Missiles flying again between Israel, Iran, Yemen & Hezbollah

• Iran’s MFA spokesman says the US bears full responsibility for the ‘Israeli’ aggression, and the consequences of escalating tensions are also on the US. Basically, the aggression against Iran happened in full coordination between Tel Aviv and Washington. The attacks on Iran’s southern regions and the assault on Lebanon are directly the responsibility of the US, and they must be held accountable for these crimes. Exchanging messages with the US happen in an atmosphere of severe mistrust. Iran can’t separate the policies of the Zionist regime from those of the US. 

• Yemen military: "The resistance is pounding Tel Aviv, Haifa, and beyond. The Axis of Resistance will not remain silent in the face of what is happening in Gaza and Lebanon, while the world is in a slumber."
• The IRGC says it targeted the Israeli Ramat David Air Base with ballistic missiles in response to Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon & Beirut’s Dahiyeh. It says Iran accepted the ceasefire only on the condition that all fronts stop firing. The latest attack on northern Israel is a joint Hezbollah-Iran attack. Israel has repeatedly violated the Lebanon ceasefire with US backing, including attacks on southern Lebanon and Beirut’s Dahieh.

• Iran’s Central Military command (Khatam al-Anbiya) says: A painful response was delivered to the regime, and we’ll halt operations for now. However, if aggressions and hostile acts continue, including in southern Lebanon, much harsher and more crushing responses than before will follow.
• During an interview with NBC, Trump unplugged his microphone and left mid-interview because he would not answer the questions and tried to guilt trip the interviewer. 

• The New York Times: The Israeli occupation army used white phosphorus shells in populated areas of southern Lebanon during recent months.
• Gerry Gershon, former deputy commander of the Israeli regime's Northern Front: Israel has lost control of the war, and currently Israel and the US are losing to Iran.
• Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania threatens the protesters opposing the controversial Trump–Kushner resort project:  "Not 5,000 protesters in the streets, not even 500,000 protesters can stop me."

• Russia's Federation Council Speaker Matviyenko: "What we've seen in recent years is an ideologization and politicization of world politics and the world economy that does enormous harm to global development. These ill-considered actions by the collective West harm not only the whole world, but their own peoples as well." 

• Prisoners are brutally humiliated in prisons, forced to carry slippers with their teeth. The Ukrainian Penitentiary Service stated that an investigation is underway and the leadership of the pre-trial detention centre has been suspended. 

• Cuba has started distributing weapons to civilians, urging the population to prepare for a possible US invasion, according to Versión Final. Such measures are related to the growing tension around the island and the strengthening of the American military presence in the region. As CNN correspondent Patrick Oppmann reported, preparations for a possible military scenario have already affected daily life in Havana - in state institutions and organizations, they are discussing actions in case of an emergency and possible military operations. 

• Telegraph: The entire British fleet of nuclear submarines is found to be non-combat ready and awaiting repairs. All five active British Astute-class submarines are in port awaiting repairs or maintenance. The sixth submarine is not yet ready to go to sea. 

• The President of Romania admitted that the drone that exploded in the port of the city of Constanta was Ukrainian. He was unable to answer how the marine drone managed to penetrate the port. 

• Iran’s World Cup squad has been informed that they must leave and enter the US on the same day as their matches, and will not be allowed to stay for any period of time in the US. Iran is the only team in the entire FIFA 2026 World Cup that will be forced to travel back and forth, and will spend their time in Mexico instead.
• Sputnik: The potential deal with Iran that Trump is seeking would benefit Israel, but not Benjamin Netanyahu, who is using the war to stay in power, security expert Dr. Simon Tsipis told Sputnik. "Everything hinges on whether Benjamin Netanyahu is granted a pardon," Tsipis said. "He is using the prospect of clemency as leverage over both Trump and Israel’s institutions, including the Knesset and the Supreme Court. At present, by resuming strikes on Beirut, Netanyahu is trying, via Trump, to secure a pardon from President Herzog," Tsipis said. "If Herzog does not grant him a pardon, Netanyahu will likely continue bombing Beirut, and the deal with Iran will fall apart."

