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Tucker Carlson: "Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon?” Joe Kent: “No. They weren't three weeks ago when this started, and they weren't in June either.”

WSJ: U.S. War Planes and Helicopters Kick Off Battle to Reopen Hormuz The U.S. has deployed A-10 Warthogs and Apache attack helicopters to the Strait of Hormuz in an intensified campaign to reopen the waterway — now closed to commercial shipping for nearly three weeks. Brent crude briefly touched $119 a barrel Thursday before settling at $108. Twenty percent of the world's oil exports move through the strait. The Trump administration is now managing the economic fallout of a war it launched on February 28. The Pentagon says more than 120 Iranian naval vessels have been destroyed. Iran is still believed to have hundreds of undamaged boats in hardened coastal tunnels, along with mines and truck-mounted cruise missiles that analysts say could take weeks to neutralize, if at all. Meanwhile Iran's parliament is considering legislation to charge tolls on select ships it allows through. Tehran is turning a military chokehold into economic leverage — potentially forcing nations that need Gulf energy to deal with Iran directly. A force of 2,200 Marines is also heading to the region, with a possible mission to seize Iranian islands off the southern coast. The U.S. went to war to eliminate Iran's military capacity. Three weeks in, Iran still controls the strait, oil is above $100, and Washington is sending in the Marines.

🇶🇦 Qatar has arrested two Al Jazeera analysts, Fatima Al-Samadi and Saeed Ziad, on charges described as supporting Iran during the current war. Al-Samadi is a senior researcher at the Al Jazeera Studies Center specializing in Iranian affairs, holding a doctorate from Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran. Her X account has been suspended. The reported trigger was a post praising the late Ali Larijani. Also arrested is Mona Hawa, a Palestinian journalist previously fired by Al Jazeera for criticizing the Al-Jolani government in Syria.

🚨A paramedic in southern Lebanon responded to a strike on a home in the town of Bazouriyeh, doing what he has likely done countless times before - rushing toward destruction to save whoever might still be alive. When he arrived, he realised it was his parents’ house. There was no one to save. “They’re gone… my mother and my father.” The cruelty of it is unbearable. He spends his life racing in an ambulance to save others. But he could not save his own. This is what Israel’s war does. It doesn’t just kill. It turns those who come to rescue into those left to mourn.

🚨 Scientists in India discover a rare crab that is half male, half female.

Excellent point. Well done. I’m sure you were a top debater in your high school school.

Hegseth: “Our ungrateful allies in Europe should be saying one thing to President Trump: thank you.”

🚨عاجـــــــــــــــل رسالة الى القيادة في السعودية و الدول الخليجية المتحدث باسم مقر خاتم الأنبياء المركزي : كما أعلنا سابقاً، فإن القوات المسلحة الإيرانية ستستهدف جميع البنى التحتية التابعة للولايات المتحدة والكيان الصهيوني، و انها وتقر رسمياً وتعلن مسؤوليتها عن ذلك. بحسب الأخبار الواردة، يعتزم النظام الصهيوني مهاجمة البنية التحتية للطاقة في المنطقة للدول الجارة ، بما في ذلك منشآت أرامكو. سجل النظام الصهيوني الحافل بالأعمال الشريرة لاتهام إيران وخلق الفتنة بين دول المنطقة ،يؤكد هذه النية الشريرة