V-P Vance waiting for God to tell him if Iran can have nukes

 

• In Tehran, air defenses are confronting hostile targets while explosions and warplane activity have been reported across eastern parts of the city. Raids have struck multiple areas of Tehran, and six consecutive explosions were heard in Qom, central Iran. Iranian media reports that Khorramabad Airport in western Iran has also been targeted. 
• V-P J. D. Vance explains that he is asking God if Iran can have nukes. He's now waiting for God's answer. Not sure if he also asked God if it was OK for US & Israel to have nukes. Guess it depends on which God Vance talks to.

• Iranian Jewish Rabbi standing on top of the ruins of a bombed synagogue in Tehran by ‘Israel’. 

• 🤔Reuters citing an Iranian source: What America wants is the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran will not reopen it in exchange for empty promises. Pakistan continues to send messages, but the United States has not changed its tone.
• Israeli Army Radio: Since the night of the Jewish Passover, about 63,000 Israelis have left the country. Of these, 50,000 crossed via land crossings, the majority through the Taba-Egypt and Rabin-Jordan crossings.
• Austrian Foreign Minister: The escalation in the Gulf does not threaten peace and security in the region only, but also has direct repercussions for us.
• Haaretz: The World Health Organization announced it will stop evacuating patients from Gaza after one of its workers was killed. 

• Haaretz: Israeli military officials admit difficulty in intercepting Iranian cluster rockets and limited stockpiles of interceptor missiles.
• Targeting of the largest petrochemical company in the Middle East and the fourth largest in the world in the Jubail region of Saudi Arabia with an Iranian ballistic missile.
• Axios: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu warned US President Trump about the difficulty of resuming hostilities with Iran after a ceasefire and urged him to proceed.

• A Yemeni website published news about the arrival of Iranian and Hezbollah Lebanese experts to Houthi areas via a country in the Horn of Africa as part of preparations to expand operations.
• Iranian oil is now being sold at a price higher than Brent crude. Iran is generating greater profits from oil sales than at any time in the past 48 years, and it has near-exclusive access to the Strait of Hormuz.
• Drones targeted the Qasrak base in the countryside of Al-Hasakah, Syria, while U.S. warplanes made unsuccessful attempts to intercept them. 
• Iranians are forming human chains on bridges across Iran in rejection of President Trump’s threats and today's Israeli strikes targeting bridge and railway infrastructure. 

• The USA and Israel attacked the Iranian island of Kharg, which is the main hub of Iran’s oil exports, according to the Mehr agency. It did not specify which specific facilities on the island were attacked, but the island, located in the northern part of the Persian Gulf, is home to Iran’s largest oil terminal. Source: RIA Novosti.

• Professor Marandi in Iran on his X Channel warns: “Evacuate the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar immediately. The Islamic Republic of Iran will destroy all critical infrastructure of these regimes as soon as the Epstein Coalition targets the critical infrastructure of the Iranian people.”
• The US amphibious assault ship LHA-7 came under heavy fire and was forced to retreat deep into the Indian Ocean.
• Israeli troop concentrations in Petah Tikva were hit with precision ballistic missiles by the IRGC Aerospace Force.
• Iran’s air defenses, under the integrated national air defense network, recently shot down: 1 Orbiter UAV in Kermanshah; 1 Hermes-900 UAV in Andimeshk; 2 MQ-9 drones in Isfahan and Qeshm; 1 Jassm cruise missile by IRGC forces; 2 cruise missiles (Tomahawk and Jassm) in Tehran and Hamedan by the Iranian Army.
• 15 Americans confirmed killed or wounded in yesterday’s strike on US base at UAE.

• Alastair Crooke says: "The Western system has completely lost—I don’t know the right word—but it has lost its ‘soul’. But the Iranians are searching, and, to a certain extent, the same thing is happening in Russia". See the full interview here  
• Iranian attacks against US installations in Kuwait continue. Kuwait has been one the main launching pads for US attacks against Iran.