Reporter: The UAE pulled out of OPEC. What do you think about that?

Trump: I think it’s great. Mohamed is very smart and he probably wants go his own way.

NEW: The USS Gerald R. Ford is expected to leave the Middle East in the coming days after a 10-month deployment for needed repairs.

Source: WaPo

Moulton: Do you think we are winning the Iran war?

Hegseth: Absolutely.

Moulton: Do you call Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz winning?

Hegseth: The blockade we hold...

Moulton: So they blockaded us and we blockaded their blockade?

Moulton: Did you consider the risk of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz?

Hegseth: Of course.

Moulton: Then why did you send the only minesweepers we had in the Gulf to Singapore weeks before the war started?

Hegseth: Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated.

Smith: You said we had to start this war because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat. Now you’re saying it was completely obliterated?

🇺🇸🛢 The U.S. commercial petroleum inventories are emptying at a rate never seen before thanks to the U.S. blockade on Iran.

Asian buyers who now can't access Iranian oil are following President Trump's advice to buy American oil. The side effect of this is that Americans will see gas prices skyrocket and may soon face physical shortages of fuel at gas stations and airports, the same way every Southeast Asian country has been seeing for the past two months.

@CIG_telegram

🇺🇸🛢 US commercial petroleum inventories fell by a headline 17 million barrels, PLUS another 7.1 million barrels of SPR crude draws.

13.3 MMbbl total crude draw (comm + SPR), 6.1 MMbbl gasoline draw, 4.5 MMbbl diesel draw.

🔗 Rory Johnston

🚜 🇺🇸 ⛽️ The US farm sector is under a diesel and fertilizer cost shock.

- Farm bankruptcies +46% YoY, the third straight annual increase
- 1.9 million farms in America, the lowest ever recorded
- Diesel prices are up +54.4% from a year ago
- 70% of farmers say they can't afford to fertilize their fields this season

📎 Hedgeye

❗️New Israeli attack on Al-henieh town

🇸🇦l🇱🇧 Beirut Review has learned that Yazeed bin Farhan, an advisor to the Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs, intervened to advocate for the appointment of Judge Ahmed Rami al-Hajj to the position of Discriminatory Public Prosecutor in Lebanon.

It is noteworthy that the candidate favored by the President of the Republic was Judge Joseph Aoun, while the candidate favored by the Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, was Judge Osama Mneimneh.

However, Bin Farhan’s intervention boosted the prospects of Judge al-Hajj—who has more than 19 years remaining in the judicial service before reaching retirement age—thereby solidifying control over the most critical judicial institution for an extended period.

Thus, Lebanon today reverts to the pre-2005 era—a period characterized by the interference of external powers in the appointment of senior judicial officials, most notably the Discriminatory Public Prosecutor.

The Israeli army's mission in southern Lebanon is now focused on the “systematic destruction” of buildings rather than combat, IDF officers have told Haaretz.

According to the report, the military is operating under a plan to demolish predominantly Shia villages in an effort they believe would prevent residents from returning.

Shomera following a successful Hezbullah activity today against the Israeli army

❗️After shooting down an Israeli Hermes-900 the past two days, Hezbullah shot down another Hermes-450

This parks the 3rd major drone shot down this war.

The Israeli army acknowledged it because it was shot in Lebanese territory. They are still hush about the Hermes-900 that fell in their territory

This was an attack using FPVs on Israeli vehicles.

Hezbullah didn't comment yet

They attacked Israeli artillery inside Lebanon too

Furthermore more Israeli aggression on Lebanese towns.

From the attacks on Aadsheet al-Qusayr

Harouf

Jebsheet

More attacks in Toul, Yatar and Sultanieh

They are casualties in several

Just so everyone knows what IDF counts as Hezbullah..not that I'm denying Hezbullah's death toll is high

They said yesterday's Israeli motorcycle attacks are all Hezbullah. Five of them.

Evidence in Lebanon indicated that:
- One motorcycle was a Lebanese army soldier and his brother. Both killed
- One motorcycle as a Syrian laborer. Killed
- One motorcycle was two Syrian laborer. Both injured

And all these are MANY kilometers fars from the Israeli yellow line and driving opposite to the direction to the yellow line.

They neither were a threat nor armed nor close to the Israelis. It's just a kill zone in the south of the Litani whenever they decide they want to take some blood

The second visually confirmed. The third claimed by Hezbullah who doesn't lie.