#Middle_East

⚡️⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸According to Reuters, on February 3, 2026, a US F-35C shot down an Iranian Shahed-139 drone approaching the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.

⚡️⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸🇴🇲At the same time, Revolutionary Guard Corps boats and a Mohajer drone attempted to seize the US tanker Stena Imperative in the Strait of Hormuz — CBS News

❗️🇮🇷🇨🇳An Iranian Boeing 747 cargo plane with tail number EP-SIH is en route to #China.

⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸 #Israel has requested US approval for freedom of action in #Iran.

🇺🇸🇯🇴🇰🇼🇧🇭🇶🇦The #US is deploying additional THAAD and Patriot missile defense systems to #Jordan, #Kuwait, #Bahrain, and #Qatar.

Axios: Donald Trump is restrained from military action due to the lack of a fully secure digital control infrastructure.

Factors cited include an incomplete satellite network required for real-time coordination of drones and air defense systems by AI agents, and the risk of cyberattacks on ground nodes.

Additionally, concerns exist about a potential "digital boomerang" effect, where an immediate strike could disrupt the Western banking system.

There is also the consideration of market stability for upcoming IPOs of companies like xAI and SpaceX.

In the background:
📉 Bitcoin fell below $75,000, and Ethereum fell below $2,200

UPD:
Bitcoin falls to $73,000
Current Bitcoin advice from former MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor

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🌍 #TroubledTimes #News

#China: Nuclear Renaissance
🇨🇳☢️ Satellite imagery of secret nuclear sites reveals that Beijing has begun expanding its nuclear arsenal following the disappearance of the last global restrictions on nuclear weapons — NYT


🇺🇸☢️ Washington has launched a project for "subcritical nuclear tests," also known as "micro-nuclear explosions." Warheads for the Sentinel missiles and the new sea-based ICBM will have to be created "from scratch."
⏺ #USA intends to resume nuclear testing on terms comparable to #Russia and #China, but does not plan to conduct megaton-class explosions in the atmosphere," stated Christopher Yeaw, Associate Assistant Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs.


🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The #UK Ministry of Defence is accelerating the development of its own hypersonic weapons, engaging the American company Amentum for "engineering and program management services."


🇩🇪 #Germany is significantly expanding the powers of its foreign intelligence agency, fearing that the #USA might stop sharing intelligence data — Politico
The BND has received authority for offensive cyber operations and AI-assisted surveillance to expand espionage capabilities.


🇵🇱 🇨🇳 #Poland has banned the entry of Chinese-made vehicles onto its military bases due to fears they are linked to PRC intelligence activities.


⚡️🇨🇳 🇺🇸 #China is rapidly ramping up the construction of nuclear submarines, surpassing the US in the number of launches and total tonnage — IISS

Chinese nuclear submarines are being built by Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. (BSHIC) / 渤海船舶重工有限责任公司 at its shipyard in Huludao, northern China.

A crucial milestone was the launch of the 7th and 8th Type 094 SSBNs, strengthening the naval component of the Celestial Empire's nuclear triad. Parallel serial production of nine Type 093B attack submarines has been deployed.

❗️Key findings of the report (data for 2021–2025):

➡️ Quantity:
⏺ China — launched 10 nuclear submarines
⏺ USA — 7

➡️ Tonnage:
⏺ China — 79,000 tons
⏺ USA — 55,500 tons

📈🇨🇳 China's Submarine Fleet at the start of 2025:

• 12 nuclear submarines: 6 ballistic missile submarines + 6 missile/attack submarines
• 46 conventional submarines

Of these:
• Two Type 094 nuclear submarines, capable of launching nuclear-armed missiles, were launched in Bohai.
• Production of the next-generation Type 096 submarines will begin in Bohai later this decade, with commissioning in the late 2020s or early 2030s.
• At least 6 hulls of nuclear-powered guided-missile submarines equipped with vertical launch systems capable of firing new high-speed anti-ship missiles have been put into production.

📉🇺🇸US Submarine Fleet:

• 65 submarines in total, including 14 ballistic missile submarines.

• No conventional submarines.

• Shipyards planned to build at least two Virginia-class attack ships per year, but since 2022 have been delivering only 1.1–1.2 per year, while Beijing has reached "1+2" figures annually.

