🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: The CIA carried out a deception operation inside Iran before the Pentagon launched its rescue mission for the missing U.S. F-15E crewmember, according to Fox News.

➡️ The CIA spread false information that the service member had already been found and was being moved, creating confusion and uncertainty among Iranian forces while using its intelligence capabilities to locate him with "unique, exquisite capabilities."

➡️ After identifying his position, hidden in a mountainous area, the CIA shared the information with the Pentagon and the White House, prompting President Trump to order an immediate rescue mission, which CENTCOM carried out with real-time CIA support.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: U.S. forces carried out extensive air support during the search and rescue mission in southwestern Iran, conducting large-scale strikes with "every tactical jet in the U.S. inventory," including B-1 bombers, to keep Iranian forces away from the search area and protect the downed airman, according to Fox News, citing a senior U.S. official.

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇷🇮🇶 FOX News reporter, Trey Yingst, citing president Donald Trump, said that the U.S. sent guns to anti-regime protesters and Kurdish separatists in Iran in January.

"We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them," President Trump told me. "And I think the Kurds took the guns."

🔗 Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst)

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 ABC News reports that the U.S. lost 4 MH-6 Little Birds during the CSAR mission which evacuated a weapons officer last night.

The remains of only two MH-6 Little Birds could be visually verified among the wreckage.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 With the Airfield geolocated, we now have significant confidence to assume that the area of rescue was in the Kolah Ghazi National Park, South-East of Isfahan, Population 2.2m.

📝: The reports that the F-15E Strike Eagle crashed in the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad districts in Khuzestan was a CIA deception meant to fool Iranian search parties.

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🇪🇺🚫🛢 Not Running Out of Oil… Just Running Out of Access

The final two Qatari LNG cargos will arrive in Europe by April 13th. After that, physical tightness in European gas markets will begin to intensify. After this date Europe loses ~9% of LNG supply, likely until mid-June earliest, based on force majeure notices from QatarEnergy to European buyers.

If you want a real-world glimpse of what “not running out of oil—but still running into shortages” looks like, look no further than Egypt. As of last week, authorities ordered shops, cafés and restaurants to shut by 9pm on weekdays and 10pm on weekends—not for social reasons, but to conserve energy. It’s a reminder that the issue isn’t global supply exhaustion, but local affordability and access: when prices spike and flows get disrupted, demand doesn’t disappear, it gets rationed.

🔗 https://archive.ph/eL98s

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — When WSJ asked President Trump if he is concerned the people of Iran, 93 million people, could suffer if civilian infrastructure is hit, he answered: "No, they want us to do it."

—❗️🇮🇷/🇬🇧 BREAKING: Hallel Bitton Rosen, journalist for Israeli Channel 14, confirms that a British warship was directly hit by an anti-ship missile from Lebanon, sustaining damage

Hezbollah claimed earlier today that it targeted and struck an Israeli ship, but this was likely a misidentification.

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🇬🇧🇱🇧⚡️ — The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dragon, currently deployed in the Mediterranean, has not been attacked or struck amid Israeli reports of a Hezbollah strike on a British vessel off the Lebanese coast, according to The Telegraph, citing defence sources.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 Iran has rejected a proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a temporary cease-fire, officials familiar with the matter said. -WSJ

📝: Donald Trump's "negotiations" with Iran mean him repeating the same old "surrender or we'll bomb you more than we have bombed you already" terms and expecting a different response from Iran.

The Iranians will never meet with American officials until the Trump Admin accepts the reality on the ground, that it was pushed out of the GCC countries and offers adequate concessions to Iran.

Until then, every so-called "negotiation" with Iran will end just like the previous ones.

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