BREAKING: Iran is now threatening to strike Israel's Sorek, Hadera, Ashdod and Ashkelon desalination plants; Haifa oil refineries; the Orot Rabin and Eshkol power plants; Ashdod oil refineries and fuel storage; the Dimona nuclear research center; and critical bridges and highway interchanges if Israel and the U.S. launch another attack on Iran, according to head of Iran's parliamentary National Security Commission. Desalination facilities supply around 80% of Israel's municipal drinking water. Orot Rabin (2,590 MW) and Eshkol (912 MW) anchor the national grid. The Haifa refinery processes roughly 197,000 barrels per day, while Ashdod adds 110,000 bpd. Highway 6, the country's main artery, carries 260,000 vehicles daily. And Dimona sits just 13 kilometers from the city. Tehran is threatening to paralyze Israel's water, power, fuel, and mobilization routes in one blow.

**BREAKING:** Iran has mapped out the Gulf’s seven main undersea communication cables and drawn up detailed plans to cut them while actively blocking repair efforts to prolong a regional communications blackout, per Reuters. The officials said Tehran has pinpointed the cables and intends to prevent any repairs to prolong a communications blackout. These cables carry an estimated $10 trillion in daily financial transactions, meaning a successful strike would freeze regional commerce, cloud computing, and global banking traffic. A single undersea cable repair typically costs between $1 million and $3 million, but the International Cable Protection Committee estimates restoration costs can reach $50 million to $150 million per cable depending on the damage and location. If multiple cables are severed in a conflict zone, the total repair bill could easily exceed half a billion dollars. The average undersea cable repair took 51 days in 2024, and wartime restrictions could delay repairs even further, turning a temporary outage into a prolonged digital siege.