🚨 The last 48 hours changed everything.
– Overnight, Navy SEALs rappelled from helicopters onto the M/T Tifani — a sanctioned 1,100 foot Iranian shadow-fleet crude tanker — thousands of miles from Iran, in the Indo-Pacific.
– The ship was flagged to Botswana, a LANDLOCKED country with no coastline.
– It was boarded while sailing from Sri Lanka to Indonesia with a full cargo of crude oil.
– 48 hours earlier, the destroyer USS Spruance blew a hole in the engine room of the Iranian-flagged M/V Touska after 6 hours of ignored radio warnings.
– The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit then stormed the Touska.
– Iran's joint military command called it "piracy" and a "ceasefire violation" — and vowed to respond.
– CENTCOM just confirmed: 27 additional sanctioned vessels have been TURNED AROUND in the 8 days since the blockade began.
– Iran's oil trade generates roughly $40,000,000,000 per year — nearly 90% flows directly to China.
– Vice President JD Vance is flying to Islamabad TODAY to lead a U.S. delegation for the second round of peace talks.
– Iran's chief negotiator, parliament speaker Qalibaf, says Tehran is prepared to "reveal new cards on the battlefield."
– The ceasefire officially EXPIRES tomorrow evening Washington time.
The situation changed dramatically in the last few hours. No signs of slowing down. It's getting worse.