• The Columbia-class ballistic submarine program is running a year behind schedule.

⚠️ CONCLUSIONS:
The world is preparing for a hot phase. China is closing its weakest link (the naval nuclear component) with frightening speed. The US is trying to catch a departing train by resuscitating nuclear test sites.
Europe, realizing it will soon be left alone between two fires, is urgently pumping up its intelligence services.

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#Iran: Power Vacuum

Operation "Liquidation"
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Iranian state television has officially confirmed Khamenei's death. The IDF announced the elimination of 40 Iranian commanders and senior officials, releasing footage of the strike on Iranian government headquarters

➡️ Confirmed eliminated:

1. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — Supreme Leader of Iran. Killed Saturday morning in his own residence

2. Mojtaba Khamenei — Khamenei's son, most likely successor and shadow overseer of the security apparatus. His elimination was specified in Trump's original plan as early as February 17

3. Abdolrahim Mousavi — Lieutenant General, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces

4. Mohammad Pakpour — Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC

5. Aziz Nasirzadeh — Lieutenant General, Minister of Defense

6. Ali Shamkhani — Advisor to the Supreme Commander and Secretary of the Defense Council

7. Haj-Mohammad Baseri — Senior commander of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence

8. Mohammad Bagheri — Major General, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (key coordination link between the Army and IRGC)

9. Esmail Qaani — Commander of the Quds Force (IRGC external intelligence and special operations). Loss of contact confirmed by the absence of proxy group coordination in Lebanon and Yemen in the first hours after the strike

10. Ali Akbar Ahmadian — Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council

All military commanders were attending a Defense Council session at the time of the strike and were eliminated simultaneously

Khamenei's daughter, son-in-law, and grandson were also killed in the attack, according to Iranian state media.

Additionally not named in official lists but likely eliminated (based on full Defense Council attendance):

11. Hossein Salami — Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC. Status unknown

12. Amir Ali Hajizadeh — Commander of IRGC Aerospace Force (missile program, Shahed drones) - it explains the chaotic nature of retaliatory launches

13. Alireza Tangsiri — Commander of IRGC Navy (Strait of Hormuz control) — explains why Iran opened Hormuz: no one to give the blockade order

14. Mohammad Mokhber — First Vice President of Iran (acting president under constitutional succession)

RESULT: complete power vacuum

UPD:
⁉️Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — ex-president dead (CNN) alive — Reuters
DETAILS

⏺Iran raised the symbolic red flag of vengeance over the dome of Jamkaran Mosque in Qom

➡️ However, Iran simultaneously announced that the Strait of Hormuz is open for oil tanker traffic — and this is what matters most

❗️🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷 #China, through its Russian proxies, continues to provide Iran with real-time signals intelligence and high-resolution satellite imagery, assisting the weakening regime's chaotic retaliatory strikes against targets across the Middle East

The Kremlin is in mourning and alarm.
Putin is in shock and convened yet another emergency Security Council session overnight.

"Putin was convinced that after the swift US operation to seize Maduro, Iran's leadership had drawn conclusions and would take 'all necessary measures' to protect its senior command," writes the closed channel "Razvedchik" (The Intelligence Officer).

Russian analytical circles are now discussing not only the elimination itself but Tehran's strategic error. According to sources, Moscow assumed Iran had long operated under constant threat and therefore built a deeply layered defense system. It turns out it hadn't.

Russian leadership has come to understand that neither tradecraft, nor bunkers, nor hordes of FSO guards can protect against a single targeted precision strike — and that recruiting senior officials of an adversary state is by no means a guarantee of one's own security.

➡️ Additional data on Iran
The "Dead Hand" protocol has been activated for low-level operatives
⏺Autonomous IRGC cells have received pre-sealed tactical orders in the event of the death of the entire leadership
Without coordination from above, these will be chaotic strikes: Shaheds, missiles, and terrorist attacks according to a pre-approved list

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#US vs. #IRAN — Middle East #War: Market Meltdown

⚡️💸📉Bitcoin crashed to $68,000. The entire crypto market is bleeding.

⚠️📉 Not just crypto — the entire US stock market is on fire because of Trump's war.
Investors lost over $800 billion in minutes.

