🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Mohsen Rezaei, military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei and former IRGC commander-in-chief, told CNN in an interview in Tehran:

▪️ “The negotiations are at a deadlock and Trump must break this deadlock. The ball is in Trump’s court”

▪️ Iran demanding $12B in frozen assets released immediately upon signing an interim deal, another $12B in a subsequent phase

▪️ Ruled out a Khamenei-Trump meeting: “This will not happen”

▪️ If U.S. resumes conflict, Iran will “expand the war beyond the Persian Gulf” to the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Mediterranean

▪️ Iran and Oman will jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz and charge a maintenance fee

▪️ Warned U.S.-Israel against ground war/invasion. “Our land power is many times greater than our missiles”

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🔽 🇺🇸 🕯 The S&P 500 just erased nearly -$2 trillion of market cap just hours after 3rd strongest US jobs report in 18 months.

JOLTs data showed that US job openings surged by a massive 731,000 jobs in April while no change was expected.

As a result, available employment hit 7.6 million for the month, the highest since May 2024.

Inflation is now back up to 3.8% in the US amid the Iran War.

Adding even more fuel to the fire is the drawdown in crypto, with Bitcoin now down -53% since October.

In fact, Bitcoin is down 20% this week ALONE, with crypto erasing ~$2.5 trillion since October 2025.

Then, FT said Meta is considering raising "tens of billions of dollars" through a stock offering to fund AI.

This would be similar to the $85B equity raise by Google.

And to top it all off, SpaceX's $75B IPO is just days away.

Sum it all up, and the market, which was up 20%+ in 2 months was overdue for today's decline.

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🇦🇱🤝✡️ Albanian PM Edi Rama met with local residents in Zvernec and said the Trump-Kushner resort project will move forward despite ongoing protests.

"Not 500, but even if 500,000 people come out, it will not be enough. 800,000 are on my side" Rama said referring to the votes he got last elections.

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🇮🇷💥❓ Iranian netizens report explosions and AA activity on Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal

🔗 https://t.iss.one/shin_persian/6534

🇮🇷 Iranian news agency, Mehr, denies reports of explosions occurring on Kharg Island citing their local reporter.

🔗 https://t.iss.one/mehrnews/384368

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 CNN citing a U.S. official says that the USAF shot down 4 Iranian drones which were targeting U.S. forces transiting the Strait of Hormuz

🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/05/world/live-news/iran-trump-lebanon-israel-war-news

🇮🇷🇾🇪⚔️🇺🇸 The U.S. started the war with Iran with 165 MQ-9 Reaper drones and has since lost 30 of them

The USAF is now Scrambling To Buy What Few MQ-9 Reapers It Can Find

The USAF needs to scrounge-up any now out of production Reapers to replace the dozens lost in fights against Iran and the Houthis.

After reportedly losing dozens of MQ-9 Reaper drones while battling Iran, the Air Force on Friday confirmed to TWZ that it is planning to purchase an undisclosed number of unused ones from General Atomics, who made the aircraft. The company, however, said it has less than 10 of these drones to offer, and it remains unclear where else the Air Force can find more.

All of this continues to raise serious questions about the Air Force’s near-term ability to plug gaps left by the losses fighting against Iran and in other recent operations in and around the Middle East. The downed Reapers have a reported combined value of about $1 billion.

Furthermore, despite the top Air Force officer recently praising Reaper as “perhaps the most valuable player” in the air war against Iran, the aircraft have been in the crosshairs of service officials. They have openly questioned the drone’s survivability and, by extension, general value in future operations. The Air Force has made several half-hearted efforts, without success, to find a successor. It is now in the early stages of a new attempt at acquiring an “MQ-9 Next.”

It will be years, if ever, before “MQ-9 Next” comes on line. Meanwhile, the search is on for existing replacements.

“The USAF intends to purchase several unused MQ-9A Block 5 from GA-ASI [General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.],” a spokesperson for the service told TWZ today. “A number of MQ-9A Block 5 aircraft were manufactured based on forecasted purchases for other customers but are no longer needed. The available aircraft are currently GA-ASI owned aircraft.”

“The USAF has received funds to begin the acquisition process,” they added.

Tabor also said at that time that the Air Force’s total MQ-9A fleet had shrunk to 135 aircraft. Official budget documents say the Air Force had 165 Reapers in inventory as of the start of Fiscal Year 2026, which began on October 1 of last year. This had already marked a significant year-over-year decrease, down from 231 MQ-9As at the beginning of Fiscal Year 2025.

“Between parts in stock for new builds, and company-owned Reapers with some number of flight hours on them, there are less than 10 total ‘new’ MQ-9As available to any customers anywhere in the world,” General Atomics spokesperson C. Mark Brinkley told TWZ earlier this week.

🔗 https://www.twz.com/air/usaf-scrambling-to-buy-what-few-mq-9-reapers-it-can-find-after-epic-fury-losses