Wow: #Iran-backed# Kataib #Hezbollah# operative Mohammad al-Saadi, whom the U.S. arrested, orchestrated the terror plot against American forces at RAF Fairford using coded messages while in federal prison.
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The U.S. evacuated American aircraft from a Royal Air Force base in England on Monday in the wake of a threat from Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.
"The U.S. upgraded the security posture at RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath, both used by the U.S. military, to FPCON Charlie, which occurs when intelligence indicates that a form of terrorist action is likely, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter."
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.@SecRubio: “It would have been very easy to do what multiple presidents before him have done, which is just ignore the Iran thing, leave it for the next guy."
“But this president didn't do that. He confronted it because what Iran wants to do is not just destroy our country; it's destroy our way of life and threaten our children,” he added.
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"The need to move the bombers out of the base, R.A.F. Fairford, was deemed so urgent that some of the planes and their flight crews left while aerial refueling aircraft were still being scrambled to support their flights to the United States."
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"More than 200 mine-like objects have been swept from the main lane of the strait. U.S. officials say only 11 of them were actual mines and just a few were properly deployed."
"In recent weeks, traffic through the southern channel has grown to 20 to 30 tankers every night, carrying an average of 9 to 10 million barrels, per U.S. officials. That's roughly half the pre-war volume."
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Noteworthy: here @SecScottBessent indicates that the goal of Operation Economic Fury isn't necessarily an agreement. It's the collapse of #Iran#'s regime.
"A Cosco official told The Wall Street Journal that the tanker crossed without paying tolls at Larak, a move seen by the company as a gesture of goodwill by #Iran# before the summit in Beijing, where the Iran war will be high on the agenda."
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