SECURITY NOT GUARANTEED
ALERT 6/26/26
🇺🇸🗽⚡️- Osman Chaudhary, the co-chair of the New York City DSA Electoral Working Group, says that DSA politicians (excluding Mayor Mamdani) now represent over 3 million New Yorkers at multiple levels of government.
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🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- “Hormuz traffic sees a sharp day on day uptick.
Confirmed Strait of Hormuz crossings rose to 70 on 24 June, up 105% day on day, as de-mining efforts advanced and operators increasingly used the Omani route.
IRGC warnings against use of the Omani route could create a new source of contention,” - Kpler.
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🇾🇪🇸🇦🇮🇱⚡- Ansarullah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi delivered a series of unusually pointed remarks in a speech today.
Al-Houthi accused Saudi Arabia of “aggression” in Yemen, citing the blockade and alleged conspiracies against the Yemeni population—marking his first direct anti-Saudi rhetoric in recent months, despite similar threats from other senior Houthi officials. The remarks come amid Oman-mediated talksbetween Sana’a and Riyadh, worsening living conditions in areas controlled by the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council, which left dozens of protesters dead, and escalating fighting on the Ad Dali front.
The tone of the speech suggests a potential shift toward renewed confrontation with Saudi Arabia, following al-Houthi’s call for full-scale mobilization last week.
He also warned Somaliland of possible action, stating that pro-Ansarullah forces are closely monitoring developments there. The warning follows recent reports of an Israeli military presence operating in the separatist region.
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🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Latest Ohio polls show that Amy Acton is slightly ahead of Vivek Ramaswamy in the Governors race.
AARP Poll has it at Acton 47, Ramaswamy 44.
The Real Clear Politics average of all polls show Acton with a 1 point lead.
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🇺🇸⚡️- Representative Keith Self has introduced a bill to repeal the 17th Amendment, which was enacted during the Progressive Era, allowing the public rather than the state legislature to elect Senators.
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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Two Israeli airstrikes against Beit Yahoun, southern Lebanon, in clear violation of the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding.
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🇱🇧🇮🇱 - The situation in southern Lebanon over the past few hours:
- Israeli artillery began shelling northern Beit Yahoun, and the countryside between Aita El Jabel and the Beit Yahoun - Tebnine highway.
- The artillery fire was to provide IDF’s 679th Brigade cover to advance north of the town.
- Hezbollah launched an ambush on the advancing IDF troops.
- The ambush led to clashes between the two, lasting well over an hour.
- Israel responded with two airstrikes against Hezbollah positions in northern Beit Yahoun.
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🇮🇱🇦🇲🇹🇷⚡️- Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar of Israel is requesting the Government to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide, Israel currently is not part of the 32 countries to recognize the genocide despite PM Netanyahu saying last year it was a genocide.
This move only comes as a response to President Trump weighing the possible sale of F-35 Jets to Turkey.
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🇺🇸🗽⚡️- NYC Rent Guidelines Board has approved a 2 year rent freeze for over 1 million already rent-stabilized apartments.
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🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- “U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) is surging available assigned U.S. military forces in our region to support Department of State-led U.S. government relief operations in Venezuela, following the devastating earthquakes that struck the nation June 24, 2026. The interim Venezuelan authorities formally requested U.S. assistance in the aftermath.
SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan has directed significant forces to the effort, including the amphibious transport ship USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) and the littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS 15). C-17 Globemaster and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft will also support, along with reconnaissance platforms and rotary-wing aircraft.
U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Jarrard is en route to Caracas, Venezuela, to oversee Department of War support to Venezuela earthquake relief efforts. “ - US Southern Command.
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🇺🇸⚡️- The US Army is creating a dedicated Space Operations Branch, bringing officers and enlisted specialists into a single career field for the first time. The branch will include around 1,000 enlisted billets, with plans to expand toward 1,500 by 2032 across the active force, National Guard, and Army Reserve.
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BREAKING: Billionaire Larry Ellison has cut 21,000 jobs at Oracle as AI increasingly replaces human workers.
@GeneralMCNews
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BREAKING: John Fetterman says he no longer recognizes the Democratic Party because it has essentially become the anti-Israel party.
