OSINTdefender
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz appears to be increasing despite Iranian announcements attempting to regulate passage.

MarineTraffic data shows at least 50 vessels transited the strait over the past 24 hours, with 39 utilizing the U.S.-recommended traffic separation scheme through Omani waters.

The actual number is likely higher, as some vessels continue to transit with their AIS transponders switched off and are not publicly visible.

For comparison, 130+ vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on an average day before the conflict.
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Open Source Intel
Strait of Hormuz traffic is climbing back despite Tehran's efforts to control passage. MarineTraffic tracked 50 vessels over the last 24 hours, 39 of them routed through Omani waters on the U.S.-recommended lane. Ships running with transponders off push the real number higher. Normal pre-conflict volume exceeded 130 daily transits.
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OSINTdefender
RT @sentdefender: Utter devastation seen across the Northern Venezuelan coastal city of La Guaira, following tonight’s pair of major earthquakes, measuring 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude with an epicenter just to the west of Caracas. https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/2069950467782627780/video/1
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Nuno Felix
Israeli lobbying firm known as @FDD doing their best to collapse the Agreement

Are we already providing financial relief to Iran before we get all the nuclear concessions? The honest answer is yes, unless that wasn’t the President’s intent and he tells Secretary Bessent to revise General License X to require escrow accounts. https://twitter.com/rich_goldberg/status/2069796251919380769/video/1 - Richard Goldberg
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Open Source Intel
CENTCOM: “F-35 fighter jets take off and land aboard USS Tripoli (LHA 7), the flagship for the Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group/31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. U.S. Sailors and Marines are operating in the Arabian Sea.” https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2070129922308202955/video/1
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Open Source Intel
Rubio says U.S. search and rescue teams from Fairfax County and Los Angeles are deploying to Venezuela after widespread building collapses. The damaged airport will require Department of War assets for access, and the U.S. is providing overhead imagery of coastal areas with limited visibility.

Qatar, El Salvador, Chile, and others have offered support. Rubio said the 48-72 hour priority is reaching people trapped under rubble. Longer-term needs - housing, telecommunications, managing a surge in private U.S. donations - will be assessed once teams are on the ground.
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Open Source Intel
Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told Iranian counterpart Araghchi that Rome never authorized its bases to be used for launching a war against Iran.
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Visioner
RT @NSTRIKE1231: ❗️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries and military sites around Moscow are supported by US intelligence, with Western allies urging Washington to continue supplies.

🔹 Ukrainian high-ranking officials told the publication that they see signs that Trump is beginning to strengthen support for Kyiv and may be more ready to exert pressure on Russia to end the war.
Video is generated by grok AI
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Open Source Intel
U.S. Embassy in Yemen condemned the killing of an Al Arabiya journalist, called for perpetrators to be punished.
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Nuno Felix
RT @BrettErickson28: Right now, there is significant debate taking place in the public sphere as to whether or not the United States should add an escrow account mechanism to General License X, which unsanctioned Iranian oil and petrochemical sales. This, if implemented, would allow the United States to have complete control over the funds from these sales. That's good, right?

Let me break down in the most SIMPLE manner why it's utterly insane.

Put quite simply, this would make zero sense whatsoever for Iran to agree to. It would be actively DETRIMENTAL to their positioning, and would turn a benefit for Iran into a benefit for the United States. It would make no sense for Iran to sell their oil into these escrow accounts instead of the alternative, which would be selling oil to China at what is currently a very small discount and RETAINING full control of the revenues.

Why on Earth would Iran WILLINGLY choose to hand over control of their oil revenues to the United States when the alternative is... not?

The other aspect to this, and what it TRULY taking place by Maleki and Goldberg at FDD, is that there is a major push right now for the United States to retroactively alter the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding. We see this with the push for an escrow account mechanism to be added after the fact to General License X, and we see it with the push to demand US-Only purchases with the release of frozen assets to Iran.

Here is the reality FDD is intellectually incapable of grasping: IRAN WON THE WAR.

They get to dictate the terms. If we do not agree to those terms, Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz.

It's. That. Simple.

This framing (Iran oil license means more visibility through formal channels) is fundamentally misleading, and misinformed on both banking reality and Iran’s incentives. If you want both visibility and leverage over how Iran spends oil revenue, you need an escrow/blocked‑account structure — exactly what Treasury used in the Venezuela oil license. Anything else is wishful thinking dressed up as sophistication.

On banks being “stringent”: You can’t seriously claim that global banks are so risk‑averse that misuse is “highly unlikely,” and in the same breath suggest they’ll jump into Iranian oil under a 60‑day waiver with terrorism‑designated counterparties. Those two statements cannot both be true. No serious compliance practitioner is green‑lighting exposure to Iranian oil proceeds on that basis.

