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⚡️🇪🇬🇱🇾 Several F-16 fighters of Egyptian Air Force left Sidi Barrani airbase and entered Libyan airspace to strike at Government of National Consent facilities together with Libyan National Army combat aircraft's

⚡️🇪🇬🇱🇾 Несколько истребителей F-16 ВВС Египта покинули авиабазу Сиди-Баррани и вошли в воздушное пространство Ливии для нанесения ударов по объектам Правительства национального согласия совместно с боевыми самолетами Ливийской национальной армии.
🇷🇺#Russia 🇪🇬#Egypt 🇮🇩#Indonesia 🇮🇷#Iran
Египет, Алжир и Индонезия отказались от сделки с Россией по истребителям Су-35
Источники сообщили, что Россия запросила у своих потенциальных партнеров очередную отсрочку для решения технических и политических вопросов, возникших в результате санкций на ввоз современных комплектующих из США, Европы и Израиля для производства Су-35.
▪️Вдобавок Египет приостановил сделку на поставку 30 истребителей Су-35, пока российская сторона не решит проблему с импортными комплектующими, несмотря на то, что уже произведено около десятка самолетов.
Алжир, в свою очередь, решил сосредоточить свои финансовые средства на модернизации уже поставленных из России истребителей Су-30СМ.
▪️«Рособоронэкспорт», главный российский экспортер вооружений, 3 января отказался от комментариев, но позднее информационное агентство Mehr сообщило, что Россия готова продать Ирану истребители Су-35.
По сообщению информационного агентства Mehr, в следующем месяце Тегеран подпишет с Россией соглашение о военно-стратегическом сотрудничестве сроком на 20 лет. Соглашение будет включать в себя покупку Ираном российского оружия на сумму 10 миллиардов долларов, включая С-400, спутники и бывшие египетские истребители Су-35.
🇵🇱#Poland 🇧🇾#Belarus
Around 10 pm, the same situation repeated itself - the Belarusian soldiers, seeing the Polish patrols, began to shoot, but already in the air.
Another attempt was made around 3 am on Wednesday. 11 illegal immigrants from 🇪🇬#Egypt, 🇾🇪#Yemen and 🇸🇾#Syria tried to cross the border. And again, the Belarusian border guards supported the illegal immigrants with fire.
Last year, the Polish Border Service recorded 39.7 attempts to illegally cross the Polish-Belarusian border. In December last year - more than 1.7 thousand attempts; 8.9 thousand - in November: 17.5 thousand - in October: 7.7 thousand - in September; 3.5 thousand - in August.

В районе 10 часов вечера эта же ситуация повторилась - белорусские солдаты, увидев польские патрули, начали стрелять, но уже в воздух.
Около 3 часов ночи была предпринята еще одна попытка. Границу пытались пересечь 11 нелегалов из 🇪🇬Египта, 🇾🇪Йемена и 🇸🇾Сирии. И снова нелегалов поддержали огнем белорусские пограничники.
В прошлом году польская Погранслужба зафиксировала 39,7 попыток незаконного пересечения польско-белорусской границы. В декабре прошлого года - более 1,7 тыс. попыток; 8,9 тыс. - в ноябре: 17,5 тыс. - в октябре: 7,7 тыс. - в сентябре; 3,5 тыс. - в августе.
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇸De-dollarization successes: Russia has sharply increased investments in US public debt amid escalation with the West.
The Central Bank of RF increased investments in US bonds by 1.6 times in December.

⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Senate Republicans introduce their own Russia sanctions package after stalled bipartisan negotiations.
Republicans are in favor of providing Ukraine with assistance in the amount of $500 million. $100 million of this amount is proposed to be allocated for anti-aircraft, anti-tank and anti-ship systems.

⚡️🇺🇦Ukrainian crisis has led to a significant reduction in grain shipments from the Black Sea ports.
Shipping companies refuse to make new orders to traders.
This problem has already affected 🇩🇿#Algeria and 🇪🇬#Egypt.

