US issues rare Middle East red alert warning to its citizens in the region

🔮 “Iran and groups supportive of Iran may target other US interests overseas or at locations associated with the United States and Americans throughout the world, including US businesses and other institutions,” the alert said.

🔮 Netanyahu asked him if the door was closed with a pin mechanism and the captain answered that on the inside of the cockpit the door had a twist handle and that from the outside it could be opened with a code. Machchhar remembered hearing the whooshing sound of the aircraft plunging downwards and the passengers screaming. Realising what was happening, he told Netanyahu how he reached for the internal twist handle and with “a sharp, quick turn” managed to finally open the door, letting the passengers in who subdued the co-pilot and stabilised the plane. The Israeli prime minister told him that he is a hero with “an unbelievable courage, inviting him and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to light a celebratory flame on Israel’s next Independence Day, the highest honour usually reserved for Israeli citizens.

🔮 Hailed as a global hero for saving the passengers, Machchhar said "I was fighting for my life," adding that "when I was lying on the floor I could feel the aircraft was going down.

🔮 Iran’s foreign minister has proposed a seven-day roadmap to Washington by which Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US lifts its naval blockade, together with other conditions aimed at ending the war.

🔮 But moving on, Trump said the US and China were working towards “more balanced” trade relations and that their talks would focus on foreign affairs, trade, financial cooperation, security and artificial intelligence which they identified as a major topic.

🔮 No treaty sets out what a state may do when it is attacked through a network rather than by a weapon.

🔮 And we will be prepared," Al Marri said.

🔮 The talks mark the countries’ highest-level meeting since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran, as the UAE has been making it clear through presidential diplomatic adviser Anwar Gargash that "trust is the mountain we will have to climb," as "geography leaves us no alternative to engagement," but that those relations will need to be judged by actions and not words to rebuild the shattered trust.

🔮 Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of CENTCOM, announced the US strikes on the Iranian tankers by warning Tehran, saying "let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost —taking out three of yours.

🔮 A spokesperson for Iran's joint military command warned that strikes against US military ships would be more severe if the US continues to interfere with Iranian shipping, the Iranian state broadcaster reported.