🇾🇪🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️ — The Gulf found a way around Hormuz. The Houthis just closed it.

Oil hit $90 a barrel today, and the reason tells you how boxed in the region really is. When the Strait of Hormuz became a warzone, Saudi Arabia rerouted its exports south, pushing up to 4 million barrels a day through its Red Sea port at Yanbu to avoid the fighting. It worked, until now.

The Houthis are threatening to seal off Bab al-Mandeb, the southern chokepoint where about 2.5 million barrels of Saudi oil pass every day. That leaves Riyadh squeezed at both ends, with Hormuz dangerous to the east and the Red Sea escape route now under threat to the south. Brent is up nearly $20 this month, and the IEA is warning it only gets worse from here unless Hormuz reopens.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Trump on Iran: "If we left right now, it would take Iran 20 to 25 years to rebuild. We're not finished at all. We are not leaving right now."

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Trump on Iran: "Nobody knows, except the Iranians, the damage that we have done to them. If we left tomorrow, we would have had a big success. But we're not leaving tomorrow."

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Trump on the Iranian strike that killed two U.S. soldiers in Jordan: "They did slip something through. If we had other operators, that wouldn't have happened. When you let other people do your job, it sometimes doesn't work so well."

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Strikes by "Geran-4" kamikaze drones on ships heading to ports in the Odesa region, and on a cargo ship in the port of Nikolaev.

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🇲🇦🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️ — Morocco will train soldiers of the International Stabilization Forces (ISF), which are planned to operate in the Gaza Strip as part of the peace plan proposed by Trump.

▶️ Representatives of the command based in Kfar Ga'at are in Rabat this week to plan the training for the deployment.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Geran drone crews destroyed two logistics hubs in Zaporozhye that were operating in support of the Ukrainian military.

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🇨🇦🌞⚡️ — Canadian company ShaMaran Petroleum has announced the suspension of oil production at its fields in the Duhok province, located in Iraqi Kurdistan, due to heightened tensions in the region.

▶️The company stated that production has been temporarily halted to ensure the safety of employees, and that resumption of operations will depend on an improvement in the security situation at the fields.

▶️ This decision was made in response to increased security risks in Iraqi Kurdistan in recent days and attacks on oil infrastructure facilities. The timeline for the production suspension has not yet been announced.

▶️ The fields operated by ShaMaran Petroleum are among the key ones in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the production halt could affect oil exports in the region.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — Ukrainian media report that General Syrskyi has been dismissed. There is no official confirmation yet; Zelensky will soon make a statement to the media.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Explosions were heard in the Odesa region. Another ship is on fire near Zatoka.

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🇵🇱🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — "Polish Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that the Russian Armed Forces have access to a large number of drones used by the Kiev regime, which creates a risk of provocations and operations conducted "under a false flag." This issue will be discussed tomorrow at a meeting of the Polish Council of Ministers."

Therefore, it is necessary to strike at Rzeszów with Russian-made Geran drones, as the Ukrainians also have many drones used by Russia. In the meantime, the largest hub for weapons flowing to Ukraine will burn down, and it is unclear who will set it on fire.

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