Saudi Crown Prince MbS is heading to Cairo tomorrow for talks with Sisi.

Agenda centers on Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb security, Houthi threats, Iranian attacks on Gulf states, and broader Iran war spillover.

Notably, Egypt joining the Mecca Defence Alliance (Saudi-Türkiye-Pakistan pact) is not on the table.

Satellite imagery shows two Saudi pipeline pump stations hit in the September 10 drone attack.

One near Medina with a 12-hectare burn scar and oil spilling into the desert, another at Pump Station 9 (also hit in 2019) with damage to main crude pump trains.

The pipeline carried 4–5 million barrels/day as Saudi Arabia's Hormuz bypass.

Repair estimates range from days for a partial restart to 6–8 weeks for full capacity.

US Energy Secretary says it should be "running back soon."

Pipeline remains offline as of today.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is considering Saudi requests for military support against the Houthis, including help defending oil infrastructure and preventing a Houthi advance toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Burnham has agreed to send British military advisers to Saudi Arabia, but it is unclear whether he will approve the other requests.

Source: Bloomberg

JD Vance:

If you don’t have confidence that the federal government is going to protect your money, why do you pay taxes at all?

Trump:

Concerning AI, when, in the History of Business, did anyone see the Leaders of an Industry call for Regulation that, if strongly implemented, will drive them into oblivion and bankruptcy?

AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX, no different from RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA — UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #1 — IMPEACHMENT HOAX #2 — and all of the other HOAXES and SCAMS that America was forced to endure through the Destructionists’ and Deviants’ foul play and illegal conduct.

President Xi, of China, just announced that China will be doing absolutely nothing to stand in the way of AI, or its future. Google has recently stated that they want to build a massive Plant in Finland, all because they are finding permitting too difficult in the United States.

I am not happy about this, and want them to change their thinking. AI, and Data Centers, will be the Greatest Economic Development Engine in History ­­— Bigger than Oil, Gold, Diamonds, or even the Internet. It will not be stopped by brilliantly run Destructive Forces during the Term of President DONALD J. TRUMP!

Saudi Arabia’s key East-West Pipeline hit by drones could remain mostly offline for three to five weeks, tightening global supply as Houthi forces expand along Red Sea shipping routes.

The pipeline may operate at reduced capacity, but officials could not say how much oil would flow.

Source: AP

Zelensky:

Currently, there is a strong proposal from the United States regarding a mutual cessation of strikes on critical infrastructure.

If our American partners can ensure Russia's real willingness to stop this war of destruction and do so truly and in the long term, Ukraine will take its own de-escalation steps.

Peace is needed. Energy, food transportation routes, and critical infrastructure – all of this must be part of the discussion on ending the strikes.

A strong, fair solution is needed, and not just for "elections," but for all time. We are waiting for specifics from our partners.

NEW: IRGC Navy says Supertanker EL GAIA hit a sea mine while attempting to pass through a "prohibited zone" south of the Strait of Hormuz.

Firefighting efforts failed and the entire tanker is engulfed in flames.

IRGC says it had previously warned about the danger of the illegal passage route, and declares Hormuz "remains closed and under our intelligent control."

JD Vance calls Abdul El-Sayed a “clown.”

President Trump privately met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, after Altman requested the meeting. Their discussion focused mainly on AI and its growing capabilities.

Days later, Altman, Elon Musk and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei all called for slowing frontier AI development over safety concerns.

Trump rejected new guardrails, arguing that regulation would hurt U.S. innovation and saying AI only needs “a strong and smart president.”

Source: MS NOW

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

Thank God our Supreme Leader is alive, and he’s doing his job within the same framework.

Since they cannot locate his exact place, they are spreading speculation regarding our Supreme Leader.

The U.S. imposed Iran-related sanctions on Russia’s VTB Bank, accusing it of helping Tehran evade sanctions.

VTB, Russia’s second-largest lender, has already been under U.S. sanctions since 2022.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

Germany once had the most modern nuclear power plants. We were world leaders, and these nuclear power plants produced CO₂-neutral electricity.

They deliberately shut them down; they destroyed them. I call this deliberate technological and machine-smashing.

Mao would have been proud of this federal government.

Turkish President Erdogan on the Mecca Alliance:

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye came together and took a step.

With this step, God willing, we want to send a signal to the Islamic world from here.

There are positive developments.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on Russia:

We have to obtain fossil fuels from wherever natural gas and oil are cheapest — namely, from Russia.

It is in our own security interests as well as our economic interests to have good relations with Russia.

CENTCOM:

The Panama-flagged oil tanker El Gaia was struck by an Iranian missile last month and rendered inoperable. This weekend, Iran struck the tanker again with a drone while the ship sat in waters of the coast of Oman.

The tanker is currently being towed by a regional partner. The IRGC's false claim is yet another example of their lies and intimidation attempts while they try to impede commercial vessels in the strait.

Gavin Newsom tells CNN’s Jake Tapper he won’t run for president in 2028 if Kamala Harris enters the race.

Trump:

The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by “Climate Change.”

That HOAX never worked out for them, and now they’re on to the next one. These people are Revolutionaries, but Revolutionaries for a Bad and Evil Cause.

Soon you’ll find out they’re working for people that do not have the best interests of the United States in mind!

Two fishing boats were struck by U.S. drones near Bandar Kargan in Iran’s Hormozgan province on Monday evening, according to a provincial official.

Several fishermen are missing, and search-and-rescue operations are underway.

Source: Tasnim

Trump:

I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax — That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all!

This is even wilder than the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, or the Global Warming Scam. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang put Trump on speakerphone during the All-In Summit, where Trump dismissed concerns about AI development as a “hoax” and declared that “the robots will not be taking over.”