🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Fars News Agency reports Iranian air defenses are active in Tehran to confront hostile reconnaissance UAVs.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — This launch was followed by another explosion. It is possible the U.S. conducted an airstrike targeting one of the ballistic missile TELs.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Around 35 minutes ago, a strike was conducted by the United States targeting outside of Khondab, Iran. This strike may have targeted the already heavily damaged Arak heavy water facility.

🇺🇸🇸🇦🇰🇼⚡️ — The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of nearly $2.45 billion in military equipment to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, pending congressional review.

➡️ The $1.96 billion package for Saudi Arabia includes up to 20,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) guidance kits, launchers, warheads, spare parts, training, and logistical support.

➡️ The $484 million package for Kuwait will provide sustainment and support for its C-17 transport aircraft, including components, maintenance, software, training, and logistics services.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴 — Patriot launches in Jordan, as Iranian ballistic missiles target Muwaffaq Salti Air Base.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️ — The U.S. military will leave Iraq by the end of September.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🛢 — Oil prices rose for the fourth day in a row as renewed U.S. attacks on Iran raise fears of a wider confrontation and additional interruption to oil supplies via the Strait of Hormuz.

➡️ Brent crude climbed 0.4% to $85.28 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) gained 0.5% to $80.02.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — The U.S. House overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to cut the annual $3.3 billion in military aid to Israel, voting 314-104 against an amendment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — NEW: U.S. Central Command says it concluded another wave of strikes against Iran, targeting military sites across several locations, including Bandar Abbas.

➡️ CENTCOM said precision munitions hit Iranian command centers, air defense systems, missile and drone capabilities, and coastal surveillance facilities in an effort to further reduce Tehran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — CENTCOM has published footage of the strikes against Iran.

Footage is included of U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jets taking off from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, and BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles launching from Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers.

Targets include TELs, UAV launch sites, UAVs in transport, aircrafts stripped & decommissioned (basically not usable), and a telecommunications tower.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — 2 hours and 3 minutes ago, the Semnan International Airport in Semnan Province, Iran was struck by U.S. forces. This is the first time the province was struck by U.S. forces during this confrontation.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇰🇼 — IRGC announces conducting a joint missile & UAV strike against Ali Al-Salem AB, Kuwait; claiming to strike both a Centurion C-RAM early radar and a gathering location for U.S. Army soldiers.

Full statement:

In the name of God, the Crusher of the Oppressors

Brave and steadfast people of Iran!

Following the enemy’s attacks last night against points along the country’s southern coasts and cities, your brave and heroic sons in the IRGC Navy and Aerospace Force, during the eighth wave of Operation Nasr 2, under the blessed code phrase “O Zaynab al-Kubra (peace be upon her),” carried out a combined operation using their missile and drone capabilities. They targeted the early warning radar of the C-RAM system at Ali Al Salem Air Base and also a gathering place of soldiers of the terrorist U.S. Army, striking and destroying them.

Once again, we remind the honorable people of Kuwait that these crimes are being committed by the United States against Muslim Iran using your country’s territory.

We expect you, our Muslim brothers and sisters, to rid your country of the presence of the aggressors and, by fulfilling your Islamic duty, preserve your historical honor and dignity.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴 — Islamic Republic of Iran Army announces conducting UAV attack against Muwaffaq Salti AB, Jordan; targeting a radar site, communications system, and fuel depots at the military base.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡️ — Secretary of state Marco Rubio:

Today, President Trump directed USTR to impose a 25% tariff on most Brazilian imports. Let there be no confusion about why: President Lula and his government have not negotiated with the US in good faith.

His economic policies are bad for Americans and bad for Brazilians. For the past year, Lula has put his own ego ahead of making a deal for the welfare of the Brazilian people, and these tariffs are the price for that.



🇧🇷🇺🇸⚡️ – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva:

Press Release on the Imposition of Unilateral Tariffs Against Brazil by the United States

July 15, 2026, will go down in the history of relations between Brazil and the United States as a lamentable milestone.

The Brazilian government repudiates the decision announced today by the U.S. government regarding the imposition of 25% tariffs on Brazilian products, based on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.

There is no justification for unilateral measures against our country. According to statistics from the U.S. government itself, the United States has accumulated a surplus of $424.5 billion in goods and services with Brazil over the past 15 years.

In 2025, 76% of imports originating from the United States entered the country without paying import duties, and the average effective rate applied to U.S. products was only 3.1%.

Brazil does not recognize the legitimacy of investigations without support in the multilateral rules of trade. Despite this, we have never left the negotiating table to defend national interests.

Over the past year, the Brazilian government has acted tirelessly with the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to end the investigations based on Section 301, presenting evidence that refutes each of the allegations regarding alleged unfair trade practices adopted by Brazil.

We have demonstrated that the allegations against PIX and the regulation of digital platforms are unfounded, and the accusations regarding deforestation are absurd. PIX is a heritage of our people and an international reference for public digital infrastructure. In Brazil, we will not abdicate from protecting our families and our children against the greed of a handful of techno-oligarchs. Freedom of expression is not a blank check for criminality. The entire world knows that, starting in 2023, we have combated environmental illicit activities incisively and drastically reduced deforestation across all Brazilian biomes.

In the public hearings promoted by the USTR last week, 63 of the 78 interventions made by representatives of the Brazilian and U.S. private sectors were against the tariff hike.

The government of Brazil will continue to adopt measures to reduce the damage caused to the economy and the income of Brazilians. We will continue to diversify trade partnerships and open new markets for our products, as we have done by signing MERCOSUR agreements with the European Union, the European Free Trade Association, and Singapore.

Through the Sovereign Brazil Plan, we will maintain protective measures for the sectors affected by illegal and arbitrarily imposed tariffs by the U.S. government, preserving jobs and national productive capacity.

Brazil will immediately initiate the procedures to activate the instruments provided for in the Reciprocity Law, approved unanimously by the National Congress, and will resume the issue within the framework of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism.

It is sad to note that the lamentable outcome of the investigations based on Section 301 is part of the plot built with the active collaboration of the Bolsonaro family. They are false patriots who orchestrated and publicly defended actions against our country, driven by electoral objectives.

One cannot love Brazil only when we win elections. Protecting our sovereignty is an obligation that stands above all parties and all trends. The Brazilian government will not falter in its duty to preserve it.

Social Communication Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic

🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️ — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi congratulated Felix Plasencia on his appointment as Venezuela's new Foreign Affairs Minister, expressing hope for stronger ties between the two countries and praising outgoing minister Ivan Gil for his role in advancing bilateral relations.

🇯🇴🇮🇷⚡️ — Jordan says its forces intercepted eight missiles launched from Iran overnight.