Iran Israel Updates Thurs May 7

- Trump: “We're negotiating with the Iranians….we took our 3 destroyers, and we rammed them through some pretty big stuff today.... The destroyers weren't hurt in any way."

- Trump: Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire. There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers. They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats, which are being used to take the place of their fully decapitated Navy. These boats went to the bottom of the Sea, quickly and efficiently. Missiles were shot at our Destroyers, and were easily knocked down. Likewise, drones came, and were incinerated while in the air. They dropped ever so beautifully down to the Ocean, very much like a butterfly dropping to its grave! A normal Country would have allowed these Destroyers to pass, but Iran is not a normal Country. They are led by LUNATICS, and if they had the chance to use a Nuclear Weapon, they would do it, without question — But they’ll never have that opportunity and, just like we knocked them out again today, we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST! Our three Destroyers, with their wonderful Crews, will now rejoin our Naval Blockade, which is truly a “Wall of Steel.” President DONALD J. TRUMP

- A senior US official to Fox News: The US attacked one of Iran's oil ports on Qeshm Island in response to the launch of 15 ballistic missiles and cruise missiles this week towards the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. This is not the end of the ceasefire

- CENTCOM: US. forces intercepted unprovoked Iranian attacks and responded with self-defense strikes as U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7. Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage. No U.S. assets were struck. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes

- Fox News: The US attacked on Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas in Iran. A senior US official told the channel: "This is not a renewal of the war."

- Spokesperson of the Iranian Armed Forces: "The US violated the ceasefire Iran will respond strongly and without hesitation to any attack."

- According to Iranian state TV, after the US military attacked an Iranian oil tanker, Iran launched missiles at a US destroyer in the Strait of Hormuz, forcing them to flee after sustaining losses.

- Tasnim Agency: There are signs that this is an attack by the UAE on Qeshm Island

- Iran Fars Agency: There was an exchange of fire between the Iranian army and the “enemy” after explosions were heard near the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.  According to reports, the source of the explosions is fire carried out by the Revolutionary Guards against "unauthorized" ships that attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz

- WSJ: Trump may restart Project Freedom" operation in Hormuz this week - after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait removed their opposition to the US operating from their territory

- WP: Iran holds about 75% of the mobile launchers it had before the war, and about 70% of the missile stockpiles it had before the war

- Donald Trump posted a chart on Truth Social

 comparing the length of major U.S. wars, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam, with what he called an “Iran Excursion,” which the graphic listed as lasting six weeks.

- U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz lays out what the Trump administration and the international community are demanding from Iran: "Cease its attacks on commercial shipping, cease mining and remove its mines from an international waterway, cease tolling, charging illegal tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, and allow the UN to move forward with humanitarian aid, lifesaving aid, through that international corridor. It's really just that simple."

- Announcement in Mirom for crowds to evacuate from kever Rashbi due to fear of Hezbollah rockets  

- US President Donald Trump halted the naval operation to guide trapped ships through the blockaded Strait of Hormuz after Saudi Arabia told Washington it wouldn’t let American aircraft involved in the effort use the kingdom’s airspace, NBC News reported Thursday. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states were surprised by Trump’s announcement of Project Freedom on Sunday,

- Iran on Thursday is expected to give mediators its reply to a US proposal for ending the war. CNN

- Due to the possibility that Hezbollah will fire rockets at Israel in response to the killing of the commander of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, the IDF says it is canceling several civilian events on the northern border that had been exempt from the Home Front Command’s wartime guidelines. The current guidelines in the Lebanon border communities limit gatherings indoors to 600 and outdoors to 200.

- IDF says it destroyed 30-meter Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon

- Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says he met recently with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, state media reports, offering a first public account of him meeting Khamenei after the latter suffered severe wounds at the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

- Trump: The war will be over quickly, Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon

“When you look at the kind of things that are happening, we are doing that for one very important reason: We cannot allow them to have a nuclear weapon. So I think most people understand that. They understand that what we are doing is right, and it’ll be over quickly,” Trump tells a tele-rally for Georgia Republican governor candidate Burt Jones.

-WSJ: President Trump’s advisers are worried that the GOP will pay a political price for high fuel costs. Many of those advisers are eager to end the war, hoping prices will begin to fall before the midterm elections.