Iran Israel Updates Wed July 8

- Israel braces for possible renewal of fighting as US-Iran tensions mount

Israeli officials are reportedly on high alert as U.S. aerial refueling aircraft that had been repositioned to Europe in recent weeks return to the region. According to reports, Israel has warned that any new Iranian attack would trigger a strong military response. Assessments also suggest the U.S. could carry out several days of strikes against Iran if hostilities escalate.

- Trump: "We're not attacking at the highest level. The highest level are the bridges...their electric plants, where they make their electricity. If we have to, we'll take them out. I don't want to do that, but if we have to, we'll take them out...We attacked Kharg Island last night—we knocked out a piece. I said, 'don't touch the oil' because maybe we'll take over Kharg Island. We may take over Kharg Island. There's not a thing they can do about it...normally, I'm not that way, but they really deserve it."

- President Trump just said he wouldn't be shocked if Iran tries to assassinate him while over in Turkey

- Iranian military spokesman: 8 air and naval soldiers killed in Bandar Abbas and Bushehr as a result of US strikes

- Trump on Netanyahu: "We have an excellent relationship, he's great. If there had been another prime minister in Israel during the war period, Israel would have been destroyed by Iran"

- Trump: "We've already got the nuclear material because it's so far underground. Nobody's going to be able to get it except us because we have the equipment that can get it. The nuclear material is so far down underneath the mountain, and now it's been determined that it would take massive machinery that we have that no other country has."

- Report from the Iranian PressTV network: Developments in the last 48 hours indicate that Iran will not back down from controlling the Strait of Hormuz. "We are ready to fight for control of Hormuz. Iran's new strategy is that after any attack, the Strait will be completely closed. Iran will attack enemy targets on a scale of at least twice the number of targets attacked against it."

- Trump issues a sharp threat to Iran: "We will strike them again with force - perhaps even tonight."

- Trump on Iran: "They're evil people. They're sick people. They're really mentally disturbed people. And it should have been done 47 years ago. Thank you, everybody."

- Trump: on the ceasefire with Iran: "To me, I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum... They're led by sick people... I'll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiate—they're good people... but they have to come back to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time dealing with them."

- Trump: They're a bunch of SCUM." "These are evil, sick people, and we have to rid their cancer. They're CANCER! And you know what you do? You got to cut out cancer EARLY, man."

"I told them, every time you hit, we hit. And of course, they're dirty players. "They've kiIIed thousands and thousands of our soldiers. They've kiIIed hundreds of thousands of innocent people."

- Iran's Revolutionary Guards claim: We attacked 85 US military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait, and we also managed to shoot down a US military drone

- Kuwait’s state news agency says two ballistic missiles and 13 drones have been intercepted today amid fresh Iranian attacks on the Gulf state.

- World oil prices soar more than five percent after US President Donald Trump says the memorandum of understanding with Iran is over, following fresh strikes in the Middle East.

- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf: "The US violated the Memorandum of Understanding by carrying out attacks in southern Iran and continuing Zionist aggression against Lebanon"

- Trump: I like President Erdogan. He rolled out the red carpet for me. He is a great man. I love Bibi; he is a great Prime Minister. But Bibi said some harsh things yesterday about Turkey and about Erdogan. And I told him: "You know, I spoke with him. I said he could have joined the war, because he doesn't really like Israel. And he doesn't really like Bibi either. But he didn't do it because of me." And this is a military power. Millions of soldiers. Turkey is very strong. They have a lot of our best equipment. They are also trying to get the F-35 jets. But he didn't enter the war. He wanted to. He would have entered. If not for me, he would have entered — and he would have been on the other side.

- Secretary of War Hegseth is canceling his visit to Israel today

- Trump: We are no longer interested in any business trade with Spain. Spain is a bad member of the NATO alliance.

- A Hamas terrorist who invaded Kibbutz Nirim during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, the military announces.