🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Today, as part of Economic Fury, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated three Iranian foreign currency exchange houses and their associated front companies.

Collectively, Iranian exchange houses facilitate billions of dollars in foreign currency transactions each year. Because Iran primarily settles its oil sales in Chinese yuan, these exchange houses play a critical role in converting oil revenues into currencies that are more readily useable by the Iranian military and its partners and proxies.

🔗 https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0483

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🔼 🇺🇸 🖥 The S&P 500 closes at its highest level on record, now up +14.5% since the March 30th bottom.

That's +$8.3 TRILLION in market cap in 24 trading days.

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🔼 🇻🇪 🛢 Venezuela's oil exports are actually taller than Iran's for the first time in six years.

Venezuela's oil exports rose 14% to 1.23 million bpd in April, the highest in more than seven years, fueled by more sales to the United States, India and Europe.

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🔋 📈 🪨 In 2025, renewable electricity generated more than coal for the first time in over 100 years.

Driven by record solar, renewable share surpassed a third of global power generation.

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🇺🇸🇩🇪⚠️ — The US is withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday.

The withdrawal is expected to be completed over the next six to twelve months.

Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell tells FOX:

“The Secretary of War has ordered the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 troops from Germany.

This decision follows a thorough review of the Department’s force posture in Europe and is in recognition of theater requirements and conditions on the ground.

We expect the withdrawal to be completed over the next six to twelve months.”

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇸 📝 LouisWordGenius: My sources in congress are saying the great majority of democrats have been brought on board for more war with Iran. Staffers are in revolt but even some of the holdouts have broken. The Trump Administration has made promises about “certain votes post midterms”.

📎 Louis Brain Genius OSINT

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 A USAF C-17 cargo transport aircraft was seen by Chinese observers landing in Beijing.

The C-17 left Joint Base Andrews and flew with transponders switched off, meaning it couldn't be seen on sites like Flightradar24.

The callsign (RCH4150), contains 4 digits which suggests a "high level mission".

The aircraft is likely carrying cars for president Trump's motorcade as he should have visited China earlier this March but the outbreak of the 3rd Gulf War postponed his visit.

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🇨🇳🇮🇷🇺🇸 China’s ambassador to the United Nations Fu Cong:

🔹“Iran needs to lift its restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz, and the US needs to lift its naval blockade.”

🔹 “The most urgent issue is to keep the ceasefire. And the ceasefire needs to last, and there has to be a good-faith negotiation between the two sides.”

🔹 “I think the international community should be mobilized and raise our voices against the resumption of fighting.”

🔹 Ambassador Cong also rejected allegations about military cooperation between China and Iran as “false.”

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