The Identity of all US marines and the location of US terrorist forces have been disclosed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. They will soon greet you with their Shahed drones! — Iranian Hacker Group, Handala

🔺Urgent Alert from Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs; If you want to be safe, it is better to leave our region. 🔹Despite defeat on the battlefield, the United States has once again decided to test our resolve. 🔹Our powerful armed forces will not leave any attack or threat unanswered. 🔹If you want to be safe, it is better to leave our region. 🔹The history of the Persian Gulf has many stories about the ominous fate of invading foreigners. 🔹Hormuz is not in international waters, but is shared between Iran and Oman and is thousands of miles from the US coast. Maritime borders are completely clear and unambiguous.

🇮🇷/🇮🇶/🇺🇸/🇰🇼 Iranian Shahed-136 drones now over Iraq, likely on their way to Kuwait. 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 The two missiles that were launched at Erbil

🇺🇸/🇮🇷 The U.S. carried out airstrikes against Iran in response to the downing of the Apache. Strikes targeted the naval base in Sirik, air defense sites near Bandar Abbas, a coastal missile site near Minab, and possibly the Qeshm Port (unconfirmed) 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Preliminary target list: – Sirik naval base – Jask naval base – Bandar Abbas AD position – Minab coastal missile position – Qeshm coastal missile position – Qeshm commercial port

🇮🇷🇺🇸 An Iranian official to Al Jazeera: The American Apache helicopter was not flying over international waters. We will respond decisively and immediately to any U.S. attack on Iran. 🇮🇷🇮🇶 — Iran's IRGC are carrying out attacks on headquarters of Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.

TRUMP PLANNING MAJOR ATTACK ON IRAN SOURCE: Fox News

🇮🇷🇮🇱🇦🇪🇺🇸- According to Kan News, $3 billion dollars' worth of Iranian assets were transferred on a flight from Abu Dhabi to Tehran, in exchange for Iran stopping attacks on Israel and Israel stopping attacks on Lebanon. ➡️ An American message accompanying the money transfer reportedly included a guarantee that Israel would halt its attacks in Lebanon. The exchange of messages was carried out by a Qatari delegation, with the aircraft carrying the assets landing in Tehran.

🇷🇺A car bombing occurred in a residential courtyard in Balashikha, near Moscow, at around 5:30 a.m. when a BMW X3 exploded shortly after the driver began moving. ➡️ The explosive device had a power of 300-400 grams in TNT equivalent and was planted under the driver's seat. ➡️ The driver was rescued from the burning vehicle alive but later succumbed to his injuries. Russian sources identified the victim as a 62-year-old lieutenant general, though authorities have not officially confirmed his identity. ➡️ The neighborhood is known for housing military personnel and their families. 🇷🇺 Another car bomb just went off a short while ago, this time in southwestern Moscow. ➡️ Emergency services are currently working at the scene, and traffic on the road has been stopped.

🇹🇷🇸🇦 Türkiye and Saudi Arabia signed a railway cooperation memorandum in Riyadh, advancing plans to revive the historic Hejaz Railway as a modern transport corridor linking Saudi Arabia with Türkiye via Jordan and Syria. The agreement covers cooperation in railway technology, infrastructure, logistics, training, and human resources. Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said the project aims to strengthen regional connectivity, trade, and development. Türkiye is pursuing a broader vision of modernizing the Hejaz Railway for both passenger and freight transport, initially connecting Türkiye to Aleppo and the existing Syria-Jordan rail network. Long-term plans include extending the corridor towards Oman and the Indian Ocean, creating an alternative trade route that reduces reliance on the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸 One sailor was killed and another has been placed in pretrial confinement following a shooting aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) early Saturday morning, according to USNI. The victim was identified as Jesse Braswell, a Boatswain’s Mate Seaman from Colorado. The incident occurred at approximately 5:15 a.m., according to the U.S. Navy. Authorities said a sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with Braswell’s death, though no charges have yet been filed as the investigation remains ongoing.

🇮🇱/🇮🇷A group of Hezbollah fighters infiltrated into the settlements of Misgav Am and Margaliot, and the IDF decided to hide this event until now, according to Hebrew media 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Hebrew media: ‘Estimates indicate that the gunman, likely a member of the Ridwan force, had been hiding in the area for some time. There are strong suspicions about the presence of an entire cell operating in the area, and it is possible that he emerged from a tunnel in the area.’ 🇮🇱 A car bombing in Tel Aviv 🇺🇸🇮🇷| Yesterday an American AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed near the Strait of Hormoz and its crew was rescued.

