— 🇮🇷/🇶🇦/🇰🇼 NEW: The IMF expects Qatar’s economy to shrink by 8,6% in 2026 due to the war with Iran; it is the largest GDP decrease in decades

Kuwait’s economic crisis as a result of Iranian attacks is also expected to worsen further. Both Qatar and Kuwait have suffered extensive damage to their vital oil and gas infrastructure.

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 NEW: Canada has suspended trade negotiations with the United States, citing unacceptable ‘last minute changes’ that were unfair and called into question the reliability of the deal

Prime Minister Carney has instructed Canada to impose reciprocal tariffs against the United States.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇹🇷/🇸🇦 NEW: Mehdi Rahimi, the head of Iranian Parliament’s news agency, tells Al-Mayadeen that Iran has received an invitation to join the Mecca Defense Pact

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇬🇧 BREAKING: Iranian hackers shut down a power plant in the UK for 4 consecutive days with a sophisticated cyber attack, according to The Telegraph

It is thought to be the first time that hackers affiliated with the Iranian government have succeeded in closing down such a facility in the UK, and believed to be the most successful cyber attack of its kind.

The incident took place at the same time as a series of attacks on U.S. water infrastructure last month, which affected 12 states and caused concern in the White House.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Israel’s Minister of Defense, Yisrael Katz, says that kites being launched by Gazan children constitute an ‘act of war’ and that anyone flying these kites will be ‘dealt with forcefully’ (i.e. killed)

Katz declared that kites, balloons, and even paper planes are considered national security threats to Israel, and will be considered the same as drones or missiles.

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇺🇸 NEW: Pakistan’s Field Marshal Assim Muneer will visit Tehran tomorrow, in an effort to revive diplomacy with the United States

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For the record, I believe reports of Iran being invited to the Mecca Defense Pact are very probably false.

—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: The Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PSGA) announces that any vessels that violate the Iranian arrangements for crossing the Strait of Hormuz will be placed on a ‘non-compliance’ list

These vessels will not receive easy permission to transit the Strait in the future, and will be subject to fines, seizure, or confiscation by the IRGC.

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— The non-compliance list has been established, and the majority of vessels are Emirati or Qatari-owned

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— 🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: Pakistan’s Field Marshal, Assim Muneer, has landed in Tehran

He will try to get the U.S. and Iran back to diplomacy before the ‘economic D-Day’ sanctions enter into force today.

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— 🇮🇷 WATCH: Fars News has released footage of a meeting where Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s current Supreme Leader, served as its strategic supervisor

The meeting took place during the period before assuming the office of Supreme Leader.

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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Yemen’s Ansarallah struck a Saudi oil tanker 63 nautical miles off the coast of Yanbu, in the Red Sea

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— 🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: Pakistan’s Field Marshal Assim Munir met with Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf in Tehran

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. has only 41 days of crude oil supply left, the lowest since the 1970s

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, officially announced the start of ‘Operation Economic Outcast’ against Iran

According to the White House, it marks the beginning of an economic isolation campaign that includes sanctions, secondary sanctions, and cutting off all economic lifelines to Iran.

Any country doing business with Iran, facilitating trade, or providing credit, will be hit with secondary sanctions.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. Treasury Department announces it has not implemented any new sanctions against Iran yet, saying that today served as a ‘final warning’

When asked why secondary sanctions haven’t been imposed on countries like China, Bessent answered: ‘We don’t want to mess up the world economy’.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran struck an oil tanker 9 nautical miles off the coast of Oman

The vessel was using a U.S. military escort to pass the Strait of Hormuz via the illegal southern corridor.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: In the summer of 2010, a year after the infamous ‘Green Movement’ riots in Iran, several articles suddenly appeared

One was an article by The Guardian, describing a shocking incident involving the practice of stoning adulterers, which has not taken place in Iran for decades.

The author has now come out and admitted that the entire article was fabricated, from beginning to end. Now imagine how many more articles are simply made up.

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