@GeneralMCNews
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BREAKING - Switzerland records hottest ever June day at 38C: weather agency bit.ly/4vuziC2
Follow @InsiderPaper for more news
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🇮🇶⚡️ — Iraq is facing a financial crisis following a sharp drop in oil exports caused by the Iran war, Reuters reports.
➡️ Iraqi officials have considered leaving OPEC but currently plan to remain and push for a higher production quota, warning that if the quota is not significantly increased, they will be forced to consider all available options.
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🇺🇸🕊🇮🇷 US-Iran deal may leave Netanyahu as biggest casualty
The biggest casualty of the U.S.-Iran deal may not be Israel’s Iran strategy, but the political brand Benjamin Netanyahu spent decades building as the Israeli leader who could uniquely bend Washington to his will on Iran, analysts, former U.S. officials and diplomats say.
Netanyahu shaped his political identity on an audacious assertion: that he alone could keep the U.S. and Israel in strategic lockstep on Iran. Cultivating Republican support, he cast himself as the only Israeli leader capable of influencing successive U.S. presidents and insisted that only sustained military pressure could contain Tehran.
At the height of his power, he was described by diplomats as the “American whisperer” — the Israeli leader who could pick up the phone and ensure Washington’s strategic calculus aligned with that of Israel. No other Israeli prime minister, they note, addressed Congress as often or built such enduring political capital across the American political system.
But analysts say Washington and Tehran’s interim pact to end the war that the U.S. and Israel launched in February shows how that narrative has been reversed. Rather than shaping Washington’s Iran policy, Netanyahu is now forced to accept it, as U.S. President Donald Trump pursues a settlement that increasingly treats Israeli objections as constraints.
At home, the reckoning is equally stark, said former U.S. official Dennis Ross. Netanyahu is increasingly boxed in between a U.S. president intent on ending the conflict and a domestic base resistant to concessions, particularly in Lebanon, he said. Withdrawal risks political backlash while escalation risks confrontation with Washington.
The war Netanyahu hoped would cement his legacy as the leader who confronted Iran may instead be remembered as the conflict that dismantled a central source of his power. Isolated abroad, constrained by his closest ally and vulnerable ahead of an autumn election, he now finds the political asset on which he built his career has become his greatest liability.
At the outset of the war with Iran, Netanyahu promised ultimate victory. He delivered neither the collapse of Iran’s ruling system, nor the defeat of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, nor safe return for residents of northern Israel.
🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-iran-deal-may-leave-netanyahu-biggest-casualty-2026-06-24/
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🇮🇱📉 The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange index, TASE, is now down 22% the past month
Its market cap has fell to 12.7 billion shekels, erasing all gains made during the 3rd Gulf War
@CIG_telegram
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Rubio: The Iranian regime is still led by extremist clerics. This has always been the case, and it continues to be so today.
🔗 Open Source Intel (@Osint613)
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🇺🇸⚡- In an additional decision, the Supreme Court, in another 6-3 ruling, ruled that non-citizens arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border did not automatically register as asylum seekers, and can be turned away.
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🎡 🇺🇸 🎠 A 110-foot Ferris wheel, a rodeo, and a scaled-down replica of President Trump’s proposed ‘Triumphal Arch’ have risen on the National Mall as part of preparations for the United States’ 250th birthday celebrations
📎 Reuters
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 Netanyahu reportedly convinced Trump Israel should not withdraw from southern Lebanon
Sources to Yedioth Ahronoth familiar with the Lebanon-Israel negotiations to said today that the fifth round of talks has been the most difficult so far. Israeli officials also said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced US President Donald Trump that Tel Aviv should not withdraw from southern Lebanon while remaining committed to a full ‘ceasefire.’ Under this framework, Israel would supposedly not initiate attacks but would retain the right to act against threats and respond to attacks.
Israeli officials said both Israeli and Lebanese negotiators are frustrated by the inclusion of a Lebanon-related clause in the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, which Washington allegedly added without consulting either side due to Iranian pressure.
Officials in Israel and the US believe current political conditions make it highly unlikely Netanyahu will approve withdrawals from Lebanon, especially ahead of elections. As a result, US efforts are focused on the pilot-zone issue rather than withdrawal.
