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.@SecScottBessent: "We are seeing defections at all levels as they're starting to sense what's going on with the regime... The regime will probably collapse within itself. At @USTreasury, we've seen where they've wired their money out of the country. We're coming for that. We're going to get it back to the Iranian people."

@POTUS: "There's a lot of military defections also... I don't blame them."

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The IAF has developed what it calls "metro sorties" — drones and fighter jets loitering over Iran and striking ballistic missile launchers, soldiers, and other targets in real time as they're identified.

This method was used to kill Iran's intelligence minister Esmaeil Khatib in Tehran yesterday, the IDF says.

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WATCH: Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Caine’s continued his theme of using a Pentagon briefing to honor a specific set of soldiers involved in Operation Epic Fury. Today, he paid tribute to the airmen and women engaged in the bombing runs over Iran...

“Today, I want to continue my theme of talking about members of our incredible joint force. Today, I want to talk about some exceptional airmen who are engaged in the fight daily. United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, and Air National Guard crews within our bomber force, the B-1s, B-2s and B-52s and the airmen on the ground who maintain and load these weapon systems. They are the backbone of America’s long range strike capability, and their contributions to Epic Fury have been decisive. Assigned to Stratcom under Admiral Rich Correll and supported by Transcom, the tanker force that we’ve talked about under the command of General Randall Reed, every mission is designed to achieve overwhelming outcomes on behalf of the United States and our allies. Last weekend, I had the chance to go out and see some of our deployed bomber forces, the B-1 and B-52 crews, and I had a chance to sit down with some young aviators and maintainers and ask them, how do you feel? Tell me about your typical day. And these are crews comprised of between two and five airmen, two on the on the B-2, five on the on the B-52s, and four in the B-1s out there. Some of these Americans are in their early or mid 20s, and we give them the gift of this incredible responsibility, hundreds of thousands of pounds of aircraft, and they take off and go do our work as required. Their mission actually begins the day prior when they’re given a target or a bunch of targets, and they begin to study those targets. Look at what are the effects required? What are the weapons required to get there? How will we program these weapons? What is the weather? What is the tanker flow? It’s an incredibly complex problem that we give each and every one of these crews, and they work it over the period of 24 hours prior, get some rest, and then step out the door to go fly. The last thing they do is they check all of their equipment, their oxygen masks, survival gear, load pistols and get ready to go. They crank the jets about an hour prior to takeoff and then launch into the daylight doing their preflight checks. And, as the kids say, lock in and prepare to go to war, sometimes on a long and stressful journey. During the flight, they’re surrounded by technology and capabilities, and they’ll do multiple aerial refueling efforts across tankers on the way to the AOR — area of responsibility — either coming from the states or coming from a forward deployed basing.”

“And I will tell you, as a fighter pilot, getting gas is a lot easier in an f-16 than it is in a, B-1, B-2, or a B-52 where you are, you are handling this airplane. It is a physical thing, unlike a fighter, that’s a lot easier. And they stay on that boom for sometimes up to 30 minutes, taking hundreds of thousands of pounds of gas. It is a physical, demanding thing to take gas, and they do it multiple times on the way there, and they do it multiple times on the way home. As they enter the operating area, they bring the entirety of America’s joint force together to go do the things that we’ve asked them to do, to put bombs on time, on target with the proper effects. And I know they’re feeling a range of emotions, but the thing the American people should take away from it is they’re filled with a focus that is incredibly impressive. And they have fear, of course, but their bigger fear is, dear God, please don’t let me screw this up, a warrior’s prayer that we all have in our souls. In the days of Epic Fury they were shooting, as we’ve talked about in this room, a lot of standoff weapons.”

“Now we’ve switched and rolled, as I mentioned last week, to stand in weapons. And behind each and every one of them are incredible maintainers and weapons builders who go out there and make sure these aircraft and their weapon systems are ready to go. These airplanes are so big that they’re not in hangars. They’re out in the cold, out in the snow, out in the rain. The bombs are being built outside for protection and to make sure that it’s safe, and they do it 24/7, 365. It’s not comfortable work, but when you go spend just a minute with these incredibly young Americans who are so motivated, you cannot come away from that exchange. Not being hopeful for America’s future. It is simply awesome. And we hand these Americans, young Americans, incredible and weighty responsibility, and they deliver every single time, quietly, with professionalism and humility, doing the things that we ask them to do.”

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NEW: U.S. approves multiple defense sales to Gulf countries.

UAE:
F-16 munitions and upgrades — $644 million.

Long-range discrimination radar + THAAD integration — $4.5 billion.

Advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles — $1.22 billion.

Counter-drone (low, slow, small UAV defeat system) — $2.1 billion.

Kuwait:

Lower-tier air and missile defense radar systems — $8 billion.

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BREAKING: NATO SecGen Mark Rutte has just STUNNED the world by coming out in full support of President Trump and DEMANDING that our allies step it up

"What the US is doing at the moment is degrading that capability of Iran, and I think that's VERY important!"

"This is important for European security, for the Middle East, it is vital for Israel itself."

"Then when it comes to the Hormuz trade, everybody agrees this trade cannot stay closed! It HAS to open up again as soon as possible."

"This is a crucial world economy. In my contacts with allies, what I'm seeing is that they are intensely discussing amongst each other, with the United States and amongst each other, the best way forward to tackle this huge security issue."

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