19/02/2026
🛡️ ISRAEL HOME FRONT PREPARES FOR LARGE MULTI-FRONT WAR SCENARIO AS U.S. BUILDS SUSTAINED STRIKE OPTION AGAINST IRAN, MILITIAS READY RETALIATION AND CONGRESS MOVES TO CONSTRAIN ACTION
🛡️ Israel Home Front Command: multi-front readiness: Israeli Home Front Command: "We are preparing for a large multi-front scenario,"
‼️ U.S. political signaling and reporting on potential Iran war decision: Senator Lindsey Graham: “The American decision regarding Iran has already been made... All these ships aren’t coming here just because the weather is nice this time of year.”
Barak Ravid of Israeli Channel 12: "US President Donald Trump is close to ordering a major war against Iran. Such a war could come sooner - and be much bigger - than most in the US realize,"
♟️ Reported U.S. operational options and risks highlighted by officials: U.S. officials said. Trump has received several briefings on his military options should he choose to strike, all of them designed to maximize damage to Iran’s regime and its regional proxies, U.S. officials said. The options include a campaign to kill scores of Iranian political and military leaders, with the goal of overthrowing the government, as well as an air attack that would be limited to striking targets including nuclear and ballistic-missile facilities. Both would involve a potentially weekslong operation." - The Wall Street Journal citing U.S. and foreign officials
"Senior national security officials have told the president that any operation that aims to change the Iranian leadership is not guaranteed to be a success, the officials said." As per NYT.
✈️ U.S. regional airpower buildup described as enabling sustained operations: As reported numerous times recently that: "The U.S. is sending significant numbers of jet fighters and support aircraft to the Middle East, assembling the greatest amount of air power in the region. The firepower will give the U.S. the option of carrying out a sustained, weekslong air war against Iran instead of the one-and-done “Midnight Hammer” strike the U.S. carried out in June against three Iranian nuclear sites.
⚖️ Congressional move to force War Powers vote: Congressmen Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna will force a vote next week on a bipartisan war powers resolution on Iran. It will be aimed at preventing the executive branch from launching an operation against Iran without congressional approval.
⚠️ Iran-linked messaging and militia preparations in Iraq: Advisor to the Chairman of the Iranian Parliament: "The stage is now set for a historic confrontation."
Initial reports from Iraq say that the Iraqi militia and the Iran-aligned group Al-Nujaba have set up a "corps system," which would allow their soldiers to attack U.S. military targets in the region if Iran is attacked, without waiting for approval from their leadership. They claim to have over fifty designated targets in the region.
📝 Diplomatic track: written Iranian proposal expected after Geneva talks
Reuters quoting a U.S. official: Iran is expected to submit a written proposal on how to avoid its standoff with the United States in the wake of U.S. and Iran talks in Geneva on Tuesday.
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