💬 🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

We currently have no negotiations with America. Yes, messages are being exchanged through intermediaries.

This is not called "negotiation," it's an "exchange of messages."

Intermediaries are still trying to create the grounds for negotiations again. In our view, until the violations of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) are over and America compensates for what it has violated in the MoU, the possibility of starting negotiations again does not exist.

🌫 Houthis launched ballistic missiles and drones at Yemen’s Al-Mukha Port, causing fires and heavy smoke.

Reports indicate strikes inside the port, potentially targeting Saudi-backed military logistics.

💢 🇨🇳 CHINESE SCIENTISTS HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW LASER SYSTEM DESIGNED TO KILL MOSQUITOES.

The system uses radar to detect insects in the air, then targets them with a laser beam.

According to the developers, the technology can quickly eliminate mosquitoes across a specific area without using chemical pesticides.

#️⃣ 🇧🇷 BRAZILIAN FOOTBALLER FLEW INTO AN UNDERGROUND TUNNEL WHILE CELEBRATING A GOAL.

A defender for local club Coritiba jumped over an advertising board after scoring and accidentally fell into an underground tunnel.

He injured his leg and had to be substituted. To make matters worse, the goal was disallowed for offside.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 FIRST FOOTAGE OF IRAN'S NEW LEADER, MOJTABA KHAMENEI, HAS EMERGED FOLLOWING THE U.S. STRIKE THAT KILLED HIS FATHER, ALI KHAMENEI.

The footage was published by Mehr News Agency.

Earlier, U.S. media reported that Khamenei was reportedly in critical condition, which was cited as a reason for his absence from public appearances.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei has been appointed as the Supreme Leader’s representative to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

- ISNA

💬 🇮🇱 Netanyahu:

Israel rejects the 15-point Gaza document of the Board of Peace.

The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal whatsoever until Hamas is "genuinely disarmed."

💬 🇮🇱 Netanyahu:

I want to make the main point clear: as long as I am Prime Minister, there will be no Palestinian state — not in Gaza and not in the West Bank.

Not under Fatah and not under Hamas.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 Trump had hoped reopening the Strait of Hormuz would give him a way to declare victory and wind down the Iran conflict, even without a nuclear deal. But Tehran has sharply raised its demands.

Iran wants U.S. forces withdrawn from the region, the naval blockade lifted, sanctions removed, frozen assets released, and billions in war reparations before fully reopening the strait.

That leaves Trump with fewer options. Iran appears to believe Washington is eager for an exit and is using its ability to disrupt Hormuz—and global oil flows—as leverage.

With U.S. gasoline prices around $4 a gallon and midterm elections approaching, Trump has strong incentives to secure a deal.

- WSJ

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iranian officials say footage will soon show Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in public and meeting military commanders.

Khamenei has not been publicly seen since taking power in March, fueling speculation about his health after reportedly suffering facial injuries in the February 28 strike that killed his father.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 ELON MUSK HAS LOST $513 BILLION OF HIS FORTUNE OVER THE PAST 53 DAYS.

#️⃣ Michael Saylor hints Strategy may be buying more $BTC.

His message was simple: "Doing ₿usiness."

Strategy currently holds 842,138 $BTC worth $54.66 BILLION at an average cost of $75,653.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 Trump said the U.S. is “low keying it” with Iran and is only “semi-negotiating” while watching the country’s worsening economic situation.

He said Iran is “in very bad shape” and has little money to pay its troops.

“It will work out. It always works out. It’s like a chess game,” Trump said.

- Axios

#️⃣ HARRY POTTER ACTRESS MADE MORE MONEY ON ONLYFANS IN ONE YEAR THAN DURING HER ENTIRE ACTING CAREER.

Jessie Cave, who played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter films, reportedly earns up to $20,000 a day on the platform.

She says her content mainly involves brushing and styling her hair, creating different hairstyles at subscribers' requests, and wearing various costumes on camera.

According to Cave, she didn't earn as much in 19 years of acting as she made in just one year on OnlyFans.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 MARK ZUCKERBERG SPARRED WITH MERAB DVALISHVILI ON A FLOATING PLATFORM.

The training video racked up more than 8 million views in just two hours.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 The White House isn’t bothered by Netanyahu rejecting Trump’s Gaza plan, seeing it as election politics.

A US official said, “We understand Bibi’s political needs. We have no problem with it as long as he continues to do what we ask”—especially keeping attacks restrained.

Israel has since stopped attacks and is moving back from the Yellow Line, while the US and mediators are pressing Hamas to disarm.

- Axios

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says he held a 7–8 hour meeting with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

Pezeshkian described it as "very productive" and said they discussed the country's affairs.

No photos or video of the meeting itself have been released.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran's Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ayatollah Sayyid Mojtaba Khamenei has appointed several senior military commanders.

— Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

— Amir Kiumars Heydari as Deputy Chief of the General Staff.

— Maj. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as Commander of the IRGC.

— Maj. Gen. Mostafa Izadi as Deputy Commander of the IRGC.

— Hojjat al-Islam Ta'eb as Head of the Basij Organization of the Oppressed.

🥺 🇺🇸 U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude stocks fell below 300 million barrels to 298.7 million, their lowest level since 1983.