—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. warship passed the Strait of Hormuz from the East, entering the Persian Gulf, and then abruptly turned around following an Iranian warning, leaving the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea

It’s unclear if the U.S. warship took the normal route (red) or Iran’s newly designated route (yellow), because its transponder was off until it started the return journey.

(Map credit: MenchOsint)

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇨🇳 NEW: For the first time since the war, Iranian aircraft went to to China

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian C-130 cargo planes seen over Tehran

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JUST IN - CENTCOM says U.S. Navy destroyers, USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy, transit to Hormuz Strait and start "setting conditions for clearing mines," to establish a safe pathway, with additional U.S. forces, including underwater drones, joining in the coming days.

Source: https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2043005033600479516?s=20

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Statements like these are again for the market.

❗️Launcher movement, likely repositioning / spreading out assets.

No indications of an imminent attack.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan's state media PTV says the Iranian and American side are now holding direct face-to-face talks.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- A regional intelligence official says that two U.S. destroyers attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz but were turned back after threats from the IRGC, according to Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- BREAKING: "We have not reached an agreement." - JD Vance, Vice President of the United States.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- "This is bad news, more so for Iran than for America. So we go back to the US having not come to an agreement. They have chosen not to accept our terms." - JD Vance, Vice President of the United States.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- The American delegation in Islamabad will return to the United States, and no agreement has been made between the US and Iran.

The war will resume.

TRUMP: EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, UNITED STATES NAVY WILL BEGIN PROCESS OF BLOCKADING ANY AND ALL SHIPS TRYING TO ENTER, OR LEAVE, STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

Blockading a blockade

This is intended to prevent Iran from making money but they don’t need the profits right now to pressure the U.S. and gulf countries.

Can you see how there was no real plan beyond “man I hope the whole thing collapses because we decapitated.”

A US Air Force KC-135 tanker in the UK before its flight to the United States.

Dozens of patched holes, caused by the Iranian strike on an airbase in Saudi Arabia, are visible throughout the aircraft.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Japan gets 93% of their oil through the Strait of Hormuz, South Korea roughly 45%, but neither country has really helped us.

I asked them if they'll help us? We have 45,000 troops in Japan, 50,000 in South Korea. We protect them. But when we ask for some help, they don't," - President Trump tells Fox News.

Muh occupation force is actually much needed support for your peaceful countries.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇬🇧/🇮🇷 NEW: The UK says it will not take part in U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz

Trump claimed earlier today that ‘the UK will send warships to help, and probably other countries will too’.

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