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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️— Iran rejects reports of a preliminary agreement with the US, confirming ongoing indirect negotiations — Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei. Tehran cites past experiences as undermining trust in Washington, reiterates its openness to diplomacy, and warns of a crushing response to aggression. @Intelslava

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ Israel has shared intelligence with the United States indicating that Iran is considering the possibility of using chemical weapons against its adversaries. This information has caused concern among some American officials and deep skepticism among others - The New York Times reports, citing sources in the US and the region. @IntelSlava

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡ The US Central Command has plans to launch a military operation against Iran as early as Wednesday (tomorrow). The decision on implementing these plans remains with the US president - the New York Times reports. @IntelSlava

🇮🇷⚡ The deputy chairman of Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Amir Hayat Moghaddam, stated that vessels belonging to India, China, Iraq, and Qatar are exempt from restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz. @IntelSlava

🇺🇦 Three cities in western Ukraine have lost power, according to the publication “Strana.” Power was cut off in Kovel, Lutsk, and Lyuboml in Volyn Oblast due to damage to a substation. It is also reported that Zhytomyr is without electricity. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇸 BREAKING! Air Serbia flight JU134 from Belgrade to Moscow just landed in Belgrade and is currently on the tarmac after turning around over southern Lithuania, flight tracking data shows. Nova reports that the passengers included Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia's former intelligence chief and head of the Movement of Socialists, Dušan Bajatović, director of state gas company Srbijagas, and Nenad Popović, leader of the Serbian People's Party. Nova is the sister outlet of N1, part of a media group launched in 2014 under US fund KKR after lobbying by its executive David Petraeus, the former CIA director. According to Nova, Vulin was escorted onto the plane without passing a security check, and airport security director Milan Kuč ordered it back after seeing this on camera. It comes just over a week after Vučić conceded defeat to the Student List in Serbia's parliamentary election, and opposition politician Srđan Milivojević was already asking publicly today who was "fleeing to Moscow" on the evening flight. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

Sunk Ships Don’t Sail Home: Why Peace Won’t Save the Oil Market and War Will Wreck It https://sonar21.com/sunk-ships-dont-sail-home-why-peace-wont-save-the-oil-market-and-war-will-wreck-it/

US MQ-9 drone shot down over Strait of Hormuz KSIr released footage of the interception of an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz. Amidst the elections, Trump would prefer to avoid further losses, but with dozens already lost, this is no longer significant in the US. A more alarming factor is that Gulf states are preparing for possible escalation as early as this week, viewing such developments as highly probable. @Slavyangrad

—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇱🇧 Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman: ‘Unless all of our demands are met, there is no prospect of returning security to the region. A permanent ceasefire on all fronts, including Lebanon, remains a fundamental aspect of our conditions.’ @Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Dennis Citrinowicz, one of Israel’s most prominent security analysts on the Iran-U.S. talks: ‘Iran has not moved, and will not move, a single inch from its demand that the United States fulfill the seven conditions it has laid out before substantive nuclear negotiations can begin.’ @Middle_East_Spectator