Washington has been engaging Kurdish fighters, Baloch operatives and opposition factions inside Iran as part of a coordinated push toward full regime change – while intelligence assessments warn the Revolutionary Guards are digging in for a long fight.
The Financial Times reported, citing a source inside the regime, that the attack on Gulf states and the severe blow to the fuel industry are part of a plan devised by Khamenei to exact a price and ensure the survival of the Iranian regime.
Defense companies are under "emergency orders," Trump tells Politico, even as a senator warns of a desperate shortage of missile defense systems.
Strike in the city of Qom hit the building housing Iran's Assembly of Experts; according to some reports, many were wounded and killed. On Monday, a building that previously served as the Iranian parliament was struck.
Al Arabiya reported IDF special units operated on Iranian territory overnight; a separate unconfirmed report claimed the IRGC naval commander was killed in a US strike.
