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@MarioNawfal I mean the first thing that came to my mind was why are you choosing to deal with it? You shouldn’t be there in the first place. Sorry I don’t feel sorry for you.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇺🇸 Hebrew media: Israel is confused by Trump's ceasefire announcement and has no knowledge of any such agreement.

At most, they say, there was an understanding not to strike Beirut. Nothing about southern Lebanon. Nothing about a mutual halt.

IAF is still striking Nabatieh. Missile alerts are still going off in Israel.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇺🇸 DC law enforcement says the Secret Service shot two men outside the White House at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

-Two men were shot by the Secret Service, per DC law enforcement

-One man is reported unconscious and not breathing
The other is conscious and breathing

-No injuries to law enforcement

Source: @FrontlinesTPUSA @Julio_Rosas11

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump says the current meeting with China may be the “biggest summit ever” as closed-door talks begin.

“People aren’t talking about anything else!”

Big names like Elon and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang are there too.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran has sent a multipage response to the U.S. peace proposal. The gaps remain wide.

- Iran proposes ending the war and gradually reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the U.S. lifting its blockade
- Willing to suspend uranium enrichment, but for a shorter period than the 20-year moratorium the U.S. proposed
- Rejects dismantling nuclear facilities entirely
- Offers to dilute some highly enriched uranium and transfer the rest to a third country, but only with guarantees it will be returned if talks fail or the U.S. exits the deal
- Iran also demands a full lifting of sanctions, return of frozen funds, and continued Iranian control of the Strait
- A ceasefire in Lebanon is framed as a red line condition
- Negotiations will continue via written exchanges mediated by Pakistan

Iran calls it "realistic and positive." Washington has not responded yet.

Source: WSJ

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🇺🇸 Trump on Truth Social:

"ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST BUY AMERICAN, NO EXCUSES!"

- The administration is closing waiver loopholes that allowed the government to purchase foreign products
- Trump signed EO 14392 to crack down on fake "Made in America" labels and says it is being enforced hard
- No more rubber-stamping exceptions for foreign products while American workers "get shafted"

Full statement:

"ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST BUY AMERICAN — NO EXCUSES! For decades, Washington politicians sent your Taxpayer Dollars overseas, and let Foreign Countries rip us off while our Workers, Factories, and Supply Chains were left behind. That betrayal is OVER. My Administration is strengthening MADE IN AMERICA Laws, ENDING Waiver Loopholes, and STOPPING the Federal Government from buying Foreign Products when Great American Products are available — And to the D.C. Bureaucrats: NO MORE handing out Waivers like candy! No more rubber-stamping exceptions for Foreign Products while American Workers get shafted. We are putting American Workers, American Factories, and American Supply Chains FIRST — Bigger, better, and stronger than ever before! I already signed EO 14392 to crack down on fake 'MADE IN AMERICA' claims, and we are enforcing it HARD. No more games. No more fake labels. No more ripping off the American Taxpayer. AMERICA FIRST means BUY AMERICAN! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Starlink's speeds have quietly become impossible to ignore.

In the second half of 2024, users in 23 U.S. states were hitting median download speeds of 100 Mbps or higher.

By the second half of 2025, that number jumped to 49 states. Nebraska clocked a median of 200 Mbps.

Latency dropped from just 1 state under 40ms to 10 states in the same period. The network now sits at 39ms nationally.

The driver: over 10,000 satellites in orbit and a new generation of satellites with roughly 10x the downlink capacity of earlier versions.

For context, Viasat is at 750ms. The gap is so huge, it’s like it’s a different product entirely.

Source: Ookla Speedtest, @elonmusk

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇶🇦🇦🇪 Qatar just broke from its usual balancing act.

The Emir personally called the UAE President to condemn Iran's attacks on civilian sites and pledged full solidarity with the UAE's security.

That's a significant public break from a country that hosts both a U.S. base and close ties with Tehran.

The Gulf is closing ranks, and by now, all against Tehran.

Source: Al Jazeera

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷🇧🇷 Jet fuel just got repriced worldwide

Brazil’s Petrobras just announced an 18% jet fuel hike for May, on top of a 54.8% spike in April alone.

The numbers are bad enough. But the real signal is the payment terms: Petrobras is letting distributors pay in installments.

Brazil produces its own oil and is a major energy exporter, but not even they can absorb what the war did to global fuel pricing.

