🇬🇧 Former UK Ambassador to Yemen Edmund Fitton-Brown:
"They could help to drive the Saudi and Emiratis together in the same way that the Iranian and Hezbollah overreach has driven the Israeli government and Lebanese government together."
🇸🇦🇾🇪 The strike on Sana'a International Airport used Storm Shadow cruise missiles. British-made, likely fired from Saudi jets operating inside Saudi airspace.
While Houthi ballistic missiles are heading the other direction into Saudi Arabia.
This is now a full exchange between two countries technically not at war with each other.
🇺🇸 Trump sued the IRS over a tax return leak. Dropped the case. The DOJ then announced a $1.8 billion fund, a formal apology, and a permanent ban on the IRS auditing him.
A federal judge today called the whole thing a scheme to launder a sweetheart deal through the court system for legitimacy it couldn't get any other way.
She sanctioned the lawyers, referred them to bar associations, then quoted John Adams:
🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. Army's Iran blockade is on a legal clock
Not live yet, shipping firms get a legally required 24-hour notice first, and the U.S. Army drops the exact start time later today.
Trump's calling it the "Iranian blockade," it only hits Iranian ships and Iran's clients, everyone else sails the Strait of Hormuz freely, the chokepoint a big slice of the world's oil runs through.
The U.S. is renaming itself "Guardian of the Strait of Hormuz."
There's a 20% toll too, a cut of every cargo's value through the strait, pitched as security costs.
🇮🇷 IRGC-linked newspaper Hamshahri dropped an AI-generated image showing Trump, Netanyahu, Meloni, Merz, Macron, Starmer and others in orange prison jumpsuits titled “Revenge Is Inevitable.”
This comes right after Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei publicly called for retribution over his father’s death, naming a hit list of Western leaders as “priority targets” who “will carry the unfulfilled hope of dying peacefully in their beds.”
State media openly fantasizing about hunting presidents, prime ministers and U.S. officials, and the Supreme Leader acting as the main hardliner. Dark.
🇺🇸🇹🇷 Erdogan’s loving Trump’s recent compliments on Turkey and the NATO Summit.
He says they’ll keep working together to hit $100B in trade and push peace in the region.
Netanyahu’s probably not thrilled about this; closer U.S.-Turkey ties could give Ankara more room to flex in the eastern Mediterranean, where Israel already watches Turkey’s growing influence warily.
🇪🇺🇷🇺 The EU imported a record 9.89 million tons of LNG from Russia's Yamal plant in the first half of 2026 (nearly the entire facility's output) 6 months before its own ban on Russian LNG kicks in.
France, Belgium, and Spain led the buying. Cost: roughly €6 billion.
🇸🇦🇮🇷🇾🇪 Saudi Arabia bombed Sana'a airport's runway today to stop a Houthi delegation flying home from Khamenei's funeral. The plane landed anyway.
Ansarullah's senior official Mohammed al-Farah is now floating a full closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. A chokepoint that carries roughly 10% of global seaborne trade.
One failed airstrike, one threat to global shipping. That's the exchange rate right now.
🚨 BOOM! Iran kommt gerade völlig aus dem Tritt, nachdem Präsident Trump bekannt gegeben hat, dass das US-Militär die Kontrolle übernimmt und 20% GEBÜHREN für die Bewachung des Schiffsverkehrs durch die Straße von Hormus erhebt
Die Blockade ist zurück — gegen die Mullahs.
Sie dachten NICHT, dass 47 das wirklich durchziehen würde! 🔥
FOX: „Präsident Trump stellt eine US-Blockade für iranische Schiffe, die durch die Straße von Hormus fahren, wieder her, und sagt, dass die USA eine 20% Gebühr für die sichere Passage verlangen werden.“