failed, and in one occasion only the assistant of one was killed.

On another occasion, the supposed cheif of intelligence was indeed killed.

Tucker Carlson was one of the only figures urging Trump not to strike Iran. In three Oval Office meetings, he warned that war would risk American lives, raise energy prices, and destabilize the region. He argued the U.S. was being pulled in by Israel and urged Trump to resist that pressure.

Trump said he understood the dangers but felt he couldn’t stay out if Israel attacked.

Source: NYT

The Israeli military says it has bolstered "defensive and offensive components" on the borders with Lebanon and Syria, amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.

Troops of the 91st "Galilee" and 210th "Bashan" regional divisions -- responsible for the borders with Lebanon and Syria, respectively -- are "deployed in forward defense at positions along the border and in the security zone," the IDF says.

"Defensive and offensive components in the sector have been reinforced, and the forces are at operational readiness for all scenarios," the IDF adds.

✍ So far, just defensive

❗️ The IDF issues new evacuations, including the whole boder strip which they tried to advance to during the war.

This is to avoid any infiltrations or ATGMs, etc

Annoying and worrying but still under control.

This including towns like Naqoura, Bint Jbeil, Taybeh and Khiyam

Bro

You're the president of the UNITED STATES

Not the PR and media manager of Netanyahu. Genuinely wow

Rubio on Iran:

This operation needed to happen because Iran, in about a year or a year and a half, would have crossed the line of immunity, meaning they would have had so many short-range missiles and so many drones that no one could have done anything about it.

They could have held the whole world hostage.

Rubio on Iran:

They are producing, by some estimates, over 100 of these missiles a month. Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: U.S. CENTCOM announces the death toll of American soldiers has risen to 6

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