Summary
- Oil prices surge after no mention of ceasefire while vowing to keep hitting Iran ‘extremely hard’ in Wed. night Trump speech. Surge in tit-for-tat overnight strikes.
- US intelligence assessments say Iran is not ready to negotiate given it believes it has the strategic upper-hand, and doesn’t believe Trump is ‘serious’ about talks: NYT
- Highest bridge in Iran, connecting Tehran and Karaj, destroyed – amid reports of expanding attacks on civilian infrastructure
- UK’s Starmer chairs virtual summit of over 30 countries to discuss methods of how to reopen Hormuz Strait
President Trump appears poised to surrender and declare victory in the Iran War, just as he did with the Houthis.