💬 🇨🇳 Chinese Foreign Ministry:

The root cause for disruptions to the passage through the Strait of Hormuz is the illegal US-Israeli military operations against Iran.

💬 🇺🇦🇮🇷 Zelensky on Iran:

We went through difficult relations with Iran... We didn't do anything to them. They shot down our plane, killed our passengers, the crew of the plane. People died. They did not admit it. They did not let the experts in.

Then the full-scale war started. They handed over the Shahed drones to the Russians and were killing our civilians.

I wanted to stop all that. I asked them. They promised that there would be no more than one batch of drones and they carried on lying and giving weapons.

That's why I think of them as accomplices of Russia.

#️⃣ 🇯🇴 Jordan’s Parliament Speaker called for reviving a joint Arab defense and economic pact to counter Iran, accusing Tehran of regional ambitions.

He warned Iran is seeking to revive the “Persian Empire” and is “inciting Shiite populations” across Arab states.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 President Trump to TIME Magazine:

Israel will do what I tell them. They've been a good team player. They'll stop when I stop.

They'll stop unless they're provoked, in which case, they'll have no choice, but they'll stop when I stop.

#️⃣ 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇫🇷 Russia, China, and France are blocking a UN plan to authorize force in the Strait of Hormuz. Gulf Arab states want stronger action.

The three powers oppose broad “use of force” language, making passage unlikely.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 US intelligence says Iran still has major military capability despite ongoing strikes.

About half of its missile launchers remain intact, along with thousands of drones and many coastal cruise missiles.

These systems—often hidden underground—are hard to destroy and still pose a threat across the region.

#️⃣ 🇦🇪🇮🇷 Dubai authorities have denied the IRGC’s claim of an attack on the $ORCL Oracle data center.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 TRUMP: The United States has “never been better economically prepared” to confront the threat from Iran.

💬 🇺🇸 Jesse Watters: Who was Epstein spying for?

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche: I don’t know that he was spying for anybody. Nobody’s ever said that.

#️⃣ 🇰🇼 Kuwait says one of its power and water desalination plants was attacked earlier today, causing material damage.

💬 🇫🇷 French President Macron:

Our objective is not to be the vassals of two dominant powers.

We don’t want to depend on the dominance of China, and we don’t want to be too much exposed to the unpredictability of the US.

💬 🇫🇷 French President Macron:

There is room, a space, to build new cooperation between Korea and France, in order to have such an agenda shared by Korea and France, and bringing with us other Europeans, Canada, Japan, India, Brazil, and Australia.

You start having a sort of third way — those who don’t want to be dependent on China or aligned by definition with the US.

💬 🇫🇷 French President Macron:

Iran is a very bad regime — no discussion about that. I disagree with them on a lot of topics.

But I don’t believe that we will fix the situation just by bombings or by military operations.

Look at what happened with this type of operation in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya — we never delivered. Never. Even after 20 years.

So you have to respect the sovereignty of people. If people want to change a regime, they want to react, step up, they can do so.

💬 🇫🇷 French President Macron:

We do not consider climate change a crazy idea; it is based on science, it does exist, and it needs to be fixed.

💡 🇮🇷 Iran's Tasnim claims a U.S. pilot ejected after F-15E jet was downed in Iran and may have been captured by Iranian forces, though details remain unconfirmed.

💬 🇺🇦 Zelensky:

If we are involved in unblocking the Strait of Hormuz, we will consider the proposal and help.

We have important experience from reopening the Black Sea corridor.

It’s not just about unblocking, but maintaining security and clear rules.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Armed tribesmen and villagers in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad are searching for possible U.S. forces after reports of a rescue attempt, patrolling mountains and rural areas.

😭 🇯🇵 A Japanese LNG tanker has safely passed through the Strait of Hormuz.

It is the first Japanese vessel to do so since the war began.

#️⃣ 🇦🇪 ABU DHABI HAS SUSPENDED OPERATIONS AT ITS LARGEST GAS PROCESSING COMPLEX AFTER DEBRIS FROM AN IRANIAN MISSILE FELL ON IT.

The Habshan gas complex has now halted operations for the second time since the escalation of the Middle East conflict.

The facility processes gas for domestic use in the UAE and also serves as the starting point of an oil pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.

#️⃣ 🇺🇦🇺🇸 THE U.S. DRAFT BUDGET FOR 2027 PREPARED BY THE WHITE HOUSE DOES NOT INCLUDE PROVISIONS FOR MILITARY, FINANCIAL, OR OTHER SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE.

#️⃣ 🇮🇱 Israeli Channel 12 claims that one of the crew members of the U.S. F-15E jet downed in Iran has been successfully rescued.