🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned 13 companies, two individuals, and 12 vessels across several countries for allegedly helping facilitate Iran’s oil exports.

➡️ Those targeted are based in Turkey, India, the United Arab Emirates, China, Seychelles, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands.

➡️ The designations include shipping managers and chemical trading firms accused of enabling Iranian oil and petrochemical shipments.

🇲🇽🇨🇺🇺🇸⚡️ — Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government plans to send humanitarian aid, including food and essential supplies, to Cuba by Monday at the latest.

➡️ She said Mexico is also pursuing diplomatic efforts to resume oil shipments to the island, which were suspended in mid-January under pressure from the Trump administration.

➡️ While emphasizing that Mexico wants to avoid sanctions, Sheinbaum said her government remains in dialogue with Washington and will move forward with humanitarian assistance in the meantime.

🇨🇳🇿🇦⚡️ — China and South Africa have signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal following the U.S. decision to impose 30% tariffs on South African goods.

➡️ Under the agreement, certain South African exports will receive duty-free access to the Chinese market in exchange for increased Chinese investment in South Africa.

➡️ The deal is expected to be finalized by the end of March.

🇸🇬🇺🇸⚡️ — Singapore is set to receive its first four F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing fighters before the end of 2026, becoming the fourth Asia-Pacific country to operate F-35s after Australia, Japan, and South Korea.

➡️ The country has ordered a total of 20 F-35s, split between the A and B variants. Only four other nations worldwide currently operate the F-35B variant.

🇺🇸⚡️ — President Trump has deleted the video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ — The U.S. government says China has secretly conducted at least one "yield-producing nuclear test" in recent years, despite China's stated moratorium on nuclear testing.

➡️ Thomas DiNanno, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, revealed that China had conducted nuclear explosive tests, including one in June 2020.

➡️ He added that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) attempted to conceal the tests by using methods that reduced the effectiveness of seismic monitoring.

➡️ China, a signatory of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), has never ratified it and, like the U.S., has maintained a self-imposed moratorium on yield-producing nuclear tests.

➡️ The CTBT allows subcritical testing, which does not involve a full nuclear reaction. China’s last acknowledged nuclear test at critical levels was in 1996, while the U.S. last conducted such a test in 1992.

🇺🇸🇴🇲🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met directly with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during today's talks in Muscat, Oman, according to Axios and Fox News.

🇨🇦🇫🇷🇬🇱🇩🇰⚡️ — Canada and France inaugurated new consulates in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, today in support of the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland amid escalating tensions with the U.S.