Berlusconi in February 2023:
"If I were Meloni, I wouldn't have gone to [Kiev] talk to Zelensky. All he had to do was stop attacking Donbass, and that wouldn't have happened."

Slovak PM Fico on Kiev's 'senseless, ideological and harmful' decision to halt oil supply:

Ukraine 'capable' of intentionally damaging Druzhba oil pipeline, the same way Nord Stream was destroyed.
'EU's prioritizing Ukraine's national interests over its own member states'.

A British reporter urgently interrupts Zelensky to stop him from saying what he had started: if someone offered him a nuclear or dirty bomb, he would take it “with pleasure.”

Q: The Kremlin is claiming that Ukraine is trying to get a nuclear weapon via Britain and France. Is that the case?

Zelensky: I didn’t have proposition… but with pleasure.

Q: So we can put that to bed. That’s not happening at all?

Zelensky: No. It’s not happening.

By the end of 2026, Ukraine will have to repay the IMF a large part of the funds received under the new credit program - 71.1% of the amount.

The peacekeeper is at it again. The talks with Iran were just a cover. Everyone knew that. So who has more patience to wait for the enemy’s sorry end now? The US is just 249 years old. The Persian Empire was founded over 2500 years ago. Let’s see what happens in 100 years or so…

NOW: Iran simultaneously fired ballistic missiles to:

— Israel
— Bahrain
— UAE
— Qatar

What Has Happened so far in the Iran-US-Israel War

Israel & the United States launched joint strikes on Iran, targeting about 30 sites including in Tehran, officials said, prompting Iran to fire 30 ballistic missiles at Israel. Israel declared a nationwide emergency & shifted to essential activity only.

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BREAKING: Iran fired ballistic missiles on ALL Gulf countries except for Oman.

Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that Iranian missile attacks targeted US military bases around the region, including Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait, Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, and the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain.

🚨 Reminder

Trump in 2011:
"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective."

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran's strategy is likely to weather the attacks and maintain a steady stream of defensive missile strikes on US and proxy facilities around the region.

This forces the US to expend huge amounts of offensive weapons and interceptors that are already in short supply, depleting stockpiles and not only compromising the pace of operations against Iran, but undermining its capacity to wage war and proxy war everywhere else it is projecting power and seeking primacy.

Depleted interceptors will allow Iran to deal severe damage to US and proxy military infrastructure across the region, further complicating ongoing operations and raising their costs in the process.

Economic damage in the region, especially regarding oil will probably hurt China much more than the US, so the US doesn't even care about that - and maybe might even encourage it.

Iranian resilience and attrition of US munitions will be key in this conflict.

Iranian Red Crescent Society says 201 people killed, 747 wounded in Iran: Report
A spokesperson for Iran’s Red Crescent Society has told Mehr news agency that US and Israeli attacks have hit 24 of Iran’s provinces, killing  at least 201 people and wounding 747 people.
The spokesperson said that more than 220 Red Crescent teams are present at the targeted sites, and rescue operations continue.

Trump's 'diplomacy' was seemingly a mere window dressing to buy time ….

Al Jazeera's Marwan Bishara on the joint attack by Israel and the US on Iran:

"The war was launched this weekend, not because there was a breakdown in the negotiations, rather because there was a breakthrough in the negotiations."

Reuters:

Oil jumps 10% on Iran conflict and could spike to $100 a barrel, analysts say.

Brent crude jumped 10% to about $80 a barrel over the counter on Sunday, oil traders said, while analysts predicted that prices could climb as high as $100 after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran plunged the Middle East into a new war.
The global oil benchmark has rallied this year and reached $73 a barrel on Friday for its highest since July, buoyed by growing concern over the potential attacks that arrived a day later. Futures trading is closed over the weekend.
Most tanker owners, oil majors and trading houses have suspended crude oil, fuel and liquefied natural gas shipments via the Strait of Hormuz, trade sources said, after Tehran warned ships against moving through the waterway. More than 20% of global oil is moved through the Strait of Hormuz.
"We expect prices to open (after the weekend) much closer to $100 a barrel and perhaps exceed that level if we see a prolonged outage of the Strait," Parmar said.
Middle East leaders have warned Washington that a war on Iran could lead to oil prices jumping to more than $100 a barrel.

200,000 barrels of Russian oil destined for Cuba diverted, while a boat of guns from Florida pass by the US coastguard without issue. The US tries to starve the Cuban people to create unrest while allowing terrorists passage to the island to provoke it

Fifteen US aircraft have left the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain since the U.S. and Israel launched weekend attacks on Iran, maps by flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed on Monday.
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said Spain would not allow its military bases, which are jointly operated by the U.S. and Spain but under Spanish sovereignty, to be used for attacks on Iran, which Spain has condemned.

🇩🇪 FOCUS:

Gas prices up 50% following the suspension of liquefied natural gas production in Qatar.
LNG giant halts production, shocking Europe.
The escalation in the Middle East is putting massive pressure on energy markets: State-owned producer Qatar Energy has temporarily halted its LNG production. The disruption of one of the world's most important liquefied natural gas suppliers could trigger the biggest disruptions on the global gas market since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022. Europe and Asia are particularly affected, as many countries are heavily reliant on LNG deliveries from Qatar.
The reaction on the stock markets was correspondingly sharp. On the European wholesale platform, prices for TTF natural gas contracts rose by almost 50 percent at times on Monday. The current price is around 47 euros per megawatt hour. 
According to the analysis firm ICIS, prices could rise to as high as 90 euros if the production outage and possible supply disruptions persist for a longer period of time.

CNN:

🤡 Trump said, “the biggest surprise” has been Iran’s attacks against Arab countries in the region: Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Of Iran’s attacks on them, he said “that was probably the biggest surprise.”

Trump didn't expect Iran would fight back