🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Sirens in Bahrain, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah releases footage showing the targeting and destruction of multiple Israeli Merkava tanks, along with battlefield visuals.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Sirens in Kuwait, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- The Saudi Ministry of Defence claims they've shot down 25 Iranian drones in the eastern region of the nation within the last four hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Nearly one month into the war, the president has privately informed advisers he thinks the conflict is in its final stages, urging them to stick to the four-to-six-week timeline he has outlined publicly, according to people familiar with the matter.

White House officials planned a mid-May summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing with the expectation that the war would be concluded before the meeting begins, some of the people said." - WSJ.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- President Trump wants to shift away from the war in Iran to “his next big challenge,” according to internal White House sources provided to the WSJ.

There is currently a struggle within the administration to determine what Trump will choose:

1) Overthrowing the Cuban regime,
2) or focusing on the cost of living.

It is unclear at this time which side is likely to be chosen.

🇺🇸🇲🇽⚡- United States Customs and Border Protection seized nearly 120 pounds of methamphetamine on March 10th and 11th at the Nogales Port of Entry.

Notably, today, U.S. forces crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Nogales, where they repaired and added barbed wire to the entrance of a cargo train tunnel.

Mexican forces responded and, according to local media, had a verbal exchange, and the Americans left within the hour after finishing their work.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- A fourteen-year-old Israeli was charged with spying for Iran in exchange for money.

According to the Times of Israel, “the minor made contact with an Iranian agent on Telegram, filmed footage of a hospital, residential neighborhoods, was asked to spy on Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, and spray paint messages.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | MARCH 25th, DAY 26 RECAP:

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya (central military command) says the United States is negotiating with itself and adds: “No one like us will come to terms with anyone like you—not now, and never.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Imagery was released of an Iranian soldier stationed on Kharg Island, one of many seemingly awaiting a potential U.S. invasion, notably showing one-way FPV drones.

🇨🇳 - Chinese naval transporter Cosco will resume shipping in the following countries: the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Iraq. Iran is seemingly allowing Chinese vessels to operate through the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The Iranian ambassador to Pakistan confirmed there were no negotiations being held between the United States and Iran at this stage.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - "We are closely monitoring all US movements in the region, especially troop deployments. What the generals have broke, the soldiers can't fix; instead, they will fall victim to Netanyahu's delusions. Do not test our resolve to defend our land." - Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Axios and Iranian state TV report that Iran has rejected the U.S. 15-point plan.

🇮🇷 - Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is alive and has been actively participating in the country’s decision-making in recent days, according to Kan News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran released footage showing its air defenses striking a U.S. F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet over southeastern Iran. Closer visuals show the jet was indeed struck, but there is no evidence that it was downed.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “Based on some intelligence reports, Iran's enemies are preparing to occupy one of the Iranian islands with support from one of the regional countries. Our forces are monitoring all enemy movements, and if they take any step, all the vital infrastructure of that regional country will be targeted with relentless, unceasing attacks.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirms there are no talks with the United States.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - According to CNN, Iran has been laying traps and moving additional military personnel and air defenses to Kharg Island in recent weeks in preparation for a possible US operation to take control of the island. The concern is that occupying Kharg Island with US troops would result in high casualties, likely triggering Iranian retaliation against Gulf countries’ infrastructure and prolonging the conflict, the senior Gulf official said. “Iranians are clever and ruthless. They will do everything they can to inflict maximum casualties on US forces both on the ships at sea, and especially once ground troops are anywhere in their sovereign territory.” - Retired Adm. James Stavridis.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - “At least 3 congressional Republicans—including chairs of House and Senate Armed Services—are hinting strongly that a ground operation in Iran is planned and could potentially be underway soon,” according to National Security reporter for the WSJ, Alex Ward.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - "Hezbollah has adopted hit-and-withdraw tactics and urban warfare methods, similar to those used before the 2000 liberation." - Al Jazeera correspondent in Lebanon.

🇮🇷🇧🇭 - Fuel tanks have been struck at Bahrain International Airport, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇮🇷🇦🇪 - Missile and drone attack targeted the United Arab Emirates.

🇮🇱 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is racing to pass a state budget to avoid a forced snap election, which would occur within 90 days if no budget is passed by March 31. Recent polling has shown Netanyahu's coalition falling short of a Knesset majority, according to Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage, according to the NYT.

Here's our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2036633224257143074?s=20

🇺🇸⚡- The first video has now been removed from the White House’s social media.

Still no explanation.

🇺🇸⚡️- The posts could be alluding to the upcoming Artemis 2 launch next week which will be the first manned space mission to leave Earths low orbit in 50 years.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Visual confirmation shows the F/A‑18F Super Hornet fighter jet being struck on the tail by an air defense system earlier today over southeastern Iran, likely by a MANPAD.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Israel.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- Multiple explosions heard in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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

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

🇹🇷⚡- BREAKING: Turkish tanker, ALTURA, carrying 1 million barrels of Russian Urals crude, was struck by a drone near the Bosporus Strait, Black Sea.

No casualties reported, but the tanker's engine room is taking in water.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- Explosions heard in the United Arab Emirates.