NEW: Türkiye made its first-ever warship export to a NATO and EU member state, delivering the Contraamiral Roman corvette to Romania, while also commissioning the TCG Koçhisar patrol vessel into the Turkish Navy.

Turkish President Erdogan:

Our naval shipbuilding industry is experiencing the busiest and most productive period in the 103-year history of our Republic.

To date, we have exported more than 140 naval platforms to different regions around the world.

From the smallest boats to our UAV carrier ship, the TCG Anadolu; from destroyers to submarines; and including our national aircraft carrier project, MUGEM, we are able to design and build all of our surface and underwater platforms using our own national capabilities and resources.

Trump reposts:

Trump holds the cards in Netanyahu’s shaky reelection chances.

Jimmy Kimmel on Iran:

There is no smiling in Trumpland right now. Donald Trump is having a really bad week after this dummy of a deal he signed off on.

Even his own side is against him on this. "Trump should renege: Iran deal faces backlash from conservative allies." And that's not from MSNBC, that's from the liberal Democrats over at Fox News!

The deal is Iran gets billions of dollars and then we'll talk about a deal. It's a deal to make a deal.

They still haven't even gotten into the details of the nuclear stuff, which is interesting because three months ago, Trump wrote, "No deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" Little did we know he meant it was ours.

BIG: Israeli Channel 12 reports Trump administration officials have quietly opened backchannel contacts with opposition leaders Naftali Bennett and Gadi Eisenkot, hedging against Netanyahu ahead of Israel's elections (due by October 2026).

Bennett and Eisenkot are seen as top contenders to replace Netanyahu, with Eisenkot's Yashar! party rising in polls and Bennett's "change bloc" coordinating with Lapid, Gantz, and Liberman.

BREAKING: Iran's military (Khatam al-Anbia HQ) announces closure of the Strait of Hormuz to ship traffic, citing US violation of the war-ending MOU and Israel's continued ceasefire violations/killings in southern Lebanon, plus failure to withdraw from south Lebanon.

Iran calls this the "first step," warning further measures will follow if the violations continue.

UK unveiled three prototype long-range cruise missiles for Ukraine under "Project Brakestop", all deliberately built with zero US components, so the UK has full sovereign control over exports and Ukraine's use, with no American veto on targets or timing.

Crossbow (MBDA UK), TigerShark (MGI Engineering), and a propeller-driven design (Rotron Aerospace).

Specs: 500-600+ km range, 200-300 kg warhead, 600+ km/h, around £400k each (much cheaper than Storm Shadow), aiming for 20+/month production.

This is separate from "Project Nightfall" (UK's ballistic missile program). Goal: give Ukraine a cheap, mass-producible, jam-resistant deep-strike weapon free of US export restrictions.

Source: FT

NEW: Madrid Judge Juan Carlos Peinado ordered trial to proceed against Begoña Gómez (wife of Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez), her aide Cristina Álvarez, and businessman Juan Carlos Barrabés, on charges of influence peddling, corruption, embezzlement, and misappropriation tied to her role at a Complutense University chair.

As precautionary measures, the judge withdrew Gómez's and Álvarez's passports, banned them from leaving Spain, and ordered biweekly court check-ins — an unprecedented step for a sitting PM's spouse in modern Spanish democracy.

Meanwhile, JD Vance to Fox News:

We are not seeing any evidence that the Iranians are still closing down the Strait of Hormuz.

A Chinese worker died at the construction site of BYD's new EV factory in Szeged, Hungary, after being struck by a truck that resumed moving once a loader operator signaled the path was clear.

Police opened a fatal-traffic-accident investigation.

It's the second worker death at the site this year (after a February fatality, also under investigation for negligent endangerment).

The project has also faced a separate probe into alleged improper dumping of contaminated soil, and BYD recently said vehicle assembly will now start in Q4 2026 instead of by end of 2025.

JD Vance to Fox News:

Trump told us to open the straits, and it has now happened.

We actually got 16 million barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.

That is a record, going back to even before the conflict started.

WATCH: Russia continues to install platforms for air defense positions on the roofs of residential high-rise buildings in Moscow.

JD Vance:

I don't really understand diplomatic protocols. I have never particularly been into diplomatic protocols.

The Qataris and the Pakistanis want to make sure that we do this in the right way.

So I am trying to be respectful.

Source: Fox News

NEW: Iran's chief negotiator Araghchi is heading to Switzerland tonight, accompanied by Pakistan's interior minister.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson says an Iranian delegation will go to Switzerland to follow up and demand the other side implement its commitments, to clarify how serious they are about honoring them.

JD Vance on Iran:

I am very confident that we can maintain this ceasefire.

Source: Fox News

JD Vance on Iran:

We don't want to say no to the Iranians if they are willing to change their behavior.

Isn't a change of behavior exactly what we want?

And if they do that, of course we will change our relationship with them.

Source: Fox News

JD Vance on Lebanon:

Hezbollah sometimes fires at the Israelis, and of course that means the Israelis are going to respond in self-defense.

It's actually gotten a lot better over the last couple of weeks.

Source: Fox News

JD Vance:

Socialists tell me that they really stand up for working people and that they want to protect working people, but they want to abolish ICE.

And so what does that mean? That means a flood of low-wage immigrants coming into this country, competing for wages against the working people—Black, White, and Brown—of the United States of America.

You do not care about working people if you refuse to enforce the border. Stop pretending that you do.

Source: Fox News

BREAKING: Hormuz Closed, Iran Strikes Back Over US and Israel Violations

Iran's military has announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, citing US violations of the war-ending MOU and Israel's continued strikes in southern Lebanon.

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