What GL‑X actually does financially: Without any escrow or blocked‑account structure, GL‑X is not onboarding new, clean banks into Iran business — it is turbo‑charging the existing evasion and black market ecosystem. Chinese state refiners already taking Iranian crude now have greater comfort and smaller banks involved more comfortable clearing proceeds in local currencies or non‑dollar units, with far less fear that their dollar correspondents will punish them later. The shadow pipes (hawaladars, fronts, opaque traders) will not operate freely under a de facto non‑enforcement umbrella.

On “deterrence”: By statute and budget, roughly one‑third of Iran’s oil revenues are earmarked to the armed forces and IRGC via the Ministry of Petroleum. That’s not a hypothetical misuse scenario the U.S. might one day detect but is the baseline distribution baked into Iran’s system from day one. The threat to cancel GL‑X later is not a meaningful constraint on a regime that is being paid up front. - Miad Maleki
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OSINTdefender
The Pentagon announced Wednesday that basic trainings for all military services will once again require the flu vaccination for all recruits after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the shot optional for the military at the end of April, this follows a several weekslong flu outbreak at the basic training base for the U.S. Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
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Open Source Intel
Abelardo de la Espriella, endorsed by Trump, wins Colombia's presidency in a razor-thin vote over left-wing candidate Ivan Cepeda. https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2070137633888448667/photo/1
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Open Source Intel
Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting has been blocked by a federal judge.
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WarTranslated
In Russia's Penza region, men are being mobilized straight from factories. Putin is urgently gathering an army at every turn, so that Russians have the opportunity to die "for the leader and ideology." https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/2070139800787509418/video/1
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Michael A. Horowitz
RT @AlMajallaAR: الحل السوري لـ"حزب الله"... ضبط الحدود والتعاون مع أميركا

📌 #قصة_غلاف_المجلة هذا الأسبوع تأتي على وقع تكرار قول الرئيس الأميركي دونالد #ترمب إنه تحدث مع الرئيس #أحمد_الشرع عن دور سوري محتمل في نزع سلاح "الحزب"

📌 بين ضغط واشنطن وحسابات بيروت ودمشق، يتبلور ما يمكن وصفه بـ"الحل السوري" لـ"حزب الله"؛ ليس تدخلاً عسكرياً مباشراً، بل ضبط للحدود، وتعاون أمني واستخباراتي، ودعم سياسي للدولة اللبنانية، مع احتمال بقاء الخيار العسكري المحدود في الخلفية كأكثر السيناريوهات خطورة

🔍 كيف تساعد #سوريا في تفكيك قوة "#حزب_الله" من دون أن تعود إلى #لبنان؟

🔍 وما موقف الأطراف اللبنانية؟ وما مواقف #إسرائيل وأنقرة حليفة دمشق ومواقف الدول العربية الفاعلة؟

♦️ في هذا العدد، يتناول كتّاب "#المجلة" هذا الملف من زوايا متعددة 👇

1- العودة إلى لبنان... هل تتجرع سوريا "الكأس المر"؟

✍️إيلي القصيفي @eliekossaifi

🔗https://www.majalla.com/node/331730/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%87%D9%84-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%B9-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A3%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%9F

2- سوريا ولبنان... ثلاثة سيناريوهات لنزع سلاح "حزب الله"

✍️صبحي فرنجية @SubhiFranjieh

🔗https://www.majalla.com/node/331733/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%A9-%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%B9-%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD-%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87

3- كيف تنظر #تركيا لمقترح ترمب بشأن سوريا ولبنان؟

✍️عمر اونهون

🔗https://www.majalla.com/node/331734/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AD-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D8%B4%D8%A3%D9%86-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%9F

4- المشهد من إسرائيل... لماذا قد تنقلب مناورة ترمب السورية - اللبنانية عليه؟

✍️مايكل هوروفيتز @michaelh992

🔗https://www.majalla.com/node/331732/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A9/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%A7-%D9%82%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%9F
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Open Source Intel
Ansar Allah leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi:

"We will take the initiative at any time to target any Israeli enemy presence in Somali territory, and we urge the countries bordering the Red Sea to take a common stance regarding the Israeli enemy’s activity, and we will not stand idly by in the face of any Israeli presence in Somali territory"
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Open Source Intel
Rescue operations underway in Venezuela following massive earthquakes. https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2070147923413750223/video/1
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WarTranslated
US Secretary of State Rubio: There was no agreement between the US and Russia in Alaska - there was only a proposal made regarding Ukraine in Alaska. It was never an agreement.
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