On Iran, Israeli officials assess that Washington is unlikely to resume military action before the US midterm elections in November. They believe Trump could adopt a tougher stance afterward if he concludes Tehran is acting in bad faith.
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🇮🇱📊🗳 As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces corruption charges and declining poll numbers, critics argue that Israel’s ongoing wars have become closely tied to his political survival.
But even if Netanyahu loses power, many analysts say the ideology and political system that helped sustain these wars may remain firmly in place
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🇺🇸❌🕊 In the last day or two, the US has simultaneously attempted to undermine the MOU by coercing Oman into opening up their own route through the Strait of Hormuz, and by favoring only a limited IOF withdrawal from Lebanon using their “pilot zones”. On top of that, it’s still unclear whether the US is serious about further impeding the flow of frozen funds.
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Nvidia’s 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
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📢 🇺🇸 🛠 Trump declares war on communists. After DSA wins, led by Mamdani’s support, in NYC, Trump says:
“The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. It’s easy to be a Communist — All you have to do is say, “I’ll give you everything,” but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it. Over thousands of years, that Ideology has not worked once. The game is on. Enjoy watching! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
📎 AF Post
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — President Trump on Iran:
We have a new market coming up, and that’s called The Lovely Country of Iran. It’s a beautiful place. Would anybody like to go there?
They’re having a hard time with food and we’re going to be taking some of their money and we’ll spend it and we’re going to be buying wheat, soybeans, and corn, a lot of it, and that process is going to be starting soon.
It’s going to be big.
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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike against Nabatieh’s al-Fawqa district, southern Lebanon.
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🇻🇪⚡- The death toll resulting from the earthquake has more than doubled to 589, according to the Venezuelan Interim President Delcy Rodriguez.
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🇨🇳⚡️ — A small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s 109-story CITIC Tower (10th tallest building in the world) after deviating from its assigned flight path while returning to Shifosi Airport.
➡️ The aircraft is apparently an SA60L “Aurora.”
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🇵🇭⚠️ — A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck Mindanao, Philippines, at a depth of 41.4km. An estimated 6.4 million people felt the quake, with 168,100 heavily affected. No tsunami threat reported
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🇷🇺🇷🇺⚠️ — A state of emergency of a regional nature has been introduced in Crimea and Sevastopol following Ukrainian strikes on energy and fuel facilities, reports RIA Novosti
https://t.me/rian_ru/341100
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Most people do not realize how many tech giants are already deep bear market territory.
Tech Stocks From Record Highs:
1. Coinbase, $COIN: -69%
2. Oracle, $ORCL: -57%
3. Salesforce, $CRM: -57%
4. ServiceNow, $NOW: -56%
5. Netflix, $NFLX: -48%
6. Palantir, $PLTR: -48%
7. Microsoft, $MSFT: -37%
8. Meta, $META: -32%
9. Arm Holdings, $ARM: -27%
10. Broadcom, $AVGO: -26%
11. Marvell Technology, $MRVL: -20%
12. Nvidia, $NVDA: -19%
13. Amazon, $AMZN: -19%
14. Alphabet, $GOOGL: -17%
15. CrowdStrike, $CRWD: -15%
16. Apple, $AAPL: -14%
17. Taiwan Semiconductor, $TSM: -12%
The S&P 500 won’t tell you this.
(@TheKobeissiLetter)
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—❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇪 BREAKING: Missile and drone alerts in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
— Probably drones launched from southern Iran towards shipping in Strait of Hormuz.
Sometimes activates alerts in UAE if trajectory is similar.
🔴 UAE SENDS AN ALERT SAYING THE SITUATION IS NOW SAFE. ...
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‼️🇷🇺Russia may be preparing a hybrid attack against NATO countries, — The Guardian
Western sources admit that Moscow may resort to a limited hybrid attack against NATO countries to test the Alliance’s unity and the US’s readiness to fulfill its allied obligations.
▪️The Baltic states and Poland are named among the potentially vulnerable areas.
▪️According to sources, this does not involve a full-scale military invasion, but rather possible missile strikes, drone attacks, or other provocations.
▪️The Baltic states believe that such actions could be aimed at increasing pressure on Western states to reduce military support for Ukraine.
⚠️. RV:
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BREAKING: Israel’s National Security Minister says the ceasefire in Lebanon cannot hold, and Israel is ready for a massive bombing campaign.
