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@visegrad24 It was hunted down by Iranian electronic warfare systems. I had written about this three to six days ago.

The U.S. Navy has officially confirmed that an MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone crashed in the Persian Gulf region on April 9, 2026, although not specify the cause of the incident.

@BRICSinfo Finally, the entire sea route is about to be blocked.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran's military spokesperson warns they will disrupt Red Sea shipping if US blockade continues on the Strait of Hormuz.

@WarMonitor3 That's a one week old story.

Iran used Chinese spy satellites to help target US Bases around the Middle East-FT Wow…

@WarMonitor3 x.com/i/status/20442…

US navy destroyer intercepted two Iranian tankers attempting to sneak out of Irans furtherest South East port of Chabahar yesterday forcing them to turn around.

@sentdefender I shared it a week ago - Mizar Vision x.com/i/status/20419…

Iran secretly used a ‌Chinese spy satellite during the recent war that gave its military new capability to target U.S. military bases across the ‌Middle ⁠East, sources tell the ⁠Financial Times.

@WarMonitor3 Iran's core demand is the release of its frozen assets. If the US does so, other matters will also fall into place.

There is reports that renewed talks between Iran and the US could take place in Islamabad Pakistan within the next 48 hours.

@WarMonitor3 On the other hand, Pakistan advocates for peace between the US and Iran, it has been unable to maintain peace within its own borders; Balochistan Liberation Army has attacked the Pakistan Coast Guard.

The Spanish government has just launched a major initiative to legalise its illegal immigrant population.

🚨 Overwatch Alert An Indian Navy P 8 surveillance aircraft has just taken off from Pudupattinam near Kalpakkam, around 70 km south of Chennai, positioned along a critical Bay of Bengal maritime corridor. This is not routine. The P 8 is designed for ISR, reconnaissance and maritime domain awareness, often used to track naval movement, monitor shipping lanes, and support strategic surveillance across the Indian Ocean region. With regional tensions rising, this sortie likely indicates active monitoring or intelligence gathering linked to ongoing developments at sea. What exactly is India tracking in the Indian Ocean right now?

What is the use of this? It was not the Lebanese government that fight against Israel; it was Hezbollah. The Lebanese government fears that a civil war might erupt if it attempts to rein in Hezbollah. Under these circumstances, what purpose does this meeting serve? All of this is merely a charade.

JUST IN: 🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel and Lebanon to hold face-to-face talks in the US today.

@aditiraaaj @grok @grok do it.

Hey @grok, make these cables look organized.

@MOSSADil Some claim that this is coming from the UAE; however, they fail to realize that this is a vessel that has already been sanctioned by the US.

🟥Sanctioned Chinese Tanker Transits Hormuz Despite Blockade A Chinese tanker sanctioned by the United States transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday despite ongoing US enforcement measures targeting Iranian maritime traffic, according to Reuters citing shipping data. The vessel, identified as Rich Starry, is reported to be the first tanker to exit the Persian Gulf since the blockade measures were implemented. Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil

@BRICSinfo A US-sanctioned China-linked tanker has already crossed the Strait of Hormuz and is heading into the blockade zone can the US actually stop it?

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Sanctioned Chinese-linked tanker crosses Strait of Hormuz despite US naval blockade.

@DrJStrategy Indian naval base located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands will choke the Strait of Malacca.

