Trump threatens to grab all Iran's oil

• Iran’s IRGC says it struck 4 major targets at a US air base and command-and-control center in Muwaffaq al Salti Airbase, Jordan, using long-range solid-fuel missiles. Iran also launched missiles on on 21 US targets in the region (Kuwait & Bahrain). The IRGC also downed an MQ-9 drone, and warns that any further US action will receive a harsher response.
• Iran’s IRIB denies reports of hits on commercial port on Qeshm Island. The retaliation attacks came after the US struck a critical water distribution infrastructure in Sirik, southern Iran. According to the CEO of Hormozgan Province Water and Wastewater Company: The US hit a 500 cubic meter tank and a 2,000 cubic meter tank, which played a key role in supplying drinking water to Sirik. Operational and crisis management teams are working to implement alternative measures to ensure sustainable water supply. (Mind you, that’s a severe war crime as if they care).

• This criminal attack against people's lives has led to a complete disruption of the water supply in all villages of the Bamani district, the city of Kouhestak, and ten neighboring villages, amid temperatures ranging between 45°C to 50°C. As a result, thousands of residents have been placed in the midst of a severe humanitarian crisis due to the lack of access to safe drinking water. 
• ABC news: Trump says the US will ‘get half’ of Iran's oil in Marshall Plan-style reconstruction. 
• Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Lebanon's President Aoun and the Lebanese people: 'We in Israel seek peace with Lebanon. The people of Israel support peace with Lebanon. Peace with Lebanon is feasible.' Israel has violated every ceasefire they have ever been a part of - then they blame the other side. The Zionists speak with a 'forked tongue'. 

• Israeli Defense Minister Katz: 'The Middle East is changing before our eyes. Right now, we proudly see our heroic fighters operating deep in Lebanon against the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which acts on behalf of the Iranian regime, delivering heavy blows to it. We must not think the job is done — the campaign against Iran is far from over. If Iran attacks Israel, it will suffer a severe blow as we did a few days ago. The IDF is prepared to strike Iran with great force.'
• A drone strike on an electrical generator just outside the inner perimeter of the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant in the United Arab Emirates on May 17, suddenly brought the Persian Gulf to the brink of an environmental and nuclear catastrophe. Iranian military sources have confirmed what the evidence suggests: the attack was carried out by the Israeli military in a calculated provocation designed to push the UAE toward greater hostility against Iran. The UAE now finds itself at the epicenter of a dangerously escalating crisis following the attack on its only nuclear power facility, which, if breached, could irradiate the entire region. The flight path impossibilities, the operational sophistication required, and the consistent, decades-long pattern of US-Israeli false-flag operations across the region all converge on a single point. Iranian military sources have explicitly identified the Zionist regime as the perpetrator. The attack serves Israeli interests with surgical precision: driving a wedge between Iran and its Arab neighbors, sowing regional discord, and creating a pretext for further escalation, all while Tel Aviv celebrates the chaos and destabilization.

• Trump: “We are going to be attacking Iran and attacking them very hard. We will be resuming bombing. We have the right to do that. They shot down our helicopter.” Do any of these people around Trump have a conscience? 

• The EU demands that Georgia impose sanctions against Russia in exchange for visa-free travel. Tbilisi refuses says Shalva Papuashvili, speaker of the Georgian Parliament. In his opinion, such a decision would lead to the destruction of the country. "We cannot destroy our country just because Brussels wants to turn visa policy into a political tool today," he said.
• Ibrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee. 

• US inflation heats up to highest pace in about three years, fueled by war. The rate hit 4% for the first time in three years in May, driven by surging gas prices.
• US spending on nuclear weapons surged by nearly a quarter in 2025. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) reports the world’s nine nuclear-armed states spent nearly $119 billion on their arsenals last year. The US remained by far the biggest spender, pouring $69.2 billion into its nuclear arsenal – more than all other eight nations combined. Washington also recorded the largest annual increase of $12.4 billion.  
• Secretary of War Pete Hegseth at Guantanamo Bay: 'What happens with the future of Cuba is in the hands of the President of the US and the leadership of Cuba. No matter what, the Department of War is going to be prepared and postured for any possible contingency.' Do any of these people around Hegseth have a conscience? 

• In an Op-Ed for The Hill, Peter Garretson, senior fellow in defense studies at the American Foreign Policy Council, and Richard Harrison, vice president of operations, asks, "Is America ready for a nuclear explosion in space? By next week, the Department of Defense and intelligence community should have an actionable plan to deal with this gargantuan problem. Congress needs to stand ready to resource it. Moreover, as we have recommended, it should catalyze investments in space traffic management models, commercial 'what if' agreements, radiation remediation technology, radiation-hardened replenishment, and long-term investments in an in-space industrial base above the threat." 

US space nuke test in 1962

• Taiwan has launched approximately 36 US-supplied missiles into the water off the coast of mainland China, in a first time live-fire drill on the self-governing island’s west coast. The exercise comes amid mounting tensions between Taipei and Beijing, which considers Taiwan sovereign Chinese territory.
• A funny Iran football story: Iran’s national team captain tells the story of getting stopped and searched by masked men in Tulum, Mexico:  “He kept asking ‘country, country?’ We said Holland. My friend goes, ‘Say Iran — these guys are good with Iran!’ Then he searched my friend, who said ‘Iran’ — and the guy just laughed: ‘Iran! Go on, off you go!'”
• Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth: 'When we bomb Iran tonight, it’s not about restarting the war—it’s about getting them to accept our terms of the deal.'
• American Patriot (PAC-3) anti-missile systems were unable to resist Russian missiles, said the former commander of US forces in Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges. "Nine missiles were fired at Kyiv. Nine missiles reached their targets. None were intercepted. None were hit by Patriot batteries, which the US provided specifically to protect Kyiv from strikes of this kind." According to him, other Western systems that have become part of the Ukrainian air defense system did not work either. "It failed because Russia has created a missile capability that the current generation of air defense systems provided by NATO cannot handle. It is unpleasant to admit, but it is so," the general said.

• Following reports of the arrest of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish young man who had evaded military service, Haredi protesters blocked a road in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem and clashed with the police. 

• Musk’s Starlink system hooked rural customers. Then came the price hikes. The billionaire’s satellite internet service is a lifeline to many, but some users who face higher prices say Starlink has amassed too much power.
• Finian Cunningham writes: "The level of NATO participation in waging war on Russia with its Ukrainian proxy has become absurdly obvious. In recent weeks, hundreds of Ukrainian drones have crashed in Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Romania. The Kiev regime has repeatedly apologized to European capitals for the infringements that have resulted in injuries to civilians. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has even urged that NATO states should help Ukraine in targeting Russia to avoid 'mistakes'. The NATO states are [already] providing targeting data and permitting the use of their territory to maximize the attacks on Russia. Hundreds of Russian civilians have been killed in these NATO-assisted drone operations, the most dreadful being the murder of 21 students at a college dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk, on May 22. Last week, on the same day as the drone attack on St Petersburg, eight civilians were killed, and 10 were injured when their bus was blown up in an air strike while traveling through the Donetsk region towards Crimea.

• Children in Cuba are dying amid acute shortages of essential medical supplies caused by US-imposed economic sanctions, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk says. The island nation has endured daily blackouts and severe fuel deficits in recent months after Venezuela, once Havana’s main oil supplier, stopped crude shipments under pressure from the US in early 2026. This was preceded by the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by American commandos in January. US President Donald Trump has since repeatedly stated that he intends to “take” Cuba “one way or another.”