— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Brent Crude Oil has surpassed $111 per barrel

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇴🇲/🇮🇷 NEW: UKMTO reports an ‘incident’ between a tanker and military forces off the coast of Duqm, Oman

It may have been U.S. forces disabling an Iranian tanker attempting to defy the blockade.

Usually when UKMTO says ‘military interaction’ they mean it was done by the U.S. Navy.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Major General Mohsen Rezaei, has reportedly rejected Pakistani Field Marshal Assim Muneer’s request to meet him

This is not confirmed as of now, but widely reported in Iranian outlets.

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇷 NEW: Russian FM Sergey Lavrov will leave Tehran, no diplomatic progress was made on the U.S.-Iran file

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 UPDATE: Sara Massoumi, a well-informed diplomatic journalist working for IRNA, clarifies that this was fake news, despite being reported by Tabnak & other Iranian outlets

Mohsen Rezaei has not rejected any meeting, according to IRNA.

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—❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇱 NEW: The IDF has begun moving military equipment to the Jabal Al-Arab summit in Syria's Druze-controlled Suwayda province to set up an early warning radar

In recent days, dozens of Israeli military helicopters have carried large amounts of weapons, equipment and communication devices to the area. Local Druze authorities have reportedly banned civilians from approaching or photographing the military site.

The radar would likely be used as an early warning system for Iranian ballistic missiles and drones that are launched towards Israel.

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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Ansarallah (the Houthis) have captured Jabal Han, ‘Han Mountain’, from Saudi-backed PLC forces

They uploaded footage showing them reaching the peak of the strategic mountain west of Taizz city, and expelling PLC fighters from it.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The Qatari-backed outlet ‘Al-Araby Al-Jadeed’ claims the U.S. and Iran have reached agreement on a first confidence-building step

It would include Iran agreeing to an unannounced visit by the IAEA to its damaged nuclear sites, in exchange for access to the profit incurred from $6 billion of frozen USD held in Qatar.

Iran would not receive the $6 billion of frozen funds itself, but rather the ‘interest’ that the frozen funds have accumulated over the years.

NOTE: Qatari outlets have not been very reliable regarding the U.S.-Iran talks, and I highly doubt Iran would agree to such a concession.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: The price of oil fell sharply as a result of Assim Muneer’s visit to Tehran today

Iran should stop shooting itself in the foot by continuing to hold meetings that will bear no fruits and only serve as a temporary breather for the global oil markets.

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— 🇮🇷/🇶🇦 NEW: A Qatari delegation arrived in Tehran and departed after less than an hour

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—❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇷 President Pezeshkian to Field Marshal Assim Muneer:

‘The Americans must first lift all pressure, threats of force, and sanctions before any negotiations can take place.

Because today, the entire Iranian nation believes that if we negotiate, they’ll simply attack us again.

You [Pakistan] as our Muslim brothers must convince the U.S. they cannot treat Muslims in this way. We have never sought to bully anyone, but we won’t submit to bullying.’

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— 🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: Pakistan’s Field Marshal Assim Muneer has left Tehran

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰 Iran’s security chief, Major General Mohsen Rezaei, to Field Marshal Assim Muneer:

– Not a single particle of enriched nuclear material will leave Iran.

– Until trust-building takes place on the part of America, there will be no negotiations.

– The process must begin by yielding to all of Iran’s demands.

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An Iranian MiG-29B fighter jet was seen conducting a patrol over western Iran today, continuing the trend of heavy Iranian Air Force activity near the border with Iraq.