* US President Donald Trump hinted that Ali Khamenei’s potential successors will be killed as the conflict with Iran escalates.“Their leadership is just rapidly going. Everybody that seems to want to be a leader, they end up dead,” Trump said on Wednesday.
*Israel’s military said it had completed a large-scale operation against a major military compound in Iran that it said housed headquarters of several branches of the country’s security apparatus.
*Iran will target US and British vessels and any ships carrying cargo for Israel in the Persian Gulf, regardless of their flag, Iranian state media reported, citing an unnamed commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards navy.
*NATO units intercepted an Iran-fired ballistic missile headed toward Turkish airspace Wednesday, triggering Ankara’s protest and the alliance’s condemnation.
*The United States Central Command released an update on Operation Epic Fury on Tuesday, reporting that nearly 2,000 targets have been hit, 17 Iranian naval vessels – including the country’s most operational submarine – have been destroyed, and US forces have deployed one-way drones against Iran’s military infrastructure. Source:iranintl.com
