🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - WAR IN IRAN | APRIL 6th, DAY 38 RECAP:
🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran is seeking a permanent end to the war and will not accept a temporary ceasefire, demanding guarantees that it will not be attacked again. The final agreement is expected to include Iranian commitments not to pursue nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief and the release of frozen assets, a source tells Reuters.
🇮🇷 - "Iran will allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for paying security fees. The security fees obtained will be used as war reparations. Several Indian, Pakistani, Turkish, and French ships have obtained transit permits for Hormuz," a senior Iranian official tells Al Jazeera.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 - "A senior American official told me that Iran submitted a 10-point response today to the proposal to end the war. The senior American official described the Iranian response as 'maximalist' and said that it is not clear if it will allow progress toward a diplomatic solution." — Barak Ravid, Israeli journalist for Axios.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Four IDF soldiers have been arrested by the Shin Bet on suspicion of spying for Iran.
🇮🇷🇷🇺🇮🇱 - Russian intelligence has provided Iran with a detailed list of 55 critical energy infrastructure targets within Israel, according to The Jerusalem Post, citing Ukrainian intelligence.
🇮🇷🇸🇦🇦🇪 - Iran continues strikes on Gulf states.
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - The US and Israel continue strikes on Iran, including Isfahan, Tehran, and parts of southern Iran.
🇮🇷 - Iran has sent a message to the entire region that, in the event of serious American attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure, the entire region will plunge into darkness.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iranian missile hit success rates have increased from 3% during the first two weeks of the war to 27% now, according to the Institute for the Study of War and JP Morgan.
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼 - An Iranian drone attack on Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait last night injured 15 Americans, according to CBS News.
🇮🇷🇸🇦 - Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), the world’s fourth-largest petrochemical manufacturing company, was struck by Iranian missiles, locals told Rerum Novarum; this has now been confirmed.
🇮🇷🇮🇶 - Projectiles struck an oil refinery in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Mahdi Mohammadi, strategic advisor to the Iranian Parliament speaker: "It is Trump who has about 20 hours to either surrender to Iran, or his allies will return to the Stone Age. We will not back down!"
Here's our recap from yesterday: https://x.com/officialrnintel/status/2040984226854531415?s=20
Azerbaijan: This Turkish country has destroyed more Christian monuments than ISIS.
Based off satellite data, Azerbaijan erased 108 Armenian monasteries, churches and cemeteries - in just one region.
By comparison, ISIS destroyed dozens of churches.
How is this okay?
@NoAgendaLara
UPDATE: Outrage erupts as there has been a SURGE in Islamists ATTACKING and vandalizing Japanese shrines
Security footage shows people wearing HIJABS storming up and unleashing on the Soya Shrine in Hadano City
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— Hypothetically, if the U.S. wanted to carry out a naval landing in Iran, they would do it somewhere outside the Persian Gulf, most likely Chabahar or somewhere else in the flat open coasts of Sistan-Balochistan Province.
That way, they don’t need to risk their ships entering the Persian Gulf under heavy anti-ship fire and incoming drones while trying to land their soldiers on a rugged coastline full of fortified positions and artillery emplacements.
In Chabahar, they could bring their ships close enough to the shore with relative safety, under heavy air cover. U.S. jets, drones, and attack helicopters would suppress any anti-ship batteries heavily, and create sufficiently safe conditions for the initial ‘landing’. One also cannot rule out the possibility of deploying U.S. airborne forces to secure key sites before an amphibious landing is attempted.
This might be coupled with increased Balochi terrorist activity across the Iranian rear lines, complicating logistics and the transfer of ...