🇨🇳✍️🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - Chinese vice premier He Lifeng and US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent are in Paris today for the final round of trade negotiation before the watershed Trump-Xi Summit at the end of March.

China dominance in rare earth processing could represent a major leverage as the US embroiled itself in the war in Iran.

🇮🇷🛢🛳 - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi via CBS: Iran 'have been approached by a number of countries who wants to have a safe passage or their vessels'. Araghchi also said the final decision on the matter rests with the Iranian military.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 - Hezbollah published footage of the targeting of IDF Infantry units entrenched in a newly established fortification in southern Lebanon using a "9M133-1 (KORNET)" ATGM.

🛰 MizarVizion released satellite images showing the locations of the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln.

The USS Gerald R. Ford moved further south, but remained in the Central Red Sea off the coast of Jeddah, far outside the range of Houthi missiles.

The USS Abraham Lincoln meanwhile retreated to the southwestern part of Oman, off the coast of Salalah, putting more than 1.100 km (~720 miles) between it and Iran after one of the Abraham Lincoln's escorts was attacked by Iranian gunboats earlier this week.

The USS Abraham Lincoln was at the beginning of the week, less than 350km (~218 miles) off Iran's coast.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - Overnight, the USAF had deployed 10 new "F-35A" Stealth Fighter Jets from the United States to the United Kingdom's "RAF Lakenheath" Airbase, to participate in Operation "Epic Fury".

⚡️🇱🇧🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 - Hezbollah has announced the targeting of an IDF "D9 Caterpillar" Bulldozer in southern Lebanon's 'Taybeh' using an ATGM at 14:00 today.

⚡️🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 - The IRGC in an issued statement:

Does Trump not claim to have destroyed the Iranian navy? If so, let him dare to bring his warships into the Persian Gulf region.