🇮🇷⚔️🚢 Aftermath of an Iranian strike on a ship crossing the Strait of Hormuz without permission from Tehran.

The tanker was identified as GEM NO. 2 and was carrying 2 million barrels worth of Saudi oil. It had AIS switched off at the time of the attack.

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🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦 BREAKING: Saudi Civil Aviation authorities report 12 people have been killed, including 4 Saudi nationals, 2 Bangladeshi, 1 American, 1 Egyptian, 1 Jordanian, 1 Syrian, 1 Palestinian, 1 Sudanese, and 309 injured of different nationalities following an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Authorities confirmed several of the injured remain in critical condition.

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🇾🇪⚔️🇵🇰 Al Jazeera reports that Ansarallah is threatening Pakistan with missile attacks if it involves itself in the Yemeni Civil War on behalf of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ansarallah may also strike vessels shipping fuel towards Pakistan.

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🇮🇷⚔️🚢 UKMTO has reported on a new Iranian attack on a vessel crossing the Strait of Hormuz.

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🇮🇷❌🇵🇰 Iranian MP and Head of the Special Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran, Mohsen Zanganeh, in a speech in Herat, Afghanistan, has questioned Pakistan's mediation role between Iran and the United States.

According to him, Pakistan has not been sincere in mediating to reduce tensions and war between Iran and the United States.

Zanganeh, in part of his remarks, calls Afghanistan a true friend and brother of Iran.

📝MerruX: Pakistan's role as a mediator between Iran and the Trump administration appears to have collapsed. This shift occurred largely because Pakistani Field Marshal and the de-facto ruler of the country, Asim Munir, sought closer ties with Trump to consolidate his own authority. Iran is openly saying Asim needs approval for everything from the CIA.

Pakistan military Faujeet accounts associated with the ISPR think tank funded by Islamabad, are now urging Iranians online to denounce their own leadership. This comes as Pakistan has reportedly engaged in offensive operations against the Houthis in Yemen from Saudi lands.

In response, Iran has likely limited the transit of Qatari LNG shipments bound for Pakistan, triggering widespread power outages.

Consequently, Qatar appears to be the main negotiator now, evidenced by several Iranian flights landing in Doha over the past week.

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🇺🇸⚰️ The Pentagon has quietly revised its death toll from the 3rd Gulf War, adding two more death, 21 in total, up from 19.

That figure includes two additional noncombat deaths: Maj. Sorffly Davius, 46, an Army National Guard member who died in Kuwait on March 6, and an unidentified Navy suicide that occurred in September, according to a U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide additional context on the troop deaths.

The correction comes after The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon had undercounted fatalities, a claim Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissed as “a complete lie.”

A separate training accident in Iraq brings the total number of U.S. troops who have died in the Middle East since February 28 to 22.

Sgt. Devin A. Seibel, 26, died during a training accident in Iraq in May. His death is now recorded in DCAS under Operation Inherent Resolve, the military’s decade-long named operation against the Islamic State.

865 other troops were wounded in the fighting.

In a statement to The Post, the Pentagon did not acknowledge the changed numbers but instead said it is making further revisions to how DCAS reports casualties, including a new category of “pending adjudication” as it works through casualty reporting. The new adjudication category was first reported by Defense Scoop.

It has been difficult for the public and lawmakers overseeing the Pentagon to get a clear picture of how many troops have been injured or killed during the conflict in part because the Trump administration changed mid-conflict the way it was publicly accounting for troop deaths, something critics have charged is a way for President Donald Trump to hide the true cost to military personnel.

In previous conflicts those injuries or deaths — whether caused by hostile action or nonhostile causes, such as accidents or suicides — have been captured by named conflict in DCAS.

In part, what has confounded DCAS data in this conflict is that earlier this year Trump declared that Operation Epic Fury had ended, even though the U.S. and Iran were still exchanging fire. In response the Pentagon created a new category of injured and killed that was not tied to Epic Fury, instead those numbers would be tallied under overseas contingency operations.

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