@GeneralMCNews
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🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 The IRGC claims that Israeli military aircraft “are flying in neighboring airspace” and views them as a direct threat. Tehran says it will respond if the U.S. fails to restrain Israel.
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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 Netanyahu Defies US Pressure, Vows Long-Term Lebanon Presence and Iran Nuclear Halt
During an address at a combat officers’ graduation ceremony, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed Israel’s long-term defense strategy. He declared that Israeli forces will maintain their presence in southern Lebanon’s security zone indefinitely to ensure regional stability. Additionally, Netanyahu issued a firm stance against Iran’s nuclear ambitions, vowing to halt weapon development despite ongoing diplomatic pressure from the United States.
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BREAKING: 🇺🇸 NYC officially approves a rent freeze on nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments in a major win for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
@Megatron_ron
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🇩🇪 Germany’s Chancellor Merz says at the moment, Germany is losing between 300 and 500 jobs every single day. Every day, a double-digit number of companies also file for insolvency.
@Megatron_ron
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The Israeli Air Force struck and killed seven Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon this morning, after they were identified transporting weapons near Israel’s security zone, the military says.
The IDF says the operatives were spotted by troops of the Egoz Commando Unit near the village of Manzala moving weapons into a structure “used as a combat and observation post” and to prepare to carry out attacks on troops.
“The terrorists’ actions at the post alongside the presence of the weapons within it constituted a threat to the soldiers,” the military says.
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“75% of US GDP Growth due to AI“ — ZeroHedge reporting this today. I had written about this in a recent substack:
“Our entire global human economy has literally become an engine of the technocratic elite’s psychological operations...”
full piece: https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/ai-shock-troops-at-trillion-dollar
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Photos of dead corn & sunflower crops across the EU are flooding X, like this corn field in Poitou-Charentes, France.
The heatwave and dry spell has been particularly devastating to farms without irrigation, with some analysts estimating up to 15% of the corn crop has been lost.
(source)
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🇮🇷🇴🇲🇺🇸⚡️ — An Iranian official told NYT that Tehran was angered after Oman allowed ships to transit the Strait of Hormuz via alternative routes without coordinating with Iran’s IRGC, saying the move undermined Iran’s control of the strategic waterway.
➡️ The dispute prompted Iran to launch a drone toward a vessel in the strait, effectively halting maritime traffic.
➡️ The official said Oman is caught between cooperating with Iran on managing the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. pressure to keep it open without transit fees, adding that Oman cannot guarantee shipping security without Iran and that Tehran will not accept third-party involvement in managing the waterway.
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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇧🇭 How Iran Devastated an American Naval Base—and Caused a U.S. Recalculation
Satellite imagery reveals for the first time the extent of what Iran destroyed at Naval Support Activity Bahrain.
The military is now considering revamping the base in Bahrain, reducing the U.S. presence in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and moving some bases or base functions west, farther from the reach of Iranian missiles and drones, according to the officials familiar with the deliberations.
Structures that were attacked may not be rebuilt. Command and control nodes could be moved underground. And military capabilities could become more spread out across the region, the officials said, though they cautioned that no decisions had been made.
Israel is one of the locations being considered for basing, according to two of the officials. The country hosted dozens of U.S. aircraft, including jet fighters and refueling planes, during the war.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated in a report published Tuesday that the total cost of the war was about $40 billion. That estimate included their calculus of $2.2 billion to $5.1 billion in damage to U.S. bases, based on structures that CSIS identified as damaged.
The Journal used satellite images and social-media footage to identify which buildings on the Bahrain base were damaged. To estimate what it would cost to construct buildings of the same types today, the Journal reviewed a publicly available Defense Department cost model as well as procurement reports. The estimates only cover construction, and don’t include other costs that could factor into the total if the buildings were to be rebuilt, such as debris removal and reinforcement.
The estimated construction costs at NSA Bahrain totaled about $400 million.
https://archive.fo/20260626055216/https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-us-naval-base-bahrain-e87bbca3
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🇮🇱⚔️🇪🇬 “Fifteen years from now, Israel will have a war with Egypt.”
Zionist activist Amiad Cohen tells Jewish News Syndicate Summit in Israel that a war with Egypt is on the horizon.
