🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️— The US Treasury has extended the authorization for negotiations and contingent contracts to sell Lukoil International GmbH until November 21, 2026.

OFAC license also permits the maintenance and winding down of Lukoil International operations, but it does not authorize the release of blocked assets or transfers to accounts in Russia.

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🇮🇱❌🇮🇷🇺🇸 — CONFIRMED: Dozens of Israeli fighter jets flew toward Iran's border on Monday in what Israel described as a deterrence exercise.

However, some U.S. officials suspected Israel was deliberately trying to provoke Iran into firing at its aircraft, potentially providing a justification for renewed strikes against Iran.

The operation followed reports that Netanyahu had urged Trump to consider another attack on Iran.

— Axios

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Scot Bessent:

“Whether you are conducting illegal oil transfers at sea or sitting in the corner office of a law firm, if you are supporting the Iranian regime, we will find you and sanction you.

Iran’s facilitators must make a choice: Either you are with us or against us.”

We know who you are, we know what you’re doing, and we will continue to take action.

🇷🇺🇩🇪⚡️— Dmitry Medvedev mocks German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for stating that his top concern is Russia's influence on German society.

“My biggest concern at the moment is not our economy, is not the European Union, is not America, is not Chinа. My biggest concern is the impact of Russia on our society," said Merz, the grandson of a Nazi.

Great chancellor! How lucky you Germans are 😂

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️— A Ukrainian helicopter shot down a Geran drone, causing it to crash into a residential building in Lozovaya, Kharkov Oblast.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — We are approaching the end of the war in Ukraine. Peace in Ukraine is closer than ever - Trump.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Smoke rises over the coastal city of Sirik, Hormozgan Province, Iran, following a U.S. airstrike targeting an anti-ship cruise missile launcher.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — The MQ-9 Reaper drone used by the U.S. to target the missile launcher was shot down.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are confirming Trump’s statements about peace coming soon and are striking several Ukrainian cities at the same time.

Rivne, Sumy, Kiev and the surrounding areas are under attack.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Eight ballistic missiles came into Kiev.

Apparently, not a single one was shot down.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — more videos from Kiev.

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🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Israeli fighter jet are currently flying over Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, near the Iranian border.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — U.S. Department of State spokesperson Thomas “Tommy” Pigott denied reports that the department was preparing to order the evacuation of government employees and their family members across the Gulf.

He clarified that an ordered departure had been issued only for non-emergency U.S. government employees and their family members in Saudi Arabia.

Despite the denial, NBC News reported that the U.S. was evacuating its employees and diplomats.

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🇾🇪🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) announced that King Fahd International Airport in Dammam was targeted in an attack by the Houthis on Wednesday evening, killing one resident and injuring eight others.

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🇺🇸💻🇮🇷 Iran Puts America’s Gulf AI Boom on Notice

Amazon, Microsoft and Google are pouring billions into Persian Gulf data centers. Iran has warned that another US attack could put those investments, along with the undersea cables connecting them, in the line of fire.

On October 10, Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei said US-linked data centers, AI facilities and communications infrastructure across the region could become targets if America attacks Iran again.
He estimated the value of these assets at more than $2T. Rezaei stressed that Iran had not yet designated them as targets.

The warning comes as American tech giants invest heavily in turning the Gulf into a global computing hub.

Microsoft has committed $15.2B to the UAE through 2029, expanding its cloud and AI infrastructure alongside local partners. Google Cloud and Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund have announced a $10B AI hub, while Amazon is investing more than $5.3B in a Saudi cloud region.

And plenty of infrastructure is already operating.

Amazon Web Services runs cloud regions in the UAE and Bahrain. Microsoft has facilities in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar, while Google and Oracle operate across Saudi Arabia and other Gulf markets.

The danger is hardly theoretical.

During the earlier US-Iran war in March, drone strikes damaged two AWS facilities in the UAE and affected another in Bahrain. Amazon confirmed structural damage, power failures and service outages that disrupted businesses and financial institutions.

Recovery proved difficult. Physical damage to cloud infrastructure can take far longer to repair than an ordinary software outage.

The region's digital connections are also exposed at sea.

Undersea fiber-optic cables running through the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz connect regional networks to international communications systems. A major disruption could affect cloud access, banking services and data traffic far beyond the damaged infrastructure itself.

That makes the economic stakes considerably wider than the balance sheets of American technology companies.

Gulf governments are investing heavily in AI and cloud computing to diversify their economies. Local companies provide land, electricity and infrastructure, while US firms supply computing hardware, software and cloud platforms.

Those partnerships also tie American commercial interests more closely to the security of the countries hosting them.

Rezaei's warning expands Iran's deterrence message beyond military bases and oil facilities. American technology investments, he argues, could also become vulnerable if the US launches another attack.

For Gulf governments betting billions on becoming global AI hubs, the March AWS outages have already demonstrated how quickly a regional war can interrupt the digital services their economies increasingly depend on.

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