🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- On the orders of Iraq's Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, Baghdad has closed its main southern land border crossing with Iran until further notice. The reason for the closure is to stop the "smuggling of prohibited materials". Baghdad has stated other border crossings with Iran will also gradually close.

🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- "Iraq will not allow its territory to be used to threaten neighboring countries [Saudi Arabia] and will not embrace any armed group [Iran-backed militias] participating in a specific conflict," - Iraq's Government Spokesman.

🇹🇷🇱🇾⚡- Turkey and eastern Libya's House of Representatives, HoR, have both ratified the controversial maritime agreement between the two countries.

Libya's HoR passed the martime boundary agreement unanimously just two weeks after HoR Speaker Aguila Saleh was removed from his post. Saleh had long opposed Turkish influence in the country, western Libya's GNU, and maintained high-level relations with Cairo and Athens instead. Saleh rejected the maritime agreement with Ankara in 2019 and 2020.

Israeli, Egyptian and Greek Foreign Ministries have all condemned the agreement.

"Israel strongly condemns the decision of the Libyan House of Representatives to ratify the Maritime Jurisdiction Memorandum between Turkey and Libya.

This agreement infringes upon the sovereign rights of our close allies in the region.

Regretfully, once again we see Turkey working to destabilise the east Mediterranean region," - Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇱⚡- Benjamin Netanyahu has called on Ofer Winter to resign from the race ahead of next week's elections.

🇮🇱⚡- Netanyahu met Moti Leitner of HaTzibur HaHaredi last night and urged him to quit the race so right-wing votes aren’t wasted.

🇮🇱 - Latest polling average (last 10 polls published yesterday):

Likud (Benjamin Netanyahu) - 22 seats
Yashar (Gadi Eisenkot) - 22 seats
B'Yachad (Naftali Bennett + Yair Lapid) - 12 seats
Democrats (Yair Golan) - 9 seats
Otzma Yehudit (Itamar Ben-Gvir) - 9 seats
Shas (Aryeh Deri) - 8 seats
Yisrael Beiteinu (Avigdor Lieberman) - 8 seats
Joint List (Yousef Jabareen) - 8 seats
Yahadut HaTorah (Ya'akov Asher) - 7 seats
Tkuma (Bezalel Smotrich) - 6 seats
Ra'am (Mansour Abbas) - 5 seats

Likud-bloc: 51 seats (Likud, Otzma Yehudit, Shas, Yahadut HaTorah, Tkuma)
Yashar-bloc: 51 seats (Yashar, B'Yachad*, Democrats, Yisrael Beiteinu)
Arab-coalition: 13 seats (Joint List, Ra'am).

*Assuming Bennett join's an Eisenkot-led bloc.

🇨🇦⚡️- Bioware announces they are closing their studio.

Go woke, go broke.

🇮🇷⚡️- Visual confirmation of ballistic missile movements in Lorestan Province, western Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Dozens of Israeli fighter jets and refueling tankers flew near the Iranian border in a “show of force” earlier this week. The Israelis appeared to want Iran to fire on their aircraft and trigger an escalation, according to a U.S. source who spoke to Axios.

Iranian jets were scrambled near the border but did not fire on enemy aircraft.

🇮🇱⚡- In a major blow to Likud, Ofer Winter and Moti Leitner have both decided against withdrawing from the elections.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We are in the stage of preparing to unveil the ‘father of all bombs’. This is something new for the enemy.” - IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi.

🇮🇷⚡️ - Several explosions were heard in Kerpan, Sirik County, Iran near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian state-affiliated media sources added they are working to determine the source of the explosions.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇶🇦⚡️- The U.S. State Department is preparing to issue an ordered departure for some personnel and their family members at U.S. embassies across the Gulf, according to Reuters.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- BREAKING: Explosions in Iraqi territorial waters. The IRGC is likely attacking vessels in Iraqi waters for the second time in 24 hours.

The attacks come after Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi ordered the closure of Iraqi-Iranian border crossings to crack down on Iranian-aligned militias.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️- Ansarullah has struck Saudi Arabia’s Shaybah oilfield, killing two people, according to Saudi state news.

🇺🇸🇸🇦⚡️- BREAKING: The United States has ordered all embassy staff to evacuate Saudi Arabia immediately, according to AFP.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇯🇴⚡️- U.S. embassy staff in Qatar, Jordan, and Bahrain have been ordered to leave with their families, according to AFP.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "In the past few hours, there has apparently been a change in the American position in favor of a preemptive strike on Iran.

White House sources explain the change mainly due to the great weight that President Trump gave to the assessments and intelligence that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented to him upon his return from the meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu." - Haaretz.

🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Visual confirmation of plumes of smoke in Sirik, southern Iran.

Iranian state media has confirmed the explosions, the cause remains unclear.