🔗 Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 (@infolibnews)
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🇨🇳🐣📉 Chinese kindergartens in crisis as enrolments plunge 25% in 4 years | July 2025
Demographic decline hits vast education system as drop-off in births leads to school closures
Enrolments in China’s kindergartens have declined by 12mn children between 2020 and 2024, from a peak of 48mn, according to data from the country’s ministry of education. The number of kindergartens, serving Chinese children aged 3-5, has also fallen by 41,500 from a high of nearly 295,000 in 2021.
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🇩🇪 Volkswagen to axe up to 100,000 jobs in sweeping cost-cutting drive
Restructuring follows blockbuster sale of marine engines unit to US private equity firm Bain
Volkswagen is planning to cut up to 100,000 jobs and end production at four plants in Germany in a significant acceleration of its cost-cutting plans as Europe’s largest carmaker seeks to survive the rapid advance of Chinese rivals.
The Wolfsburg-based company had already laid out plans to cut 50,000 jobs in Germany by the end of 2030 and has said it wants to reduce its car manufacturing capacity in the country by 500,000 units.
The latest plan, first reported by German outlet Manager Magazin, could lead the headcount to be slashed by another 50,000, according to one person familiar with the plan.
https://archive.fo/20260626090843/https://www.ft.com/content/d0760eaf-d345-4964-b2ae-f55f6dfd9a4a
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🛢 We Are ‘Still’ Going Full Speed Into The Wall
Product storage is about to get tighter unless China steps in and lifts the product export ban. If it does, expect a meaningful reversal in crude.
WTI is barely hanging on to $70 for its dear life, but please remember that consumers use petroleum products like gasoline and diesel; they don’t use crude oil. Refineries do, and this is why it was always important for us to pay attention to crack spreads along with crude timespreads.
Note: Please divide it by 3.
The fever in the market today is that crude is oversupplied, but products are undersupplied. How can this be possible?
Well, China’s June crude import data so far is -4.7 million b/d y-o-y, and teapot refineries are operating at 50% utilization. Compared to US refineries operating at 95% and PADD 2 refineries operating over 100%, you can see where the disconnect is.
But here’s the thing. If end-user demand isn’t down and you still have a production shut-in of ~8 million b/d, you are losing barrels in one form or another. Yes, China might not be importing crude, but it is drawing down product inventory. No one has visibility into how much China has in products right now, but it can’t be far from very low levels.
The same could be said for product inventories across the globe. Elevated crack spreads are a sign that despite higher refinery throughput in the coming weeks/months, the world still doesn’t have enough products. You can see this in the price action in the spreads.
🔗 https://www.hfir.com/p/we-are-still-going-full-speed-into
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🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇸⚡️ — NOW: Israel and Lebanon have officially signed a U.S.-brokered framework agreement in Washington.
➡️ The two countries will launch formal talks at the official level.
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BREAKING: Switzerland’s Beznau nuclear plant halts operations due to heatwave: operator
READ: https://t.co/jUyYXGa7dB
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🇻🇪⚡️- Around 50000 people are missing due to the earthquakes in Venezuela, according to the AFP quoting a UN official.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “The Islamic Republic of Iran shot at least four One Way Attack Drones at Ships transversing the Strait of Hormuz. One of the Drones solidly hit the upper deck of a large and very expensive Cargo Carrying Ship. Damage was done, but the Ship was able to proceed on its way. We knocked down three other Drones. Obviously, this is a foolish violation of our Ceasefire Agreement. President DONALD J. TRUMP” - President Trump on Truth Social.
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🇻🇪⚡️- The death toll from the earthquakes in Venezuela has been updated to 920 deaths.
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🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israel claims it controls the strategic Ali al-Taher heights, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Hezbollah denies Israeli control over the Ali al-Taher heights, Nabatieh direction, southern Lebanon. Hezbollah maintains the hill remains under its control.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇱🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱The full text of the Israel-Lebanon framework agreement. Key provisions include:
1. End the conflict and formally work toward ending the state of war.
2. Israel will withdraw from Lebanon in phases as security conditions are met.
3. The Lebanese Armed Forces will gradually assume control of security across the country.
4. Hezbollah and all other non-state armed groups must be completely and verifiably disarmed.
5. Israel says it has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon and will leave once security threats are removed.
