🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — A military source told Tasnim News Agency that an American oil tanker attempted to transit the Strait of Hormuz with its radar system turned off earlier tonight but was forced to stop and turn back after warning shots from the IRGC Navy.

➡️ The U.S. military responded by striking an area near Bandar Abbas, causing no casualties or material damage.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️ — The Trump administration has quietly directed federal prosecutors in Miami to refrain from pursuing criminal probes involving Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez, according to AP.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Israeli Defense Minister Katz:

Hezbollah has paid and will continue to pay a heavy price for its actions against Israel.

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 — Israeli warplanes have conducted airstrikes shortwhile ago in the city of Nabatieh, Southern Lebanon.

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇸⚡️ — Israeli Channel 13 reports that tomorrow, a new round of negotiations will begin between the ambassadors of Israel and Lebanon in America, and this time it will be in the Pentagon building.

🇺🇳🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ — The United Nations has added Israel to its blacklist of perpetrators of sexual violence in conflict zones, placing it alongside Hamas and ISIS, Israel's ambassador to the UN Danny Danon announced Thursday, calling the designation a "blood libel," according to Haaretz.

➡️ Danon said Israel had transferred evidence to the UN in an attempt to refute the claims prior to the blacklisting.

➡️ The move follows recent reports from freed Gaza flotilla activists alleging sexual abuse and rape in Israeli custody.

🇮🇷🇰🇼🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: Iran targeted a U.S. airbase in Kuwait that Iranian media claims was used to launch attacks on Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

➡️ Kuwait said it was engaging both drones and missiles early this morning.

🇺🇸🇦🇲⚡️ — President Trump endorses Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan for re-election in a Truth Social post.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, the body responsible for managing vessel transit requests through the Strait of Hormuz.

➡️ The Treasury also warned that businesses or individuals working with the authority could face sanctions for indirectly supporting Iran’s IRGC.

🇷🇺⚡️ — WATCH: Russia is deploying Pantsir-S1 air defense systems onto rooftops in Moscow using Mil Mi-26 helicopters, including one atop the 42-story Nordstar Tower.

🇮🇷🇰🇼🇺🇸⚡️ — WATCH: Iran’s IRGC released footage showing the launch of missiles toward a U.S. base in Kuwait in retaliation for the American attack near Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.