“We Will Not Negotiate”: Iran Security Chief Denies WSJ Report
Summary:
Iran seeks to resume discussions with the United States, spearheaded by Iranian security chief Ali Larijani- OR NOT: Larjiani has denied a Wall Street Journal report that he reached out to Washington.
- Trump said he had three or four potential candidates to lead Iran, but they were all killed in the initial attack.
- Trump on Iran ops: “We have hit hundreds of targets including Revolutionary Guard facilities, air defense systems, nine ships, and naval buildings.”
- Britain threatens to join war on Iran — Telegraph
- Trump says conflict with Iran could last four weeks, Daily Mail reports: “It’s always been a four week process. We figured it will be four weeks or so. It’s always been about a four week process so – as strong as it is, it’s a big country, it’ll take four weeks – or less,” the President explained.
- Reports of hypersonic missile strikes on Jerusalem by Iran.
- Rioters breached several layers of the security perimeter at the US Consulate in Karachi, death toll mounts. Marines may have opened direct fire.
- WaPo: Netanyahu says in bombing Iran, Israel now has the “assistance of the United States, my friend, US President Donald Trump, and the US military. This coalition of forces allows us to do what I have yearned to do for 40 years.”
- Large Iranian strike on US base in Erbil, northern Iraq reported, major fires
- CIA tracked Ayatollah for weeks, handed intel to Israelis – Khamenei didn’t appear to be hiding.
Update (2345ET): Iranian security chief Ali Larijani has denied that he reached out to Washington via Oman in an effort to resume nuclear talks, syaing “We will not negotiate with the United States.”