Food for thought. Trump’s Deal With Indonesia: Mahan at the Strait of Malacca Hu Jintao warned China about this moment more than twenty years ago. In 2003, the then Chinese president coined the phrase “Malacca dilemma” to describe a simple, brutal fact: the country’s economic rise depended on foreign oil sailing through a narrow strait that other powers could, in a crisis, choose to close. Most of China’s imported crude and gas still squeezes through that same bottleneck between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The US has just moved to wire that vulnerability, and it is no accident this is happening on Donald Trump’s watch. Washington’s new Major Defense Cooperation Partnership with Indonesia is being sold in the usual diplomatic euphemisms: capacity building, maritime security, joint training. Strip away the boilerplate and you see something far sharper. The agreement’s focus on maritime domain awareness, subsurface and autonomous systems, and special forces training is about giving Indonesia and by extension the U.S. and its allies, a far richer picture of everything that moves between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, and greater ability to shape it in a crisis. As with Trump’s broader Indo‑Pacific posture, this is one more move to reassert the US as the pre‑eminent maritime power of the age, and to ensure China feels that reality every time a tanker clears the Strait. Hu’s “Malacca dilemma” was never only about a single shipping lane. It was about the geometry of China’s energy dependence. Oil from the Gulf and Africa has to arrive by sea. The shortest, cheapest route runs past India, through Malacca and adjacent Indonesian straits, and then up into waters where the U.S. Navy and its partners have operated for decades. A coalition that can see, track and, if necessary, interdict that flow holds a lever over China’s economy that no amount of rhetoric about multipolarity can wish away. More than a century ago, Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that sea power, fleets, chokepoints and maritime commerce, would decide the fate of great powers. The Malacca dilemma is Mahan’s theory rendered in modern energy terms: a continental power whose trade and fuel move by sea lives or dies by access to narrow maritime bottlenecks policed by others. Trump’s Indonesia move is pure Mahan: rather than chasing dominance on land, Washington is tightening its grip on the sea lanes and straits through which China’s economic lifeblood must flow. Beijing has spent two decades trying to escape this trap with pipelines from Central Asia and Russia, a corridor through Myanmar and a “string of pearls” of ports from Gwadar to Djibouti. Yet the volumes tell a less reassuring story: overland routes move at the margin, while the bulk of China’s energy still comes by tanker and still passes through Southeast Asian chokepoints. The dilemma has been managed, not resolved. That is why Indonesia matters. Jakarta insists it is not choosing sides and will continue to balance between Washington and Beijing. It doesn’t have to do more than that for this pact to bite. As Indonesian officers train with American counterparts and integrate U.S.‑supplied surveillance and patrol systems, the operational environment quietly changes. Chinese planners contemplating a crisis over Taiwan, the South China Sea or even a clash around Hormuz now have to assume that traffic through Malacca and its alternatives will unfold under a web of sensors and partnerships that lean, in practice if not in rhetoric, toward Washington. Another move by President Trump, in other words. From rebuilding American shipyards to pouring money into Indo‑Pacific maritime forces, the pattern is clear: the United States intends to remain a maritime superpower, and to make China live with Hu Jintao’s old nightmare instead of escaping it. Mahan would have recognised the logic instantly: in the end, it is the power that commands the sea, and the straits, that sets the terms for everyone else.

No one will heed the words spoken by Pakistan in the role of a mediator; neither Iran nor the US will listen to it. Switzerland has stated that it is ready to mediate; therefore, let them handle this issue. At the very least, Iran and the US will listen to at least a portion of what they have to say.

JUST IN: 🇵🇰 Pakistan proposes hosting second round of talks between US and Iran before the ceasefire ends.

Open-source satellite intelligence confirms US carrier deployment: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) was identified in the Gulf of Oman via Sentinel-2 imagery dated April 11, 2026, positioned 108 NM south of Iran and accompanied by two likely Arleigh Burke-class destroyers at 6.5–7 NM escort distance, indicating an active, structured carrier strike group presence.

@iYogiBabu @elonmusk @nikitabier Please take note of this, he is an actor from Tamil Nadu, India.

@BRICSinfo During the second phase of the war, astonishing reports are emerging from Iran; it appears that they have received the packages from China.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran's IRGC warns it will reveal weapons and military capabilities the enemy has no "conception" of if war resumes.

At times, he seems to believe that wherever he goes, he is free to park his vehicle anywhere he pleases. He is the very person who repeatedly claimed to have stopped eight wars and asserted that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for doing so. Since his bid for that prize was rejected, he has continued to incite wars. I think he is frustrated.

Trump-“We may stop by Cuba when we are finished with Iran.”

@WarMonitor3 Nothing has ended! Following the failed negotiations, we are now about to witness the second phase of the war.

Trump-"Iran was going to take over the Middle East and destroy Israel we stopped them."