⚡️🇪🇺🇷🇺The head of the European Commission (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, said that Europe is ready for interruptions in gas supplies from Russia.

⚡️🇨🇦#Canada to enforce 1988 law for the first time amid trucker protests.
The law expands the powers of the federal government, allowing, in particular, to ban gatherings.

⚡️🇦🇫🇷🇺Taliban declares "good relations with Russia".

⚡️🇬🇧🇷🇺🇺🇦UK will believe in the absence of Russia's plans to invade Ukraine only after the withdrawal of all troops from the borders, said Foreign Minister Liz Truss

⚡️#NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg: "We have not seen any withdrawal of Russian forces. What we see is that they have increased the number of troops and more troops are on their way. So, so far, no de-escalation."
🔴 Bloody France

🇫🇷🔥🇾🇪🇱🇾 French weapons were also used during the wars in Yemen and Libya, when the hypocritical corrupt French also ignored the violations of the embargo imposed by the EU and the UN against 🇦🇪#UAE, 🇪🇬#Egypt and 🇸🇦#SaudiArabia.

🇫🇷🇷🇺The representative of the Ministry of the Armed Forces answered the questions of French investigators about the sale of weapons to the Russian Federation in the spirit that it was supposedly "implementation of contracts concluded before 2014"and that by 2020 all deliveries allegedly were curtailed. Then where did the deliveries come from in 2021?

➡️ What happens — the government of the Kremlin's main international sycophant Macron is going to finance Putin's war in Ukraine, justifying itself with "old contracts"??? And how do the EU and NATO look at it?

⚠️ France is the third largest arms exporter in the world. Over the past 5 years, sales have increased by more than 50% — to a large extent, due to deliveries to Russia through Belarus, bypassing the sanctions.
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🇪🇬Archaeologists in #Egypt uncovered five ancient tombs, dating to more than 4,000 years ago

🇪🇬Археологи в Египте обнаружили пять древних гробниц, возраст которых более 4000 лет
#Repartition_gas_market
❗️🇪🇺🇮🇱🇪🇬On June 14, the European Union, #Israel and #Egypt signed an agreement on the supply of Israeli natural #gas to the #EU countries through Egyptian terminals.
Israel produces natural gas at two fields, the total gas reserves in them are estimated at 690 billion cubic meters.
▪️EU financial support will allow Israel to accelerate the development of the third field.
Egypt, in turn, will be able to direct part of the funds received from the EU to modernize the equipment of gas processing plants, where Israeli gas is converted into a liquefied state.

Israeli Foreign Ministry press release / Пресс-релиз МИД Израиля

❗️🇪🇺🇮🇱🇪🇬14 июня Евросоюз, #Израиль и #Египет подписали соглашение о поставках израильского природного газа в страны #ЕС через египетские терминалы.
Израиль добывает природный #газ на двух месторождениях, суммарный запас газа в них оценивается в 690 млрд кубометров.
▪️Финансовая поддержка Евросоюза позволит Израилю ускорить разработку третьего месторождения.
Египет, в свою очередь, сможет направить часть полученных от ЕС средств на модернизацию оборудования газоперерабатывающих заводов, на которых израильский газ переводят в сжиженное состояние.
🇨🇳🤑🇷🇺 #China suspended investment in #Russia under the One Belt, One Road project, the largest infrastructure program that spans almost 150 countries and costs more than $900 billion.
There was $28.4 billion in financing and investments for BRI projects in the first six months of this year.
But Russia did not get a cent of this money, although a year earlier, over the same period, investments reached $2 billion.
🇱🇰🇪🇬China also didn’t finance any new projects in #Sri_Lanka and #Egypt
🇸🇦Saudi_Arabia became the largest recipient of investments, with about $5.5 billion in new funds

