🇾🇪🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️ — Houthi naval blockade forces Saudi crude tankers to turn back in the Red Sea, Reuters reports.

➡️ Two tankers carrying Saudi crude — one bound for China, one for India — reversed course toward Suez after Houthis warned ships not to load or discharge at Saudi ports.

➡️ A third tanker turned back before even reaching Yanbu to load.

➡️ Rerouting via Suez adds weeks to Asia-bound shipments.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: Israel assesses that Iran moved advanced centrifuges and enriched uranium to a fortified underground facility south of Tehran following the June 2025 war, CNN reports.

➡️ The site — known as Pickaxe Mountain, near Natanz — was already under Israeli intelligence monitoring as a key nuclear facility; its deep underground position made it difficult to strike.

➡️ Iran holds approximately 440 kg of highly enriched uranium; Israel believes a portion was relocated to Pickaxe Mountain.

➡️ Construction and activity at the site increased after the 12-day war, during which the US struck Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan — but not Pickaxe Mountain.

➡️ Iran has also reportedly collapsed tunnels and booby-trapped tunnel entrances with explosive mines to seal off its uranium cache.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The Pentagon stopped counting the wounded. Today Hegseth has to explain why.

The Defense Secretary heads to Capitol Hill this afternoon to defend a five-month war that’s now costing tens of billions, and lawmakers, including his own party, want answers he may not want to give. The Trump administration is asking Congress for a fresh supplemental to keep the fight with Iran going, but several Republicans say they still haven’t been told the basics: what the military actually needs, and how much capacity it has left.

The harder questions are about blood and transparency. CENTCOM has quietly stopped reporting non-fatal attacks, leaving the count to a military website that’s fallen behind, and the Pentagon now admits nearly 100 service members have been wounded since July 7. Three US troops were killed over the weekend, the first American deaths from Iranian strikes since March.

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🇮🇷❌🇰🇼 — WATCH: Impacts reported in Kuwait on the latest Iranian attack.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The Pentagon is rapidly exhausting its budget because of the war with Iran, as funding for some key spending categories could run out within weeks, The Washington Post reported.

▶️According to the newspaper’s sources, the Department of War has been forced to cut back on training to maintain combat readiness. The US Navy and Air Force could exhaust funding allocated for several budget items by the end of July, WP wrote.

▶️In recent weeks, the Pentagon asked Congress for permission to reallocate $4.3 billion from training and weapons procurement to “more urgent priorities” and is awaiting a response.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Trump on Iran: "Honestly, they haven't seen anything yet. We've been nice. I don't believe they could ever rebuild."

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🇾🇪🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️ — The Gulf found a way around Hormuz. The Houthis just closed it.

Oil hit $90 a barrel today, and the reason tells you how boxed in the region really is. When the Strait of Hormuz became a warzone, Saudi Arabia rerouted its exports south, pushing up to 4 million barrels a day through its Red Sea port at Yanbu to avoid the fighting. It worked, until now.

The Houthis are threatening to seal off Bab al-Mandeb, the southern chokepoint where about 2.5 million barrels of Saudi oil pass every day. That leaves Riyadh squeezed at both ends, with Hormuz dangerous to the east and the Red Sea escape route now under threat to the south. Brent is up nearly $20 this month, and the IEA is warning it only gets worse from here unless Hormuz reopens.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Trump on Iran: "If we left right now, it would take Iran 20 to 25 years to rebuild. We're not finished at all. We are not leaving right now."

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Trump on Iran: "Nobody knows, except the Iranians, the damage that we have done to them. If we left tomorrow, we would have had a big success. But we're not leaving tomorrow."

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Trump on the Iranian strike that killed two U.S. soldiers in Jordan: "They did slip something through. If we had other operators, that wouldn't have happened. When you let other people do your job, it sometimes doesn't work so well."

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Strikes by "Geran-4" kamikaze drones on ships heading to ports in the Odesa region, and on a cargo ship in the port of Nikolaev.

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🇲🇦🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️ — Morocco will train soldiers of the International Stabilization Forces (ISF), which are planned to operate in the Gaza Strip as part of the peace plan proposed by Trump.

▶️ Representatives of the command based in Kfar Ga'at are in Rabat this week to plan the training for the deployment.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Geran drone crews destroyed two logistics hubs in Zaporozhye that were operating in support of the Ukrainian military.

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🇨🇦🌞⚡️ — Canadian company ShaMaran Petroleum has announced the suspension of oil production at its fields in the Duhok province, located in Iraqi Kurdistan, due to heightened tensions in the region.

▶️The company stated that production has been temporarily halted to ensure the safety of employees, and that resumption of operations will depend on an improvement in the security situation at the fields.

▶️ This decision was made in response to increased security risks in Iraqi Kurdistan in recent days and attacks on oil infrastructure facilities. The timeline for the production suspension has not yet been announced.

▶️ The fields operated by ShaMaran Petroleum are among the key ones in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the production halt could affect oil exports in the region.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — Ukrainian media report that General Syrskyi has been dismissed. There is no official confirmation yet; Zelensky will soon make a statement to the media.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Explosions were heard in the Odesa region. Another ship is on fire near Zatoka.

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🇵🇱🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — "Polish Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that the Russian Armed Forces have access to a large number of drones used by the Kiev regime, which creates a risk of provocations and operations conducted "under a false flag." This issue will be discussed tomorrow at a meeting of the Polish Council of Ministers."

Therefore, it is necessary to strike at Rzeszów with Russian-made Geran drones, as the Ukrainians also have many drones used by Russia. In the meantime, the largest hub for weapons flowing to Ukraine will burn down, and it is unclear who will set it on fire.

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