⚡️🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇷 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.
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.
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.
🇸🇦/🇮🇱 NEW: Saudi Arabia has reportedly removes all antisemitic content from school textbooks.
🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — A Russian attack against a Ukrainian ammo storage in the village of Pishchanka in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast resulted in a powerful explosion.
Following the attack, Ukrainian authorities ordered an evacuation of the village.
Following the attack, Ukrainian authorities ordered an evacuation of the village.
🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Iran's Deputy FM Gharibabadi:
Why should we always wait for America to attack?
We can take preemptive action.
Why should we always wait for America to attack?
We can take preemptive action.
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — RIA Novosti, citing Iranian and Pakistani sources, reports the United States and Iran have agreed on a ceasefire involving free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. The ceasefire is expected to be announced in the coming days.
🇺🇸/🇷🇺 NEW: The American flag has been removed from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow for an unknown reason.
⚡🇱🇧🇮🇱 In the last 24 hours the IDF carried out 37 strikes across southern Lebanon:
• Satbeen
• Markaba
• Al Mansouri
• Kfar Rumman
• Zibqin
• Tayr Harfa
• Khiam
• Bani Hayan
• Beit Lyf
• Qantara
• Barashit
• Nabatieh El Fawqa
• Ali Al Taher
The IDF also carried out 16 detonations across several towns:
• Markaba
• Khiam
• Mays Al Jabal
• Zawtar Al Sharqiyeh
• Tayr Harfa
• Majdal Zoun
• Sarbeen
• Satbeen
• Markaba
• Al Mansouri
• Kfar Rumman
• Zibqin
• Tayr Harfa
• Khiam
• Bani Hayan
• Beit Lyf
• Qantara
• Barashit
• Nabatieh El Fawqa
• Ali Al Taher
The IDF also carried out 16 detonations across several towns:
• Markaba
• Khiam
• Mays Al Jabal
• Zawtar Al Sharqiyeh
• Tayr Harfa
• Majdal Zoun
• Sarbeen
🇺🇸⚡️ — Trump-backed Senator Darline Graham, the sister of the late Lindsey Graham, has won the South Carolina Republican Senate primary runoff for his former seat, defeating Rep. Ralph Norman.
⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸–Iran has officially inaugurated its largest solar power plant, located in the vicinity of Tehran.
🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Oil companies are reportedly avoiding using ships that Iran has listed on a "blacklist."
🇮🇷/🇺🇸🔻 Iranian Army:
“Ships are monitored by us hundreds of kilometers before they reach the Strait of Hormuz, and they can pass through if they receive our permission.”
“Ships are monitored by us hundreds of kilometers before they reach the Strait of Hormuz, and they can pass through if they receive our permission.”
🇺🇸/🇮🇷🔻Iranian Foreign Ministry:
“We will respond to U.S. sanctions by targeting its economic interests.”
“We will respond to U.S. sanctions by targeting its economic interests.”
🇮🇷❌🇺🇸— Iranian missile and drone attacks caused unprecedented damage to U.S. intelligence facilities and surveillance equipment across the Middle East, according to NBC News.
The destruction exceeds anything previously suffered by U.S. intelligence agencies and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair.
The attacks have also exposed weaknesses in the defenses protecting U.S. bases and sensitive intelligence sites, prompting American officials to reconsider how these facilities are secured.
The destruction exceeds anything previously suffered by U.S. intelligence agencies and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair.
The attacks have also exposed weaknesses in the defenses protecting U.S. bases and sensitive intelligence sites, prompting American officials to reconsider how these facilities are secured.
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷 The CIA director's trip to Moscow to urge Russia to pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, has failed despite the threat of further sanctions on Russian companies.
Moscow has rejected the request telling Iran that the measures threatened by Washington would not be of significance.
Moscow has rejected the request telling Iran that the measures threatened by Washington would not be of significance.