🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "NATO officials have received no details of a US plan for strikes on Iran," - The New York Times.

🇩🇰🇮🇷⚡- Denmark seized an Iranian container vessel, NORA, just north of Denmark.

The vessel, flying under the Cameroonian flag, had departed St. Petersburg, Russia, and was en route to Iran via a stop in Egypt.

🇳🇬⚡- "At least 34 people were killed when suspected [Islamic State affiliated] Lakurawa militants launched coordinated attacks on multiple villages in Kebbi State, northwest Nigeria," - Reuters.

🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "Normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia is no longer a 'when' but a 'whether'. Saudi Arabia was to normalize ties with Israel in exchange for US defense and nuclear perks.

That framework is now obsolete, because Saudi Arabia captured most of the prize without paying the price.

Washington Institute for Near East Policy poll from August 2023 found 43% of Saudis in favor of establishing ties with Israel. Israel-Hamas war destroyed that. That number fell to 17% in November 2023," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "The shifting regional power balance in the Middle East has transformed Israel from a natural ally against Iran, into Riyadh's most formidable competitor for regional leadership.

Saudi's response has been swift. It has joined a defensive pact with Pakistan. It is in talks with Ankara to purchase up to 100 Turkish KAAN fifth-generation stealth jets.

Most importantly, Saudi Arabia will never join the Abraham Accords because in Riyadh's view, the Accords are irreversibly associated with the United Arab Emirates - the Kingdom's chief Gulf rival. Joining a framework branded with Abu Dhabi's fingerprints is something 'the King of the Middle East' cannot do," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- "The contours of what some are calling an 'Islamic NATO' are emerging in real time – not as a response to Israel’s enemies, but as a response to Israel’s dominance," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The US did not demand from Iran during the Geneva negotiations to agree to zero uranium enrichment on Iranian territory.

We talked about steps that could show the US that our nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, tells MSNBC.

🇺🇸⚡- USS Gerald R. Ford has entered the Mediterranean Sea.

🇺🇸 - Image shows USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) entering the Gibraltar Arc.

🇸🇩🇦🇪⚡- Commander-in-Chief of the Rapid Support Forces Hamdan Dagalo has travelled from Abu Dhabi, UAE, to Nairobi, Kenya, and is now on his way to Kampala, Uganda, abroad a UAE-registered private jet (Reg: A6-RJC).

Source: Afrimeosint.

Note, UAE denies any ties to the Rapid Support Forces.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- President Trump says he is considering a limited strike on Iran, confirming reports from The Wall Street Journal and CSIS yesterday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "59% of Israelis support joining any American attack against Iran," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump Administration’s tariffs are illegal.

They concluded that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the President the power to impose tariffs on any country, at any time.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Donald Trump will travel to China from March 31st to April 2nd.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announces a 10 percent global tariff.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against the Bekaa region, Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "U.S. military planning on Iran has reached an advanced stage with options including targeting individuals as part of an attack and even pursuing regime change in Tehran, if ordered by President Donald Trump," - Reuters.

🇺🇸⚡️- The mechanism President Trump is using for these new tariffs expire without Congressional approval and would trigger a vote on them in September right before the midterm elections.

🇧🇬⚡- NOTAM over Sofia International Airport, Bulgaria, from 1:15am-2:50am on the 23rd of February, and 1:05am-3:35am on the 24th of February.

The airport will be closed for all flights except military.

🇺🇸🇧🇬 - An image of Sofia International Airport from yesterday – over half a dozen US aerial refuelers arrived at the airport in recent days.