🇨🇳🤑🇷🇺 #Китай приостановил инвестиции в Россию по проекту «Один пояс — один путь», крупнейшей инфраструктурной программы, которая охватывает почти 150 стран и стоит более $900 млрд.
За первые шесть месяцев этого года финансирование и инвестиции в проекты BRI составили 28,4 миллиарда долларов.
Но России из этих денег не досталось ни цента, хотя годом ранее за тот же период инвестиции достигали 2 млрд долларов.
🇱🇰🇪🇬Также обнулились китайские вложения в Шри-Ланку и Египет.
🇸🇦Крупнейшим получателем инвестиций стала #Саудовская_Аравия, получив $5.5 млрд
⁉️🇷🇺🇮🇷 As it turns out, the purpose of the Putin clone's visit to #Iran was not only drones.
During the visit, a contract was signed for the purchase of 18 Su-35 fighter jets for the Iranian Air Force, which were built for #Egypt, and which Egypt refused to take due to fears of facing #US sanctions (CAATSA Law)

https://twitter.com/defensearab/status/1555629081839927296

⁉️🇷🇺🇮🇷 Как выясняется, целью визита клона Путина в #Иран были не только беспилотники.
В ходе визита был подписан контракт на закупку для ВВС Ирана 18 истребителей Су-35, которые были построены для Египта, и которые #Египет отказался забирать из-за опасений столкнуться с санкциями #США (Закон CAATSA)
Chronicles of Troubled Times: prologue to WWIII
#Chronicles_of_world_madhouse 🌎😎 🇷🇺🤡🇺🇸 Two clowns-losers — Burns and Naryshkin — unanimously declared that they discussed in Ankara the "reduction of nuclear weapons" and the problems of "unjustly detained US citizens" Yep, in Ankara! Does anyone believe?…
❗️As expected, Moscow once again gave a ride to Washington, this time with the so-called #Sullivan_formula❗️
🇷🇺☢️🇺🇸 Without any explanation, #Russia has postponed talks with #US on nuclear arms control under the START-3 Treaty indefinitely
State Department spokesperson saying the decision was made “unilaterally” by Moscow.
🇪🇬 The talks were to take place today in Cairo, #Egypt
👉 However, throughout all 9 months, Washington constantly looks like idiots as a result of "secret agreements" with Moscow...

❗️Как и следовало ожидать, Москва в очередной раз прокатила Вашингтон, на этот раз, с т.н.
#формулой_Салливана❗️
🇷🇺☢️🇺🇸 Без всякого объяснения причин, #Россия отложила переговоры с #США о контроле над ядерными вооружениями в рамках Договора СНВ-3 на неопределенный срок
Госдеп заявил, что решение было принято Москвой «в одностороннем порядке».
🇪🇬 Переговоры должны были состояться сегодня в Каире, #Египет
🤷🏻Впрочем, Вашингтону не привыкать выглядеть идиотами после очередных "тайных договоренностей" с Москвой...
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🌍⛴ 🛢🇷🇺 Of the 51,000 ships transporting today cargo around the world, more than 1,400 have defected from the legal side of shipping to its dark side, serving shady Russian shipping. The vast majority of these are oil tankers.
🇨🇳🇮🇳🇹🇷🇪🇬🇦🇪 Russia’s shadow fleet only exists because of countries willing to buy sanctioned Russian oil — that is, Russian oil above the price cap Western countries have imposed. Leading this group are #China, #India, #Turkey, #Egypt and the #UAE, countries that well not care about Western sanctions — or even about Ukraine.

🌍⛴ 🛢🇷🇺 Из 51 000 судов, которые сегодня перевозят грузы по всему миру, более 1400 перешли с легальной стороны судоходства на темную сторону, обслуживая теневые российские перевозки. Подавляющее большинство из них — нефтяные танкеры.
🇨🇳🇮🇳🇹🇷🇪🇬🇦🇪 Теневой флот России существует благодаря странам, покупающим подсанкционную российскую нефть. Лидеры этой группы покупателей — #Китай, #Индия, #Турция, #Египет и #ОАЭ, — страны, которым нет дела как до западных санкций, так и до Украины.

