Iran Israel Updates Monday May 11

- The United Arab Emirates has carried out military strikes on Iran, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter. The strikes, which the UAE has not publicly acknowledged, included an attack on a refinery on Iran’s Lavan Island in the Persian Gulf, WSJ says, adding that the attack took place in early April

- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf: Our armed forces are ready to respond to any aggression. A wrong strategy and wrong decisions will always lead to wrong results. We are ready for all possibilities - they will be surprised

- Advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Akbar Velayati: Trump, "Do not assume you can exploit the current calm in Iran and march victoriously to Beijing." First of all, learn the alphabet of the new geopolitical order in the Middle East. We defeated you on the battlefield; do not imagine you will come out victorious in the diplomatic arena."

- Iranian news agency Tasnim: Contrary to reports in the Western media, the Iranian proposal does not mention any agreement to remove the enriched uranium from the country. Additionally, Iran has set a timeframe in which it demands to receive the frozen funds

- CBS: Days after the ceasefire in the war at the beginning of April, Pakistan, mediating in the talks, allowed Iran to transfer Iranian aircraft to it, including an RC-130 reconnaissance and intelligence aircraft. This was to ensure they would be protected in case the US tried to bomb them. The aircraft were stationed at the main Noor Khan base near the city of Rawalpindi. Additionally, Iran also transferred civilian aircraft for a similar reason to Afghanistan. A senior Pakistani official denied the report

- Trump to Fox News: I am considering restarting the operation to free Hormuz (Freedom Project)

- Trump on Iran: "They think that I'll get tired of this or I'll get bored, or I'll have some pressure, but there’s no pressure, there’s no pressure at all. We're going to have a complete victory."

They're very dishonorable people, the leadership. They just change their mind... These people, you make a deal, and then they send you a document that takes 5 days to get there when it should've been there in 20 minutes.

- Trump: The Iranian people "want to go out on the streets. They have no weapons. We thought the Kurds were going to give [them] weapons, but the Kurds disappointed us”

- Trump: on the ceasefire in Iran: "After reading that piece of garbage they sent us... It's on life support."

- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is convening a security discussion after US President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s response to his ceasefire proposal, and ahead of direct Israel-Lebanon talks in Washington later this week.

- Iran calls US greatest threat to international peace, says its demands are unreasonable

- WSJ: During his visit to Beijing this week, Trump will pressure China to mediate an agreement that will end the war with Iran

- Three IDF soldiers were lightly injured in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack in southern Lebanon this morning, the military says.

- Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee approves the extension of the call-up of up to 400,000 reservists until May 31, first authorized by the government in March.

- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghai at a press conference: "We demand to stop the maritime piracy against Iranian ships, and to release the assets belonging to the Iranian people that have been frozen for years in foreign banks due to American pressure."

- A highly classified document details on Hamas’s military rehabilitation in the Gaza Strip 

The document indicates that Hamas is adding dozens of fighters to each of its battalions, and is manufacturing hundreds of mortar shells, IEDs, and anti-tank missiles every month.

- CBS 60 minutes interview: Asked if it is possible to topple the Iranian regime, Netanyahu says: “I think that you can’t predict when that happens. Is it possible? Yes. Is it guaranteed? No. But I can tell you it’s like bankruptcy, you know? It… proceeds gradually and then it falls.”

- Netanyahu says that before Oct. 7, he was seen as ‘perhaps the most restrained PM in Israel’s history. Netanyahu says he believes Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is alive, despite the fact that he has not been seen or heard since he was appointed to succeed his slain father in early March.

- Israeli PM Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes he wants Israel to eventually stop relying on U.S. military aid: “It's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support.”

- The IDF issues evacuation warnings for nine villages in southern Lebanon ahead of airstrikes targeting the Hezbollah terror group.