😭 🇾🇪 The Houthis have strong influence over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which handles about 6 million barrels of oil per day.

If the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is closed, the total disrupted capacity between the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb would approach 25 million barrels per day — roughly 25% of global oil supply, analysts say.

🍃 🇺🇸 The White House has launched the OnlyFarms website.

It presents Trump’s plans to support farmers during difficult financial times.

😭 🇹🇭🇮🇷 Thailand has reached an agreement with Iran allowing Thai oil tankers to safely pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

#️⃣ 🇨🇳 China has showcased a swarm of robots with specialized roles and a shared “brain” to coordinate complex tasks in urban combat.

🏃 🇺🇸🇮🇷 A U.S. F-16 was damaged in the skies over Iran and made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, reports Tasnim.

U.S. Central Command confirmed the landing at one of its Middle Eastern bases.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The war with Iran will last another two to four weeks, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday at a meeting with G7 foreign ministers — Axios.

💩 🇮🇱🇱🇧 An Israeli airstrike destroyed a building in Harouf, southern Lebanon, early this morning.

😮‍💨 Muslim woman “I will leave Islam right now if one person finds me a contradiction in this book” (The Quran).

American gives 5 impossible contradictions, and the post gets over 700,000+ Likes.

She deleted her video and didn’t leave Islam.

💬 🇮🇷 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:

We have said many times that Iran doesn't carry out preemptive attacks, but we will retaliate strongly if our infrastructure or economic centers are targeted.
To the countries of the region:
If you want development and security, don't let our enemies run the war from your lands.

🎨 🇮🇷 “Welcome to Hell” — with this headline, a special issue of the Iranian newspaper Tehran Times was released, dedicated to a possible U.S. ground operation in Iran.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇦🇪🇺🇦 A warehouse of Ukraine’s counter-drone systems, where 21 Ukrainians were present, was destroyed in Dubai, reports Fars, citing the IRGC.

There is no confirmed information about casualties. The agency suggests they likely died. It is also reported that the Ukrainian systems were intended to assist the United States.

#️⃣ 🇱🇧🇮🇱 Ali Shoeib, a well-known reporter for Lebanon's Al-Manar, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon.

Fatima Ftouni from Al-Mayadeen was also killed in the same strike.

💬 🇮🇷🇦🇪🇺🇦 Ukraine denies Iran’s claim that it destroyed a Ukrainian air-defense depot in Dubai.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish Intelligence (MIT) Director İbrahim Kalın:

Of course, Iran's attacks on Gulf countries are unacceptable, but we must never forget who the main actor that started the war is.

Therefore, we must increase the pressure on Israel, focusing on the actor who initiated the war, and strive to prevent this conflict from turning into a regional war and a global crisis.

💬 🇮🇷 Iranian President Pezeshkian:

We have been attacked twice during negotiations, and now we are witnessing targeting of energy infrastructure despite Washington’s promises.

Bombing infrastructure and assassinating Iranian figures show that the aggressors cannot be trusted.

💬 🇮🇷 Iranian President Pezeshkian:

It is unfortunate that the territories of some Muslim countries are being used to attack Iran.

The Zionist entity intends to expand the war to countries in the region, and these countries must be cautious.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance on Iran:

We are not interested in being in Iran a year down the road, two years down the road.

We are taking care of business, we are going to be out of there soon, and gas prices will come back down.