6. Lebanon reaffirms that only the Lebanese state has the authority to wage war and maintain armed forces.
7. A US-backed military coordination and verification mechanism will oversee implementation of the agreement.
8. Both sides commit to a sovereign, secure Lebanon free of armed groups threatening either country.
9. The US will support and strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces, with assistance tied to verified progress.
10. The US will coordinate international reconstruction, humanitarian aid and economic recovery for Lebanon.
11. Lebanon and the US will prevent funds and reconstruction assistance from reaching Hezbollah or other armed groups.
12. Israel and Lebanon will establish working groups to negotiate a comprehensive peace and security agreement.
13. Both sides will cease hostile political and legal actions and cooperate on the return of detainees and human remains.
14. Israel and Lebanon acknowledge the US role in the agreement and express appreciation for President Donald Trump’s leadership.
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🇺🇸🇦🇪❌🇮🇷❗️ — BREAKING: President Donald Trump CONFIRMED that Iranian one-way attack drones targeted commercial shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz, with at least four drones launched during the incident.
▶️Trump stated that one drone struck a cargo vessel, causing damage, while the ship was able to continue its journey.
▶️He added that U.S. forces intercepted and shot down the remaining three drones.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 CENTCOM: U.S. forces conducted airstrikes on Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal radar positions on June 26, calling it a “powerful response” to Iran’s one-way drone attack on the cargo ship M/V Ever Lovely in the Strait of Hormuz.
The statement is vowing to keep coordinating safe passage for commercial traffic through the strait.
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🇱🇧❌🇱🇧🇱🇧🇮🇷❗️ — Shiite Hezbollah and Amal thugs have begun gathering in Al-Musharafieh, southern suburb, Dahye, to protest the signing of the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel.
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🇺🇸🇸🇦🗺❌🇮🇷❗️ — URGENT: In response to the recent U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, Iran is widely expected to retaliate against U.S. military bases and strategic assets across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states and the wider Middle East.
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🇮🇷🇮🇷❗️ — IRGC’s Public Relations office:
Following the ceasefire violation by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon, a few hours ago, the treaty-breaking US regime, as always, violated its commitments and, under various pretexts, attacked the coasts of the Islamic Republic of Iran with an airstrike due to the passage of a violating ship through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responded to this aggression by striking the positions of the US terrorist army in the region.
According to clause 5 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, the arrangements for controlling passage in the Strait of Hormuz are with the Islamic Republic of Iran; however, the US, by provoking various parties, sought to violate this commitment, which was met with the necessary response and will be so from now on. If the aggression is repeated, our response will be broader than this.
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POTENTIAL SIGNAL OF INTERNAL DIVISIONS WITHIN IRANIAN LEADERSHIP
RAISI SAID THOSE OUTSIDE IRAN’S SUPREME NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL DO NOT KNOW THE FULL DETAILS OF ITS DELIBERATIONS, BUT CLAIMED TO HAVE INFORMATION THAT A SENIOR IRANIAN OFFICIAL THREATENED TO RESIGN IF A U.S. AGREEMENT WAS NOT SIGNED.
ACCORDING TO RAISI, MILITARY COMMANDERS FACED A CHOICE BETWEEN OPPOSING THE AGREEMENT AND RISKING A POLITICAL VACUUM AND RENEWED DOMESTIC UNREST, ULTIMATELY OPTING FOR WHAT HE DESCRIBED AS THE “LESSER OF TWO BAD OPTIONS.” ...
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— One aspect that few will likely address is that this earthquake basically destroyed, wiped out what little remained of Caracas’ middle class.
If the death toll truly surpasses 10,000-50,000 as some predict, it will have caused damage as great as the 20 years of the Chavista regime, on an irreparable scale in the medium term.
La Guaira was one of the last nominally stable havens in Greater Caracas and, notably, one of the few areas where a stable middle class, with a notable environment filled with small and medium-sized businesses and family-owned enterprises, was visible.
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IRAN HAS REITERATED THAT THE SECURITY ENVIRONMENT IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED FOLLOWING THE U.S. ATTACK, WARNING THAT VESSELS MUST USE ROUTES DESIGNATED BY IRAN OR THEIR SECURITY CANNOT BE GUARANTEED.