🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — NEW: VP Vance accuses Israel of funding a campaign to derail US-Iran nuclear negotiations.

➡️ "You have seen this very discreet, extremely well-funded campaign to try to derail the negotiation and try to derail the deal," Vance said on the Joe Rogan podcast.
➡️ Vance alleged the effort is linked to individuals paid by a former Trump campaign operative who was himself funded by elements within the Israeli government.
➡️ No immediate response from Israeli officials.

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🇮🇷🇾🇪🇺🇸⚡️ — BREAKING: Iran has asked the Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea shipping route if the US strikes Iranian power infrastructure, Reuters reports, citing three sources.

➡️ The request has been discussed within Iran's leadership and conveyed to the Houthis recently, per two senior Iranian sources and one regional source familiar with the matter.

➡️ A source close to the Houthis says the group has deployed missiles and drones near the Bab el-Mandeb strait and is awaiting an order to begin attacking shipping.

➡️ IRGC representatives already in Yemen will control the decision on when to move on the strait, the same source said.

➡️ With the Strait of Hormuz already shut, simultaneous Houthi action in the Red Sea would disrupt both of the Middle East's main oil export routes — the waterway currently carries around 7% of global energy supplies, including 70% of Saudi Arabia's energy exports routed via Yanbu.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered mandatory annual testosterone deficiency screening for all US service members over 30 including women, with treatment available if recommended.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — Former Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov claims that he had a personal conflict with Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi, who gave him an ultimatum that he could not accept.

▶️ Fedorov also says that he valued Zelensky more than anyone else and is disappointed that the president did not support him in the conflict with Syrskyi.

After Fedorov's dismissal, protests broke out in Ukraine.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — 5x explosions reported in Bandar Abbas, Iran.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Two projectiles struck Semnan Airport at 03:15 local time, according to the Semnan provincial governor.

➡️ No casualties reported; damage described as limited to peripheral sections of the airport.
➡️ Semnan Province is located in north-central Iran, approximately 200km east of Tehran.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Destroyed Ukrposhta branch in Kramatorsk.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — A new Pew Research Center poll of 42,151 people across 36 countries finds China now viewed more favorably than the US globally — the first time in roughly 20 years of Pew polling this has occurred.

➡️ More respondents expressed confidence in Xi Jinping than in Trump; the US leads in favorability in only six surveyed countries, including India, Japan, and South Korea.

➡️ US favorability in Canada has dropped from 57% in 2023 to 33% this year, while China's rose from 14% to 44%; similar shifts were recorded across France, Germany, and the UK.

➡️ Among middle-income countries, 75% say the US interferes in other nations' affairs vs. 45% who say the same of China.

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🇵🇰🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: Pakistan reaffirms its mediation role between the US and Iran while warning it will side with Saudi Arabia if called upon, Reuters reports.

➡️ Foreign ministry spokesman Tahir Andrabi called on "all parties to exercise maximum restraint," saying "there is no alternative to sustained engagement, dialogue, and diplomacy."

➡️ Pakistani officials say the mediation effort is as much about securing oil and gas supply routes — disrupted by tensions around the Strait of Hormuz — as it is about diplomatic influence.

➡️ One Pakistani official said Islamabad has no intention of abandoning its mediator role: "We have invested a lot in it, and we have an interest in keeping it afloat."

➡️ A separate Pakistani source close to the mediation was more direct: "If Saudi calls us in, we will stand by them and there is no doubt about that."

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — Rogan: Most people think Epstein was Mossad.

Vance: "Ya. Mossad or CIA or some other deep state, whether in America or Israel…He clearly had connections to the highest levels of American intelligence. He clearly had connections to the highest level of Israeli intelligence."

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — American projectiles struck locations near Qeshm Island at 18:10 local time, Mehr News Agency reports.

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