🇺🇸⚡️ — The U.S. State Department has issued a security alert calling on Americans worldwide, especially in the Middle East, to "exercise increased caution."

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — US/Israeli airstrikes in Tabriz, northwestern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — A buildup of U.S. forces and escalating threats against Iran’s energy infrastructure are shaping what U.S. and Israeli security officials increasingly see as the war’s likely endgame: a fight for control of the Strait of Hormuz and key oil facilities, WaPo reports.

➡️ With goals like regime change now seen as unlikely, reopening the strait has become the primary objective, potentially allowing President Trump to claim victory, ease the global energy crisis, and weaken Iran’s leverage.

➡️ An Israeli official told WSJ that the new U.S. deployment of 4,500 U.S. sailors and Marines signals a plan “to take the [Kharg] island and the strait,” while Iran has warned it will retaliate by striking U.S.-linked infrastructure across the region.

🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️ — NEW: The Iranian missile attacks on QatarEnergy’s Ras Laffan complex last week involved "sophisticated missiles" that were "maneuverable" and able to evade US-made Patriot air defense systems, according to FT, citing an official briefed on the attack.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is wounded, isolated, and not responding to messages being relayed to him, according to WaPo, citing U.S. and Israeli security officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Footage from the US/Israeli airstrikes on northeastern Tehran, Iran, earlier tonight.

🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️ — Saudi Aramco has cut crude deliveries to Asian customers for April after the war against Iran disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reports.

➡️ The company is supplying only Arab Light crude from the Yanbu port to its term buyers.

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Renewed US/Israeli airstrikes in Tehran, Iran.

🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 — Hezbollah released 63 statements on operations against Israel over the past 24 hours, surpassing its previous record of 55 set two days earlier.

🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Scenes from Tehran, Iran, amid new US/Israeli airstrikes.