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U.S. Central Command: In the past 24 hours U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) forces successfully destroyed two Iranian-backed Houthi uncrewed surface vessels (USV) in the Red Sea and one Houthi radar site in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen. It was determined the USVs and radar site presented an imminent threat to U.S. and coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region. These actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure

U.S. Central Command: In the past 24 hours, U.S. Central Command forces successfully destroyed two Iranian-backed Houthi radar sites in Houthi controlled areas of Yemen and two uncrewed surface vessels (USV) in the Red Sea

Iran's Khamenei says turnout in presidential election was "lower than expected" - Tasnim -Reuters

Blinken: none of the main actors on the Lebanon-Israel front want war - Israel, Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iran. On the other hand there are forces, momentum that may be leading in that direction, which we are determined to try to stop

Senior Biden aide Amos Hochstein is expected to meet officials in Paris tomorrow to discuss US efforts to end cross-border fighting between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel. The Iran-backed group’s no. 2 official said he met Germany’s deputy intel chief in Beirut on Saturday

Acting Iranian Foreign Minister: The resistance in Lebanon will incur a heavy price for Israel in response to any attack

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Saturday that Iran's message of an "obliterating war" made it worthy of destruction

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian and conservative hardliner Saeed Jalili will go to a run-off vote in Iran's presidential election, the country's electoral authority says

The Iranian Election Commission announces a second round of presidential elections next Friday

Iranian Interior Ministry: Popular participation in the presidential elections reached 40%

Iran’s acting FM had phone calls with EU FP chief, UN Secretary General as well as foreign ministers of Germany, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Cyprus in past 24 hours to discuss the situation in Gaza

IAEA report seen by Reuters: at underground plant at Natanz, Iran has fed natural uranium into three more IR-2m cascades and three IR-4 cascades for passivation (preparing for enrichment) @reuters

The Iranian Election Commission extends the voting period until eight o'clock in the evening, local time

The US sanctioned three entities and eleven vessels for trading oil and petrochemical products with Iran

Iranians are voting on Friday in a presidential election called after the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month

The Commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard calls on the people to elect the candidate who completes the career of the late President Ebrahim Raisi

Second conservative presidential candidate and the mayor of Tehran, Alireza Zakani, withdrew from the race, urging major conservative contenders, Jalili and Ghalibaf, to unite in order to defeat the reformist hopeful Pezeshkian

Гаспром је са Ираном потписао меморандум о испоруци руског гаса. Руски Гаспром потписао је меморандум са Националном иранском гасном компанијом (НИГЦ) о испоруци руског гаса Ирану

Per @USTreasury, Iran' network of exchange houses & companies in HongKong UAE & Marshall Islands moved moved hundreds of millions for dollars’ worth of revenue from oil sales, currency exchangesThe money is then used to procure/develop drones & other weaponry

US looking to undercut Iran's “shadow banking” networkPer @USTreasury, Washington's sanctioned 50 entities, individuals used by Iran's military & IRGC "to gain illicit access to the international financial system & process the equivalent of billions of dollars since 2020"

Israeli Defense Minister: The U.S. administration must prevent Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon

US Secretary of Defense: The Israeli people face a real threat from Iran

US Treasury: Imposing sanctions on entities linked to the Iranian Ministry of Defense

Washington imposes new sanctions on Iran

Head of the European Union delegation to the United Nations: We are concerned about Iran's lack of cooperation with the Atomic Energy Agency

Head of the European Union delegation to the United Nations: Diplomacy is the best way to ensure the purely peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program

U.S.'s representative to the United Nations: Iran continues to fuel conflict and instability in the Middle East

Deputy US envoy to the Security Council: Iran must make more efforts to prevent escalation

The European Union imposes sanctions on a research center affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

Turkish Armed Forces dispatched signal jamming systems to Idlib to prevent kamikaze drone attacks by the Assad government and Iranian militias.