Lebanese News and Updates

Despite Saudis claiming a ballistic missile interception, footage shows a fire at the SAMREF refinery in Yanbu allegedly hit with a drone, in western Saudi Arabia. This is one of 2 major remaining export routes for Persian Gulf Arab oil after Iran effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz. Arya Yadeghaar

🛢 The market is largely pricing in a US oil export ban: Brent less WTI spread is the widest in decades (ex the negative WTI print). Export ban would landlock US oil, sending it sharply lower while sending Brent soaring 🔗Zerohedge

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Rheinmetall CEO, Armin Papperger, confirms that all stockpiles in Europe, the Mideast, and US are basically empty. Cannibalization of INDOPACOM Arsenal, which began a little bit last week, will begin in earnest. It will take years, if ever, to recover. Moscow and Beijing know this. Papperger is talking about air defense munitions specifically, mentioning that his company is receiving orders from the Middle East and the U.S. on top of Europe to produce drone interceptors and interceptors for missiles. Reminder that Rheinmetall has a six year order backlog of orders and their share price has increased 1,700% since the start of the war in Ukraine. @CIG_telegram

Rocket launches from Lebanon to Haifa

Axios going one step farther in not only saying Trump knew about the Israeli gas strike, but that he “coordinated” and approved it with Netanyahu in advance

🇮🇱 Contrary to Trump’s statements, senior Israeli and U.S. officials said that the United States had prior knowledge of the Israeli strike and even approved it in an attempt to pressure Iran. After the Iranians retaliated against Qatar’s gas fields, Trump is now changing course 🇺🇸 President Trump, in a post this evening, threatens to "massively blow up the entirety of [Iran's] South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before" if Iran attacks Qatari LNG facilities again.

"knew nothing" LOL

❗️Iran’s strike last night wiped out 17% of Qatar’s natural gas export capacity, repairs are expected to take three to five years -Reuters (Based on prewar market estimates, Iran managed to destroy ~3.5% of global LNG capacity in a single strike.) Let Trump pay back the damages, after he allowed the Israelis to use U.S made jets to drop U.S made bombs after a U.S greenlight on Iranian gas infrastructure that is critical to the daily likelihood from cooking and heating of the majority of the Iranian populations

🇮🇱🇬🇧🇱🇧| Moment when Israel targeted British journalist Steve Sweeney in southern Lebanon.

D-9 ⭕️بالفيديو | مشاهد من عمليّة استهداف المقاومة الإسلامية آلية هندسيّة من نوع D9 تابعة لجيش العدو الإسرائيلي في بلدة الطيبة جنوب لبنان. #الإعلام_الحربي

Hegseth: $200 billion… that number could move.

Hegseth: The United States military controls the fate of Iran.