🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | APRIL 5th, DAY 37 RECAP:

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The NYT reports that during the operation in Iran, two U.S. transport aircraft intended to carry the airmen were disabled and abandoned, then blown up. Two MC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and four MH-6 Little Bird helicopters were deliberately destroyed by U.S. forces during the search and rescue mission in Iran, according to ABC News, citing U.S. officials.

🇮🇷🇦🇪 - Several fires have broken out at Abu Dhabi’s Borouge petrochemicals factory, with damage currently being assessed following an Iranian missile and drone attack. This comes less than 24 hours after Israel struck Iran’s largest petrochemical facility.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - An Iranian ballistic missile impacted the Neot Hovav industrial zone near Beersheba in the first wave, the third time this industrial zone has been hit during the war.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell—JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." — President DONALD J. TRUMP via Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - President Trump has posted that the Iranian deadline is now Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. EST.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran has rejected a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a temporary ceasefire, according to the WSJ.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 - The IDF has repeatedly said Iran only has a few hundred ballistic missiles remaining out of an original stockpile of about 2,500, but IDF sources have now acknowledged that the exact number is uncertain.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇾🇪 - "Lebanese [Hezbollah] and Iranian military experts arrived in Ansarullah-controlled Yemen through the port of al-Hudaydah," — Aden al-Ghad.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - “The IDF does not have the capability to destroy the missile cities of the Revolutionary Guards.” — Israeli media quoting an Air Force source.

🇺🇸🛢 - WTI crude oil futures have jumped to over $115 per barrel, while Brent crude oil futures have risen to above $111 per barrel.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran launched more than 10 ballistic missiles, some of which contained cluster warheads, in the most recent wave. It is unclear how many were intercepted or impacted, according to Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The U.S., Iran, and regional mediators are discussing a possible two-phase deal centered on a 45-day ceasefire that could lead to ending the war, but the chances of an agreement in the next 48 hours are low, according to Axios.

Here's our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2040641628629565847?s=20

Look how aggressively Russia moved itself towards NATO?

When the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so dId the rationale for the existence NATO.

Yet, they pushed eastward. And here we are.

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On May 6 1968, Neil Armstrong, who would be the first man to walk on the moon, was training for the landing in the "Lunar Landing Research Vehicle" at Ellington Air Force Base.

This strange flying machine nicknamed the "flying bedstead" was built to simulate the moons one sixth gravity using a downward pointing jet engine and small peroxide thrusters for control.

Just five minutes into the flight a loss of helium pressure caused the attitude control thrusters to fail completely. The craft suddenly went out of control and began pitching uncontrollably.

At about two hundred feet above the ground Armstrong pulled the ejection handle. The zero zero ejection seat fired him clear of the vehicle.
Seconds later the LLRV slammed into the ground and exploded in a fireball.

Armstrong floated down under his parachute completely unharmed except for a bitten tongue. He was back at his desk later that same day.

This risky training device nearly killed the man who would become the first person to walk on the moon just fourteen months later. His calm decision and quick thinking in that moment helped prove he had the right stuff for Apollo 11.

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🇮🇷 Iran’s army:

In recent hours, Iran targeted Al-Kharj Base and Al-Adairy Camp using Arash-2 strike drones.

Due to the deployment of ground units, special forces, and the “Night Stalkers” helicopter unit, Al-Adairy Camp—located north of Kuwait—has played a key role in recent enemy operations in southern Isfahan. The “Night Stalkers” unit was formed after the U.S. defeat in Operation Eagle Claw (Tabas).

