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🇮🇷🇮🇱🇦🇪 Iran is claiming Israel ran false flag drone attacks against the UAE to drag the Emirates into the conflict. The UAE hosts major US military bases, has a fragile neutrality in this war, and has been one of the few stable economic corridors left in the region. If true, Israel was trying to open a fourth front. If false, Iran is trying to drive a wedge between the US and one of its most important Gulf partners. Either way someone is playing a very dirty game in Emirati airspace. Source: Tasnim News

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran will promise not to build a bomb. The US wants the uranium physically gone. Sold, shipped, or diluted. Those are not the same thing and both sides know it. On Hormuz, Iran wants management rights. Rubio said 2 weeks ago that's a red line. Nothing has moved. Qatar is trying to bridge the financial gap with a $12 billion humanitarian loan. That's Doha doing what Doha does, writing checks to keep everyone at the table. And Lebanon just got pulled into the framework, which means Hezbollah is now formally part of whatever gets negotiated. This isn't 95% of a deal. It's 4 separate negotiations running simultaneously with no agreement on any of them. Source: Amit Segal,Channel 12

🇶🇦🇮🇷 Qatar is offering Iran $12 billion the moment they sign. They call it a humanitarian loan. Sounds more like a signing bonus. Doha has made itself indispensable to every party in this conflict simultaneously, mediating for the US, funding Iran, hosting Hamas, basing American forces.

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🇮🇱 Smotrich approved $700 million for drone defense and called it insufficient in the same breath. For every drone that hits Israel, ten buildings in Beirut should fall. He said it clearly and chose those words in front of a camera. He signed the budget, then made clear the shields are just the beginning. The offensive campaign is the actual strategy. Smotrich is using a defense budget to make an offensive argument. That's a political move as much as a military one. Source: Reuters