• Trump picks housing regulator Bill Pulte to lead on national intelligence. Pulte, a staunch political supporter of Trump, will replace Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte leads a federal mortgage regulation agency but has no experience with intelligence work. He will be just another Hegseth-type 'Yes man' for Trump.
• Just Foreign Policy: Donald Trump and Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat House leader) don't agree on much. But they agreed on this: You don't get to know what American forces are doing in Lebanon. This week, Congress voted 324 to 92 to block Rep. Rashida Tlaib's Lebanon War Powers Resolution – a measure that would have required the Trump administration to remove US forces from unauthorized hostilities in Lebanon within seven days. Trump demanded Republicans remain unified and stop the Lebanon War Powers Resolution from passing, like the Iran War Powers Resolution just a few days ago. Similarly, Democratic leadership recommended that the rank and file follow President Trump’s direction and vote against the War Powers Resolution, but for a slightly different reason: "There are no US servicemembers involved in combat operations or hostilities in Lebanon." Here's the problem: WE DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW IF THAT'S TRUE. Pete Hegseth's Pentagon has barred journalists from the building. Press conferences are rare. No mainstream news organizations have reporters embedded with US military units in the Middle East.

• Responding to US-Israeli Lebanese puppet President Joseph Aoun’s exclusive CNN interview, in which he said Iran is holding Lebanon hostage, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Aoun to focus on Lebanon’s “real foe” and added that if Lebanon had been a “bargaining chip” for Iran, a deal would have been reached “long ago.” 
• An airstrike trapped a journalist. She died as rescuers waited for permission to save her. Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon revealed that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive.
• Elon Musk has long clashed with the Federal Aviation Administration, which fined SpaceX $633,000 in 2024 for allegedly failing to follow license requirements. It temporarily suspended Starship launches in January 2025 after the rocket exploded for the fifth time. SpaceX requested to cut the FAA’s nuclear payload approval process in 2019 and signed a 2024 committee report recommending the government 'guarantee liability protection for launches with nuclear material'. Musk poured nearly $292 million in contributions to Republicans last election cycle, including $239 million to his America PAC that helped Trump’s comeback by shouldering canvassing and get-out-the-vote efforts. “Musk would like to have as little limitations to what he wants to launch as possible,” space law expert Frans von der Dunk told Sludge. “And if he has a government which is very sympathetic to the general idea, and where all the expertise to actually determine whether what he does is reasonably safe [is] eroding, then that worries me a lot.”
• The EU has authorised its warships to detain foreign tankers suspected of transporting Russian oil says Estonian lead pirate Kaja Kallas. Detentions are authorised to be carried out as part of the EU Naval Force operation, which was deployed in the Mediterranean Sea in 2020 to prevent illegal arms supplies to Libya. The EU countries to which the ships belong have not yet confirmed intentions to intercept ships. Europe has previously detained tankers with Russian oil, but soon released them. 

• An Israeli investment group — IDM Capital — has proposed a €136.5 million luxury resort and holiday village on the western part of Kalamata, Greece beachfront, covering approximately 205,000 square metres of coastal land. Greeks who have used that beach for generations would effectively lose access to it. Local residents and opposition politicians are pushing back hard. (More 'Greater Israel')
• Jean Shaoul reported last year that US troops were stationed in Lebanon at air strips not far from Beirut, and that the US was building a $1.2 billion fortified embassy on a 43-acre site near Beirut whose declared purpose was to counter the “Axis of Resistance,” meaning Iran. Shaoul wrote that the embassy’s “scale, out of all proportion to the country’s size, is indicative of US geo-political interests in Lebanon, with its strategic location and newly found sources of gas and oil under the eastern Mediterranean Sea.” Historically, the US has tried to exhibit control in Lebanon through Maronite Christian factions.