Every airline ticket, every cargo flight, every supply chain running through Brazilian hubs is being repriced in real time because of a conflict 10,000 km away.

Airlines are already reacting, with carriers like Lufthansa canceling thousands of flights and others adjusting routes and pricing to cope with fuel costs.

Source: Reuters

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇱🇧🇮🇱IDF soldiers have filmed themselves looting Lebanese villages and posted the videos online.

Motorcycles, televisions, paintings, sofas, and rugs are being loaded into military vehicles in broad daylight while commanders stand by and do nothing.

One soldier said: "It's on a crazy scale.

Anyone who takes something immediately puts it in their vehicle.

It's not hidden.

Everyone sees it and understands."

Over 50 villages in southern Lebanon are now under Israeli military control as part of the "Yellow Line," with more than 1 million civilians displaced.

The looting is systematic, the videos are public, and consequences have been nonexistent!

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: Trump says UFO files are coming and "very interesting documents" have already been found!

He directed Secretary Hegseth to begin the release process and says it's "well underway."

No timeline.

Just "very, very soon."

If even half of what's been rumored about these files is true, this might end up being the biggest story of his presidency.

And he buried it between posts about Hormuz and NATO like it was an afterthought.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S.-sanctioned ship Golbon allegedly passed through the Strait of Hormuz, despite the blockade, according to Iran's Tasnim

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🇮🇱🇮🇷 Mossad Chief makes it clear Israel's war with Iran is far from over:

"Our commitment will only be complete when the extremist regime in Iran is replaced.

That regime that wants our destruction must pass from this world.

This is our mission, we will not continue to look the other way to another existential threat with a clear imperative: never again."

[🔑Defender1 @XDefend123]

@ThinkerOfStock @MarioNawfal Countries resist, armed factions that don’t care what anybody else (least the government )thinks and that are paid and led by other countries do not

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🇮🇱🇮🇷 Piers Morgan's asked a simple question: does Israel have nukes?

The answer was basically yes, but they don't have to admit it because they're America's ally...

Meanwhile the US just bombed Iran for five weeks partly over "nuclear concerns."

Source: @PiersUncensored

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇱🇧 MP Fouad Makhzoumi dropped a sharp warning today:

"We heard someone threatening to topple the government today, and to those people we say clearly: There is no place after today for the language of threats, nor for the approach of May 7th, as it has ended for good."

This comes right after Hezbollah-linked voices called to overthrow the Lebanese cabinet for voting to disarm Hezbollah.

One loud voice was Sheikh Sadiq al-Nabulsi, prominent cleric, professor, and brother of ex-Hezbollah spokesman Mohammad Afif.

He said the first thing after the war should be toppling the government.

Today, Israel took him out in a strike on Sidon… before the government he wanted gone.

Makhzoumi’s message is clear: no more armed threats and parallel power plays.

May 7th is over.
…Or is it?

Source: @fmakhzoumi

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇱🇧 Hezbollah is running fiber-optic FPV drones against Israeli Merkava tanks in southern Lebanon

Fiber-optic means no radio signal, no jamming, no electronic countermeasures.

One of the best tanks in the world and Hezbollah found the $500 answer.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

BREAKING - DEVELOPING:

American fighter jet shot down, and Iran is trying to capture the pilot while the U.S. launches a massive search and rescue operation

Seems Iran shot down an F-15 fighter jet, and is trying to captured the pilot

A massive American search operation is underway involving MQ-9 drones, F-35s and heliborne units

Iranian air defenses are engaging the American aircraft involved in the search and rescue

Location geolocated to the Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran – 30.6515, 50.1174

This would be the first time a country intentionally shot down an American fighter jet since 1999, 27 years ago, and the first time since the Iraq war a pilot was captured (in Iraq it was 2 Apache helicopter pilots)

Iranian state TV just put out t hat statement: "Anyone who captures the US pilot alive will receive a valuable reward"

This remains unconfirmed, but many indicators are pointing to this being true

CONTEXT:

The F-15E is worth about $80-100M, and they have NEVER been shot down. They are a very difficult aircraft to shoot down, and usually requires luck + surprise.

This demonstrates Iran's military capabilities are far from destroyed, and this successful downing of an F-15 may have involved the Russian S-300

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇦🇷🇮🇷 Argentina expels Iran’s top diplomat Mohsen Tehrani, and declares him persona non grata

The move comes right after Argentina labeled the IRGC a terrorist organization.

Source: @Cancilleria_Ar, @JMilei