🇺🇸❌🇮🇱 - 104 US House Representatives voted to cut $3.3 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Israel. The measure, however, was defeated by a vote of 314-104.

In the Democratic Party, 103 voted to cut Israel's aid, 10 abstained and 98 voted against.

In the Republican Party, Thomas Massie, who was recently defeated in an AIPAC funded primary, was the lone supporter of the cut.

Despite the final tally, the vote represents a significant shift within the Democratic Party. A recent poll by NYTimes found that 74% of all Democratic voters oppose additional military and economic aid to Israel.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — NEW: U.S. Central Command says it disabled the Curaçao-flagged tanker M/T Belma as it sailed toward Iran’s Kharg Island earlier today.

➡️ CENTCOM said the unladen vessel ignored repeated warnings before a U.S. aircraft fired Hellfire missiles into its smokestack, stopping it from continuing toward the Iranian port.

🇮🇱❌🇺🇸 — U.S. Vice President JD Vance comments on the Time Magazine leaks, stating that there are entities within the Israeli government funding campaigns against him.

How Iran Is beating Trump at his own game

It was supposed to be Trump's crowning achievement — a memorandum of understanding that would end Iran's nuclear program and bring peace to the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years. Instead, weeks later, the president is downplaying his own deal as a "test" Iran failed and which "didn't mean much” in the first place.

The administration rushed into an MOU with imprecise language, missing what seasoned diplomats immediately saw coming. Iran seized on the vagueness to claim control over the Strait of Hormuz — the very waterway Trump now threatens to toll. In a masterstroke of sarcastic diplomacy, Iran's foreign minister offered a "fairer" price than the "Art of the Deal" president, tweeting: "20% is of course too much. We will be fair."

For all Trump’s military threats, Tehran is still dictating the dynamics of the conflict, using geography and a shrewd understanding of its limited abilities to outmaneuver a superpower.

So why hasn't this exploded into all-out war? For now, both sides are keeping ceilings on escalation. Trump has avoided striking civilian infrastructure, and Iran has calibrated its reprisals. But with daily back-and-forth attacks, the risk of violence spiraling out of control is real.

Five months into a conflict he said he'd already won, Trump still can't answer the only question that matters: How does he get out?

#Trump #Iran #theStraitofHormuz #negotiations

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷- Explosion in Bandar Abbas!

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷- Reports of explosions on Behbahan.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇦🇪 — Iranian media outlets are accusing the United Arab Emirates of carrying out airstrikes in Iran today (so far, there is no official confirmation).

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴 — The Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that
"There are no American bases in Jordan, and there are only American soldiers present."