🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The US is considering occupying or blockading Iran’s Kharg Island (sources to Axios)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel’s military says that it is carrying out strikes along the coast of the Caspian Sea in Nur, Iran.

🇫🇷🇮🇶 — French prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a jihadist charged with the Yazidi genocide (AFP)

🇫🇷🇷🇺 — French maritime authorities report that they have seized tanker from Russia in the Mediterranean Sea.

🇦🇿🇮🇷🇷🇺 — Russia’s emergency situations ministry says that it sent humanitarian aid to Iran via Azerbaijan.

🇮🇶 — NATO confirms that it is adjusting the structure of its mission in Iraq due to regional tensions.

🇨🇳🇲🇴 — Lawmakers in Chinese-ruled Macau passed a law allowing closed-door trials for national security reasons (AP)

🇫🇷🇮🇷 — France’s foreign minister warns that there is “no obvious short-term way out” of the conflict in Iran.

🇦🇫🇮🇷🇵🇰 — Iran’s supreme leader calls on Afghanistan and Pakistan to improve their ties and offer his mediation.

🇹🇩🇭🇹 — Senior Chadian officials say that the country will deploy 800 police officers to fight gangs in Haiti (Reuters)

🇨🇭 — Switzerland’s government pledges to bolster the country’s ground-based air defenses with European systems.

🇧🇫 — Over 50% of the deaths attributed to terrorism in 2025 occurred in the Sahel, with Burkina Faso as the epicenter (IEP)

🇮🇷🇺🇸 — The White House says that the US can “take out” Iran’s Kharg Island at “any time.”

🇮🇶 — Sources with Iraq’s oil ministry say that force majeure is declared on all oilfields developed by foreign firms (Reuters)

🇮🇷🇺🇦 — Ukraine’s president says that his country is helping five Middle Eastern nations fend off Iranian drones.

🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇸 — Officials say that Danish forces were ready to blow up runways in Greenland to prevent an invasion by the US (DR)

🇮🇹🇱🇾🇷🇺 — Italian officials say that a drifting damaged Russian LNG tanker is days away from Libya’s shores.

🇰🇼 — Kuwait’s military says that its air defenses are intercepting hostile missiles and drones.

🇩🇪🇳🇪 — Germany’s embassy in Niamey says that its staff has been evacuated from Niger for security reasons.

🇮🇷🇹🇯 — Tajikistan’s government confirms that humanitarian aid will soon reach “friendly and brotherly” Iran.

🇮🇷 — Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has blocked 30% of global fertilizer trade (Bloomberg)