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🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. and Iran are are in the middle of nuclear talks while ignoring the weapons that are actually killing. No caps on ballistic missiles. No rollback of proxy militias. No discussion of the Houthis still targeting Red Sea shipping. Those problems? Gulf nations get to figure that out themselves. Trump already rejected Iran's latest proposal over enrichment disagreements, so even the nuclear piece isn't close. The harder threats are being punted before the easier ones are even solved. Source: CNN

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth put defense contractors on notice, asking to produce faster or lose their stock buybacks. The Trump admin is requesting a $1.5T defense budget and explicitly calling it a shift to "wartime footing." Waiting for deployment? 👀

🇦🇪 The UAE didn't just leave OPEC, it sent a clear message to Saudi, Russia, and Iran, simultaneously. The UAE had invested billions in spare production capacity it was never allowed to use because Saudi-driven quota cuts kept getting in the way. After years of frustration, they’d finally had enough. But the timing reveals the real story, UAE-Saudi relations have been deteriorating for years. And Saudi’s conspicuously muted response to Iranian missiles hitting UAE cities was, apparently, the final straw. Ditching OPEC+ also just so happens to reduce Russia's influence over global oil markets, at exactly the moment Moscow is backing Tehran. There is also a compelling theory that the U.S. Treasury's decision to provide the UAE with a dollar swap line days before the announcement was not a coincidence… The Trump admin desperately wants lower oil prices heading into the midterms, and the UAE being able to pump at full capacity helps achieve that. For OPEC, the long-term implications are serious: Cheating on quotas was already rife before, every Gulf country is now desperate to recoup war losses, Russia needs every petrodollar for Ukraine, and smaller members will increasingly ask what the point is of being bossed around by Riyadh. Qatar left in 2019, Ecuador in 2020, Angola in 2024, and now the UAE in 2026. The cartel that quadrupled oil prices in 1973 and reshaped the global economy may now be collapsing from within. Source: TLDR News Global YT

🇺🇸🇩🇪 Chancellor Merz called Trump's Iran policy "humiliating" and now he's getting the bill. Trump just threatened to review and reduce the 35,000 U.S. troops stationed in Germany, more than a fifth of all American forces deployed overseas. Merz is already backpedaling, claiming he has a great relationship with Trump. That's what happens when you take a shot at Trump's foreign policy and miss.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's president and a top military adviser are both warning the U.S. blockade will fail. - Pezeshkian says any naval blockade is "contrary to international law and doomed to failure" - Made the remarks on National Persian Gulf Day, which commemorates Iran expelling Portugal from Hormuz in the 17th century - Meanwhile, Iran's currency is slumping and unemployment is soaring domestically - Trump sees the blockade as his primary leverage to force Iran back to nuclear talks Khamenei's senior military adviser Mohsen Rezaei: "If the blockade continues, Iran will respond" Source: CNN

🇮🇷 Khamenei lays out Iran's vision for the Strait: permanent Iranian control, framed as liberation. - Iran will "secure the Persian Gulf region and remove the enemy's hostile abuses from this waterway" - New legal rules and management of Hormuz will bring "comfort and progress for all nations of the region" - The economic benefits will bring "joy to the hearts of the people" - Closes with a direct challenge: "even if the disbelievers dislike it"

🇺🇸🇮🇷 CENTCOM confirms: 20 vessels are stranded in Iran's Chabahar port because of the U.S. blockade on Iranian shipping. $110 oil is the price the rest of the world pays while they wait for someone to flinch. How long can both economies sustain this simultaneously?

🇺🇸🇩🇪 Trump just told the world that Germany's Chancellor is okay with Iran having a nuclear weapon. What Merz said is that diplomacy should be on the table. Trump says it's the same as being pro-proliferation. Germany's economy is struggling. So is Trump's approval rating. Two leaders with domestic problems taking shots at each other while the Strait of Hormuz stays closed. Who does this fighting actually help?

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations came to the UN with a list. Iran fired on its neighbors, hit civilian infrastructure, launched thousands of missiles and drones at Gulf countries, and is still trying to kill more Americans. Subtlety has left the building.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 Tehran just put up a new billboard in Palestine Square. "The roar of the lion or the squeak of the mouse?!" Written in Hebrew and Arabic, so the message isn't lost due to language barriers. Source: Yediot News