🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: The US seized VERONICA III, an Iranian ghost tanker, in the Indian Ocean.

The tanker was under sanctions by the US and was falsely flying the Panamanian flag. The vessel was loaded with illegal American oil from Venezuela, which was being transported to South East Asia (likely to Melaka, Malaysia).

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "We defend the Homeland forward. Distance does not protect you.

Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Veronica III without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility.

The vessel tried to defy President Trump’s quarantine —hoping to slip away. We tracked it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, closed the distance, and shut it down. No other nation has the reach, endurance, or will to do this.

International waters are not sanctuary. By land, air, or sea, we will find you and deliver justice.

The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of movement in the maritime domain," - Department of War.

🇶🇦🇮🇱⚡- "When the current regime [of the al-Thanis] fall, Qatar will sign the Abraham Accords with Israel," - Khalid al-Hail, Qatari opposition leader, based in London.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- The Taliban have evidence that Pakistan's intelligence, ISI, is funding Islamic State, IS-K, camps in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan regions, Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, says.

🇺🇸🏳️🇮🇷⚡- "In the event of a possible conflict between Iran and the United States, Iran would have the capacity to emerge victorious.

The Islamic Republic of Iran was ultimately successful the last time it faced an attack, and this time as well due to its capabilities and its legitimate right to self-defense," - Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman.

🇺🇸🏳️🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Zabihullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman, says Afghanistan is "ready to cooperate with the Iranian people" in a potential conflict with the US.

🇪🇹⚡- Fano separatists have withdrawn from Wereta, Amhara region, after briefly capturing the major town earlier today.

Wereta, just west of Debre Tobor, returns to Ethiopian military control.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran is ready to consider compromises to reach a nuclear deal with the US if the Americans are willing to discuss lifting sanctions," - Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, tells the BBC.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The ball is in America's court to prove that they want to do a deal. If they are sincere, I'm sure we will be on the road to an agreement," - Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, tells the BBC.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The indirect talks have been more or less in a positive direction but it is too early to judge," - Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, tells the BBC.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, tells the BBC that Tehran is "ready to discuss" its 400kg+ stockpile of highly enriched uranium "if the US is ready to talk about sanctions."

🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡️- The main French TV channel, TF1, will have a live interview with Reza Pahlavi on Monday at 8PM Paris time.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, tells the BBC that Iran will not discuss zero enrichment on Iranian soil, as Tehran considers it their right under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, tells the BBC that Iran refuses all discussions regarding its ballistic missile program.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli security establishment is preparing for difficult days that could develop into a regional war," - Yediot Ahronoth.