U.S. troops in the Iran conflict are increasingly uneasy, citing stress, safety concerns, and unclear goals.

Some describe a lack of planning, with one official warning a ground operation would be “an absolute disaster.”

Many troops are questioning the purpose of the war, with some saying, “We do not want to die for Israel — we don’t want to be political pawns.”

Source: HuffPost

Flights are continuing in the UAE despite escalating safety risks.

Dozens of planes (39 in Dubai alone) landed or took off within minutes of missile warnings. Across UAE airports, that number rises to ~130 within a 10-minute window.

Not all attacks are officially flagged, meaning planes may be exposed without clear alerts.

At least five planes have already been damaged on the ground, including an Emirates A380 and a Saudia A321 in Dubai.

Pilots are increasingly raising serious concerns, with some flights nearly diverted due to low fuel, and others refusing to operate altogether or invoking “fear clauses” to avoid flying.

Source: WSJ

BREAKING: Brent oil rises to $114 per barrel.

After Israel attacked Lebanon, from Beirut to South Lebanon, every single day and killed 500+ Lebanese men, woman and children in drone strikes that burned then alive

And attacked a Hezbullah leadership meeting in Beqaa before the Iranian war in one week

After the same person said: don't come to me asking to condemn every Israeli violation

❗️PM Nawaf Salam:

"I don't know if Israel would ever attack us. It's not my job to give them pretexts to attack us. It's like someone seeing a bear and saying, "Come here, come here, bear!"

❗️Lebanon's PM during a war against Israel, who is the Lebanese state's only official enemy - Nawaf Salam:

"A number of Hezbullah members were arrested. Some were carrying missiles, some were carrying something else, some were coming with rocket launchers. We didn't decide to enter the war, so it's natural they would be stopped."

Iran tonight

One or two of the missiles successfully deployed its submunitions

One Abu Cluster

And one Abu Ras (aka the missle itself impacted not clusters)

❗️An Israeli enemy force crossed into the Al-Dahr area in the town of Halta, Arqoub region, and took up positions near inhabited houses

Town is non-Shia and doesn't have any Hezbullah in or around.

Lebanese army probably evacuated long ago

Spanish UN forces should be there too

The buffer zone before the buffer zone of the buffer zone.

Eventually, when you need to buffer the buffer, you are the problem not your neighbor

The northern is an extension of our beautiful Jabal A'mel, abandoned long ago by the Lebanese state exactly how it is abandoning the border town villages today

- Ebl al-Qamh: (Yuval settlement)
- Honein: (Moshav Margaliot settlement)
- Neve Joshua: (Hatzodet Joshua settlement)
- Qadas: (Yiftah settlement)
- Malkiya: (Malkiya settlement)
- Salha: (Yeron settlement)
- Tarbikhah: (Shomera settlement)

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Behind the scenes, Netanyahu has expressed frustration that Mossad’s promises to foment revolt in Iran have not materialized.

In one meeting, the PM vented that Trump might decide to end the war any day & that Mossad’s operations had yet to bear fruit

U.S. troops may well take Kharg Island, only to endure ballistic-missile strikes, drone attacks, and petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support - The Atlantic

The operation would likely take longer than 15 days, which is about how long an expeditionary unit can operate without logistical support. Kharg is far—140 miles—from American assets in Kuwait City, but very close to Iran’s coast.

The United States could probably take Kharg Island relatively quickly. But holding it would be much more difficult and could turn deadly. Iran might order its forces to set the oil facilities there on fire, much as Saddam Hussein did with Kuwait’s oil fields in the Gulf War

The FT now reporting that, even without the energy shocks, there's a pretty good chance that the closure of Hormuz will pop the AI bubble and lead to a stock market crash

A 1978 map of the area Israel intended to occupy in Lebanon.