🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Two U.S. HC-130J Combat King II rescue tankers departed Stuttgart Army Airfield and are heading toward the Middle East, strongly indicating the search for the missing F-15E crew member is still active and likely expanding.

The HC-130J is specifically used to support combat search-and-rescue, especially by refueling HH-60/Pave Hawk rescue helicopters in flight.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Israeli and/or American warplanes have struck the Fajr 1 Power Plant part of the Fajr Petrochemical Company 1 complex in the port of Mahshahr-Imam Khomeini Port.

Images and videos posted by locals show a thick heavy black smoke coming from the facility.

Iran will likely retaliate by attacking power plants in Israel and GCC countries as a result of this attack.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 President Donald Trump has reiterated his threat to destroy Iran's energy infrastructure if it doesn't capitulate in the next 48 hours.

However, Israel and/or the U.S. have already bombed several oil refineries and power plants and the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant despite Trump's 5 day postponement on energy strikes still being active.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chinese Holdings of U.S. Treasuries plunge to lowest level since the Global Financial Crisis

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🇸🇦🇦🇪⚔️🇮🇷 Iran’s state media says fishermen found wreckage of a downed U.S. MQ-9 Reaper near Bushehr, but OSINT analysts say it’s almost certainly not an MQ-9.

The debris appears to match a Chinese-made Wing Loong II, likely operated by a regional state such as Saudi Arabia or the UAE.

This is at least the second Wing Loong II wreckage found by Iranian forces.

Either Saudi Arabia or UAE is actively involved in operations against Iran along with U.S. and Israel.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iranian air defenses shot down another 1,000-pound AGM-158 JASSM Cruise Missile over Markazi province.

This would be the 4th visually confirmed AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile shot down by Iranian AA.

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🇺🇸 The majority of new jobs added to the American economy in the past 12 months were in the healthcare sector, which saw 663k new jobs created.

📝 Roy: The American economy is boomers paying to extend their life by 6 months, defense spending, AI data centers, and people defrauding government programs

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🇬🇧 UK motorists face £2 a litre diesel as Iran war drives wholesale prices to 4-year high

Scarce cargoes have boosted European diesel futures to equivalent of $211 a barrel, almost double the price of crude oil

The loss of supplies from the Middle East has driven up oil prices across the world but diesel had some of the most rapid gains, with the world’s buyers jockeying for the remaining supplies.

Middle Eastern refiners have become more significant to European diesel supplies in recent years after restrictions were placed on purchases from Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.

“Every day that passes the oil market gets tighter so prices continue to climb,” Gelder said. “Diesel prices could well go much higher.”

Already, UK motorists saw the highest monthly rise in prices for diesel and petrol on record in March, according to figures compiled by RAC.

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🇺🇸 Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell:

"The thing I think a good number of people in the committee are concerned about is the low level of job creation. If you adjust what's been the job creation level over the past 6 months, if you adjust that for what the stats think its job overcounting, it effectively means there's zero job creation in the private sector"

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🇺🇦🇱🇾🇷🇺 Ukrainian military presence in GNA-controlled Western Libya.

🔗 https://t.iss.one/rybar_africa/2877

🇮🇳🤝🇮🇷 India's ministry of petroleum and natural gas denied rumours that the Eswatini-flagged oil tanker loaded with Iranian hydrocarbons headed for the Indian port of Vadinar was rerouted, thereby confirming the news that India has restarted acquisitions of Iranian oil.

In a post on X, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas dismissed reports that an oil tanker carrying Iranian crude had rerouted mid-voyage from its previously indicated destination of India, which would have marked the first such shipment in nearly seven years, to China, saying the claims overlooked standard industry practice where cargoes can change destination during transit based on trade optimisation and operational flexibility.

Terming as "factually incorrect" assertions that the cargo was diverted from its previously indicated destination of Vadinar in Gujarat to China due to payment hurdles, the ministry said, "there are no payment hurdles for Iranian crude imports".

"India imports crude oil from 40+ countries, with companies having full flexibility to source oil from different sources and geographies based on commercial considerations," it said.

"Amid Middle East supply disruptions, Indian refiners have secured their crude oil requirements, including from Iran, and there is no payment hurdle for Iranian crude imports, contrary to the rumours being circulated." Ship-tracking firm Kpler on Friday stated that Aframax tanker Ping Shun, built in 2002 and sanctioned by the US in 2025, is now signalling Dongying in China as its destination instead of Vadinar in Gujarat, which it had indicated earlier this week.

🔗 https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-israel-war-no-payment-hurdle-for-iranian-crude-imports-india-dismisses-rumours-11311069

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Jewish political activist, Laura Loomer, calls on president Trump to bomb Iran's power grid.

One of her tweets got a community note recalling that the U.S. did the same to Iraq's power grid in 1991 and it did not degrade Saddam Hussein's grip on power and only led to more misery and suffering for Iraqi civilians.

Considering the significant amount of influence Loomer holds over Trump, the president will listen to her "advice".

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🛢 The amount of oil in transit around the globe has decreased sharply since the outbreak of the 3rd Gulf War.

The world is very close to fuel shortages.

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇦 For the first time in modern history, the Pentagon offered no Good Friday services for Catholics.

While Catholics don't celebrate Mass on Good Friday, they do venerate the cross of Jesus Christ and receive the Eucharist.

Earlier this year, Pete Hegseth invited his pastor to speak at the Pentagon. That pastor has called for banning public expressions of Catholicism in the United States.

📎 https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/trump-vance-white-house-escalates

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇦 Pete Hegseth’s Evangelical-Presbyterian pastor and mentor, Doug Wilson, says the United States should ban public Masses, Marian processions, and Corpus Christi devotions.

Hegseth invited the anti-Catholic preacher to lead a prayer service at the Pentagon on February 14.

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🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio on X:

Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States.

Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. She is also an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the "Great Satan."

This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter's legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States.

The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.

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