🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Who Violated the MoU?

Iran's position was that all passage through the Strait of Hormuz should be coordinated with Iran, Oman, and the Gulf states. According to Tehran, Article 5 of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recognized Iran's role in this coordination.

However, Iran believed the United States was quietly pursuing a different strategy. By escorting ships along a route closer to Oman's side of the strait, Washington was, in Iran's view, trying to create an alternative shipping lane that would reduce Iran's leverage over the Strait of Hormuz.

From Iran's perspective, this was a violation of the spirit of the MoU. Although the agreement recognized Iran's coordinating role, the new route was seen as an attempt to bypass that arrangement without formally changing the agreement.

Under this interpretation, Iran's attacks on ships using the Omani-side route were a response to what it considered the first breach of the MoU. The core argument is that creating an alternative corridor weakened Iran's agreed role in coordinating passage through the strait, making it a form of passive aggression against Iran's strategic position.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Trump via Truth Social:

The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue “talks.” We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — BREAKING: Trump announced that the ceasefire with Iran is over.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Admin Note: Trump reverted to his pre-ceasefire stance of April 8, stating there will be no ceasefire, though he remains open to talks. According to him, talk is equal to unconditional surrender of Iran to the US.

- So basically, this means there is no political agreement preventing the resumption of war at the same pace as before April 8.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The confrontation between a Russian FPV drone and a Ukrainian armored reconnaissance and combat vehicle (ARKV) equipped with an M2 Browning machine gun ended unfavorably for the latter.

Interestingly, after the drone's initial hit on the ARKV, which was trying to shake it off, another FPV drone was dispatched to finish the job.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — There are reports from Iranian local sources that explosions were heard in Kanarak and Bushehr, but we could not confirm these claims yet.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out multiple FAB-500 glide bomb strikes against Ukrainian positions.

➡️ Five FAB-500 UMPK bombs struck a raised river crossing used by Ukrainian forces near Mayaky in the Donetsk People's Republic.

➡️ Four FAB-500 UMPK bombs destroyed a personnel shelter belonging to the 159th Separate Motorized Brigade near Zakharovka, Kharkiv Oblast.

➡️ A separate airstrike destroyed a Ukrainian drone command post near Rublene, Kharkiv Oblast.

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🇷🇺🪖 — Russian drone units may be preparing for a potential conflict with NATO, analyst Samuel Bendett writes for Forbes.

➡️ Bendett, a drone technology expert and adviser to think tanks CNA and CNAS, argues Russian leadership is considering expanding military capacity on its western flank amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

➡️ He assesses that new military facilities have been established near Russia's western borders in recent months, reportedly capable of housing a significant troop contingent.

➡️ Bendett raises a possible scenario involving rapid Russian operations against the Baltic states in the absence of timely NATO reinforcement.

➡️ He draws a historical parallel with the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, noting that conflict's destabilizing effect on USSR domestic politics.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian Gerbera Seeker UAVs struck an enemy drone launch site and a temporary deployment area near Dobropolye.

🇺🇦⚡️ — Footage shows Ukrainian military recruitment center employees forcibly detaining a truck driver. Apparently, he will now be assigned a more "protected" profession: tank driver.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Fighters of the 26th Motorized Rifle Regiment have released combat footage from the Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka direction, showing strikes on Ukrainian personnel, vehicles, strongpoints, and shelters.

➡️ The footage was compiled by the regiment's own units operating in their area of responsibility.

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