#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. is preparing possible “final blow” options against Iran if talks fail like seizing key islands (e.g. Kharg, Abu Musa), blockading oil routes, or launching massive airstrikes (and potentially ground ops).

Forces are being deployed, but no decision yet.

🤕 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump's “final blow” options:

— Seize or blockade Kharg Island (Iran’s main oil export hub).

— Invade/control Larak Island (key to Strait of Hormuz control).

— Take Abu Musa + nearby islands (strategic entrance to the strait).

— Block or seize Iranian oil tankers in the region.

— Launch massive airstrikes on nuclear/energy sites.

— (More extreme) Ground operations inside Iran to secure nuclear material.

#️⃣ 🇷🇺🇮🇷 The Kremlin calls press reports about Russia sending drones to Iran "lies."

#️⃣ 🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israeli Defense Minister Katz says that the IRGC Navy Commander, Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, has been killed.

💬 🇺🇸 TRUMP: NATO NATIONS HAVE DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP WITH THE LUNATIC NATION, NOW MILITARILY DECIMATED, OF IRAN.

THE U.S.A. NEEDS NOTHING FROM NATO, BUT “NEVER FORGET” THIS VERY IMPORTANT POINT IN TIME!

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iranian girl Mooné Rahimi, who went viral for a dance video supporting Trump’s airstrikes on Iran, now says her cousin was killed in the war.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump:

The Iranian negotiators are very different and “strange.” They are “begging” us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only “looking at our proposal.” WRONG!!!

They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!

💬 🇺🇸 Trump reposts:

U.S. intercepted Ukraine government messages discussing plot to route money to Biden re-election.

#️⃣ Lukashenko gifted Kim Jong Un a rifle “in case enemies show up.”

💬 🇵🇰🇮🇷 Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar:

US-Iran indirect talks are taking place through messages being relayed by Pakistan.

In this context, the United States has shared 15 points, being deliberated upon by Iran.

Brotherly countries of Türkiye and Egypt, among others, are also extending their support to this initiative.

💬 🇮🇱 Netanyahu:

We continue to strike with force at the targets of the Iranian terrorist regime.

💬 🇺🇸 CENTCOM:

U.S. forces continue to eliminate threats presented by the Iranian regime, striking over 10,000 targets since the start of Operation Epic Fury.

💬 🇷🇺🇮🇷 Putin on Iran:

The consequences of the conflict in the Middle East are still difficult to predict accurately.

It seems to me that even those involved in the conflict cannot predict anything.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran's IRGC-linked Tasnim News Agency argues Iran should withdraw from the nuclear NPT.

💬 🇦🇪 UAE Minister of State Reem Al-Hashimy:

You can't bully your neighbors, your supposed partners...

No country should actually hold the Strait of Hormuz as hostage, because the recipients of those flows actually go to the entire world.

💬 🇮🇱🇮🇷 IDF:

We killed the top leadership of the IRGC Navy, including its commander and intelligence chief.

💩 🇺🇸 Study finds the US caused about $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990—more than any country—due to its emissions.

Researchers say the US bears “a lot of responsibility” for “substantial damage” worldwide, including major losses in poorer countries.

- The Guardian

#️⃣ 🇰🇪 Kenya Investigates Shocking Mass Grave of 32 Bodies Mostly Infants in Kericho County

Kenyan authorities exhumed about 32 bodies, including 25 infants in Kericho County at a site that belongs to the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), after a whistleblower tip, prompting investigations into irregular burials & possible cult-related criminal activity.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan:

What is the difference between the tears shed in Isfahan, Tabriz, and Tehran, and those shed in Erbil, Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Sana'a, Doha, Riyadh, and our other sister cities in the region?

In the eyes of the network of massacre, what difference does it make whether our names are Ali, Omar, Aisha or Hasan?

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan:

In the eyes of aggressors who recognize no principles or values, does it make any difference whether we are Shia or Sunni, or whether we are Turkish, Kurdish, Arab, or Persian?

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan:

After the dust cloud we are in settles, we—as neighbors and brothers—will once again look each other in the face.

After the deadly roar of bombs and missiles falls silent, we will continue to live together in this land.

I believe no one should forget this reality.