🇮🇶 — Iraq’s oil storage capacity is reaching its limits as traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has fallen by 90% (Kpler)

🇦🇿🇮🇷 — The Iranian drone attack in Nakhchivan will “not go unanswered” (Azerbaijani Defense Ministry)

🇨🇳 — China will raise its diplomatic budget by 9.3% in 2026, the largest increase in three years (Chinese Finance Ministry)

🇺🇸🇻🇪 — The possibilities for collaboration between Venezuela and the US are “unlimited” (US Interior Secretary)

🇮🇷🇦🇪 — The UAE is intercepting missiles and drones launched from Iran (UAE Defense Ministry)

🇫🇷🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urges France to press Israel to halt airstrikes in Beirut (Lebanese presidency)

🇮🇷🇶🇦 — Qatar intercepted 14 ballistic missiles and four drones launched from Iran (Qatari Defense Ministry)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli airstrikes have killed 102 people in Lebanon (Lebanese Health Ministry)

🇦🇿🇮🇷 — Iran is not behind a drone attack on Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan exclave (Iranian Foreign Minister)

🇮🇷🇮🇱 — Israel destroyed more than 300 ballistic missile launchers in Iran since the war began (Israeli military)

🇮🇷 — Iran has “no intention” of closing the Strait of Hormuz (Iranian Foreign Minister)

🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israel has begun striking Hezbollah-related “infrastructure” in Beirut, Lebanon (Israeli military)

🇧🇭 — An attack targeted a facility in an oil infrastructure area in Maameer, Bahrain (Bahraini Interior Ministry)

🇮🇷🇪🇸🇺🇸 — Spain “categorically denies” planning to cooperate with the US military on Iran (Spanish Foreign Minister)

🇮🇷 — Some countries have begun “mediation efforts” (Iranian President)

🇨🇺🇺🇸 — Cuba will fall “pretty soon” (US President)

🇮🇷🇰🇼🇦🇪 — The IRGC targeted two military bases in Kuwait and the UAE (IRNA)

🇮🇷🇷🇺🇺🇸 — Russia is providing Iran with data to attack US troops in the Middle East (US official via NEWSMAX)

🇮🇷🇮🇶 — Iran will attack Iraq’s Kurdistan Region if militants cross the border (Iranian official via Fars News Agency)

🇧🇬🇬🇷 — Greece will deploy air defense systems to protect Bulgaria from projectiles (Greek Defense Ministry)

🇺🇦 — Ukraine will “soon” send military drone experts to the Middle East (Ukrainian official via AFP)