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🇲🇾⚡️- Malaysia has passed new legislation restricting maritime activity, such as ship-to-ship transfers of products or bunkering (refueling at sea) that occur within international waters, but inside its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) without receiving permission from the Malaysian government. Violations of the regulation allow detention of the vessel and its crew and seizure of cargo.

Russian and Iranian oil tankers have been well documented as using Malaysia's EEZ as a hotspot for ship-to-ship transfers of oil, usually China-bound oil.

From the 18th of June to February 28th (The start of the US-Iran war), the organization United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) recorded 76 ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian Oil and LPG within the area now regulated by Malaysia. UANI also recorded 46 sanctioned and mostly empty Iranian tankers that were anchored and waiting inside this Malaysian EEZ for the US blockade to end before returning to Iran. Many of these tankers have since begun their journey back to Iran since the end of the blockade.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Residents of Beit Aryeh, in the West Bank have been told to stay inside their homes for the past 4 hours due to a suspected terrorist infiltration, According to Israeli media the IDF has yet to issue an all clear.

"A short while ago, an alert was activated due to a suspected infiltration of terrorists in the community of Beit Aryeh in the Binyamin Brigade, following the identification of two suspects found in the community.

IDF forces deployed to the area and began searching for the suspects.

The IDF is in ongoing contact with the residents and security forces in the area." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- An unknown projectile has struck the command deck of a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

This follows a similar incident from a few days ago when Iran struck the wheelhouse of a commercial vessel too, which led to a US retaliatory strike on Sirik, southern Iran, last night.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡- Bahrain alleges Iranian drones attempted to strike its territory early morning today. Manama calls the attack a 'blatant violation of sovereignty'.

🇴🇲🇮🇷 - The UK Maritime Trade Operations raises the alert for all vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to a maximum.

🇴🇲🇮🇷 - The Joint Maritime Information Center has also raised its level of alertness to 'substantial' for the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran claims to have struck U.S. assets in the Middle East, per Iranian state media.

🇺🇸🫏⚡- Moderate Democrats have launched a program called “The Promise to America.”

13 Democratic House members have endorsed the program, including Representative Tom Suozzi, who’s been the outspoken voice so far, with clear intentions to distinguish themselves from the DSA while also opposing the Trump administration.

Their program outlines their agenda as follows:

We are capitalist, not socialist. 

We want safety, not lawlessness.

We are [fiscally] responsible, not reckless.

We believe government should solve problems, not create them.

We are proud, not ashamed of America.

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- Democrat House Leader Hakeem Jeffries congratulates the leftists who won their primaries against Democrat incumbents.

🇾🇪⚡- Clashes between pro-Hadi forces (Yemeni National Resistance forces) and Ansarullah in the southern al-Hodeidah region, western Yemen.

YNR media reports pro al-Houthi forces attempted to cross the line of contact in the al-Hodeidah region, but the attacks were repelled.

🇾🇪⚡- Saudi-backed National Shield Forces also held military readiness exercises in the Ma'rib region, northern Yemen.

🇾🇪⚡- Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces in the Aden region, southern Yemen, held military readiness exercises that were attended by senior defense officials.

🇾🇪⚡- Multiple Ansarullah drones were spotted over the Ma'rib region, northern Yemen. Anti al-Houthi Yemeni media report the drones were carrying out recon operations.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Five Israeli airstrikes against Nabatieh's al-Fawqa district, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Scenes from Nabatieh al-Fawqa, southern Lebanon.