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🇸🇾🇹🇷🇦🇪🇪🇬🇯🇴🇮🇶Асад призвал Турцию вмешаться, чтобы остановить наступление повстанцев, также запросил разведывательную поддержку и оружие у нескольких стран, включая #ОАЭ, #Египет, #Иордания и #Ирак. Однако все отказались помогать режиму.

🔗The Wall Street Journal

🇸🇾🇹🇷🇦🇪🇪🇬🇯🇴🇮🇶 Assad has urged #Turkey to intervene to stop the rebels and sought weapons and intelligence help from countries including the #UAE, #Egypt, #Jordan and #Iraq, but has so far been refused, said the Syrian security officials and Arab officials.

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⚡️🇯🇴🇸🇾#Jordan will host an international summit on #Syria on Saturday
🇸🇦🇮🇶🇱🇧🇪🇬🇶🇦🇧🇭🇦🇪🇹🇷🇺🇸 Foreign ministers of #Saudi_Arabia, #Iraq, #Lebanon, #Egypt, #Qatar, #Bahrain, #UAE, #Türkiye and the #US will meet to discuss the developments in Syria
🌍The #UN envoy to Syria is also expected to attend.

🔗Daily Sabah

⚡️🇯🇴🇸🇾В субботу в Иордании пройдет международный саммит по Сирии
🇸🇦🇮🇶🇱🇧🇪🇬🇶🇦🇧🇭🇦🇪🇹🇷🇺🇸 Министры иностранных дел Саудовской Аравии, Ирака, Ливана, Египта, Катара, Бахрейна, ОАЭ, Турции и США встретятся, чтобы обсудить события в Сирии
🌍Ожидается также присутствие спецпредставителя #ООН по Сирии

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⚡️⛴ 🇬🇼🇸🇾🇪🇬 #GuineaBissau-flagged vessel Gam Express issues distress signal in Kerch Strait, the press service of the Russian transport prosecutor's office reported
The distress signal was sent near the port of Kavkaz
There are 16 sailors from #Syria and #Egypt on board the vessel that sent the SOS signal.
📌🇷🇺 This is not the first incident in the strait — three Russian tankers and a floating crane have already been wrecked there in the last week.

⚡️⛴ 🇬🇼🇸🇾🇪🇬 Судно Gam Express, шедшее под флагом Гвинеи-Биссау, подало сигнал бедствия в Керченском проливе, сообщила пресс-служба Южной транспортной прокуратуры РФ.
Сигнал бедствия был подан близ порта Кавказ
На борту подавшего сигнал SOS судна находятся 16 моряков из Сирии и Египта.
📌🇷🇺 Это не первый инцидент в проливе — за последнюю неделю там потерпели крушение уже три российских танкера и плавучий кран

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Chronicles of Troubled Times: prologue to WWIII
⛴🇷🇺Russian dry cargo ship Ursa Major (Big Dipper) sank in the Mediterranean Sea due to an explosion in the engine room, the Russian MFA reported 14 crew members were rescued, 2 are missing. ▪️According to official data, Ursa Major left the port of St. Petersburg…
🚢💥❓"External impact, bomb or explosive cargo." The ship wreck of the Ursa Major vessel, which was working for the Russian MOD, couldn't have been accidental

What's known about the last voyage of Ursa Major:

🇷🇺 According to the official version, the ship was heading from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok with a cargo of port cranes and parts for icebreakers under construction. It set out on the voyage on December 11.
On the same day, another Oboronlogistics ro-ro, Sparta, left the port of Baltiysk (Kaliningrad Region).
On December 16, both ships passed through the English Channel together, accompanied by two Russian military corvettes (photo 1). A Western military analyst suggested that the cargo ships were heading to Tartus.

