🇸🇦🤝🇵🇰🤝🇹🇷 — Pakistan's foreign ministry announced the signing of the joint defense agreement with Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

➡️The defense agreement stipulates that any attack against one of the three countries is considered an attack against all of them.

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🇹🇷🤝🇪🇬- CNN turkey question to Turkey’s Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz:

For example, could Egypt potentially join the new defense agreement?

Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz responds:

Why not? Egypt is, of course, a very valuable country and an important power — militarily, geographically, and in terms of population. Therefore, in the coming period, there may be new participants joining this structure.

🇬🇷🤝🇦🇪- Greece is evaluating the deployment of a pair of AH-64D Apache attack helicopters to the United Arab Emirates to support counter-drone operations, a measure based on a bilateral defense agreement established in 2020.

🇮🇷‼️- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has boarded and seized a vessel.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 - Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohammad-Bagher Zolghadr says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed unless the United States:

• Ends military threats and attacks against Iran
• Withdraws U.S. forces operating near Iran
• Lifts sanctions
• Releases frozen Iranian assets
• Pays compensation for war-related damage

The statement reinforces Tehran’s position that any reopening of the strait depends on broader political concessions from Washington, despite ongoing indirect negotiations over maritime access.

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🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 – The IDF struck Mansouri, southern Lebanon, with three artillery shells a few moments ago.

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⚡️🇺🇸 – Todd Blanche was confirmed by the Senate to be Attorney General in a narrow 50-49 vote, following weeks of political turmoil.

▶️ The confirmation took so long because of bipartisan concerns on Blanche's independence, since he helped establish a tax-immunity agreement for Trump and his sons, and on his handling of Epstein-related documents, one of the things that caused his predecessor's downfall.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 – The Israeli Channel 12 claims that "contrary to statements, security officials have been discussing in recent days the possibility of limited IDF withdrawals within the Gaza Strip, and the deployment of multinational forces in their place."

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🇮🇷⁉️- Reports of intense fighter jet activity over Tehran

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 – Ukraine was unable of downing a single Russian missile during last night's attack, with only drones and 'Banderol' loitering munitions being intercepted.

▶️ None of the Iskander-M/S-400 (ballistic), Onyx (anti-ship), or Kh-31P (anti-radar) missiles were intercepted. Ukraine also admitted to direct hits in at least 22 locations, with additional damage due to falling debris in another 6.

▶️ The main target of the attack was Odessa.

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🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵 - The latest Intervention effort to save the Yen likely costs Tokyo and Washington close to $100B. The yen rebounded from the historically low level of 164 per dollar and is stabilizing at 158 per dollar.

BOJ alone spent $87B in two days, a much larger amount than the previous rounds. The US Treasury Department committed between $5B to $10B.

The intervention involved a controversial decision by the Treasury to use its Euro denominated assets instead of Dollar assets. The Euro sale raised serious alarms among the European capitals, who had not been informed in advance. The move adds to the EU's long list of grievances against the Trump administration and may increase the risk of EU going for the nuclear option to dump US assets in a future dispute.

The Dollar and the US bond market has been under severe pressure, with the 10-year yield climbing almost 80 basis points since the beginning of the war in Iran. Had Washington used the dollar instead of euro to fund the intervention, it would put further selling pressure on the bond market.

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