🇺🇸Trump at 11:00 AM : "🇮🇷 Iran can sustain this for just three fúcking days."
🇮🇷Iran’s Prof at 11:39 AM : “For us, it is a fight for survival. For you, it is a fight to sustain the Epstein class who owns your media, control Govt, and start illegal wars.”🔥
Tonight at 7:50 PM ET, all eyes are on the Bank of Japan as it prepares for an emergency monetary decision. Reports suggest they may reveal plans tied to offloading around $620 billion in U.S. stocks and ETFs.
At first glance, this could trigger sharp market reactions and heavy volatility. But behind the headlines, there may be a deeper strategy at play. Moves of this scale don’t happen without calculated intent.
If this unfolds, the impact won’t stay local. Global markets could feel the pressure, from equities to crypto, as liquidity shifts and investor sentiment adjusts.
The big question now: is this a one-time move, or the start of something much bigger? 🌊
Donald Trump should not mistake the current lack of fighting between the US and Iran as a victory as he heads to Beijing for a high-stakes meeting with Chinese leader Xi later this week, an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader has warned.
“Mr. Trump, never imagine that by taking advantage of Iran’s current calm, you will be able to enter Beijing triumphantly,” Ali Akbar Velayati said according to a report from Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency.
“We defeated you on the “battlefield”; so never think that you will emerge victorious in diplomacy as well”
Trump said Monday that the monthlong ceasefire between the US and Iran is on “massive life support.”
Both Iran and the US have fired shots at each other in the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire took effect.
US government to loan 53 million barrels of crude to counter oil spikes 🚨
Reuters reports that the Trump administration is providing 53.3 million barrels of crude oil from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to energy firms under a global pact to steady markets rattled by the war on Iran and mitigate supply constraints.
The move comes after nine energy corporations, including Exxon Mobil, Trafigura and Marathon Petroleum, tapped into just 58 percent of the 92.5 million barrels that the Department of Energy (DOE) made available in a similar loan last month.
The latest loan offer is part of the DOE’s broader strategy to discharge 172 million barrels from the country’s strategic reserve to mitigate the impact of the war.
Israel threatens residents to flee Lebanese town targeted for attack The Israeli military has issued a threat to residents of the Lebanese town of Sohmor to flee their homes or remain and expose “their lives to danger”.
In a post on social media, the Israeli military said the order was an “urgent warning to residents” to leave the town in the Bekaa Valley and move to “a distance of no less than 1,000 metres (0.6 miles) to open areas”.
The order is just the latest from Israel’s military, which has for months forcibly displaced the Lebanese population amid its attacks, particularly in the south of the country. Israeli attacks have killed at least 2,869 people since March 2.
Lebanon’s Social Affairs Ministry has reported that more than 1.1 million people in Lebanon have been displaced by Israel’s invasion and attacks, according to the UN.
Australia imposes new Iranian sanctions, travel bans 🚨
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has announced new sanctions on seven Iranian individuals and four entities, due to Tehran’s “ongoing brutal oppression of its people and destabilisation of the region”.
Wong said in a statement that the Iranian “regime massacred thousands of its own citizens and carried out mass arrests of peaceful protesters”.
“The seven individuals and four entities sanctioned today include senior officials and entities involved in these horrific acts, including violence against women and children,” she said.
Wong said the sanctions also target “Iran’s shadow banking system that allow it to fund terrorist proxies such as Hamas, support its ballistic missile program, and other destabilising actions”.
The new sanctions come after both the UK and the US placed new sanctions on Iranian individuals and entities on Monday.
The US said it was part of its plan to ensure Iran is deprived of “funding for its weapons programs, terrorist proxies, and nuclear ambitions.”
Crude oil prices climbed in early Asian trading on Tuesday as the outlook for a diplomatic resolution to the US-Iran war remained uncertain, with Washington and Tehran trading threats after Trump derided Iran’s latest peace proposal.
Brent crude futures edged up by 30 cents, or 0.29 percent, to reach $104.51 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rose by 31 cents, or 0.32 percent, to hit $98.38 by 00:02 GMT.
The gains followed a significant surge on Monday, when both major oil benchmarks closed nearly 2.8 percent higher as traders weighed the impact of the ongoing hostilities on energy exports.
Trump reported to be mulling military options as Iran negotiations stall 🚨
Trump is reportedly becoming more exasperated with Tehran’s approach to peace talks, leading some advisers to suggest that a return to large-scale military action is being weighed more heavily than in previous weeks.
According to a report in US media, citing sources close to the negotiations, Trump’s frustration stems from the ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and what he views as fractured leadership in Iran.
Trump believes these internal rifts are hindering the Iranian government’s ability to offer the significant concessions required to move forward with the nuclear negotiations, according to the report.
