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AP's @FrankelJulia looks at the new U.S. missile that the military used in Iran. The PrSM is designed to explode midair and propel tens of thousands of dense metal pellets at high speed in all directions: apnews.com/article/iran-lamerd-us-prsm-lockheed-martin-b4a37c59bcf5d1a11eb87aa79f153648

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Washington declared the strait cleared last week and had to bomb Iran on Sunday to keep that true CENTCOM's account of the Larak strike is that IRGC crews were seen preparing to fire rockets carrying sea mines back into the shipping lanes. The clearance holds only while American forces shoot to maintain it, and Tehran can reopen the question on any night it picks. Iran answered at bases in Jordan and the UAE within hours, though Abu Dhabi denies its base was touched at all. The freeze has genuinely paid off for Washington. No American deaths since July, interceptor stocks getting room to rebuild, carriers rotating, and Pezeshkian conceding for the first time that the sanctions bite. Holding it still requires enforcement, and enforcement is how these things restart. Trump's June post laid out where he thinks this ends, taking Kharg Island and assuming total control of Iran's oil and gas markets, the way he talks about Venezuela. Kharg moves 90 percent of Iranian exports, though the blockade has those near zero already. Source: Reuters, Forbes / Writer: Daniel

🚨🇮🇷 🇺🇸 The weekend strikes on Larak Island hit a weapon nobody knew Iran had... a rocket that fires naval mines into Hormuz CENTCOM says Revolutionary Guard forces were observed preparing to launch rockets carrying sea mines, and calls the strikes a limited, precise action against mine-laying forces. Iran called it an act of aggression, with Tasnim reporting at least two killed and two wounded, and answered with ballistic missiles at bases in Jordan and the UAE. Iranian state television appeared to show the IRGC using the Fajr-5 launcher to lay mines during naval exercises in January 2025. Analysts split on whether it works. Harlan Ullman, a retired senior American naval officer, calls it implausible and says the impact of a rocket hitting water would damage the mines themselves. Others called the demonstrated tactic innovative and concerning, since the Fajr-5 has a 75km range covering the entire strait, and a single truck-launched salvo could scatter dozens of mines while keeping Iran's fast boats out of American gunsights. Source: The New York Times, Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel

Iranian forces attacked King Hussein and Muwaffaq Salti Air Bases in Jordan tonight in response to the US strike on Larak Island. A US source told Fox that "nearly all" incoming ballistic missiles were intercepted, with no significant impacts. pic.x.com/TtpFx1O9vm