—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: The Yemeni Armed Forces struck Saudi-aligned positions in Taizz with missiles and drones

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The sewage system briefly malfunctioned aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with ‘poop water’ reportedly flooding living quarters of some sailors

One U.S. official, with knowledge of conditions aboard the ship, said the ‘sewage situation’ had already been resolved.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: In the war against Iran, the U.S. Air Force and Navy suffered the most aircraft losses per sortie since World War ll

Per 1000 sorties, the U.S. lost about 2,9 aircraft, more than the Iraq War, Vietnam, and Korea combined.

In contrast to those wars, the vast majority of aircraft losses during operation Epic Fury came as a result of Iranian ground-to-ground strikes.

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— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Yemeni missile strikes against Mokha Port, controlled by Saudi-backed forces

NOTE: The port is already shut down and almost completely destroyed due to strikes from the past few days.

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: The Iranian judiciary announces that a domestic Mossad collaborator has been executed by method of hanging until death

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳 NEW: Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, has started to address his people in fluent Chinese

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Shahed-136 launches from Iran, target unknown, likely Iraqi Kurdistan

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— 🇺🇸/🇰🇷/🇰🇵 NEW: President Trump says the U.S. will reduce joint military exercises with South Korea

Trump stated that he has a great relationship with Kim Jong Un and that North Korea has always been ‘unthreatening and respectful’.

Trump called previous U.S. military exercises ‘innapropriate and hostile’ to the People’s Republic of North Korea.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran must raise the WHITE FLAG OF SURRENDER! They are dying!’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ismael Baqaei:

‘There is no such thing as 60-day ceasefire. There was supposed to be a period of cessation of hostilities for 60 days, in which the U.S. and Iran would try to reach a deal.

If it did not succeed—but provided the U.S. abided by its committments—this could have been extended.

But the U.S. never abided by a single one of the MoU terms, and no serious talks ever began. Therefore, there is nothing to extend, and the issue of the ‘60-day ceasefire’ is completely void and irrelevant.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran has issued an ultimatum to the United States; return to serious diplomacy and remove the naval blockade, or face an expansion of the war

The deadline, which is said to be several weeks at most, has been communicated to the United States through Pakistan and Qatar, according to Reuters.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian leaders have used the period following the June Memorandum of Understanding not to prepare for deescalation, but for a larger conflict with the United States – Wall Street Journal

In Iran’s view, the MoU was just an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to take pressure off the economy and buy time for a larger attack in the future.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s stock market has reached a new all-time high

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘The Strait of Hormuz is open’

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— 🇺🇸/🇰🇷/🇰🇵 President Trump: ‘Kim Jong Un likes me, and I like him too. But you know what I don’t like very much? South Korea, because they didn’t help us against Iran’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘Last week, you said you would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz to be a territory of the United States’

Trump: ‘I think it’s a great idea, yeah. We completely control the Strait of Hormuz. We have a blockade, and we have total control over the Strait.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran’s military has been totally defeated’

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