🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Additional ballistic missile launches are reported from Yazd and Khomeyn, central Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- A new massive wave of ballistic missiles has been launched from across Iran. Launches are reported in Kermanshah, Lorestan, Tabriz, Arak, and Yazd.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- US airstrikes against Ahvaz, southwestern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Ballistic missile launches reported from the vicinity of Karaj, northern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We will give a crushing response to the American enemy." - General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Air defenses have been activated in Kermanshah, western Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian missiles have been launched from Karaj, Markazi Province, Iran, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇯🇴⚡️- Visual confirmation of Iranian missiles over Amman, Jordan.

Exclusively sent to Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇯🇴⚡️- An Iranian missile has directly impacted Aqaba, Jordan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇯🇴⚡- Iran's IRGC says it targeted the US Camp Titin in the south of Jordan near the Gulf of Aqaba.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇯🇴⚡️- Footage reportedly shows evacuation helicopters over Jordan.

This comes after visual confirmation of an Iranian ballistic missile impacting an area near Camp Titin, an isolated U.S. Marine camp located directly outside Aqaba, Jordan.

⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇹🇭 Under heavy escort, the USS Abraham Lincoln transited the Strait of Malacca and Singapore Strait over the weekend, en route to Thailand for a highly publicized and much-needed liberty port call. Guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls led the three-ship column, with guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. following astern of the supercarrier as she entered the South China Sea.

Multiple Thai officials have confirmed the upcoming port visit since it was first reported last week, with the flattop expected to pull into port at Laem Chabang in the coming days.

Meanwhile, America’s other two deployed carrier groups are in the Middle East enforcing the ongoing blockade as the U.S. and Iran exchange fire for the first time since July.

The unannounced addition of Ticonderoga class cruiser USS Robert Smalls, which has historically served as IAMD commander for the carriers forward-deployed out of Yokosuka, Japan, adds 122 Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells packed with missiles for protection and firepower. The rationale for the additional Tico cruiser, an iconic class that will be completely retired over the coming years without a comparable replacement, is unclear. TWZ has not received an on-the-record response from the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) or U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) public affairs explaining the redirection.

https://www.twz.com/sea/where-are-the-aircraft-carriers-uss-abraham-lincoln-escorted-to-thailand-as-the-middle-east-heats-up

📎 Ian Ellis

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Alerts in Kuwait.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully completed a wave of strikes against Iranian military targets Sept. 1.

U.S. forces struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine laying capabilities, and communications sites.

The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members.

More than 50,000 U.S. service members are currently operating across the Middle East and remain vigilant, lethal, and prepared to continue executing operations directed by the Commander in Chief." - U.S. CENTCOM

🇧🇭⚡️- Explosions are reported in Bahrain, coinciding with air raid sirens.

🇺🇸🇯🇴🇮🇷⚡️- The IRGC claims a missile attack on Prince Hassan Air Base in Jordan destroyed several U.S. drones and killed a number of pilots and technical personnel.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump nominated Hung Cao to become the next Secretary of the Navy.

Cao has been the Acting Secretary of the Navy since April 22, after the departure of John Phelan.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡- Sirens in Bahrain.