▪️The rescue operation after the explosion on the Ursa Major was led by a "Russian military ship", reports the Spanish newspaper La Verdad
The captain of the Ursa Major told Spanish rescuers that the ship was carrying "empty containers".

❗️The Russian ship didn't pick up the rescued crew members - they were delivered to the Spanish city of Cartagena (photo 2)
In turn, Sparta continues to move along the Mediterranean Sea, with the Egyptian Port Said indicated as its destination (photo 3)

#Russia #Syria #Egypt

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Chronicles of Troubled Times: prologue to WWIII
❗️🇸🇾 The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime has disrupted the Middle East’s largest drug network, exposing Syria’s role in industrial-scale Captagon production, a stimulant fueling a $10 billion global trade, — WSJ Assad’s regime relied on Captagon to sustain…
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🇸🇾💊 Al-Arab Al-Jadeed has published a video of another tour of the Captagon factory operated during the reign of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad.
#Syria exported the drug to various countries, mainly to the Middle East region, including #Jordan, #Iraq, #SaudiArabia, the Gulf states and #Egypt, as well as to organizations such as #Hamas
The export of the drug was one of the main sources of income for the Assad regime.

🇸🇾💊 «Аль-Араб Аль-Джадид» опубликовала видео очередной экскурсии по фабрике каптагона, функционировавшей во время правления свергнутого диктатора Башара Асада.
#Сирия экспортировала наркотик в различные страны, в основном в ближневосточный регион, включая Иорданию, Ирак, Саудовскую Аравию, страны Персидского залива и Египет, а также в такие организации, как ХАМАС
Экспорт наркотика был одним из основных источников дохода режима Асада

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#Iran
⚡️🇮🇷🚀🇮🇳🇪🇬🇬🇮🇬🇧 "Three #US and #UK" oil tankers, the Skylight, the Mkd Vyom, and the Hercules Star, have been attacked and now on fire.
⏺The Skylight oil tanker, hit by an Iranian missile in the Persian Gulf, is sinking.

The IRGC announced that it struck three tankers, British and US, in the Strait of Hormuz for breaching the blockade (which "didn't exist"?)
Ultimately, the chemical tanker Mkd Vyom was targeted as part of "Western traffic," although in reality it was Iran's own "shadow fleet" (via Indians).

Skylight is registered to Sea Force Inc. and managed by Red Sea Ship Management LLC (#Egypt), which is under US sanctions for its ties to Iran. In other words, they again successfully struck their own.

Hercules Star (IMO 9916135) — #Gibraltar / #UK.
Owner: Macaw Shipping Ltd, commercial management: Peninsula Petroleum SL.



⚡️🇮🇷🚀🇮🇳🇪🇬🇬🇮🇬🇧 Три "американских и британских" нефтяных танкера атакованы и горят: Skylight, Mkd Vyom и Hercules Star
⏺Нефтяной танкер Skylight , пораженный иранской ракетой в Персидском заливе, тонет.

КСИР сообщил, что нанес удар по трем танкерам, принадлежащим Великобритании и США, в Ормузском проливе за попытку прорвать блокаду (которой "не было"?)
В итоге, танкер-химовоз Mkd Vyom попал под удар как часть «западного трафика», хотя на самом деле это "теневой флот" самого Ирана (через индусов).

Skylight зарегистрирован на компанию Sea Force Inc., управляется Red Sea Ship Management LLC (#Египет), которая находится под санкциями США за связи с Ираном. То есть, успешно ударили по своим.

Hercules Star (IMO 9916135) — #Гибралтар / Британия.
Владелец: Компания Macaw Shipping Ltd, коммерческое управление — Peninsula Petroleum SL.


