🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- On August 31, yesterday, only 5 vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz, a 50% decrease compared to 10 transits the previous day.

Of the five vessels, two were ghost tankers and one was under US, UK, and EU sanctions, which suggests at least three of the five were very possibly Iranian ships. Four of the five vessels entered the Gulf, while only one existed to the Arabian Sea.

Note, this does not indicate a low supply of Gulf oil to the global market. The US is currently leading an operation to export oil and gas from the Strait of Hormuz, which requires smaller, but faster vessels passing through the Hormuz via Omani waters under US military protection, then transferring its medium to a larger tanker. Dozens of ship-to-ship transfers occur daily in the Arabian Sea. The use of smaller and faster ships makes it difficult for Iran to detect and disable them.

🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡- The German Ministry of Interior officially labels the drone incident involving a Ukrainian military cargo aircraft at the Leipzig/Halle Airport as a 'Russian hybrid attack'.

Berlin has summoned the Russian Foreign Minister and has closed the Russian House in Bonn. The European Commission President and NATO's Secretary General have expressed solidarity with Germany.

🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡- "Russia has deliberately decided to further significantly damage our already massively strained bilateral relationship," - Johann Wadephul, German Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- US embassy in Jerusalem issues a new security alert advising Americans in the Middle East to exercise extra caution.

🇮🇷⚡- Two explosions heard near Bandar Abbas, southern Iran. Cause unknown.

🇪🇸⚡️- “Spanish prosecutors say 23 sexual assaults, including nine against children, have been recorded in Ceuta since the mass influx of migrants into the Spanish exclave at the end of July.” - BBC.

🇮🇷⚡- Sound of an explosion was heard on Qeshm Island, Iran, too.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: The US is currently attacking Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- 7-10 US airstrikes on Chabahar, southeast Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Multiple US airstrikes on Sirik, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- US airstrikes on Konarak, southeast Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Renewed airstrikes on Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Two new US attacks on Qeshm Island, following the initial first airstrike earlier.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Security alerts have been issued at several US bases across the Middle East in preparation for a possible Iranian retaliation.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- Initial reports of Iranian projectile launches towards the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- A US official confirms to Axios that the military is currently carrying out attacks on Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲 - Explosions are heard in the Strait of Hormuz, well off the Iranian coast, confirming Iranian projectile launches.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - All reports of attacks on Bandar Abbas or Qeshm Island following the initial wave are false.

Eight explosions have been heard, they all occurred in the Strait of Hormuz itself.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran. The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region," - CENTCOM.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians’ failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan. If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Despite President Trump's warnings, the Iranian retaliation to today's strikes has begun.

Ballistic missile launches have been reported in Lorestan province, western Iran.