🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- FOX News is reporting a large wave of US airstrikes against multiple cities in Iran, including Bandar Abbas and the Minab Naval Base at Bandar Kargan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister is currently speaking with members of the security cabinet over the phone, discussing the recent events off the coast of Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "U.S. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7.
Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No U.S. assets were struck.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes.
CENTCOM does not seek escalation but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces," - US CENTCOM.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Current situation in the Persian Gulf:

- 48 hours ago, UAE's Fujairah was attacked, but Iran denied responsibility.

- 24 hours ago, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait cut US access rights to their airbases, accusing Trump of downplaying the attack on Fujairah.

- The Trump administration, angered over Riyadh's decision, ends Project Freedom in response.

- Earlier today, the US attacked an Iranian tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, as well as another vessel on course to enter the Strait. In response, Iran launched missiles at three US destroyers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and into the Gulf of Oman.

- Less than 6 hours ago, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait restored US access rights to their airbases.

- Within the past 2 hours, the US attacks Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, and Minab, with Fox claiming the strikes were in response for the Iranian attacks on Fujairah. In response, Iran launched retaliatory attacks on US vessels in the Persian Gulf, off the coast of the UAE.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- U.S. destroyers have withdrawn from the Strait of Hormuz after returning fire on Iranian targets. - Israeli Army Radio.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪 - Prominent Emirati political commentator, Amjad Taha, dropped the coordinates of a building in Bandar Abbas and a missile depot on Qeshm Island moments before both sites were attacked by the US.

Amjad Taha is the co-founder of the Sharaka Institute, an Israeli-Emirati Think Tank, that promotes close Arab-Israeli cooperation. Sharaka funds tours for Gulf citizens to see Israel and the settlements in the West Bank. Sharaka's tours are partnered with the Jewish National Fund, one of the largest advocates for the expansionism of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The other co-founder of Sharaka is Amit Deri, former President of Reservists on Duty, which sends IDF soldiers to college campuses in the US, and other Western countries to promote Israel.

🇬🇧⚡- While some late voting is still ongoing, polls across the country have closed. The first few councils to declare in the next hour and a half are likely to be Broxbourne, Halton, Redditch and Harlow.

46 local authorities are set to declare results overnight, the remaining 90 will finish counting across Friday and possibly Saturday.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire. There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers. They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats, which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated Navy. These boats went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently. Missiles were shot at our Destroyers, and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave! A normal Country would have allowed these Destroyers to pass, but Iran is not a normal Country. They are led by LUNATICS, and if they had the chance to use a Nuclear Weapon, they would do it, without question — But they’ll never have that opportunity and, just like we knocked them out again today, we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST! Our three Destroyers, with their wonderful Crews, will now rejoin our Naval Blockade, which is truly a “Wall of Steel.” President DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇬🇧⚡️- First three council results are in, 2 Reform UK wins and 1 Conservative.

🇬🇧⚡️- Greens are so far severely underperforming expectations.

🇬🇧⚡️- Reform continue to flip seats from Labour. Appleton Council Ward has Reform winning with 42% of the vote

🇬🇧⚡️- Greens score their first flip from Labour tonight in Charley South West.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇰🇼⚡️- The Trump admin quietly greenlit $25.7B in Patriot missile sales in one day. $17B to Kuwait, UAE and Bahrain plus $4B to Qatar. It comes as Gulf and US stocks are heavily depleted from the Iran conflict.

🇬🇧⚡️- Labour party activists are telling media that tonight's results are reaching "worst case" territory.

🇬🇧⚡️- Conservatives have flipped a Labour council ward in North Pererborough.

🇬🇧⚡️- Council seats called at 1:35am local time.

Reform UK: 37 (+37)
Labour: 6 (-34)
Libdems: 5 (-2)
Greens: 4 (+3)
Conservatives: 2 (-3)
Independent: 2 (=)

Still extremely early in the counting process as only 5/136 councils have been declared alongside only 56/4992 local seats.

However media figures, party activists in Labour, Reform, and the Tories, agree that tonight is going to be the largest defeat for a ruling party since the 90s in local elections.

🇮🇱⚡️- Laura Loomer is advocating for the shutdown of the livestreaming service Kick in retaliation for not banning Muslim influencer Sneako from the platform. Loomer has connections through the White House to Amazon and therefore can threaten Kick's AWS access.