Khalifa Updates

🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump is in Beijing asking Xi to push Iran into reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

🇮🇱🇦🇪 Netanyahu secretly visited UAE during the Iran war and met with President Mohamed bin Zayed, for coalition against Iran.

🇬🇭🇿🇦 Ghana to evacuate 300 citizens from South Africa after xenophobic attacks.

🇱🇧 2 paramedics were killed in a targeted attack in Nabatieh, Lebanon Today.

🇮🇷🇮🇶🇵🇰 Iraq and Pakistan have reached separate agreements with Iran to secure oil and LNG shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Iraq reportedly secured safe passage for two oil tankers, while Pakistan arranged LNG deliveries from Qatar via Iran-approved routes. - Reuters.

🇦🇪 The UAE has designated 16 Lebanese nationals and 5 organizations based in Lebanon as terrorists over alleged links to Hezbollah.

🇬🇧 103 Labour MPs signed a letter defending UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, while 88 are calling for his resignation. A 15-vote margin is a party on life support. Source: The Guardian

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran will not discuss the nuclear issue with the U.S before these conditions are met - War ending on "all fronts" - Lifting all sanctions - Releasing Iran's frozen assets - Paying war reparations. - Recognising Iran's sovereign right over the Strait of Hormuz

🇬🇧 UK Minister for Victims and Violence Against Women and Girls, Alex Davies-Jones, has resigned.

Pentagon official says the Iran war has cost the U.S $29 billion - Reuters.

🇬🇧 UK Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips resigns from Keir Starmer's Government.

🇬🇧 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells his ministers he wants to “keep governing”, amid pressure to quit after his Labour Party suffered election losses.

🇬🇧 81 Labour MPs have publicly called for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign, according to The Times.

🇵🇰🇮🇷🇺🇸 Pakistan secretly let Iranian military jets park on its airfields, While acting as Iran-U.S. mediator. Pakistan allowed Iranian military aircraft to park at Nur Khan air base, just outside Islamabad, potentially shielding them from American airstrikes.

🇦🇪🇮🇷 The UAE has secretly carried out military strikes on Iran, including an attack on an Iranian oil refinery in Lavan Island The strikes which were never officially acknowledged by the UAE, reportedly took place in early April, shortly before Trump announced a ceasefire. - WSJ

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Donald Trump says he is "seriously considering" making Venezuela the 51st state of the United States. Source: Fox News

🇬🇧 Over 50 Labour MPs are calling on UK Prime Minister Starmer to resign. - BBC.

🇺🇸 Cole Allen, the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner shooting, has pleaded NOT guilty in Federal Court. Source: Fox News

- 1 KC-135/KC-46A tanker lost in Iraq on March 12: $165M - 2 MC-130J special operations aircraft: $240M - 11-24 MQ-9 Reaper drones across various locations: $165-360M - Additional losses include CH-47 helicopters, A-10s, and an MQ-4C naval drone in the Gulf Source: Al Jazeera

🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Iran war has cost U.S. between $2.3B and $2.8B in destroyed military equipment - 3 F-15E/F-15EX fighters lost in Kuwait on March 1: $309M - 1-2 AN/TPY-2 radar systems destroyed: $485-970M - 1 E-3 AWACS/E-7 surveillance aircraft lost in Saudi Arabia on March 27: $700M