🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — The U.S. State Department is offering rewards of up to $10 million for information on several senior Iranian IRGC figures, including IRGC Commander-in-Chief Ahmad Vahidi, Central Military Command chief Ali Abdollahi, Aerospace Force commander Sa’id Aghajani, Cyber-Electronic Command chief Hamidreza Lashgarian, and Intelligence chief Majid Khademi.

🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. Treasury Department announces it has not implemented any new sanctions against Iran yet, saying that today served as a ‘final warning’

When asked why secondary sanctions haven’t been imposed on countries like China, Bessent answered: ‘We don’t want to mess up the world economy’.

⚡🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Iran says "our trade partners assured us that they will not give any consideration to US threats."

⚡️🇴🇲🇬🇧 UKMTO: An oil tanker has been struck by an unknown projectile 9 nautical miles north‑east of Ash Shishah, Oman, causing damage to the engine room and disabling the vessel.

The crew are reported safe.

The vessel was using a U.S. military escort to pass the Strait of Hormuz.

🇵🇰🇮🇷 Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said he and Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir held a “very positive and productive” meeting with Iran’s president on the Iran-US conflict, Middle East tensions and restoring the Islamabad MoU.

Naqvi said “significant progress” was made, with both sides discussing a path toward a “comprehensive settlement” and “lasting peace in the region.”

⚡️🇺🇸🇹🇷–Turkey welcomes the United States' decision to remove Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 📰 — The United States is preparing to redeploy diplomats to embassies in Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Oman, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, signaling a decline in concerns over a new full-scale war with Iran, according to The New York Times.

🔴 Some missions will operate with limited staffing, with restrictions on family members remaining due to ongoing security risks.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️ — A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III landed in Moscow today after flying from Riga, Latvia. Its purpose remains unknown.

This marks the first publicly observed arrival of a U.S. Air Force C-17 in Russia since May 2020, when one delivered ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

🇲🇲❌🇲🇲 — Another Tatmadaw boat full of soldiers in the Irrawaddy River was attacked by the KIA and PDF anti-junta rebels with an FPV drone.

⚡️🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇷 FT: China warned that it will take "all necessary measures" to defend its interests if Washington expands secondary sanctions on Iran to include Chinese companies.

The secondary sanctions targeted firms in Hong Kong and mainland China but stopped short of listing major Chinese financial institutions, a step that would destabilize US-China relations a month before US President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Washington.

China buys roughly 90% of Iran's oil exports through independent "teapot" refiners that Beijing has continued to shield from US sanctions imposed earlier this year. Analysts note Beijing privately wants the US-Iran conflict resolved given the strain that Strait of Hormuz disruptions place on the broader global economy, including China's own oil imports from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸⚡️ — A source close to Iran’s negotiating team told Tasnim that Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir did not deliver any U.S. threats during his visit to Tehran and instead sought to revive negotiations.

Iran presented conditions regarding the Strait of Hormuz, including Washington’s return to the Islamabad MoU and implementation of its provisions, particularly Clause 5 concerning Iran’s arrangements in the strait.

Pakistan is expected to relay these conditions to the U.S. as part of its mediation efforts.

⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺FT: Trump administration officials asked Kyiv last week not to conduct strikes on Moscow, St Petersburg or northern regions of Russia with long-range missiles or drones on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, when Washington planned to send a senior US official to Moscow.

🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: In an extremely menacing and hard-hitting move from which the Islamic Republic will never recover, the United States has banned academic exchanges and sports competitions with Iran.

The severity of this is obviously sarcastic...

🇸🇦/🇮🇱 NEW: Saudi Arabia has reportedly removes all antisemitic content from school textbooks.