🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Loud explosions in Kuwait.

🇺🇸☪️⚡️- A new poll from Detroit News shows Haley Stevens with a healthy lead over DSA-aligned Abdul El-Sayed.

Stevens: 48%
El-Sayed: 41%

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- 180, out of 270, members of Iran's parliament have issued a joint statement expressing the desire to end any agreements with the United States and pursue revenge.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️- The Houthi's have warned airlines against using Saudi airspace, saying "they should take our warnings seriously" until the Saudi blockade of Sana'a International Airport, Yemen is lifted.

It has been 12 hours since this was announced, and these warnings have been completely ignored by every airline.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Reporter: "Has the war [with Iran] resumed?"

President Trump: "Well, I guess you could define it any way you want, but certainly we're beating them up really badly, they have to be beaten up.

We're hitting every single thing that they have along the shore."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Reporter: “Are you considering hitting energy targets or other locations in Iran?”

Trump: "I'll save the energy targets for last, but ultimately we'll hit energy targets.

We're gonna hit them very hard tonight, we're gonna hit them very hard tomorrow night, we're gonna hit them very hard the night after, and then next week it gets really bad for them.

Because next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges. We're gonna knock out all their power plants, we're gonna knock out all their bridges, unless they get to the table and negotiate.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Reporter: "Are you ruling out a ground campaign [in Iran]?"

Trump: "I'd say no, if I thought it was appropriate. Sometimes you need a ground campaign, but we have other people that will do the ground campaign for us.

As far as taking it [Kharg Island] is concerned, if we degrade far enough and deep enough back, I would do that."

🇺🇸🐘⚡️- Republican Senator from Indiana Jim Banks has introduced the Citizenship Act of 2026, which requires any person who enters the U.S. without authorization or partaking in birth tourism to be considered an invader.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- In the last thirty minutes, a small wave of strikes were conducted in southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) completed an additional round of strikes against Iran at 10 p.m. ET, July 14, hitting dozens of military targets near the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian coastal areas.

U.S. fighter aircraft, drones, and naval vessels launched precision munitions against Iranian missile and drone sites, naval capabilities, and coastal defense systems during the seven-hour wave to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping and civilian crews.

The strikes took place the same day U.S. forces resumed the naval blockade against vessels transiting to or from Iranian ports and coastal areas. The blockade went into effect at 4 p.m. ET today.

U.S. forces remain vigilant, lethal, and prepared to execute operations directed by the Commander in Chief." - US Central Command.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- A Miami federal court has awarded $314 million to three American Citizens who were unlawfully imprisoned and tortured in Venezuela during the Maduro Regime. The case entered default judgment as none of the defendants responded to the case.

The lawsuit alleges the Americans were detained as part of a strategy to secure US Citizens as bargaining chips to negotiate the release of Maduro Ally Alex Saab, who was held in US custody at the time. Alex Saab would be exchanged for 10 US citizens in 2023, including the three who won this lawsuit.

The defendants listed in the Lawsuit, Nicolas Maduro, Alex Saab, current Venezuelan Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López, Attorney General Tarek William Saab, and the state oil company PDVSA.

🇺🇸🇰🇼🇮🇷⚡️- Scenes from Kuwait hours ago. The warehouse being hit is reported to be a civilian logistics company, Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport, who has large contracts with the Pentagon to support distribution of primarily food into Bases through the Gulf/Middle east, and assisting with heavy haul transport.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "President Trump held a Situation Room meeting Tuesday to discuss a massive offensive in Iran that will be wider in scope than the current strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, three sources with knowledge said.

Trump appears willing to escalate the war to cause enough damage that the Iranian regime will open the Strait of Hormuz and accept Trump's nuclear demands.

The sources said the meeting focused on new plans for devastating strikes on strategic targets in Iran, in addition to the strikes against Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz." - Axios.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡- "The United States has expanded the UAE’s access to advanced AI semiconductor technology following Abu Dhabi’s support during the conflict with Iran, including military operations, missile and drone interceptions, and assistance to U.S. forces," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The military court has sentenced an IDF soldier, who pleaded guilty to charges of contact with a foreign agent and providing information that could benefit the enemy.

The defendant was convicted of receiving messages on his Telegram account from various sources, some of which were identified as being linked to Iran, including job offers. He also received a message from an Iranian foreign agent who asked if he would be interested in earning money for various photography assignments. Subsequently, the defendant sent two videos to the Iranian foreign agent showing missile interceptions, which he had filmed during Operation "With a Lion's Heart" in civilian areas, and received payment for one of them. In addition, he sent several videos from civilian areas to the Iranian foreign agent, including a video documenting a missile strike that he found online. Finally, due to pressure he felt, the defendant informed a colleague in his unit that he had been in contact with a foreign agent, and the following day he was arrested by the Shin Bet." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇺🇸⚡️- Neros Technology, a US defence contractor, has been awarded a contract for up to $500 million to supply drones to the US Army. Neros creates a 100% US-manufactured drone.

This contract is part of the US Army's goal to reach a production capability of 1 million drones per year, within the next two years.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Reports of an explosion in Shiraz, southern Iran within the last 10 minutes.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian media reports the explosions were apart of controlled mining operations at a cement factory, and not the result of an attack.