Our response to the Zionist entity is legitimate self-defence in accordance with international law and humanitarian logic. We consider all countries that support the Zionist entity or legitimise its attacks to be accomplices to these crimes.

The UN Security Council must fulfill its duties; calling for restraint is nothing but hypocrisy.

All countries committed to international law are required to condemn the crimes and work to stop the attacks.

"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.

If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it’s not freedom you’re after."

• Planned Vietnam port visit canceled due to “emergent operational requirement.”
• Data confirms the carrier is en route westward as tensions escalate.
• Part of routine U.S. Navy Indo-Pacific operations.