🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed a new wave of offensive strikes against Iran, July 12, hitting dozens of targets at multiple locations with precision munitions to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking international shipping flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.

CENTCOM forces struck Iranian military air-defense systems, coastal radar sites, missile and drone capabilities, and small boats using U.S. fighter aircraft, naval vessels, one-way attack aerial drones, and one-way attack sea drones for the first time.

The Strait of Hormuz is a vital maritime corridor for global trade. Iran does not control it.

U.S. forces are postured and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available to commercial shipping despite Iran’s continued unwarranted aggression, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declarations." - US Central Command.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Over the past 2 hours Iran's retalliation strikes targeted Bahrain and Jordan.

Impacts were reported in Bahrain.

🇧🇭🇮🇷⚡️- Alerts were activated in Bahrain, Air defences are active.

🇮🇷🇴🇲🇧🇭⚡- Iran says it struck U.S. military assets in Juffair, Bahrain, and radar sites in Oman.

🇮🇷🇯🇴🇰🇼⚡- Jordan and Kuwait have both confirmed Iranian attacks overnight.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡- "A Western intelligence service intercepted a plot to assassinate President Trump during his visit to the NATO summit in Turkey and alerted U.S. authorities, prompting Trump to switch his return aircraft back to the U.S." - Israeli Channel 12.

🇾🇪⚡- Explosions heard in Sana'a, Ansarullah's capital of Yemen. Sounds of unidentified jets were heard over the Sa'dah region, northern Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- BREAKING: Saudi airstrikes against Sana'a International Airport, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷 - Note, Riyadh strongly protested Tehran's violation of its blockade of all Ansarullah airports two weeks ago. Saudi Arabia responded to the violation with heavy aerial movement across Ansarullah's airspace. Iran has repeatedly claimed it will continue to operate flights to and from Sana'a ever since.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- Saudi-backed Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council has confirmed the Saudi airstrikes were in response to the Iranian violation of the blockade of Ansarullah airports. The PLC warns further retaliation if Iran continues to violate Yemeni airspace.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷 - Note, the plane returning the Ansarullah delegation from Ali Khamenei's funeral, IRM1199, is descending into Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- Ansarullah have also confirmed the attacks on Sana'a International Airport and have vowed retaliation.

🇫🇷⚡️- Emmanuel Macron, in a speech to France's armed forces, announces he will start a major reform on how France conducts warfare. The French president also announced a gradual increase of 36B€ for the nation's military budget from 2026 to 2030.

🇾🇪🇮🇷🇸🇦 - Note, both pro-Ansarullah tribes and pro Presidential Leadership Council tribes are currently engaged in the most intensive and largest mobilization in recent years in the al-Rayyan region of the al-Jawf Governorate, northern Yemen, over Saddam Hussein's legacy.

🇫🇷⚡️- "France is ready to defend freedom and the rule of law, by blood if necessary" - Emmanuel Macron in his speech to France's armed forces.

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡- The UK designates Iran's IRGC as a terrorist organization.

🇫🇷⚡️- Emmanuel Macron cites the Indo-Pacific region as one of France's future region of strategic interest. This coincides with the new CPP FRPACOM established to increase French military presence in the nation's Pacific EEZ.

🇾🇪🇸🇴⚡- Six small boats carrying Somali pirates from Puntland are attempting to hijack a tanker in the Gulf of Aden.