🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "U.S. Central Command forces have begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy costs for targeting and attacking commercial shipping crewed by innocent civilians in an international waterway. The U.S. strikes are in response to Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels that were transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire," - U.S. CENTCOM.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - US struck:

- Sirik, southern Iran, 8+ times.
- Qeshm Island and its surrounding water-spaces, 10+ times.
- Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, 3+ times.

Footage shows U.S. attacks on Bandar Abbas.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Scenes from a port in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Additional scenes from Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Renewed U.S. airstrikes on / near Qeshm Island.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Explosions heard in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "These strikes are intended as punishment, not proportional, and won't be over for a bit," - CNN, citing a U.S. official.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- IRIB confirms new attacks on Sirik and Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The moment of a U.S. arrival in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, earlier.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.

🇮🇶 - Contrary to reports, there is no unusual aerial activity over southern Iraq.

🇸🇩⚡- Two Rapid Support Forces drone strikes on the North Kordofan region, Sudan, earlier today killed 15 civilians.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli flares over the Ali al-Taher heights, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli artillery shelling of Ali al-Taher, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Scenes from the Ali al-Taher heights, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- U.S. airstrikes against Sirik, southern Iran.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇦🇪⚡- "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) possibility transported military equipment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in late June.

The UAE’s military assistance to the DRC is part of its broader strategy to protect and expand its growing financial interests in the DRC under a US economic umbrella.

The UAE has signed several mining deals with the DRC since the United States became involved in regional peace efforts in mid-2025. The latest US sanctions on Rwanda could further incentivize the UAE to prioritize its efforts to reestablish a gold pipeline from the DRC over Rwandan gold exports.

Future Congolese efforts to regain control of Bukavu, the M23-controlled South Kivu provincial capital, through military action or the US-backed peace process would further strengthen the DRC-UAE economic partnership.

Bukavu [M23-controlled DRC] has been a trading and transport hub for high-value minerals for decades," - Critical Threats.

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

🇺🇸🇦🇷🇪🇬 -

🇺🇸🫏⚡️- Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, Graham Platner, now has another ex-girlfriend levying an accusation of sexual misconduct.

The ex-girlfriend, Lyndsey Fifield, who dated Platner for two years, had previously accused Platner of physical abuse, but now accuses him of “sneakily” removing a condom during intercourse, which is criminal in most of the Anglosphere, as well as in Maine, but not in Washington, D.C., where the alleged incident took place.

Platner’s team has called the allegation “categorically false and politically motivated.”

"And here's your equal attention cake"