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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | APRIL 5th, DAY 37 RECAP:
🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The NYT reports that during the operation in Iran, two U.S. transport aircraft intended to carry the airmen were disabled and abandoned, then blown up. Two MC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and four MH-6 Little Bird helicopters were deliberately destroyed by U.S. forces during the search and rescue mission in Iran, according to ABC News, citing U.S. officials.
🇮🇷🇦🇪 - Several fires have broken out at Abu Dhabi’s Borouge petrochemicals factory, with damage currently being assessed following an Iranian missile and drone attack. This comes less than 24 hours after Israel struck Iran’s largest petrochemical facility.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - An Iranian ballistic missile impacted the Neot Hovav industrial zone near Beersheba in the first wave, the third time this industrial zone has been hit during the war.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 - "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell—JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." — President DONALD J. TRUMP via Truth Social.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 - President Trump has posted that the Iranian deadline is now Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. EST.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran has rejected a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a temporary ceasefire, according to the WSJ.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - The IDF has repeatedly said Iran only has a few hundred ballistic missiles remaining out of an original stockpile of about 2,500, but IDF sources have now acknowledged that the exact number is uncertain.
🇮🇷🇱🇧🇾🇪 - "Lebanese [Hezbollah] and Iranian military experts arrived in Ansarullah-controlled Yemen through the port of al-Hudaydah," — Aden al-Ghad.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - “The IDF does not have the capability to destroy the missile cities of the Revolutionary Guards.” — Israeli media quoting an Air Force source.
🇺🇸🛢 - WTI crude oil futures have jumped to over $115 per barrel, while Brent crude oil futures have risen to above $111 per barrel.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran launched more than 10 ballistic missiles, some of which contained cluster warheads, in the most recent wave. It is unclear how many were intercepted or impacted, according to Israeli Channel 12.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The U.S., Iran, and regional mediators are discussing a possible two-phase deal centered on a 45-day ceasefire that could lead to ending the war, but the chances of an agreement in the next 48 hours are low, according to Axios.
Here's our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2040641628629565847?s=20
Zohran Mamdani’s intern Arzoo Malik is calling for a Holy War through Jihad and martyrdom:
“This is all jihad, this is all ibada, and this is all counted for by Allah. How committed am I to this? What am I willing to sacrifice for this noble cause?”
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🇫🇷🇮🇷❌🇺🇸❗️ — The US thought it could quickly contain Iran with air superiority, but the war has proven longer and more complex, exposing the vulnerability of American bases and ships to missile and drone attacks, while the mounting costs and deployment needs are putting heavy pressure on the Army, according to French weekly Courrier International.
➡️ The analysis concludes that the conflict has shown the US can no longer manage a major Middle East war without heavy consequences, as it once did.
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