⚡️🛢📈 Brent crude surged to $92/barrel — first time since 2024. Oil is up 43% since the start of this year.
@banki_oil

➡️ The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.

Key stats: ~25% of all global seaborne oil trade passes through Hormuz.

• 🇸🇦 37% — #Saudi Arabia

• 🇮🇶🇦🇪🇮🇷🇰🇼 Followed by #Iraq, #UAE, #Iran, #Kuwait

Top buyers:

• 🇨🇳 #China — 37.7% of all shipments

• 🇮🇳 #India — 14.7%

For comparison, in 2017:

• 🇨🇳 China bought 26% of Iranian oil

• 🇮🇳 India — 20%

• 🇪🇺 Europe — 19%

• 🇰🇷 South Korea — 12%

Today Europe buys zero — nearly all its oil comes from #Russia (including via India).

Conclusion: The Kremlin is playing by its own rules — and winning.

🇺🇸🛢 Depleted oil reserves make the US vulnerable if the war with Iran drags on — Financial Times

➡️ Here's why Trump needs this war: The US economy "unexpectedly" lost 92,000 jobs in February 2026 alone — WSJ (confirmed: PBS, NBC, EPI — unemployment rose to 4.4%)

🇦🇪💵🪖❌🇺🇦 Gulf states are willing to pay more for weapons: The US approved a $184M Patriot missile system deal for the UAE — instead of Ukraine. (confirmed: Raytheon contract, $183.7M, approved March 4-5)

⚡️⚡️UPD:
❌💸 BlackRock just froze $1.2B in withdrawal requests at its private credit fund.

What happened:
• Investors in BlackRock's $26B fund asked to pull out 9.3% of their money
• BlackRock said no — capped withdrawals at 5%
• Blackstone's $82B fund saw record withdrawal requests the same week
• Blackstone had to put in $400M of its own cash to cover the exits

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#US vs. #IRAN #War
Second phase of the war: neither oil nor water
ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE IN THE MIDDLE EAST · Part 1: #OIL

🇺🇸🇮🇱🔥🛢🇮🇷 Having fortunately refrained from a nuclear strike, Washington and Tel Aviv have moved to the second phase of the war, simultaneously attacking Iran's oil infrastructure and triggering an environmental catastrophe

FACTS:
➡️ Oil depots are burning across Tehran.

⏺Massive columns of smoke rise above fuel tanks at oil refineries, blanketing the skies over Iran's capital.

⏺Following a massive US and Israeli attack on an oil storage facility in Rey, south of Tehran, crude oil entered the sewage system and ignited fires in the streets.

⏺CNN reports black, oil-contaminated rain falling over Tehran following US and Israeli airstrikes.

⏺ Yesterday the White House declared it "wants" to "take oil out of the hands of terrorists" — and hours later bombed Iranian oil facilities, triggering an environmental catastrophe in the Tehran metro area, home to 14 million people.

🔴 The IDF confirmed the attacks and released initial results:

"The Israeli Air Force, under the guidance and in cooperation with Military Intelligence (Aman) and the Operations Directorate (Amatz), recently struck several fuel storage facilities in Tehran."

• Over 300 targets were hit over the weekend with approximately 1,500 munitions.

• Israeli Air Force Commander Major General Tomer Bar personally participated in bombing raids on Iran, flying an F-15 fighter jet.

🔴 US officials are discussing the possible seizure of Iran's oil terminal on Kharg Island — Axios

Collateral damage:
📈💵Average US gasoline prices rose to $3.45, the highest since September 2024.
But Trump, as usual, casually declared that oil prices would go down.

REASONS:
➡️#Israel understands and is in a hurry: the US-backed war may end within a week — the Pentagon is critically short of funds to continue the war at its initial pace.

• Just one week into the war, the US-Israeli coalition was forced to sharply reduce strikes on Iran: the daily volume of attacks dropped by 55–65%.

• According to a CENTCOM bulletin, US forces struck 1,250 targets in the first 48 hours and 1,700 targets in the first 72 hours.

OBJECTIVE:
➡️ The logic behind the oil carnage: closing the Strait of Hormuz poses catastrophic risks to Asia's entire energy security.