— 🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran plans to assume official control over the Strait of Hormuz, charging $2 Million in tolls for every ship that passes

The Strait would be jointly administered with Oman as a token of appreciation for their mediation efforts (‘being a good neighbour’) and for geographical reasons. – NYT

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇸🇦 WATCH: The moment an Iranian ballistic missile impacts Al-Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇸🇦 BREAKING: The target was the Middle East’s largest petrochemical company, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the fourth largest petrochemical manufacturer in the world after DuPont, BASF and Sinopec

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US MQ9 drone DESTROYED by Iranian air defense systems in the sky over Qeshm Island — IRGC

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اسکوبار تأیید می‌کند که چین، ایران را به‌طور کامل در شبکه ماهواره‌ای «بیدو» (BeiDou) خود ادغام کرده و عملاً GPS آمریکا را کنار گذاشته است. این اطلاعات سطح‌بالا و ۲۴ ساعته، دقت ترسناک موشک‌های هایپرسونیک جدید ایران را توضیح می‌دهد. واشنگتن کاملاً فلج شده است.

Scobar confirms that China has fully integrated Iran into its BeiDou satellite network, effectively sidelining the US GPS. This high-level, 24-hour data explains the terrifying accuracy of Iran's new hypersonic missiles. Washington is completely paralyzed.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump, apparently unaware of the U.S. ceasefire proposal to Iran:

‘Who is talking about 45 days? Nobody said 45 days, I will decide when the ceasefire happens and for how long.’
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 ترامپ، ظاهراً از پیشنهاد آتش‌بس آمریکا به ایران بی‌اطلاع است:

«چه کسی درباره ۴۵ روز صحبت می‌کند؟ هیچ‌کس نگفت ۴۵ روز، من تصمیم می‌گیرم آتش‌بس کی اتفاق بیفتد و برای چه مدتی.»😂

ترامپ : مردم ایران همین که دستشون به اسلحه برسه، شروع می‌کنن مقابله کردن

🔴 اگه اسلحه داشته باشن، ایران دو ثانیه‌ای تسلیم میشه

Trump: As soon as the Iranian people get their hands on weapons, they will start to resist.

🔴 If they had weapons, Iran would surrender in two seconds.

🚨🚨فرودگاه ارومیه و خوی و چند نقطه مهم دیگر مورد هدف موشکی دشمن امریکایی صهیونی قرار گرفت

▫️مدیرکل مدیریت بحران آذربایجان‌‌غربی گفت: فرودگاه ارومیه و فرودگاه و چند نقطه مهم دیگر مورد هدف موشکی دشمن امریکایی صهیونی قرار گرفت

▫️حامد صفاری، با اعلام این خبر اظهار کرد: دشمن در یک اقدام جنایتکارانه دیگر فرودگاه ارومیه فرودگاه خوی و چندین نقطه مهم را مورد هدف قرار داد که تیم‌های امدادی فورا به محل اعزام شدند .
➕وی ادامه داد: از شهروندان درخواست می‌شود که از عبور و مرور غیر ضروری در جاده های حومه خودداری کنند

🚨🚨 Urmia and Khoy airports and several other key locations were targeted by American-Zionist enemy missiles

▫️The Director-General of Crisis Management of West Azerbaijan said: Urmia Airport, Khoy Airport, and several other key locations were targeted by missiles of the American-Zionist enemy.

▫️Hamed Saffari, announcing this news, stated: In another criminal act, the enemy targeted Urmia Airport, Khoy Airport, and several key locations, and rescue teams were immediately dispatched to the area.

➕He added: Citizens are requested to avoid unnecessary travel on suburban roads.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- BREAKING: Projectiles have struck an oil refinery in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, and a massive blaze can be seen.

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇰🇼 Following claims earlier today by Iranian channels of a drone and missile attack Sunday night against several aircraft stationed at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, CBS News is now reporting, citing U.S. officials, that 15 American servicemembers were injured in an Iranian one-way drone strike overnight on Ali Al Salem Air Base.

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A more detailed map of events from the rescue site of the American pilot - a weapons operator of a downed Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet. As can be seen, the Americans were operating in the immediate vicinity of the crucial Iranian Isfahan Nuclear Technology and Research Center, and the Iranians demonstrated a surprising inability to control this area and prevent the evacuation of two pilots, and then of several hundred special forces soldiers. All of this, of course, creates a vast field for speculation about the possibility that the real target of the American actions was precisely the Isfahan Nuclear Center, although there is no evidence of this so far.

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Satellite images of the consequences of the Arash-2 UAV strike on the American base in Kuwait

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