🇮🇷⚡️- Reports of explosions or drone strikes in Iran are false.

There was a routine fire in Parand, Iran, which often occurs due to grass burning. A gas leak caused an explosion in Bandar Abbas, Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We weren't involved," - An Israeli official tells Reuters in response to the recent wave of explosions across Iran today.

🇪🇹🇸🇩⚡- The Humera and Welkait areas of the Tigray Interim Administration, northern Ethiopia, declare full readiness. The areas are at risk of complete encirclement by Tigray separatists – TPLF-D led separatists from the east, and TPLF-70 from Sudan.

🇾🇪⚡- Sporadic clashes between Ansarullah and Saudi-backed Coalition Forces northeast of Taizz city, Yemen.

🇮🇷 - Iran's IRGC conducted missile tests earlier today in Ahvaz and Arak.

Fateh missiles were launched during the exercises in Arak.

🇮🇷⚡- Local Iranian outlet based in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, 'Sobh Sahel' shows individuals in police uniform being carried away from exploded apartment block.

🇶🇦🇮🇷⚡- Unconfirmed reports of the Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman arriving in Tehran, Iran.

🇹🇷🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡- "Turkey will not join a mutual defense pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, after a Turkish official said earlier this month that they had entered talks aimed at entering the alliance," - A source close to the Saudi military tells AFP.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Contrary to the hype of the contrived media war, structural arrangements for negotiations are progressing," - Ali Larijani, Head of Iran's National Security Council.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Marked in yellow in the Western Hemisphere, you have the United States.

Several oceans away, on the other side of the planet, Iran's borders are marked in yellow.

The little circle in red is the Strait of Hormuz.

Operating off our shores, the US military is now attempting to dictate how our Powerful Armed Forces should conduct target practice in their own turf.

CENTCOM is also requesting "professionalism" from a national military the U.S. Government has listed as a "terrorist organization", all while recognizing the right of that same "terrorist organization" to conduct military drills!

This is the level of absurdity the world is now facing, and which European governments have actively decided to embrace.

The IRGC has always been, and still remains, the protector of peace and stability in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. In our region, it is wisely known as a formidable force which has proven itself on the battlefield against both terrorists and invading militaries.

Freedom of navigation and safe passage of commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are of vital importance for Iran, as much as it is for our neighbors. The presence of outside forces in our region has always caused the exact opposite of what is declared: promoting escalation instead of de-escalation," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇬🇧⚡️- Reform UK promoted a memecoin to their followers on twitter.

🇪🇹⚡- Renewed Ethiopian drone strikes against TPLF-D led Tigray separatists in the Tigray region, northern Ethiopia.

🇶🇦🇮🇷⚡- Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman has left Tehran.

🇧🇭⚡- Bahrain has tested alert systems this evening on its citizens phones.

🇺🇸⚡️- Michael Saylor’s ‘Strategy’— the ‘Bitcoin treasury’ company—just briefly turned red on its Bitcoin position, at $76,000, after accumulating over 3% of the supply and kicking off the ‘crypto treasury’ investment craze.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump and President Bush will meet tonight at the Alfalfa Club dinner in DC.