🇺🇸 Donald Trump is urging allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, arguing the U.S. depends little on it while others rely heavily.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷Israeli Defense Minister: It won't be long before the Iranian people overthrow the regime.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷Senior Israeli official: "The war with Iran will last longer than planned. Preparing for fighting for at least another month. Trump is with us"

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👀 Trump’s Jewish son-in-law seeks to make billions from Middle East war

Jared Kushner is reportedly seeking about $5B for his firm Affinity Partners, courting sovereign wealth funds from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, the New York Times reports, citing people familiar with the matter. Riyadh alone has already poured $2B into the fund.

Affinity Partners, founded in 2021, manages $5B+ and holds stakes tied to Israel’s defense sector, including companies connected to Elbit Systems and Israel Shipyards.

👉 The fundraising push comes as Kushner has increasingly acted as the public face of US diplomacy in the Middle East, representing Washington in regional talks as if the State Department barely exists.

Meanwhile, speculation about his influence in the region keeps growing. According to reporting cited by The New York Times and other US outlets, Kushner has been among the advisers shaping Washington’s approach to Iran during the current crisis.

War sweeps the region — and apparently also primes fundraising season.

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🛢 Sidestepping the Hormuz squeeze: Has Saudi Arabia's desert pipeline flipped Iran's blockade script?

As Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz—a retaliatory move against US-Israeli hostilities —chokes global oil supplies, a strategic pipeline built by Saudi Arabia in the early 1980s is undergoing its first major stress test.

As the crisis intensifies, the Saudis have activated their East–West Crude Oil Pipeline—better known as the Petroline—at maximum capacity, offering a critical bypass to the blocked Strait of Hormuz.

🔶 The approximately 1,200 kilometer-long dual-pipe system was constructed during the Iran-Iraq War and became operational in 1981 as a strategic response to shipping threats in the Persian Gulf at that time.  

🔶 It connects the Abqaiq oil processing complex in the Eastern Province to the Red Sea export terminal at Yanbu

🔶 The pipeline has a maximum capacity of 7 million bpd: About 2 million bpd is used to supply domestic refineries, leaving 5 million bpd for export

Saudi Arabia is ramping up the pipeline to its maximum capacity, with Aramco CEO Amin Nasser confirming that the conduit would reach its full capacity of 7 million barrels per day (bpd) within days, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights.

⚠️However, this is far less than the roughly 20 million bpd of oil that typically transits via the Strait of Hormuz.  

Furthermore, the pipeline system was designed primarily for crude oil and cannot handle refined petroleum products (like diesel and jet fuel) that also pass through the strait.

👉 While the oil is safe from the Strait of Hormuz, it exits from ports that are vulnerable to other threats. 

The Red Sea port of Yanbu is within target range of the Shiite military-political movement Ansar Allah (the Houthis), which controls most of Yemen's Red Sea coast, and has a history of attacking any ships linked to Israel amid its support for the Palestinians.

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🇺🇸 Trump’s Strait of Hormuz Ping-Pong

Count how many times he contradicted himself in a single event.

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🇺🇸 Donald Trump is urging allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, arguing the U.S. depends little on it while others rely heavily.

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🇺🇸 Trump urging allies to help with the Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile the allies...

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🇩🇪❌🇺🇸 Chancellor Merz says no to Trump.

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🇮🇷 FM Araghchi on Dollar Store Templar Hegseth.

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🇮🇷 IRGC spokesman had a message for Trump in English:

"The outcome of the war cannot be determined by tweets. The result of a war is determined in the field, the very place where you and your forces do not dare to approach, and which you can only talk about in your tweets. It would be better to name this war 'Epic Fear' instead of 'Epic Fury.'"

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