🇺🇸🇮🇷 | U.S. CENTCOM denies Iranian reports that Iran shot down a U.S. aircraft near Bushehr.

🇷🇺🇨🇺 | Russia's UNIVERSAL, a 242,000 barrel tanker initially bound for Cuba, has changed course and is now heading to South America instead.

The New York Times reports a Chinese tanker bound for Cuba also diverted towards South America earlier this year.

🇺🇸❌🇧🇷💊❗️ — U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and Ambassador Christopher Landau warned that the objective behind classifying the Brazilian criminal organizations Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV) as terrorist groups is the destruction of both organizations.

"These Brazil-based violent criminal organizations pose a grave security threat not only to the Brazilian people but to all the people of the Western Hemisphere, including the US. Under President of the United States Donald Trump and Marco Rubio , we take this threat very seriously and are committed to fighting and destroying these organizations. 🇺🇸🤝🇧🇷"

Christopher Landau (@DeputySecState) 🖇

🇧🇷⚠️🇧🇷 — Sources within the Palácio do Planalto warn that Brazil’s entire diplomatic structure is in an extreme state of crisis after the United States Department of State declared Comando Vermelho (CV) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Brazil’s largest drug trafficking networks, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs); the objective of the Executive Branch is to make it possible to overturn the classification in order to avoid potential financial sanctions, losses in the tourism sector, and foreign military operations on Brazilian territory.