Iran War: Israel Makes Massive Bomb Blast in Southern Lebanon, Threatens Imminent Attack on Iran; Iran Refuses Meeting with US on Strait of Hormuz as Assembly of Experts Statement Assures Already Likely Death of MOU; Strait of Hormuz Transits Increasing as Iran and Oman Not on Same Page

[Today’s Iran war update launched before complete. Please return at 8:00 AM EDT or refresh this page then for a final version] As the US (and Gulf states) and Iran are in a staredown over control over the Strait of Hormuz, Israel is, even more than usual, in its “ever be escalating” mode. Israel detonated a very heavy bomb on an underground Hezbollah weapons storage site, creating such a massive b...