🇵🇸⚡️– A huge fleet of the Global Sumud flotilla, made up of 54 vessels carrying around 500 international activists, has departed from southern Turkey in an attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade on Gaza.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪🇸🇦🇶🇦⚡️– The UAE tried to convince Saudi Arabia and Qatar for coordinated military response against Iran but the proposal was rejected.

The Emirati President MBZ personally contacted Saudi crown prince MBS and other regional leaders to persuade them, but no one agreed to participate, leaving the UAE on its own.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– President Trump: "We can keep the bridges and power plants in Iran, or we can destroy it all in two days."

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️– Hebrew media: "Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is more hardline than his father, and refuses to make any concessions."

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️– Iran's IRGC Intelligence has dismantled a spy network affiliated with the Israeli intelligence service Mossad in Ardabil Province and arrested the network's main operatives.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡️– President Trump on Taiwan: "I’m not looking to have somebody go independent. And, you know, we’re supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war. I’m not looking for that. I want Taiwan to cool down."

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️– Trump tried to read the files in front of Chinese President Xi after he stepped away for a moment. It's unclear what Trump was trying to read as everything would likely have been written in Chinese.

🇦🇪🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️– Iranian media is teaching civilians on how to handle weapons. The anchor carried out a live fire drill aiming at the flag of UAE. This could mean Iran anticipates a ground war against US-Israel and their regional allies.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️– CNN reports that Israel and the US have prepared plans to resume the war with Iran as soon as next week.

🇮🇱🇵🇸🇱🇧⚡️– Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir: "We are in a period of divine assistance."

We are in a period of the beginning of redemption, and we simply need to keep going and keep going without stopping.

Don't stop in Lebanon, Gaza, and Judea and Samaria (West Bank). — ( @TabzLIVE )

🇮🇱🇵🇸🇱🇧⚡️– Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir: "We need, and we have the right plans, to encourage emigration from Gaza, to promote emigration in the West Bank, to settle in Lebanon.

We must not be afraid in the face of all the pressures, all the enemies, all the wicked."

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱🇦🇪⚡️– The Telegraph reports that senior Trump administration officials have been encouraging the UAE to be more involved in the war against Iran, with some even suggesting invasion of Iranian islands in the persian gulf.

🇮🇷⚡️– Iran seized an oil tanker carrying 450,000 barrels of oil for violating the newly imposed regulations in the strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️– Reporter: We’ve seen in the past and until now that military pressure does not seem to change Iran’s stance in the negotiations.

Marco Rubio: "We believe it’s going work this time. If necessary, we’re willing to go in again and do what’s needed to bring them to the table."

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️– According to Israeli Channel 12, Israel's economy shrank by 3.3% as a result of war with Iran.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️– A fire broke in a power generator at the inner premises of the Barakah nuclear power plant in UAE's Al Dhafra region after a drone strike.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇺⚡️BRRAKING: According to a classified intelligence report, Cuba has received more than 300 long range suicide drones, likely from Iran and Russia, and is preparing to use them against the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, U.S. Navy vessels, and the Florida Keys, in case of an American attack on the Island nation – Axios

🇮🇱🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– The US and Israel both have raised their state of alert due to the possibility of resumption of war with Iran. One israeli official said that if Trump gives the green light to resume the war, joint attacks will be launched.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡– Senator Graham on Iran:

Whatever price we have to pay, we’ll pay. What did Churchill say? “Whatever price we have to pay to beat Hitler, we’ll pay.” Same with Iran.

If I had to give up my job to make sure Iran never had a nuclear weapon, I would do it.