️Conflict Overview: Day 119
️ Conflict Overview: Day 119
▪️The United States has attacked Iran-linked targets in the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reports
▪️The flow of ships through the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours amounted to half the level seen before the onset of the conflict between the US and Iran, according to TASS calculations based on data on vessels’ movement
▪️Three foreign tankers attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz without Tehran’s permission were turned back by the Iranian military, Iranian state television reported
▪️The Pentagon is considering relocating some of its military bases from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in order to reduce potential damage from Iran should military operations in the Middle East resume, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources
▪️The US Naval Support Activity Bahrain, serving as the headquarters of the Fifth Fleet, sustained severe damage during Iranian retaliatory strikes this spring and is now unable to perform its primary functions, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cites Pentagon sources and satellite imagery analysis
▪️The United States has released 22 crew members of the Iranian vessel Touska that was seized in the Strait of Hormuz, the Mehr news agency reported. According to the agency, the crew were handed over to a representative of the Iranian consulate in Pakistan’s Karachi
▪️A trilateral framework agreement on the settlement between Israel and Lebanon has been signed in Washington in the presence of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
▪️US President Donald Trump has accused Iran of violating the ceasefire with the United States.
▪️Trump said some of the released Iranian funds would be used to purchase wheat, soybeans, and corn from US farmers
▪️The Iranian military has refuted reports alleging that Tehran and Washington have established a direct line of communication on issues of restoring navigation in the Strait of Hormuz
▪️Oman is looking at imposing a fee for the passage through the Strait of Hormuz, Bloomberg said, citing sources
▪️The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expects that it will be able to begin conducting inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities in the near future as part of the agreements reached between the US and Iran, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated
▪️Rosatom will return its specialists to Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant if the situation does not deteriorate further, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev told reporters.“If events do not take a turn for the worse, we will begin returning our personnel to the [Bushehr NPP] site within the next week,” Lik
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