🇺🇸 Democratic Senator, Chuck Schumer:

"Iran still has its nuclear stockpile. Its nuclear ambitions are still unchecked, if not accelerated…The nations at the world are furious at Trump: the Asians, the Europeans, even the Middle Eastern allies."

📝: The criticism coming from Democrats towards the White House and the GOP isn’t about the fact they started the war with Iran but that they did a terrible job and lost to Iran.

Their tears for the civilians in Iran and Lebanon that died during the war are crocodile tears.

🔗 CSPAN (@cspan)

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 A US Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone suddenly turned toward Iran, squawked emergency code 7700, rapidly descended, and disappeared from public tracking over the Strait of Hormuz.

An MQ-4C Triton costs more than $200 million per aircraft.

🔗 Clash Report

—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The IDF is surrounding the city of Bint Jbeil and aims to launch an offensive to occupy it – Maariv

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧/🇮🇷 MAP: The IDF aims to cut off the access roads to Bint Jbeil by capturing the predominantly Christian town of Ein Ebel without resistance, and then pushing through the town of At-Tiri to cut off the Northern access road

An combined infantry-armored push with heavy air support will then start on Bint Jbeil from the directions of Aitaroun and Maroun Al-Ras.

The hills surrounding the northern boundaries of At-Tiri have an especially heavy Hezbollah presence, and would likely be challenging to capture.

NOTE: Israel lost to Hezbollah in 2006 while trying to capture this same city (Bint Jbeil).

@Middle_East_Spectator

🛢 🇺🇸 📈 US oil prices extend gains to rise above $101/barrel, now up +11% in 24 hours.

Growing doubts about the US-Iran ceasefire deal are sending energy prices sharply higher.

📎 KobeissiLetter

🚗 🇨🇳 🇮🇷 China’s exports of electric vehicles and hybrids more than doubled in March to a record as the global energy shock stemming from the Iran war renewed interest in EVs

📎 Bloomberg

🇵🇰🇱🇧⚡️🇮🇱 - Pakistani envoy to the Security Council: I do not know why there was ambiguity about Lebanon being included in the agreement, as it was clearly part of the statement.

🇮🇱⚖️ Hearings on three corruption cases against Netanyahu will resume on April 12 after a break since the end of February due to an operation against Iran, the Jerusalem District Court reported.

The Israeli prime minister is accused of receiving illegal gifts worth over 700 thousand shekels (£230,000), fraud, and bribery. Netanyahu has repeatedly denied his guilt.

@CIG_telegram

💸 Markets are delusional

We’ve already lost:

- ~30% of fertilizers
- ~20% of LNG
- ~14% of oil
- ~30% of helium

Any one of these on its own would be enough to trigger a crisis. Together, they form a systemic shock that risks pulling the global economy into a serious recession.

Because these aren’t isolated commodities.... they sit at the core of entire production chains:

Petrochemicals -> fertilizer -> food production
Petrochemicals -> mining (copper, uranium, nickel)
Petrochemicals -> plastics -> cars, electronics
Petrochemicals -> drugs, rubber, textiles
Helium -> semiconductors / AI chips
Gas -> power generation
Diesel -> transportation

So this isn’t just an energy problem... it’s a full-spectrum supply shock hitting food, industry, tech, transportation and power at the same time. Without flows from Hormuz, the system doesn’t just slow down, it starts to break.

And there is no policy tool that can replace missing physical supply.

🔗 Lukas Ekwueme

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The U.S. has lost 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the Iran conflict, amounting to roughly $720 million in losses, according to CBS News, citing two U.S. officials.

➡️ Eight MQ-9 drones have been lost since April 1.

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 According to Reuters, citing three European diplomats, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has told his counterparts in NATO member states that U.S. President Donald J. Trump is looking for commitments to a Strait of Hormuz framework within days. One diplomat said “We note the frustration in Washington, but they did not consult allies either before or after starting this war.”

📎 OSINTdefender