Peter Gattuso, James P. Sutton, & Ross Anderson
With the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. set to end in less than a week, White House officials say they intend to resume negotiations with Iranian negotiators shortly, and that discussions to make that happen are underway. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said the talks could “be happening over the next two days” and praised Pakistani officials for serving as mediators. Meanwhile, on the first day of America’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, six ships turned around after receiving warnings from American warships, returning to Iranian ports. No shots were fired, and five of these ships were oil tankers, according to U.S. officials. To learn more about the blockade, read yesterday’s issue of TMD.
The Financial Times reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps secretly acquired a Chinese-built spy satellite in late 2024 for roughly $36.6 million and used it to surveil military bases across the Middle East hosting U.S. troops, including Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base, where five U.S. refueling planes were damaged.
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