🇦🇪🇰🇼 #UAE and #Kuwait are cutting oil production due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz — Bloomberg

Asia remains critically dependent on Middle Eastern oil and LNG transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
The latest data shows that ~85–90% of crude oil and ~82–90% of LNG (from Qatar/UAE) flow to Asian countries:
🇨🇳 #China accounts for ~38% of oil volume
🇮🇳 #India ~15%
🇰🇷 #South_Korea ~12%.

🛢📈 WTI crude oil prices surged more than 35% this week — the largest weekly gain in 43 years.

BENEFICIARIES:
➡️ 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 ❌🇨🇳 By engineering an environmental catastrophe in Iran, the US is pulling the chair out from under Beijing — while simultaneously handing Russia carte blanche in its war against Ukraine, now in its fifth year.

Russia is the second beneficiary after the US. Oil at $93+ (Murban), WTI +35%. Every dollar of oil price increase means billions into the Russian budget.

Russia was suffocating at $60+ (with $70 baked into the budget). At $90+ the Kremlin breathes freely. Washington understands this better than anyone — remember Trump's words: "At $40 a barrel, Russia can't afford to fight."

The oil price surge is not a side effect. It's part of the deal. The Anchorage agreement is bearing fruit.

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#US vs. #IRAN #War
🌎 EVENTS and FACTS

➡️ What politicians and military say:

🇮🇱 IDF Spokesperson: We have eliminated over 1,900 Iranian regime combatants.
#Israel plans to boost its defense budget by ~$13 billion to bankroll the war with Iran — Bloomberg.

🇱🇧⏺Human Rights Watch: Israel dropped white phosphorus munitions on the Lebanese city of Yahmor on March 3.

⚡️UNICEF: Since March 2, at least 83 children have been killed and 254 injured in Lebanon amid the Israel-Hezbollah escalation. That's an average of 10+ kids killed and 36 injured daily.

⚡️🇨🇦 An unidentified gunman opened fire on the US consulate in Toronto — Reuters.

⚡️🇺🇸 Boeing Secures $289 Million Contract to Supply Israel with Up to 5,000 Smart Bombs


🇺🇸 Trump:

"If we had waited three days, I think they would have attacked us."

➡️ Putin after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022: "If we hadn't attacked them, they would have attacked us in 3 days."

🇺🇸☎️ 🇷🇺 Agent Krasnov reported on his chat with his Kremlin handler regarding the Iran op's successes:
"Putin was impressed by our operation in Iran. He told me he had never seen anything like it before."
Now he just needs to share the joy with Kim Jong-un... and Adolf.

🇷🇺🫡 "Putin assured Trump that Russia is not providing Iran with data for strikes on US facilities," — Vitkoff (CNBC).

"Yesterday, during a conversation with the president, the Russians stated that they had not shared intelligence data. We can take them at their word."

➡️ So the CIA, Pentagon, and WP are lying to the WH? The audacity! And apparently, the Iranian Foreign Ministry is lying too, despite publicly confirming Russian and Chinese assistance...

🇺🇸🇷🇺🛢Trump:

"We are lifting some sanctions on Russian oil to drive down prices. Just until the situation is resolved..."

⚡️ John Bolton:

"Trump is manipulating the stock markets; we know that oil prices have risen sharply."

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz:

"From our perspective — and mine personally — there is zero justification for easing sanctions on Russia. If forced to choose between sanctions and solidarity, our stance is clear: we stand with Ukraine. We are deeply concerned by the apparent lack of any coherent plan to end this war swiftly and decisively."

🕔💰The Strait of Hormuz remains sealed off to all shipping for a second week.
Commercial vessels are stranded on both sides due to missile and drone threats.

🪖 General Dan Caine:

"CENTCOM continues to strike the Iranian Navy and its capabilities to ensure sustained movement through the Strait of Hormuz. We will keep hitting their minelaying vessels."

⚡️📝 Iran has already started mining the Strait of Hormuz — CBS.


💵MARKETS:
🛢📉 WTI crude dropped to $85/bbl following Trump's verbal interventions about an imminent end to the war.

Following Trump's remarks on a potential early US exit from the Iran conflict and the lifting of Russian oil sanctions, May Brent futures dipped to $86.99/bbl, though it continues to trade sideways around $92.04/bbl.

