⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺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.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — Iran's Deputy FM Gharibabadi:
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

🇺🇸⚡️ — 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.”

🇺🇸/🇮🇷🔻Iranian Foreign Ministry:

“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 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.

🇮🇷 Rare footage shows Kaman-12 UAVs operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force inside a fortified underground facility.

A striking look at how Iran stores, prepares and operates its unmanned aircraft from hardened facilities.

🇺🇸❌🧑‍⚖️ — ICC President Tomoko Akane says U.S. sanctions against her will not affect how she carries out her judicial duties or pressure her.

She said the ICC will do everything possible to ensure the sanctions do not disrupt its work and emphasized that justice must prevail.

🇮🇷⚡️ — Iran's Minister of Energy Abbas Aliabadi:
We have rebuilt the four power plants that were attacked at the beginning of the war.

🇭🇺🇷🇺⚡️ — Hungary’s Magyar government has formally declared Russia a “threat to Hungary, Europe, and the global order” and reaffirmed support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, marking a sharp break from Viktor Orbán’s years of obstructing EU action.

Hungary still refuses to provide weapons to Ukraine, and its existing energy contracts with Russia remain in place.