🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- US/Israeli airstrikes on the Behbahan Air Base, southwest Iran.

🇺🇸⚡- BREAKING: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and immediately retire.

Hegseth wishes to replace Gen. Randy George with someone “who will implement President Trump and Hegseth's vision for the Army,” according to CBS.

🇺🇸⚡- An E-3 Sentry has entered European airspace coming from mainland US, and is en route to the Middle East.

The aircraft will replace the E-3 that was destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, last week, bringing the total airframes deployed in the CENTCOM AoR back to six.

🇺🇸🇪🇨⚡️- The US and Ecuador just signed a memorandum of understanding on civil nuclear cooperation. Expect this to mark the start of a broader US push for similar agreements across Latin America.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi clapped back at Trump and Hegseth’s “Stone Age” comments.

The line likely either refers to Iranian society being equated to as civilized as the Stone Age or the US/Israeli operation will bring Iran back to the Stone Age.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Iranians are tough and capable of enduring immense pain, and I respect them for that, but they are better negotiators than fighters.” - President Trump to TIME magazine.

🇺🇸⚡️- SpaceX has boosted its IPO target valuation above $2 trillion, reports Bloomberg.

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Russia, China, and France are thwarting an initiative by Arab states to bring the UN Security Council to approve military action against Iran in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to the NYT.

🇺🇸⚡️- Army Chief of Staff General Randy George has resigned.

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇫🇷 - The last time Russia, China, and France were the only three Permanent Members of the UNSC to align on a major issue was in 2003, when they opposed the joint UK-US resolution for the invasion of Iraq.

This forced the UK and the US to withdraw the draft resolution, preventing the UN from issuing a formal mandate to invade Iraq.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- Violent explosions in Erbil, Iraq's Kurdistan region.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- US airstrikes the 30th Brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces positions in Mosul, Iraq.

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

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- A factory in Petah Tikva, Israel, was struck in the Iranian missile attack, indicating that it was a precision strike, according to Haaretz.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡- Dubai's government media office on X denies the reports of the IRGC striking Oracle's data center in Dubai.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- World-renowned journalist Seymour Hersh says the ground war in Iran is “on” following President Trump’s speech, and that the process has begun.

Hersh correctly predicted the weekend the United States bombed Iranian nuclear facilities in June, the Nord Stream pipeline bombing, the Abu Ghraib prisoner scandal, and many other events.

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

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: US intelligence assesses Iran maintains significant missile launching capability, sources tell CNN.

Roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments, three sources familiar with the intel told CNN.