“Last Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump with a stunning tip: Iran’s supreme leader and his top advisers were all set to meet at one location in Tehran on Saturday morning,” Axios reports.

“They could all be killed in a single devastating airstrike, Netanyahu told Trump and his team.”

A new Fox News national survey finds 61% think Iran poses “a real national security threat” to the United States.

Even though a majority views Iran as a danger to the country, that concern does not translate into majority support for the current U.S. military action, as 50% approve and 50% disapprove.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s first priority is to survive. To do that, its leaders will want to drive up the cost of the war for President Trump — in terms of American casualties, energy costs and inflation — to try to persuade him to declare victory and go home,” the New York Times reports.

“Faced with the overwhelming firepower of the United States and Israel, diplomats and analysts say, Iran is working to enlarge the battlefield from its own territory to the broader region. The goals are to damage oil and gas infrastructure in neighboring countries, shut the Strait of Hormuz to shipping and curtail air traffic — all to disrupt the economies of the Persian Gulf and drive up global energy prices and inflation. Iran will also be trying to exhaust the number of expensive missile interceptors held by its enemies.”

“The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran,” CNN reports.

“The Trump administration has been in active discussions with Iranian opposition groups and Kurdish leaders in Iraq about providing them with military support.”

“Iranian Kurdish armed groups have thousands of forces operating along the Iraq-Iran border, primarily in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. Several of the groups have released public statements since the beginning of the war hinting at imminent action and urging Iranian military forces to defect.”

Key takeaway: “The source added the militias expects U.S. and Israeli support.”

Mojtaba Khamenei, the hardline 56-year-old son of Iran’s late dictator and a close ally of the Revolutionary Guards, has reportedly been named Supreme Leader.

The Trump administration is not currently helping U.S. citizens make travel plans to evacuate the Middle East, despite urging Americans to “depart now” from 16 countries in the region as the war with Iran continues to escalate, NOTUS reports.

“If we don’t stop them or if we didn’t stop them or if we didn’t start, you would have had a nuclear war and they would have taken out many countries because you know what? They’re sick people. They’re angry, they’re sick.”

— President Trump, speaking to reporters about his decision to attack Iran.

President Trump for the first time acknowledged a personal dimension to his decision to attack Iran, citing the country’s efforts to assassinate him in 2024 as a factor in ordering the joint U.S.-Israeli operation that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Washington Post reports.

Said Trump: “I got him before he got me. I got him first.”