Miyad Malachi, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD): The American naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz will cost Iran about $276 million per day in export losses and $159 million per day in import losses. This amounts to a combined economic damage of about $435 million per day or $13 billion per month

The American siege on Iranian ports has begun

More than 700 people say: “Shalom from Osaka, Japan!”

Update

Trump threatens to destroy Iranian ships that try to cross Hormuz amid US navy blockade

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Hungary's incoming PM Peter Magyar:

His government will reverse Viktor Orban's decision to withdraw from the ICC. EU decisions on Israel will continue to be blocked but investigated case by case.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun: We hope that in tomorrow's expected meeting in Washington between the ambassadors of Lebanon, the US, and Israel, an agreement will be reached on a ceasefire in Lebanon, with the aim of starting direct negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, and to put an end to hostilities. There is now an opportunity to reach a sustainable solution

Foreign Minister Sa'ar to foreign ambassadors at the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at his office: "The world today stands before another evil regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which openly calls for the destruction of Israel and acts to achieve its murderous goal. The international community has not done anything special and has taken it as normal that one country threatens to destroy another."

Photo: Ronen Horesh, GPO

Netanyahu: Europe 'has forgotten so much since the Holocaust'; it's losing control of its identity and values

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🇺🇸 -- REPORTER: "Why did you attack Pope Leo?"

President Trump: "I don’t think he’s doing a very good job. He likes crime I guess. We don’t like a pope who says it’s ok to have a nuclear weapon. We don’t want a pope that says crime is ok. I am not a fan of Pope Leo."

This is a shame and an insult to Jews and Israel on a Holocaust Memorial Day 🤮🤡

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded to German Chancellor Scholz regarding his comments on the annexation of Judea and Samaria: "The days when Germans dictated to Jews where they are allowed and not allowed to live are gone and will not return. On Holocaust Remembrance Day eve, the German Chancellor should bow his head and apologize a thousand times on behalf of Germany — and not dare to preach to us about how to deal with the Nazis of our generation"

Baruch Dayan HaEmet

Released for publication: Retired Sergeant Major Eyal Uriel Bianco, 30 years old from Katzrin, fell in southern Lebanon

Report in The Wall Street Journal: Saudi Arabia is pressuring Trump to stop the naval blockade on Iran and return to negotiation talks. Saudi Arabia fears that Iran will retaliate by closing other critical oil export routes, primarily the closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait through the Houthis

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in his first public statement since Israel's announcement to remove Spain from the Civil-Military Coordination Headquarters in Kiryat Gat: International law is fundamentally violated by one country - Israel

Chinese Foreign Ministry: Claims that China supplies weapons to Iran are "completely fabricated"

A senior official at the Iranian embassy in Pakistan told Reuters: The next round of talks between Iran and the U.S. could start this week or early next week

Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni: Due to the current situation, Italy is suspending the automatic renewal of the security agreement with Israel

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham:

"In the 1930s, people didn't really understand Hitler.

To the Pope - you don't really understand this Nazi theocratic regime, the Ayatollah and his people, they are evil."

President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić:

"Serbia plans to produce attack drones together with Israel. We will do it together, 50-50, and we will have the best drones in the region. Serbia alone cannot produce drones like Israel."