🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Statement from Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher-Ghalibaf regarding the violations of the US-Iran ceasefire:

He states the very workable basis on which to negotiate has been violated, and a ceasefire and negotiations is now unreasonable.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: A total of four ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, less than in any other day in April including before the ‘ceasefire’ began

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📢 🇪🇸 🇱🇧 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on X:

Just today, Netanyahu launches his harshest attack against Lebanon since the offensive began.

His contempt for life and international law is intolerable.

It's time to speak clearly:

- Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire.

- The international community must condemn this new violation of international law.

- The European Union must suspend its Association Agreement with Israel.

- And there must be no impunity for these criminal acts.

📎 Pedro Sánchez

📢 🇵🇰 🇱🇧 Pakistan says the US agreed to the ceasefire which included Lebanon and Israel is violating it by doing countless massacres on civilians

📎 Dizzy

📢 🇱🇧 🇮🇱 Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam declared a national day of mourning tomorrow following Israeli strikes that he claims killed and injured hundreds of civilians. All government offices, public institutions, and local authorities will close, flags will fly at half-mast, and radio and TV broadcasts will reflect the national tragedy.

📎 Open Source Intel

🇱🇧 🇮🇱 🇧🇪 Israel came close to killing the Belgian foreign minister today.

Maxime Prévot on X:
"I came to Beirut today to show our full support to the Lebanese authorities and to express our deep solidarity with the families affected by the violent conflict opposing Israel to Hezbollah. Just before I was commending President Aoun for offering to open official negotiations with Israel towards a ceasefire, Israel launched, with no previous warning, one of the most massive strikes since the beginning of the hostilities, allegedly causing hundreds of civilian victims. We were at the embassy with my delegation, just a few hundred metres from where the missiles struck. This must stop. The ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran must include Lebanon!"

📎 Maxime Prévot

📢 🇺🇸 🇬🇱 President Trump issues a statement following his meeting with Secretary-General Rutte

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🪖 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December

Eligible men will automatically be registered into the military draft pool by December as part of an effort to streamline the previous process of self-registration and save money.

Most men between the ages of 18 and 25 are already required to register with the Selective Service, but automatic registration was mandated in December 2025 as part of the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.

The U.S. has not had a draft since the Vietnam War, with military service being voluntary since 1973.

But former President Jimmy Carter in 1980 reinstated the Selective Service in the event of a “national emergency,” where the registry could be used to “provide personnel to the Department of War and alternative service for conscientious objectors, if authorized by the President and Congress.”

Many have questioned whether a U.S. military draft could take place amid the war in Iran, which is currently in a tenuous two-week ceasefire.

Under the new rule, men will be registered automatically within 30 days of their 18th birthdays.

Women are still ineligible for the draft, even as lawmakers in the past few years have attempted to attach provisions adding women to the draft as part of the annual defense policy bill. The measures have all been stripped out before a final vote on the legislation.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5822914-automatic-registration-military-draft/

🇻🇳 🇹🇭 🇵🇭 Vietnam, Thailand to suffer most among ASEAN-5 in 2026: World Bank

Vietnam likely will take the biggest hit to growth among Southeast Asia's major economies in 2026, followed by Thailand, as the Iran war adds to the uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs, the World Bank says.

Aaditya Mattoo, director of development research at the World Bank, said the combination of tariff uncertainty and the Middle East oil shock is expected to do greater harm to economies such as Vietnam, "which depends a lot on its exports."

Oil and gas supply disruptions due to Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S. and Israeli strikes are "not a temporary shock," he said, while the two-week ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday "doesn't dispel the climate of uncertainty."

The Philippines also risks a further hit to its economy after a graft scandal along with typhoons and floods last year limited gross domestic product growth to just 4.4% in 2025. This year, the economy is forecast to expand 3.7%, as Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared a state of national energy emergency last month over fuel price hikes and supply concerns.

Challenges for the region include higher energy costs for manufacturing as well as rising fertilizer and food prices, he said, along with "higher transport costs, which will hit the chip industry, which will permeate the entire production chain." Investment also is expected to come under pressure from rising borrowing costs and weak business sentiment.

https://asia.nikkei.com/economy/vietnam-thailand-to-suffer-most-among-asean-5-in-2026-world-bank

https://archive.ph/nPQZG

Tucker Carlson: "Why can't this president, or any president, say no to Israel?"

"Why does this tiny country have so much control over our government?"

Tucker Carlson: "The United States has to detach from Israel."

"This distancing should begin with a total end of aid of any kind—military or economic—to Israel."

📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump, posting about US troops remaining around Iran, says the U.S. military is “looking forward” to its “next conquest.”

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇶🇦 NEW: Iran’s ‘Handala’ hackers have managed to breach the phone of former IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, confirming for the first time that he secretly visited Qatar and met with Emir Hamad Bin Al-Thani

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇱🇧 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson:

‘A delegation from Iran will travel to the peace talks in Islamabad today, but will participate only if Israel stops its attacks on Lebanon.

Any peace in the region must include Lebanon, and the coming hours will be decisive to see if Israel can be restrained.

Iran was on the verge of responding last night but refrained to make room for additional diplomacy.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Oil prices are starting to rise again, after it became clear to the market that the Strait of Hormuz is still closed and amid fears of a ceasefire collapse

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