🔥 🇮🇷 Iran is now carrying out retaliatory strikes on targets in Kuwait, Bahrain, and the UAE.

😭 🇮🇷 IRANIAN NAVY TELLS SHIPS THEY STILL REQUIRE PERMISSION TO PASS THROUGH HORMUZ, OR THEY WILL BE DESTROYED — WSJ.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 After the failure of the U.S. and Israeli military operation’s objectives, Iran has entered the ranks of global powers. The United States has suffered a humiliating defeat — InsideOver.

#️⃣ 🇰🇼🇮🇷 Kuwait's army says its armed forces have intercepted 28 Iranian drones so far today.

#️⃣ 🇦🇪🇮🇷 UAE air defense systems have intercepted 17 ballistic missiles and 35 drones launched from Iran so far today, according to the country's MoD.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 Trump administration is cutting its planned emergency war funding request for Iran from $200+ billion to about $80–100 billion.

The original Pentagon proposal aimed to cover combat costs and replenish depleted weapons stockpiles.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance on Iran:

If the Iranians are willing in good faith to work with us, I think we can make an agreement.

If they’re going to lie, if they’re going to cheat, if they’re going to try to undermine even the fragile truce that we’ve set up, then they’re not going to be happy.

Trump has told us to negotiate in good faith.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

Trump made history.

We just achived a decisive military victory.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth on ceasefire:

Iran wanted it to happen. They’ve had enough.

Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield — a capital-V military victory.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth on Iran:

They can no longer build missiles, build rockets, build launchers or build UAVs.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

Trump had the power to cripple Iran’s entire economy in minutes.

But he chose mercy.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

They know this agreement means they will never, ever possess a nuclear weapon.

Under the terms, any nuclear material they should not have will be removed — any material.

Their facilities are deeply buried and watched 24/7 overhead.

Trump has been clear from the beginning: there will be no Iranian nuclear weapons. Period. Full stop.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

The Iranians were humiliated and demoralized.

We control their fate, not the other way around. That’s why they came to the table.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

Iran begged for this ceasefire — and we all know it.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

The War Department, for now, has done its part. We stand ready in the background to ensure Iran upholds every reasonable term.

And as everyone knows, nobody makes a better deal than Trump.

To the warriors of Epic Fury, I say: well done.

Job well done. But stay vigilant. And stay ready.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

God deserves all the glory.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

Our so-called allies saw what real capability looks like. They should take some notes.

💬 🇺🇸 General Caine:

Let us be clear: a ceasefire is a pause, and the Joint Force remains ready if ordered or called upon to resume combat operations...

We hope that will not be the case.

💬 🇺🇸 General Caine:

I want to thank to our Gulf partners who fought alongside each and every one of us every day — the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan — all of whom joined us to defend and protect our people and our assets, and who, if required, stand ready to do so again.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth on Iran’s buried enriched uranium:

They will either give it to us, as the President has laid out — they’ll give it to us voluntarily — or we’ll get it.

We’ll take it. We’ll take it out.

Or, if we have to do something else ourselves, like we did in Operation Midnight Hammer or something similar, we reserve that option.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

Iran would be wise to find a way to get the message out to their troops in remote locations not to shoot anymore one-way attack drones or missiles, because sometimes it takes time for ceasefires to take hold.