🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Ali Akbar Ahmadian, a former IRGC commander best known as an architect of Iran’s asymmetric warfare strategy, has said they have been waiting for years for an American ground invasion and has urged them to “come closer.”

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- Saudi Arabia has denied reports claiming that its leadership wants to prolong the war against Iran, according to Al Arabiya.

🇩🇪🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says international law is dead but praises German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for calling the war a “disastrous and unnecessary mistake.”

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇶⚡️- BREAKING: The Iraqi Armed Forces and the Iraqi Council of National Security have given the Popular Mobilization Forces full authority to respond to and retaliate against any U.S. and Israeli attacks, effectively giving them the green light to enter the war formally.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Iraq has summoned the U.S. acting ambassador over American strikes on PMF positions.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Trump team is pushing for a 'framework agreement' with Iran, starting with a 'one-month ceasefire' followed by talks on a 15-point plan.

The proposal includes strict nuclear restrictions (no enrichment, dismantling of main sites) in exchange for lifting sanctions and supporting civilian nuclear projects.

Israel fears that a vague agreement could allow Iran to 'emerge victorious' if the fighting stops before the details are finalized," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡- "I spoke with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

I reiterated the absolute necessity of ending the unacceptable attacks against countries in the region, preserving energy and civilian infrastructure, and restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

I called on Iran to engage in good faith in negotiations to pave the way for de-escalation and provide a framework for meeting the international community's expectations regarding Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, as well as its regional destabilization activities.

Finally, I urged Iran to allow the return to France of our compatriots Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris as soon as possible," - Emmanuel Macron, President of France.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The 15-point plan the US will propose to Iran, according to Israeli Channel 12:

1. Removal of all sanctions on Iran.

2. US assistance in advancing and developing a civilian nuclear project (electricity generation).

3. Removal of the threat of sanctions being reimposed.

4. Iran’s nuclear programme is frozen under a defined framework.

5. Enriched uranium to remain, but under supervision and agreed limits.

6. Missile programme to be addressed at a later stage, with limits on quantity and range.

7. Use of nuclear programmes restricted to civilian/defensive purposes only.

8. Development of existing nuclear capabilities halted.

9. No further expansion of enrichment capabilities.

10. No production of weapons-grade nuclear material on Iranian soil.

11. All enriched material to be handed over to the IAEA within an agreed timeline.

12. Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow to be taken out of use (destroyed).

13. International monitoring and verification mechanisms enforced.

14. Gradual implementation tied to compliance.

15.Additional regional and security understandings between the parties.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "It does not appear that the Iranian leadership will quickly move toward a ceasefire." - Senior Israeli officials tell Yedioth Ahronoth.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Saeed Jalili, a member of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council and a known hardliner, said the United States has gone from openly discussing regime change to now hoping Iran will engage in dialogue, adding that this is merely deception.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “Do you remember the Gerald Ford and Abraham Lincoln?” - said the IRGC, commenting on the deployment of the U.S. 82nd Division and Marine forces to the Middle East.

🇻🇦⚡️- Pope Leo XIV has called for a ceasefire and urged all parties engaged in the Iran war to seek peace through talks.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to Eliat, Israel.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Simultaneously, sirens and alerts have gone out in Kuwait, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We have experienced negotiating with the bomb and negotiating with terror. You, too, will experience negotiating with the missile and negotiating with a closed strait." - Hosamoddin Ashena, Iranian politician.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Visual confirmation of the moment a drone directly struck a hotel in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, moments ago, where it is claimed U.S. soldiers are staying.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Additional Iranian missile launches to central Israel.

🇬🇧🇨🇾🇮🇷⚡️- Cyprus is demanding a new security deal from the UK after the Iranian drone attack on the UK military base on Cyprus, according to The Telegraph.

The news comes after a "long" phone call between Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Visual confirmation shows interceptors being launched near Kuwait International Airport.

Moments later, an explosion occurs in the area from which the interceptors were originally fired, indicating an impact.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches towards Eliat, Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran refuses to negotiate with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and prefers JD Vance, according to CNN.