Jacob M. Klimek 🇺🇸

Just one guy keeping tabs on conflicts around the world, geopolitics, and events as they unfold.

[Jacob M. Klimek 🇺🇸 @JacobMKlimek]

#Iran

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

🇺🇸 Trump to ABC News:

I think it's very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter, and we are responding as we speak.

This is a response to what they did they did with our helicopter last night, and I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful, and that's what this one is.

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

IRAN'S FARS: BLASTS HEARD IN EASTERN HORMOZGAN REGIONS

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

IRAN STATE MEDIA: PROJECTILE STRIKE CONFIRMED IN SIRIK

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

IRAN'S STATE MEDIA SAYS QESHM WAS ATTACKED

[The Global Pivot @SinghKr56281]

Big 🔴:-
US is currently striking Iran, in the sirik city and near strait of Hormuz

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: It is official. CENTCOM has confirmed U.S. forces are striking Iran right now, on Trump's direct order, as payback for the Apache shootdown.

The strikes began at 5 p.m. ET, and the command is framing them as self defense and a "proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression."

Proportional means calibrated, a capped answer to the helicopter rather than a return to full scale war, consistent with the explosions just confirmed along Iran's Hormuz coastline at Sirik and reported on Qeshm and Bandar Abbas.

So Trump's "must respond" lasted about a day from post to impact.

The question that decides everything now is whether Tehran absorbs this round quietly or answers it, with a deal supposedly days from done sitting in the middle.

Source: CENTCOM / Writer: Daniel

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

Several points in southern Hormozgan Province and one point around Bandar Abbas were targeted by missile strikes. - Ilia Hashemi

[ILRedAlert @ILRedAlert]

BREAKING: U.S. forces launch self-defense strikes on Iran after Apache helicopter downed, CENTCOM says.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️BREAKING: Initial reports of US airstrikes on Iran's Sirik port and Bandar abbas

Also reports of air defense activity in Tehran

An Iranian strike on US bases could now be imminent

[Aleph א @no_itsmyturn]

Initial reports: Explosions in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island, Iran 🇮🇷

[Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts @officialrnintel]

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Initial reports of explosions on Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.

[Conflict Radar @Conflict_Radar]

BREAKING: U.S. airstrikes reported in Sirik, Iran

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

IRAN'S STATE MEDIA CITES MILITARY SOURCE AS SAYING THAT IN CASE OF RENEWED 'HOSTILITY BY THE ENEMY' UNDER THE PRETEXT OF THE CRASH OF THE U.S. APACHE HELICOPTER, THERE WILL BE A 'DECISIVE RESPONSE'

[The Global Monitor @theglobal4u]

⚡️Netanyahu warned cabinet last night that Israel may have to face Iran alone — without U.S. backing, accepting the costs of that:

Weapons cutoffs and global isolation.

"We don't want to get there, but we know we can."

IDF Chief of Staff Zamir was sharper on the emerging nuclear deal:

As we see it right now — almost any deal is a bad deal.

Source: i24

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Karmelo Anthony found guilty of first degree murder on Austin Metcalf.

Sentencing about to take place any moment now.

[The Global Monitor @theglobal4u]

⚡️U.S. investigation has determined that an Iranian drone hit and brought down a U.S. Apache helicopter.

The investigation still hasn't determined if it was intentional or not.

Source: Barak Ravid

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

CONFIRMED:
The US helicopter that went down over the Strait of Hormuz was (in fact) struck by an Iranian Shahed drone (we already know), according to Axios and The New York Times, citing a US official.

A US Navy surface drone rescued the two crew members after they spent about two hours in the water near Oman. CENTCOM says both soldiers are in stable condition.

President Donald Trump blamed Iran for the attack and said the US “must” respond.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 A prolonged supply chain freeze in the Middle East could quickly tip the global financial system over the edge.

If vital trade corridors remain blocked through the fall, top economist David Rosenberg projects that the odds of a brutal global recession become dangerously high.

The founder of Rosenberg Research notes that the fallout will stretch far beyond oil, sparking a massive shock to fertilizer and food supplies that will devastate family budgets.

Rosenberg warns that America's geopolitical rivals know the public has no appetite for war, meaning they can comfortably play a waiting game while global markets bleed.

@EconguyRosie

[The News Spark @TheNewsSpark]

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announces that Iran shot down the AH-64 Apache patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, and the United States “must, of necessity,
respond to this attack.”

#Iran #USA #Israel
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