🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Urgent Message to Residents of Southern Lebanon

- We reiterate that during the ceasefire agreement, the IDF continues to maintain its positions in southern Lebanon in response to Hezbollah’s ongoing terrorist activities.

- We reiterate our warning that, for your safety and the safety of your families, until further notice, you are required not to move south of the line of the villages listed below and their surroundings.

- Approaching the areas of the Litani River, Wadi al-Sahlani, and Wadi al-Sallouki is also prohibited." - Israeli Defence Force.

🇹🇼⚡️- President of Taiwan, Lai Ching-te has postponed his visit to Eswatini after three countries, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar all cancelled their permission to use their airspace the day before the flight.

Lai Ching-te has said the air space permission was denied due to pressure from China.

🇮🇷 - Scam messages have been sent to some shipping companies, claiming to offer safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz for a crypto payment, according to Marisks, a maritime security agency.

These messages were not sent by Iran. Marisks believes that one of the vessels that believed they had clearance to pass the Strait, which was later fired upon by Iran, was a victim of this Scam.

🇻🇦🇬🇶 - Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Equatorial Guinea.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Iran has Violated the Cease Fire numerous times!" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇸🇦🇮🇶 - The Wall Street Journal reports that an assessment from Saudi Arabia estimates that half of the nearly 1,000 drones launched at them during the Iran war came from Iraq.

🇺🇸⚡- The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to hold a confirmation hearing today for Kevin Warsh for the Fed chair.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - With the US-Iran temporary ceasefire set to expire tomorrow, it is still unclear if the Iranian delegation will attend the final meetings in Pakistan, with both sides unwilling to budge on key issues like nuclear programs. Meanwhile, the US continues to build up it's forces within the region in the background, with many aspects of the US aerial flights resembling the build-up towards the start of the war, and even more.

As we stated previously, the current air buildup in the Middle East is the largest since Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Furthermore, the deployment of three aircraft carrier strike groups would make this not only the largest combat naval buildup, but the largest overall US forces buildup since Operation Iraqi Freedom as well.

Two aircraft carrier strike groups are within the CENTCOM area of responsibility, with the third last seen next to Madagascar, estimated to arrive within the week.

While most assets that joined the war have remained within the region or rotated out with equal replacements, the US aerial refueler fleet has continued repositioning flights during the ceasefire, with 94 repositioning flights since the start of the ceasefire compared to 135 in the lead-up to the war (Feb 14–28). This likely indicates significant movement of new air assets into the CENTCOM area of operations to join existing forces.

U.S. military cargo flights have also seen a large surge when compared to before the war. In the two weeks leading up to the war (Feb 14–28), 542 cargo flights were tracked heading to the region. Meanwhile, during the ceasefire (Apr 8–21), 819 cargo flights were tracked throughout the region, with the majority landing in the Middle East.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇳⚡️- "We caught a ship yesterday that had somethings on it that weren't very nice, a gift from china perhaps, i don't know, but i was really surprised. I had a very good relationship with and I thought I had an understanding with President Xi, but that's alright, that's the way war goes." - President Trump

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- CNBC: "You're saying that you need at least the prospects for a signed deal today or tomorrow, or else you would resume bombing iran?"

President Trump: "Well i expect to be bombing, because i think that's a better attitude to go in with. But we're ready to go, the military is raring to go."

🇺🇸 - "I would've won Vietnam very quickly if I were president.

Look at Venezuela. I took it over in 45 minutes" - President Trump.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Reports of an Israeli strikes against Wadi al-Hujeir, southern Lebanon.