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🇮🇷 #IRAN: News Summary, March 1st
Chaos in the Middle East

⚡️🇺🇸 Four US Air Force B-2A Spirit strategic bombers conducted a series of strikes on targets within Iranian territory, executing a non-stop trans-Atlantic flight from Whiteman Air Force Base with mid-air refueling last night. They have since set a return course.
➡️ The #US has officially confirmed strikes by B-2A Spirit bombers using 2,000-lb GBU-31(V)3/B JDAMs, based on BLU-109B penetrator bombs, against fortified Iranian ballistic missile production facilities.

🇺🇸 Trump stated that US forces have sunk nine Iranian ships and plan to sink the rest.
• CENTCOM announced the sinking of an Iranian Navy Jamaran-class corvette at the pier in the Iranian port of Chabahar.

• Images have been released of a burning Iranian Alvand-class frigate, equipped with 4 Chinese C-802 anti-ship missiles, at the neighboring naval base in Konarak (only 12 km away).

• The US also released a video (above) showing BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) being launched from the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) at Iranian targets in support of Operation "Epic Fury" on March 1, 2026.

• CENTCOM provided a preliminary summary of Operation "Epic Fury" and the targets hit in Iran. Submarines are listed among them.


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❗️Retaliatory Strikes:

🇫🇷 🇦🇪 Two Iranian Shahed-136 drones struck the French Naval Base "Camp de la Paix" near Port Zayed in Abu Dhabi, #UAE — after which #France decided to urgently redeploy the aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" to the Eastern Mediterranean.

🇩🇪🇮🇶🇯🇴 German troop deployment sites in #Iraq and #Jordan were also attacked by Iranian drones.
Two Jordanian F-16s with AIM-120 and AIM-9 air-to-air missiles were scrambled to intercept Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones.

🇦🇪 An Iranian Shahed-136 drone attacked a United Arab Emirates oil platform in the Persian Gulf.

🇺🇸 The IRGC once again attacked the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea with four ballistic missiles.

🇺🇸🇮🇶 Iran launched a missile strike on a US military base in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan (video below).

🇺🇸🇰🇼 US military personnel recorded a video of an Arash-2 kamikaze drone strike on the US base Camp Buehring in #Kuwait.

⚡️🇺🇸🇧🇭 Iran struck a naval base near the port of Salman in #Bahrain.

➡️ On the map — US bases in the Middle East subjected to confirmed strikes by Iran over the past 24 hours.
So far, Iran has attacked US and allied bases in 15 countries:
– 🇮🇱 Israel
– 🇺🇸 United States (bases)
– 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
– 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
– 🇶🇦 Qatar
– 🇰🇼 Kuwait
– 🇯🇴 Jordan
– 🇮🇶 Iraq
– 🇧🇭 Bahrain
– 🇴🇲 Oman
– 🇸🇾 Syria
– 🇨🇾 Cyprus
– 🇫🇷 France (Camp de la Paix, UAE)
– 🇮🇹 Italy (in Kuwait)
– 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (in Cyprus)


Friendly Fire
🇪🇬🇵🇼🇴🇲🇬🇮 An Iranian oil fleet tanker — Skylight — registered to Red Sea Ship Management LLC (#Egypt) and sailing under the flag of #Palau, was attacked by the IRGC five nautical miles off the coast of Musandam, #Oman, and continues to burn and sink.
In total, Iran has managed to attack three tankers, two of which belong to Iran itself via proxies (one from the "shadow fleet" — Skylight) and a small #Gibraltar bunkering vessel (Hercules Star).

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❗️🇺🇸 Trump stated that the war with Iran could last about a month.

⚡️🇦🇪 The #UAE authorities announced the suspension of trading on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi stock exchanges on March 2 and 3.
The Emirates are closing their embassy in Tehran and recalling their ambassador.

⚡️🇮🇱 The Israel Defense Forces announced the call-up of 100,000 reservists.
IDF Chief of Staff Zamir: "We still have many days of fighting ahead of us. We need patience now."

🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧 #Germany, #France, and the #UK stated their readiness to take "defensive actions" to "destroy" Iran's military potential.

‼️🇮🇱🇬🇷🇩🇪 "Wing of Zion" — Israel's "Air Force One" — flew out of Tel Aviv yesterday afternoon, circled over the Mediterranean for four hours, then set course for Greece and eventually landed in Berlin, where it will remain until the end of the war in the Middle East.

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#US vs #IRAN
Third phase of war

💰Monetization of the Strait of Hormuz
🇯🇵🇨🇳🇮🇷 #Japan agreed to pay Iran in yuan in exchange for passage of its ships through Hormuz
Other countries wishing their ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will apparently also be forced to pay Iran in yuan

➡️ Iran has retained some mini-submarines operating in "free hunt" mode in the Hormuz Strait zone — Israel's Channel 9 citing British media (details)

❗️🇦🇪 #UAE MFA published a joint statement from 22 countries expressing readiness to "contribute to efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz":
Including Australia, Bahrain, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Canada, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia and Japan.


💵🇺🇸 US has spent over $27 billion on the military operation so far
First 6 days of conflict cost $11.3 billion, each subsequent day — about $1 billion. This estimate excludes some associated costs, including force deployment and equipment replacement

🇩🇪🇯🇵 #Germany and #Japan plan to conclude a new defense agreement
Defense Minister Pistorius proposed a "Reciprocal Access Agreement" for joint training, exercises and troop deployment


Trump trapped
🇺🇸 Trump faces the toughest decision of his presidency — whether to deploy hundreds or even thousands of American ground troops in Iran — CNN

➡️ Polymarket odds of US launching ground invasion before end of 2026 have risen to 57% — up more than 40% since early March
Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG), over 5,000 Marines and several thousand soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division are heading to the Middle East

➡️ However, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll, 59% of Americans disapprove of military action against Iran


#UK seizes initiative
⚡️🇬🇧🇨🇾 Keir Starmer declared the US can no longer use Akrotiri airbase in #Cyprus for strikes on Iran

Daily Mail: Nuclear submarine HMS Anson of the Royal Navy has arrived in the Arabian Sea with Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles with range up to 1,600 km and Spearfish heavy torpedoes

🚢 📉 US shipbuilding in decline: today the US builds about three major cargo vessels per year, while China builds about 1,000
⚡️US Air Force continues demonstrative testing of AGM-181 Long Range Stand Off (LRSO) missile — a new supersonic nuclear-armed cruise missile — on B-52H Stratofortress bomber


Experts: US and Israeli positions increasingly diverging
➡️ Trump decided to start war with Iran under pressure from external allies such as Netanyahu and Rupert Murdoch — Bloomberg

🇹🇷 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:
War may continue for another two-three weeks, Israel will try to drag it out by pressuring the US
The problem is not the lack of plans to end the war, but that Israel doesn't want peace


🇫🇷 French General Nicolas Richoux on Trump:
He shot himself in the foot. He wanted to invade a European Union country, Greenland, not long ago.
And now, his old friends whom he didn’t consult, whom he scorned, especially the British, telling them: 'We’ll remember this.'
He can go fuck himself


🇫🇮 Finnish President Alexander Stubb:
Previously the US consulted with its allies before [invading] Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, and also sought UN Security Council approval



⚡️🇺🇸 Trump is trying to figure out who actually makes decisions in Iran in search of possible peace negotiations — Axios

🇪🇬🇶🇦🇬🇧 In recent days there have been no direct contacts between the US and Iran, however #Egypt, #Qatar and #UK have been passing messages between the two sides

US wants Iran to commit to:

1. No missile program for 5 years

2. No uranium enrichment

3. Decommissioning of reactors at Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow

4. Observer oversight of centrifuge use

5. Missile limit of 1,000

6. Cessation of funding for Hezbollah, Ansar Allah and Hamas


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