⚡️🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🇻🇪 Off the coast of #China, record stockpiles of sanctioned oil from #Russia, #Iran, and #Venezuela have piled up — 40 million barrels are sitting on tankers waiting to offload — Kpler.

That's a 17% spike compared to the week before the Iran war kicked off. The crude is floating storage, acting as a buffer for Chinese refineries amid supply chain disruptions from the Persian Gulf.

⚡️🇮🇳 Indian refiners have swept up all available Russian crude — Bloomberg.
The haul totaled roughly 30 million barrels, pricing at a $2-$8 premium over Brent.

⚡️🇶🇦⛽️LNG markets have taken a massive hit from the disruption of Qatari supplies.

💰Contract prices have surged to $13 — up 53% from 2025.

🇺🇸 The US domestic LNG price sits at $3.63.
🇪🇺 Meanwhile, the US is offloading gas to Europe and Asia (68% of its LNG exports) at $12-$13.

UPD:
🚨🇺🇸 US Senator Richard Blumenthal after the briefing:

"We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives here."

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#US vs #IRAN
"Nuclear news" March 17–20

EVENTS:
⚡️🇺🇸💵19 days of war with Iran have reportedly cost the US more than $25 billion.
The cost of the war against Iran far exceeds the expenses for the Iraq War. A few more weeks of fighting would be equivalent to a year of spending for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

🇮🇱 Israel continues to "cut out" Iran’s leadership.

☠️ Killed:
• Ali Larijani — Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and the last professional negotiator
• Aziz Nasirzadeh — Minister of Defense
• Gholamreza Soleimani — head of Basij
• Esmail Khatib — head of intelligence

🇺🇸Trump:

We want to talk to them, and there is nobody to talk to...

❗️🇺🇸❌🇺🇸 Joe Kent resigned as director of the NCTC in protest over the war with Iran, explicitly saying the White House was deceived into war by Israel.

• The NCTC director is not a Democrat, not a liberal, not a pacifist. He is ultra‑right, 11 combat deployments, Gold Star husband, a Trump appointee.
When the person who sees all counterterrorism intelligence walks out slamming the door — that’s a "black mark."

⏺The FBI hastily opened a case against Kent on charges of "leaking classified information" (CBS).

⚡️🛡❌🇺🇸 Trump said most NATO allies do not want to participate in a military operation against Iran.

🇨🇳 #China is not going to bail out Trump — FT
Luke Gromen:

"If i wanted to end the Petrodollar & turbocharge Petroyuan, i would have a hard time coming up with a better plan than what the US has done in the past 3 weeks..."

OIL:
📈🌎🛢 Since the bombings began, oil prices have risen 50% — The Economist

⚡️🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia warns: by late April–early May Brent could spike to $180/barrel as transit through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen 97% — WSJ
⏺ Wood Mackenzie analysts: even $200 no longer looks impossible

➡️ On March 19 Brent futures hit $119/barrel but fell to $105–107 after the U.S. Treasury issued a general license for the sale of Russian crude and products loaded on tankers — OFAC

➡️ Historical high from July 2008 was $146.08

Current oil prices:
🇴🇲 Oman — $167 (yesterday $173),
🇦🇪 Dubai — $137
🇪🇺 European market — Brent $113; WTI $97
🔗 Zerohedge

⚠️ Axios: The Trump administration is developing a plan to occupy Kharg Island (90% of Iran’s oil).

⚡️🇺🇸 The U.S. is sending a second Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East — NBC News

➡️ 11th MEU composition:
• LHD USS Boxer;
• LSDs USS Comstock and USS Portland;
• 2,200 Marines with equipment.

Air component: F-35B, AH-1Z Viper, UH-1Y Venom, CH-53E Super Stallion, MV-22B Osprey.

Together with the already sent 31st MEU (USS Tripoli), the U.S. will have 5,000 Marines and 4,000 sailors in the region — not enough for a major ground campaign but enough for limited amphibious landings on coastal Iranian islands.

💰🇮🇷 FT: Iran has begun charging for safe passage through Hormuz. One company paid $2 million.

⚡️🇫🇷 #France is preparing a UN‑level mission to unblock the Strait of Hormuz.
If Gulf and European states back a resolution, an international coalition to secure shipping will be formed.
➡️Macron clarified France will not take part in a forcible "opening" of Hormuz.

