🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 — Hebrew media sources report a serious security incident in southern Lebanon. IDF military censorship imposed.

🇮🇷❌⚓️ — UKMTO has received a report indicating a projectile impacted a vessel eleven nautical miles east of Khawr Fakkan, UAE. The ship is on fire.

🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Resigned counter-terrorism director Joe Kent says that the real imminent threat came from Israel, which was planning to strike Iran first, putting U.S. soldiers in harm’s way, which ultimately forced the United States to carry out a preemptive attack on Iran.

🇮🇱🇺🇸☢️🇮🇷 If the United States and Israel continue striking the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, radiation could threaten the entire Middle East.

Dubai and the United Arab Emirates would be at risk of radioactive contamination.

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🇺🇸❌🇨🇺🤝🇷🇺 — Financial Times reports that two Russian ships carrying oil and gas are on their way to Cuba, despite US pressures and sanctions under Trump's administration.

➡️These shipments come at a time when Cuba is facing a severe energy crisis, as evidenced by recent nationwide power outages and months-long fuel supply disruptions.

➡️This additional supply may help alleviate the shortages that have disrupted hospitals, transportation, and daily life.

🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 - IRGC Missiles targeting central Israel.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — Red alerts in Tel Aviv and its surroundings.

🇮🇷❌🇸🇦 - NASA Fire Anomaly data shows burning at the Saudi Arabia oil export terminal of Yanbu. This is consistent with an earlier claim by Iran of attacks on the facility.

Yanbu, located in Saudi Red Sea coast, is the kingdom only operational oil export terminal. It is currently offloading 4 million barrel per day.

The Yanbu infrastructure is partially financed by China in a joint project with Saudi Arabia.

🇮🇷❌🇰🇼- Kuwait is battling uncontrollable fires at the ports of Mina Al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah refineries after they were targeted by Iran.

Mina Al-Ahmadi & Mina Abdullah are Kuwait’s main oil refineries, producing 800,000 barrels a day.

🇮🇷❌🇶🇦- The aftermath at Ras Laffan in Qatar after Iranian strikes.

The LNG plant is mostly on fire it is highly unlikely to be put out anytime soon.

🇮🇷❌🇪🇺📈 - European gas price is up 30% overnight as the damage in Qatari gas facilities are being assessed. A heavy damage scenario would means the Qatari LNG facilities staying offline for months if not years.

Europe relies on Qatar for a sizable portion of its gas import as it distances itself from Russian pipeline gas. The situation is exacerbated by Europe record low gas storage level at the onset of the crisis.

🇦🇪🤝🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - UAE reaffirmed its commitment to invest $1.4 trillion in the United States despite the conflict in Iran. Policymakers remain steadfast in building deeper ties with the US, despite the Emirates bearing the brunt of Iranian missile attacks.

UAE ambassador to the US also added “This is not a war we wanted, and we worked intensely to avoid it. But even as we held hope and pursued de-escalation, we also knew a war could someday come.”

UAE is well positioned to recover from the conflict, having stashed away more than $2 trillion in its sovereign wealth funds.

🇪🇬- Egypt is introducing energy rationing measures shops and malls are forced to close at 9pm on weekdays and 10 pm on weekends, aswell as reduced street lighting, and possible remote work to cope with soaring fuel costs caused by the Iran war.

Gas import costs jumped from $560M to $1.65B/month, that’s more than double forcing rationing throughout the country.