US, UK hold talks on Hormuz ahead of strait-focused defence summit 🚨
Talks between US State Secretary Marco Rubio and UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper have focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz ahead of a meeting of 40 defence ministers on plans to protect shipping in the waterway, according to the US State Department.
UK Defence Secretary John Healey and his French counterpart, Catherine Vautrin, will co-chair the session of coalition partners later today. They are expected to outline military contributions they can make to a defensive mission to safeguard the strait after the war ends.
Iranian negotiator says Tehran is “prepared for any option” 🚨
Iran’s top negotiator, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said Monday that his country is “prepared for every option” as negotiations with the United States remain at an impasse.
“Our armed forces are prepared to deliver a lesson-giving response to any aggression,” Ghalibaf said on social media. “A strategy of miscalculation and mistaken decisions will always produce mistaken results; the whole world has understood this by now. We are prepared for every option. They will be surprised.”
Ghalibaf, who served as lead negotiator in talks last month with the US in Islamabad, Pakistan, has been criticized by Iranian hard-liners in recent weeks for a supposedly lenient attitude toward the US. The parliamentary speaker made the statement after US President Donald Trump called Iran’s latest proposal “unacceptable” and said the ceasefire is on “massive life support.”
US sanctions companies it says enable Iranian oil sales to China ahead of Trump-Xi meeting 🚨
The Trump administration on Monday imposed sanctions on 12 companies and individuals it says are helping to facilitate the sale and shipment of oil from Iran to China.
The announcement comes just days before President Donald Trump is set to meet Chinese leader in Beijing.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touted the move in a statement, insisting the agency will “continue to cut the Iranian regime off from the financial networks it uses to carry out terrorist acts and to destabilize the global economy.”
China’s support for Iran will likely be a topic for discussion in Beijing.
Last month, US intelligence indicated China was preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran, according to three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments.
Earlier on Monday, Trump said a monthlong ceasefire between the US and Iran is on “massive life support.”
Netanyahu slams EU sanctions, defends Israel’s illegal settlements 🚨
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has condemned today’s EU curbs against Israeli settlers, saying “sanctioning Jews for living in Judea and Samaria is unacceptable”.
Judea and Samaria is the Biblical term used by Israeli politicians and settler groups to describe the occupied West Bank.
“Israel will always protect the rights of Jews to live in the heart of our ancestral homeland,” Netanyahu’s office said.
It continued: “The European Union’s attempts to sanction Israeli civilians is a further sign of weakness and will not succeed.”
California faces rising energy prices during war on Iran 🚨
Ben Cahill, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, says the most populous US state already has the highest gasoline prices in the country.
“This is mostly due to state policies around taxes and regulations. We’ve had some refinery closures in the state over the last year that reflected the difficulty for refiners to operate,” Cahill told Al Jazeera.
“I think Californians are already used to paying high prices, but obviously the situation in the last couple of months with the war and the Strait of Hormuz closure has added a lot of that pressure. … so prices could certainly go up from here.”
The deputy spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has commented on Trump’s claim that the US-Iran ceasefire is “on life support”.
“We have tried over the years in all of our diplomatic efforts not to listen too much to the rhetoric by any particular side involved in negotiations. What we want to do is make sure that the parties themselves remain committed to negotiations,” Farhan Haq said.
“Certainly, we appreciate the role that Pakistan has been playing as a mediator, and we want the efforts to continue. A return to full-scale fighting would be, as the secretary-general has repeatedly said, catastrophic.”
Haq added that the situation is already “untenable, given the lack of freedom of movement in the Strait of Hormuz”.
Qatari PM discusses ceasefire in call with Kuwait’s foreign minister 🚨
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani and Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al Ahmad Al Sabah have urged continued diplomacy amid the US-Iran war.
The two leaders discussed regional developments, including the ceasefire between Washington and Tehran, as well as “efforts aimed at de-escalation in a way that contributes to strengthening security and stability in the region”.
They also stressed the need for all parties to engage in mediation efforts, which could “lead to a sustainable agreement that prevents renewed escalation”, the Qatari foreign ministry said in a readout of the talks.
Irish lawmakers urge more action after EU agrees on Israeli settler sanctions 🚨
Barry Andrews, an Irish member of the European Parliament (MEP), has welcomed today’s sanctions as a “baby step” but called for greater curbs against Israel.
“The next steps must be trade measures, enforcing the labelling of settler products, and banning them, also ending research cooperation,” Andrews wrote on X, adding that the EU-Israel Association Agreement must be reviewed “with view to suspension”.
That was echoed by Billy Kelleher, another Irish MEP, who called for the suspension of the EU-Israel trade pact.
“Placing sanctions on Israeli settlers is welcome, but these illegal settlements are being encouraged by the Israeli government and facilitated by the Israeli army. We must suspend the EU/Israeli association agreement,” Kelleher wrote on social media.