❗️🇨🇳 China’s Foreign Ministry called on all parties to stop military actions as soon as possible.

NUCLEAR THREAT:
🔴☢️🌎 WHO is preparing for a nuclear disaster — Politico

🇺🇸 NNSA has restarted the purification process for enriched uranium at the Y‑12 complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee — Knox

🇫🇷 French "Poker": French air force conducts second nuclear exercise of the year

⚡️🛡🇮🇶 NATO is withdrawing a contingent from Iraq — about 600 troops — for security reasons

⚡️🇺🇸 Trump called to pass the "SAVE AMERICA ACT"

🇯🇵🇺🇸 #Japan and US announced strategic investments of $73 billion in energy projects, including $40 billion in small modular reactors via Hitachi‑GE Vernova.
⁉️ What did Japan get in return?

#US vs #IRAN
Epic "Epstein Mess"

💰🇺🇸 Corrupt War Winners:
1. Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are investing in a drone manufacturing company.
2. Jared Kushner plans to rebuild the Persian Gulf after the war.
3. The Witkoff family is buying up depreciated real estate in the Middle East.

Beneficiaries and Losers:
🇵🇭🇱🇦🇻🇳📈🚗 Demand for Chinese EVs in Asia, especially in the #Philippines, #Laos, and #Vietnam, is skyrocketing amid the energy crisis triggered by the third Gulf War — backorders stretch for a month.
There is no doubt — Europe will line up next.

🇯🇵 Japan’s SoftBank and AEP signed an agreement to produce natural gas in Ohio — Reuters

❗️⛴ 3,200 ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf.

Many vessels are running out of water, food, and fuel. Crews cannot go ashore, and relief staff cannot fly in to replace them.

➡️ Following a US and Israeli strike on the port of Bandar Lengeh in southern Iran last night, 16 commercial vessels owned by locals were destroyed and sunk. This was their main source of income.

🇮🇶 #Iraq has declared force majeure on all oil fields developed by foreign oil companies — Reuters.

🇶🇦 Qatari state gas giant QatarEnergy released a statement detailing the damage sustained overnight.
➡️ The ExxonMobil gas facility at the Ras Laffan LNG plant was severely damaged; it will take 5 years to restore it to pre-war capacity.

🇨🇳🇺🇸🤖📉 SMCI stock crashed 27% after company co-founder Yih-Shyan Liao was indicted for smuggling $2.5B worth of Nvidia AI chips to #China.

🇺🇸 While SMCI exports $2.5B in chips to China, the DOJ is offering $10 million to anyone who can provide information on Iranian hackers and key Iranian commanders for the purpose of their elimination.

🇨🇭 #Switzerland has suspended arms exports to the US due to the war with Iran — Reuters

🇴🇲 #Oman stated that #Israel pushed the US into a war with Iran when an agreement was possible — The Guardian

🇱🇰 #SriLanka rejected a US request to land military aircraft — The Hindu

🇬🇧 Trump dragged Britain into the war — The Standard
The #UK approved the use of its bases by American aviation for strikes in the Strait of Hormuz.


Netanyahu's Revelations at the Press Conference:
🔴🇮🇱 Netanyahu shifted responsibility for starting the war with Iran onto Trump:

"Trump is the leader, I am his ally."

Bibi also admitted that ultimately, the Iranian regime might survive despite all the indiscriminate bombings

➡️ According to Netanyahu, Israel will not send troops to Iran: "die yourselves for our interests."
Instead, #Israel will help the US open the Strait of Hormuz through "intelligence gathering" and "other means."

❗️🇺🇸 The US will send thousands of additional troops to the Middle East — Reuters

⚡️The US has completed preparations for a ground operation in Iran — CBS News citing sources close to the WH

💀🇺🇸 Posters reading "Operation Epstein's Fury" have appeared in Washington next to images of fallen American soldiers.

As people wake up, heavy AI models have had their screws tightened sharply — even the best models suddenly became "loyal" to the White House and began broadcasting political narratives instead of impartial analytics, and Grok is now leaking user conversations to Google — Forbes

➡️ Google has already indexed over 370k conversations with Grok, many containing sensitive information and passwords

💸📉🇺🇸 Today the US stock market lost over $1 trillion.

