Lindsey Graham's quest to convince Trump to strike Iran included word association games, overseas trips to Israel and Saudi Arabia and work with foreign leaders, prominent Republican generals and writers.

Article by WSJ details how he met the Mossad Chief multiple times, visited Israel almost weekly and worked to play with Trump's mind to convince him that a war in Iran is a personal success for Trump's legacy etc

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New Israeli attacks in Fron, Debeen, Qusayr, Jebsheet and many more.

Very intense wave of Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours.

To put it in perspective, Israel announced 170 attacks in Lebanon and 300 attacks in total in Iran

#BREAKING | Strait of Hormuz Closure Looms as Catastrophic Risk for Asia's Energy Security

Asia remains overwhelmingly dependent on Middle East oil and LNG transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Recent data shows ~85–90% of crude oil and ~82–90% of LNG (from Qatar/UAE) flows to Asian destinations, with China receiving ~38%, India ~15%, and South Korea ~12% of oil volumes.

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—🇷🇸📞🇮🇱 NEW: Serbian FM Marko Đurić held a phone call with Israeli FM Gideon Sa'ar, focusing on the current regional situation and reiterating the strength of bilateral relations between Serbia and Israel.

➡️ Đurić underlined Belgrade’s interest in further developing political and economic cooperation with Israel and restated Serbia’s support for de-escalation efforts in the Middle East, including backing an initiative for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

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📸 New Iranian activity

✍ Personally, I'm waiting for the below and have hopes this war's course will be driven by one day one act that will change course.

Does God not value the blood spilled?

 "لضربة عليٍّ يوم الخندق أفضل من عبادة الثقلين".

إِذَا مَاتَ الْعَالِمُ ثُلِمَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ ثُلْمَةٌ لَا يَسُدُّهَا شَيْءٌ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ.

That is from death. What about when murdered by the most wicked evil

🤡 Trump:

The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East.

That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!

✍ He keeps calling it a war. The U.S congress is a sham and both the democrats and Republicans are complicit.

A senior Israeli security official gave a briefing to Emirates-based @SkyNewsArabia_B: our goals are to destabilize the Iranian regime

Trump on Iran:

We are winning the war by a lot.

We decimated their whole evil empire.

It will continue, I am sure, for a little while.

Trump on how long Iran war will continue:

Whatever it takes.

But their military is almost nonexistent.

Shame shame shame

Hezbullah still firing to the north and at Israeli advances into Lebanon

❗️ Warning strike ahead of bombing in Beirut's Dahyeh

Kafa'at area

Reporter: Do you think the map of Iran looks the same after this is all done?

Trump: That I can’t tell you. Probably not.

The United States & Israel alone together are averaging as many air strikes per day as the entire coalition during the First Gulf War

Both the US and Israel have each struck 3000+ targets respectively. That's nearly 1,000 targets each day or one every two minutes on average. The coalition Air and Naval forces assembled during the Gulf War flew more than 42,000 strikes over a 43 day period averaging about the same 1,000 strikes per day.

New: The initial strike that killed Iran's supreme leader and top national security officials also killed officials meeting in another room in the complex. Among them were some officials the White House had identified as pragmatists that they were hoping might negotiate.

—❗️🇮🇷/🇧🇭/🇺🇸 BREAKING: Heavy impacts at the U.S. base in Bahrain

@Middle_East_Spectator (cropped the damn watermark). Picture is fuel burning

And I'm a multilingual multidimensional billionaire

Earlier tonight the IDF attacked a café in Jbel al-Matem town in south Lebanon murdering 3 locals who stayed in the town