🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡️ — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein proposes a regional initiative establishing a committee of foreign ministers to visit Tehran and Washington to de-escalate tensions and reach peaceful understandings in a phone call with Iranian FM Araghchi, reports Tasnim.

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — The head of Iran's parliamentary National Security Committee dismissed reports quoting Israeli officials about Tehran planning to use chemical weapons, calling them false, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — Yemen's Ansarallah announces over the past 24 hours, Saudi forces conducted 67 airstrikes and surface-to-surface missile strikes against Ansarallah-controlled Ta'izz, Lahij, Sa'adah, Al-Jawf, and Ma'rib governorates, announcing dozens of casualties as a result of the strikes.

Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 and Typhoon fighter jets based in King Khalid AB and King Fahd AB conducted airstrikes, while surface-to-surface missiles were launched from Najran Province, southwestern KSA.

🇸🇾🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — Syria has sent military advisers and trainers to Saudi Arabia amidst KSA's war with Ansarallah, two Syrian military sources and a senior U.S. official tell Reuters. A senior U.S. official says the Syrian teams arrived to train both Saudi forces and Yemeni PLC forces operating inside KSA.

A senior Syrian diplomat and a Saudi official denied the presence of Syrian units was related to Ansarallah, saying the Syrians were there to be trained by KSA.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — President Trump via Truth Social:

Israel and, in fact, the entire Middle East, WOULD NOT EXIST TODAY if I did not stop Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon. Nobody wants to say that, but everybody knows it’s true!

🇮🇷⚡️ — Explosions in the Strait of Hormuz. An anti-ship cruise missile launch was conducted by Iran's IRGC Navy from Bandar Abbas, coastal southern Iran.

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump announces Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has lost her position and will be replaced with Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth via X:

Patriots in control.

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Department of the Treasury announces sanctions against eight Canada-registered financial and currency exchange businesses, adding them to the SDN list for alleged ties with Iran.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen announces intercepting a UAV operating above Riyadh Province, central KSA.

🇮🇷⚡️ — Spokesperson of Iran's Ministry of Health Dr. Hossein Kermanpour denied this report, claiming no Iranian health officials gave an interview to The Times.

🇮🇷⚡️ — 2 explosions in the Strait of Hormuz following an IRGC Navy anti-ship cruise missile launch.

🇮🇷⚡️ — Missile launch from Qeshm Island, Iran.

Clarifying - could be antiship missile or surface-to-air missile.

🇮🇷⚡️ — This was a surface-to-air missile launch towards an aircraft. Qeshm Island.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Photo of a surface-to-air missile launch from Qeshm Island, Iran towards a U.S. military aircraft.

🇮🇷⚡️ — No confirmation of a U.S. strike against Qeshm Island. Local reports on explosions could be related to antiship/surface-to-air missile launches.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Two U.S. strikes were conducted against Suza, coastal southeastern Qeshm Island.

A retaliatory strike against Iranian SAM/antiship launchers. This was the location of earlier Iranian missile launches.

🇧🇭⚡️ — Fighter jet activity above Bahrain, a local source informs Tabz.

🇮🇷⚡️ — A new surface-to-air missile launch took place in Qeshm Island, Iran 11 minutes ago.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has been heavily involved in indirect negotiations with Iran over the past two weeks, two sources familiar with the matter tell Axios.

The push began two weeks ago when Vance sent a letter to Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei proposing direct negotiations. Vance has also been speaking almost daily to mediators involved in Iranian-American peace talks including Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani and Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Asim Munir.

Vance and Qatari/Pakistani mediators have been discussing the possibility of a working-level technical meeting between Iran and the United States soon, though one hasn't been scheduled yet. U.S. officials and regional sources tell Axios that President Trump seems to be willing to let diplomatic efforts occur for now.