🧱 Gold fell below $4,500 per ounce
🧱 Silver — below $70

📉🏘 The real estate market collapsed:
The number of home sellers in the US exceeds buyers by more than 600,000 — Redfin

➡️ Deflation in the rental market — across the US:
Austin — prices fell by 22%
Fort Myers — by 19%
Denver — by 13%
Atlanta, Nashville, Dallas — by 11%

⚡️12-month inflation expectations in the US rose to 5.2%

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#US vs #IRAN — is it REALLY over?

Trump: "We're done, but we're not done."
⚡️🇺🇸 The U.S. operation against Iran is over, Trump said in a Fox News interview.

"This morning we got a call from the right people, the right ones, and they want to make a deal."

According to Vance, "The U.S. has achieved its goals in Iran, which is why they're winding down the military operation" — Fox News


⚡️🇺🇸 The U.S. has fully blockaded Iranian ports and completely halted maritime trade with Iran in less than 36 hours — CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper

🇬🇧❌🇺🇸 The #UK did not join the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧 Europe is preparing a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the war, led by France and the UK, but without U.S. involvement — WSJ

⚡️🇮🇷 In the past 24 hours, 20 commercial vessels were allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz — Iran granted passage
Ships from Iran continue to cross Hormuz despite the U.S. blockade — Kpler Intelligence
Among them, a sanctioned Iranian VLCC supertanker capable of carrying up to 2 million barrels of crude oil passed through Hormuz

⚡️🇨🇳 Beijing called the US blockade dangerous and irresponsible
The U.S.-sanctioned Chinese tanker Rich Starry passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, carrying 250,000 barrels of methanol

🇮🇹❌🇮🇱 #Italy suspended the renewal of its defense cooperation agreement with #Israel

🇪🇸 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez:

"I firmly believe it is in the interest of both #Spain and #Europe to strengthen ties with #China."

🇸🇦❌🇺🇸 Saudi Arabia is urging the US to end the Hormuz blockade and resume negotiations, fearing escalation — WSJ
Iran could retaliate by blocking the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — a key oil export route.


➡️ The real reasons the war ended

🪖 LOSSES:
🇺🇸❌🚀U.S. Army spokesperson Jimmy Arter stated that the deployed artillery unit had exhausted its entire stock of Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) early in the war against Iran last month — Aviation Week

✈️ Following recent losses and damage to its tanker fleet, the U.S. Air Force was forced to return decommissioned KC-135 tankers to service, including a 68-year-old Stratotanker built in 1958 — Bild

🇮🇷🇨🇳 It has been revealed that Iran secretly acquired a Chinese-built spy satellite (TEE-01B) in late 2024 through the IRGC's aerospace division — FT
The satellite was used to monitor key U.S. military bases in the Middle East, providing real-time imagery and coordinates.
➡️ Compare this with U.S. and Israeli strikes based on 15-year-old Google Maps imagery (the strike on kid's school in Minab, carried out 2.5 hours before Trump's order)

⚡️Confirmed: U.S. Navy surveillance drone MQ-4C Triton crashed on April 9 over the Persian Gulf — TWZ
It suddenly descended and disappeared from radar
The drone, carrying critical reconnaissance technology, is valued at $238 million

🗺 Satellite imagery shows a U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopter was hit by Iranian strikes at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, and a CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter was damaged at Ali Al Salem Air Base

The losses don't end there
⏺ 399 U.S. service members have been wounded during the conflict with Iran

❗️The U.S. has lost 7 more MQ-9 Reaper drones, bringing the total number of destroyed MQ-9 Reapers to 24 — EGYOSINT

🚢 U.S. destroyers USS Michael Murphy and USS Frank E. Peterson narrowly avoided destruction in the Strait of Hormuz.

💸 Iran demands reparations
‼️🇮🇷🪙 🇧🇭🇸🇦🇶🇦🇦🇪🇯🇴 Iran has officially demanded compensation from #Bahrain, #Saudi_Arabia, #Qatar, the #UAE, and #Jordan, accusing them of facilitating U.S. and Israeli attacks by allowing the use of their airspace, bases, or territory.
Tehran is demanding full reparations of $270 billion.

➡️ UPD:
Trump lifted his own blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, saying he did so for the sake of China and the world.

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