🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- Saudi-backed Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council has confirmed the Saudi airstrikes were in response to the Iranian violation of the blockade of Ansarullah airports. The PLC warns further retaliation if Iran continues to violate Yemeni airspace.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷 - Note, the plane returning the Ansarullah delegation from Ali Khamenei's funeral, IRM1199, is descending into Sana'a, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡- Ansarullah have also confirmed the attacks on Sana'a International Airport and have vowed retaliation.

🇫🇷⚡️- Emmanuel Macron, in a speech to France's armed forces, announces he will start a major reform on how France conducts warfare. The French president also announced a gradual increase of 36B€ for the nation's military budget from 2026 to 2030.

🇾🇪🇮🇷🇸🇦 - Note, both pro-Ansarullah tribes and pro Presidential Leadership Council tribes are currently engaged in the most intensive and largest mobilization in recent years in the al-Rayyan region of the al-Jawf Governorate, northern Yemen, over Saddam Hussein's legacy.

🇫🇷⚡️- "France is ready to defend freedom and the rule of law, by blood if necessary" - Emmanuel Macron in his speech to France's armed forces.

🇬🇧🇮🇷⚡- The UK designates Iran's IRGC as a terrorist organization.

🇫🇷⚡️- Emmanuel Macron cites the Indo-Pacific region as one of France's future region of strategic interest. This coincides with the new CPP FRPACOM established to increase French military presence in the nation's Pacific EEZ.

🇾🇪🇸🇴⚡- Six small boats carrying Somali pirates from Puntland are attempting to hijack a tanker in the Gulf of Aden.

🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- Iran's flight carrying the Ansarullah delegation has diverted to al-Hodeidah International Airport, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

🇾🇪🇮🇷🇸🇦 - Ansarullah sources report the Iranian plane has successfully landed in al-Hodeidah International Airport, Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

🇬🇧⚡️- The United Kingdom will spend more than £250 million over the next three years to protect Jewish communities.

The funding will include over 500 additional police officers across the UK to increase security in Jewish neighborhoods and synagogues.

"The rise in antisemitism we have seen in recent years is a test of ​our values ​as a ⁠country and tackling it has been central to my leadership from day one" - Keir Starmer, outgoing UK Prime ​Minister.

🇪🇬🇪🇹⚡- Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty declared that negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have reached a dead end, warning that Egypt will not hesitate to defend its water security if it is threatened.

🇪🇬🇸🇴🇪🇹⚡- Egypt has signed a maritime cooperation 'Memorandum of Understanding' with Somalia, just six weeks after concluding a separate port connectivity agreement with Eritrea, underscoring Cairo's growing focus on strengthening its strategic footprint along the Red Sea corridor.

🇲🇱⚡️- The JNIM announces they killed Sadou Samahouna, one of the leading figures of the ISSP. He had previously defected from the JNIM to the Islamic State.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announces the Iran Blockade is back.

"The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or customers from entering or leaving. All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait. The U.S.A. will be, from this point forward, known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World. The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump Via Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea drones in combat operations. Last night’s strikes degraded Iran’s ability to continue attacking commercial shipping." - US Central Command.

🇮🇷🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡- A senior Ansarullah official Mohammed al-Farah has floated the idea of closing the Strait of Bab al-Mandab in response to the Saudi attacks on Sana'a International Airport earlier today.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Three Iranian IRGC militants were liquidated in U.S. strikes on Abadan, Khuzestan Province, last night.