🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- "There is information confirming that [Iranian-Kurdish] separatist groups are preparing to carry out operations against Iran, launching them from Iraqi territory," - al-Mayadeen.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷⚡️- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke with President Trump and expressed concern over reported plans to conduct large-scale strikes on Iran, urging the president not to follow through, according to Axios, citing two U.S. officials.

🇺🇸⚡- "GOP staffers say they have a Groyper problem.

The grownups are worried. In group chats and at happy hours, some GOP veterans fret about the rising generation of young staffers in their party.

Of specific concern are those labeled groypers — technically, followers of the self-described 'White Identitarian' Gen Z streamer Nick Fuentes.

Prominent conservative commentators have alleged that groyperism is spreading among younger members of the GOP, including in government — a view seemingly backed by examples like the young Trump administration lawyer who admitted to a 'Nazi streak' in text messages revealed by POLITICO.

There are widely varying, and bitterly disputed, estimates of the true scale of groyperism in the GOP’s young D.C. professional class, from ubiquitous to negligible. One anonymous conservative, described only as 'an older insider,' told the Free Press’s Rod Dreher that the term applies to 30 to 40 percent of 'Gen Z congressional and administration staffers,'" - POLITICO.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump announces that he has halted the planned attack on Iran following a request from Tehran and other mediating countries.

🇺🇸⚡️- Trump Media Group has announced Truth API will be available starting today, and will be available to "institutional customers".

Their announcement letter posted earlier last month says that "Truth API is designed for organizations most impacted by the cost of a delay in information. This includes high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms that require a low-latency, machine-readable feed rather than manual tracking.", explicitly acknowledging the primary customer of this service is companies trying to trade on his announcements.

There is no price listed, and interested organizations are asked to contact them directly via email for more information. This means Trump Media Group will conduct human review to decide who will get access to the service, and that the API will not be generally available. Many media outlets state the price is $100,000/month.

The API service they are selling does not allow users to access information before it is publicly available (at least to the public's knowledge); it only allows you to load already public posts faster than someone manually refreshing the page. Assuming they aren't giving early access to the posts, even getting these posts a couple of seconds earlier than non-paying customers through a faster connection point is a huge advantage if you were trying to trade oil futures based on Trump’s posts related to the US-Iran ceasefire.

Even if the publicly accessible website and API show posts from the same database, if the API has access to the main database where posts are uploaded, your browser retrieves the posts from regional servers closer to your location; just the time between the post being uploaded to the main server and the post being propagated to regional server hosts could be a matter of several seconds' advantage.

It should be noted that these “real time api’s” (official and unofficial) exist for every single social media site and are already used by trading firms for this purpose, although none of them allow the post author to collect the money from the api’s like in this case, and the post author couldn't hand-pick who had access. There are also already unofficial, free, and publicly available api's to do this yourself that you can set up easily (https://github.com/w2rc/truthbrush) without paying 1.2 million per year, except without the “special access” that the official API would presumably give you.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Tasnim News denies President Trump's claim of an alleged deal that would "completely and totally open the Strait of Hormuz."

🇪🇸🇲🇦⚡- The Civil Guard present in Spain's Ceuta identified several dozen Moroccan intelligence agents that had infiltrated among the immigrants that invaded Ceuta over the past few days, El Espanol reports.

The Moroccan agents were seen surveying the enclave, including the border. They were spotted in Ceuta thanks to the "border surveillance cameras."

🇾🇪⚡- For the third time in a month, clashes have erupted between Ansarullah and the Yemeni National Resistance Forces (pro Presidential Leadership Council).

Fighting is ongoing west of the al-Barah heights, Hays direction, southwest Yemen.

🇸🇾🇮🇶⚡- Unconfirmed reports that a Syrian recon drone entered Iraqi airspace along the Syria-Iraq border. The drone was fired upon by the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilization Forces and was forced to retreat.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian military infrastructure is being established in the town of al-Mayadin, along the Euphrates river, eastern Syria.

It follows similar developments in al-Bulamal, along the Syria-Iraq border, earlier this week.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Five Lebanese soldiers slightly wounded after being targeted by Israeli fire. The soldiers were escorting civilians in military vehicles from the town of Kfra, Bint Jbeil direction, southern Lebanon.

🇹🇷🇬🇷 - On July 30, a Turkish UAV violated Greek airspace, conducting a flyover the Island of Farmakonisi, Greece.

The last time Turkey carried out a flyover over Greek territory was in 2023, January 30.

🇮🇶🇸🇾 - Iraqi media reports that the aerial vehicle that violated Iraqi airspace along the Syria-Iraq border was not a drone, but a Syrian helicopter.

🇮🇶🇸🇾⚡- Damascus alerted Baghdad of suspected Popular Mobilization Forces activity along the Syria-Iraq border, al-Arabiya reports. Syrian authorities also warned that any attack from Iraqi-based militia groups on Syria will be met with retaliation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Arab Gulf states, in particular Saudi Arabia, played an instrumental role in urging President Trump to call off the attack on Iran this weekend, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held a phone call with Trump urging dialogue to prevent further escalation.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The Arab Gulf states are unhappy with President Trump's strategy when it comes to Iran. Saudi Arabia's Mohammed bin Salman requested clarity from Trump during their call.

"Behind the scenes, Gulf states have grown increasingly frustrated by what they view as the absence of a coherent US strategy as the conflict continues, leaving their territories exposed to repeated Iranian attacks," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The Arab Gulf countries remain deeply divided on how to continue with the Iranian file, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman have proposed dialogue and de-escalation. While the UAE, Bahrain, and Kuwait have "urged Washington to adopt a more forceful approach, arguing that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is unlikely to make concessions without greater US military pressure, including possible control of the Strait of Hormuz."

"Saudi Arabia has previously opposed US military plans to forcibly reopen the strategic waterway, a disagreement that strained relations between Washington and Riyadh despite the kingdom's eventual support for the effort," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇪🇹 - Fighting between the TPLF's Army 70 and Army 13 and the Ethiopian military, ENDF, largely subsided overnight, aside from a few TPLF drone strikes targeting ENDF positions early this morning. A major internet blackout remains in effect across much of the Tigray region.

Frontline sources report Army 70, Army 13, and Army 30 have since withdrawn from the Sheraro area, redeploying back into Sudan via Eritrea.

🇺🇸🇮🇪⚡️- Nationalist influencer Keith Woods has been barred entry into the United States by the Trump Administration due to his political activities. Woods posted this notice from the US denying him entry.

Woods also says the US has denied other European nationalists entry to the US due to the Admin's policy of barring visa's from those critical of Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- According to the latest census estimates, there are now almost 2 million more subcontinentals (Indian, Pakistani, Bengalis), in the United States than jewish US citizens. Their population has nearly quadrupled since 2010.