Iran War Updates Friday March 20

5:00pm 

- Trump: “We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran: (1) Completely degrading Iranian Missile Capability, Launchers, and everything else pertaining to them. (2) Destroying Iran’s Defense Industrial Base. (3) Eliminating their Navy and Air Force, including Anti Aircraft Weaponry. (4) Never allowing Iran to get even close to Nuclear Capability, and always being in a position where the U.S.A. can quickly and powerfully react to such a situation, should it take place. (5) Protecting, at the highest level, our Middle Eastern Allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others. The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it — The United States does not! If asked, we will help these Countries in their Hormuz efforts, but it shouldn’t be necessary once Iran’s threat is eradicated. Importantly, it will be an easy Military Operation for them. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

- Trump administration making heavy preparations for potential use of ground troops in Iran

Washington Pentagon officials have made detailed preparations for deploying U.S. ground forces into Iran, multiple sources briefed on the discussions told CBS News. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement: "It's the job of the Pentagon to make preparations in order to give the Commander in Chief maximum optionality, it does not mean the President has made a decision, and as the President said in the Oval Office yesterday, he is not planning to send ground troops anywhere at this time

- Trump: We’re doing extremely well in Iran...They had a navy 2 weeks ago. They have no navy anymore. It's all at the bottom of the sea. 58 ships knocked down in 2 days

- Trump on Iran: "We're having a hard time.

We want to talk to them, and there's nobody to talk to. We have nobody to talk to. And you know what? We like it that way."

- Trump: Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER! They didn’t want to join the fight to stop a Nuclear Powered Iran. Now that fight is Militarily WON, with very little danger for them, they complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don’t want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. So easy for them to do, with so little risk. COWARDS, and we will REMEMBER! President DONALD J. TRUMP

- Will the Strait of Hormuz Be the Site of the Final War of the End of Days? R' Daniel Glatstein

Machon Maggid Harakiah on Torah anytime Here  

More missiles fired towards Yerushalayim Fragments fall in Yerushalayim in the old city Rova parking lot

                      In the old city of Yerushalayim 

             Iranian missile Near Har Habayis

- Iran renews fire on Israel after brief lull, claims it can still produce missiles

- Update 8 lightly injured from latest barrage at central Rechovot area from shrapnel. 

- Iran launched twelve barrages toward Israel sincadt night , 7 of them toward the Yerushalayim area, and the last one toward the northern region. There are no reports of casualties. 

 

- There was a direct hit on a house in Rechovot

More impact sites in central Israel

Cars flipped over from impacr

Rechovot: Munitions crater in a soccer  field

- Switzerland says it would not issue licences for companies to export weapons to the United States due to the ongoing attacks on Iran, citing its neutrality.

-Iron Dome reservist soldier indicted for spying for Iran  a Jerusalem resident  provided information on workings of interception system, locations of batteries and IAF bases to Iranian intelligence.

- The media in Iran announced the elimination of Esmail Ahmadi, head of the intelligence division of the Basij forces

- The IDF officially confirms: The Air Force attacked and eliminated during the night Ali Mahmad Na'ini, spokesperson and head of the public relations division of the Revolutionary Guards.

- US State dept: El Al chartered flights from Israel to Newark and New York from March 16 to March 19 have returned over 2,000 Americans to the United States at no cost to the American taxpayer. Each of these flights was designated exclusively for American citizens.

- El Al has scheduled 28 commercial flights to North America to take place over the next 7 days to the extent permitted by the Israeli authorities.