🇨🇳 CHINA DEBUTS Z-21 HEAVY ATTACK HELICOPTER China’s unveiled first heavyweight attack helicopter, the Z-21, a clean-sheet design built to own the same mission space as the US AH-64 Apache and Russian Mi-28, but with drone networking and survivability baked in from day one. 🔸 The Z-21 reuses proven Z-20 rotors, engines and tail sections to slash technical risk and speed up entry into the heavyweight attack role. 🔸 Its slim tandem fuselage delivers superior forward visibility while cutting frontal area for better protection against ground fire and MANPADS. 🔸 The Z-21’s large nose electro-optical sensor plus Electronic Warfare and data-link fairings enable real-time targeting handoff with drones for precision strikes from beyond enemy air-defense envelopes. 🔸 Expected to enter service before 2030, the Z-21 is also eyed for Type 075 amphibious ships to boost PLA power projection across the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea. 🔸 Its newer airframe and advanced digital architecture position the PLA to lead in drone-saturated battlefields.

THE PENTAGON YESTERDAY DECLARED BYD, the world’s most successful electric carmaker, to be linked to the Chinese army. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest retailers and e-commerc companies, was also added to the Federal Register yesterday. Innovative tech firm Baidu, and two chipmakers, ChangXin Memory Technologies and Yangtze Memory Technologies, were also written into the register, known as the “1260H list”. Last year, the Pentagon made the same accusation at Tencent, the world’s biggest video game and entertainment company, owner of Epic Games, and a major backer of Reddit, Snapchat, Spotify and others.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 LEAKED: U.S. Paratroopers Secretly Staged in Israel to INVADE Iran The Pentagon told the public the 82nd Airborne was going to "the Middle East." It didn't say where. The deployment order Ken Klippenstein obtained says ISRAEL. These are elite troops trained to PARACHUTE into enemy territory. They were sent on April 7 under a quiet "temporary duty" order. The plan they're tied to: a joint U.S.-Israeli operation to seize KHARG ISLAND, Iran's main oil hub, and grab a piece of Iranian COAST. Why Israel and not a base in the Gulf? Because launching from a Gulf country means asking that government for PERMISSION, and no Arab state wants to be caught helping attack Iran. From Israel, the U.S. asks NO ONE. One of those units has now sat silently in Israel for TWO MONTHS. Staged. Waiting. No one is talking about it.

Chinas Taiwan strategy 🚨🇨🇳Gradual Control: China’s Three-Tier Approach to Taiwan China employs a layered, three-tier system in its approach to Taiwan, with each level serving a distinct purpose and together forming a coordinated strategy. 🔸Civilian Vessels and Maritime Militia At the outermost level, fishing boats, dredgers, cargo ships and the maritime militia maintain a constant presence in the waters. They conduct surveillance, gather data, track the movements of Taiwanese forces with hundreds of potential targets. The key advantage of this tier is that these are formally civilian vessels, meaning any response against them can be portrayed as aggression against peaceful fishermen or commercial ships. 🔸China Coast Guard While the maritime militia establishes presence, the coast guard moves in to consolidate control. It carries out patrols, vessel inspections, checks and escort of civilian flotillas. In effect, it is the coast guard that becomes the instrument for gradually imposing Chinese jurisdiction in disputed areas, all without an officially declared military operation. 🔸PLA Navy Behind both layers, the naval forces remain in the background, serving as the guarantor of the entire system. Their role is not to take part in every incident, but to provide military cover and to be ready to rapidly shift from pressure to a blockade or a forcible operation. According to assessments by the US military, Chinese ships are already capable of moving to a full-scale maritime blockade of Taiwan within hours of receiving the order. This layered structure explains why it is believed that Beijing is not trying to capture Taiwan in a single strike, but to gradually alter the status quo, turning its presence into the new normal.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 On the 59th anniversary of the USS Liberty attack, Rep. Thomas Massie took to the House floor to call for a real investigation into Israel's deliberate strike on the American naval vessel.

🇮🇱🇮🇷- Satellite imagery shows a large burn mark at the Tang-e Kenesht missile base near Kermanshah in western Iran, following Israeli strikes last night/earlier today. ➡️ As with previous strikes on hardened Iranian facilities, it is unclear whether even the entrance area was fully destroyed, with the underground infrastructure remaining intact. ➡️ Notably, missile launches from Kermanshah toward Israel were recorded just two and a half hours after the strike. 📍 Coordinates: 34°23'35.4"N 47°10'40.4"E

🇵🇸/🇮🇷The political spokesman of Hamas in Gaza, Hazem Qasim, says that Iran has informed the movement that a regional ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. should also include a full ceasefire in Gaza He said that Iran informed Hamas of ‘intensive efforts’ to include Gaza into the ceasefire framework, alongside Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇸🇮🇷 Israeli officials are concerned that President Trump could seek to limit Israeli military operations in Lebanon, including not only strikes in Beirut's Dahieh district but broader activity across the country, according to i24NEWS. Israeli officials are working to prevent such a move. While there are currently no indications that Trump intends to push for reduced Israeli operations, concerns stem from the possibility that Iranian demands in negotiations with Washington could lead the Trump administration to argue that restraint in Lebanon would help advance diplomatic talks.