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Looks like that's an autographed photograph...a real collector's item. Maybe take it to Pawn Stars and find out what it's worth.
You know, with today's technology, an 8x10 glossy photograph like that could be blown up to a full sized poster without losing resolution. That's be an interesting project.
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In other news, interesting F6 Benghazi posting on X:
"Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.
Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military.
On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA....." Read the rest at the link, there are very inflammatory assertions made about motives and behaviors!
**Marc Turi** is an American arms dealer who was charged in **2014** with illegally brokering weapons shipments to Libyan rebels during the 2011 civil war, despite a United Nations arms embargo. His defense argued that he was acting under the direction of the **CIA** and **State Department** to circumvent the embargo, and that he was being scapegoated for a covert operation that ultimately went wrong.
The Obama administration’s **Department of Justice** dropped the charges against Turi in **October 2016**, just days before his scheduled trial on Election Day. Turi and his legal team asserted that the charges were dismissed because proceeding with the trial would have exposed **Hillary Clinton**’s role in the arms deals and revealed that U.S.-approved weapons had fallen into the hands of extremist groups like **ISIS** and **Al-Qaeda**. The case ended with a consent agreement where Turi agreed to refrain from engaging in ITAR-regulated activities for four years, without admitting guilt.
Military Airstrikes Neutralise Over 30 ISWAP Terrorists in Lake Chad Axis
By: Zagazola Makama
The Nigerian military under Operation HADIN KAI has successfully neutralised over 30 terrorists belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in a series of precision… pic.twitter.com/TG69Qwb7iP— Zagazola (@ZagazOlaMakama) April 22, 2026
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Military Airstrikes Neutralise Over 30 ISWAP Terrorists in Lake Chad Axis
By Zagazola Makama
The Nigerian military under Operation HADIN KAI has successfully neutralised over 30 terrorists belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in a series of precision air interdiction missions conducted in the Lake Chad region of Borno state.
Troops Conduct Clearance Patrol, Dominate Tuba Axis in Borno
By: Zagazola Makama
Troops of the Nigerian Army have conducted a successful clearance patrol around the Tuba axis in Borno State, as part of ongoing operations to deny Boko Haram/ISWAP freedom of movement.
Troops Conduct Clearance Patrol, Dominate Tuba Axis in Borno
By Zagazola Makama
Troops of the Nigerian Army have conducted a successful clearance patrol around the Tuba axis in Borno State, as part of ongoing operations to deny Boko Haram/ISWAP freedom of movement.
Iran’s attacks on the Gulf state have created an opportunity to starve Iran’s proxy network of funds.
[NationalInterest] After Iran unleashed more than 3,000 missiles and drones against the United Arab Emirates (UAE), over five weeks of the Iran War, the Gulf state’s patience snapped. The “bullying neighbor,” as Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic advisor to the UAE’s president, called Iran, had crossed a line. In response, the UAE doubled its efforts against illicit Iranian money networks.
By early April, Emirati authorities had detained dozens of Tehran-linked money changers, shuttered their exchange houses, and closed their offices, targeting especially the Sarraf networks that once funneled billions to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which Washington designates a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
Is that like the informal Hawala networks that move money across the Moslem world? I can’t find a definition for the term
The Emirati crackdown was more than a local security measure. It was a strategic pivot that now offers the United States a decisive new advantage in its maximum-pressure campaign against Iran’s shadow banking system. If Washington was looking for a bigger counterterrorism role among its partners, this is it.
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[Zeit] During a counterterrorism operation, the US military reportedly seized lists of names belonging to the "Islamic State." The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) is reportedly searching for numerous members in Germany.
According to a report in Der Spiegel, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) possesses lists of names of tens of thousands of suspected members of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS). The agency is investigating some of these individuals, who are believed to have fled to Germany, Der Spiegel reports. Among the documents containing the names, noms d'affaires, and birthdates of suspected IS fighters, which the BKA received from the US in recent years, is a "main payroll" with almost 50,000 names.
The US military found the documents, known as "Battlefield Evidence," during counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Syria. The FBI shared some of them with Germany. According to Der Spiegel, German courts have already convicted members of ISIS in six cases using these lists. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has also launched investigations in approximately 30 other cases. The Süddeutsche Zeitung, WDR, and NDR also reported on this. Authorities have reportedly been investigating based on these documents for ten years.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Pentagon on Thursday released video of US naval forces boarding the oil tanker Majestic X in the Indian Ocean. The ship was reportedly carrying oil produced by the Iranian regime.
'We will continue global maritime enforcement to disrupt illicit networks and interdict vessels providing material support to Iran, wherever they operate,' the Pentagon wrote on X.
The video captures the moment US helicopters deployed armed troops on the ship's deck.
The Pentagon warned that sanctioned actors cannot use international waters as cover, vowing to keep blocking 'illicit actors and their vessels' from operating freely at sea.
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[IsraelTimes] Military says it targeted building ‘to which terrorists fled’ after striking one of their cars in Israeli-held security zone; photographer accompanying Amal Khalil suffers head wound
The body of a Lebanese journalist killed by an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... was pulled from under the rubble of a building in an Israeli-held security zone in southern Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... late Wednesday night, hours after the attack.
The Israel Defense Forces said it had targeted Hezbollah operatives who crossed its "forward defense line" — in southern Lebanon, demarcating the IDF’s new security zone — and that the details regarding journalists being hit were "under review."
The pro-Hezbollah daily al-Akhbar newspaper confirmed that its news hound, Amal Khalil, was killed by the strike on a house in the village of at-Tiri, where she took cover after an earlier Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in front of the car she was traveling in with another colleague.
The Lebanese health ministry said the first strike killed two people whose bodies were retrieved by rescue workers, who were also able to get to Faraj. It claimed that the rescuers were then targeted by Israeli fire, forcing them to halt attempts to reach Khalil. Her body was retrieved shortly before midnight, at least six hours after the strike.
The head of the Union of Journalists in Lebanon reported that Faraj suffered a head wound.
According to the IDF, the incident began when troops identified two vehicles setting out from a building known to be used by Hezbollah in the at-Tiri area.
"The murderous Moslems crossed the forward defense line and approached the forces in a manner that posed an immediate threat," the military said.
"After being identified as violating the ceasefire," the IDF said, the Israeli Air Force struck one of the vehicles and then a building "to which the murderous Moslems fled."
The military said it then received reports that two journalists were maimed as a result of the strike.
"The IDF is not preventing rescue forces from reaching the area at this stage," the military said, after Rooters reported that an Israeli drone dropped a grenade on rescuers trying to lift one maimed journalist from rubble.
The military also stressed that it "does not target journalists and acts to mitigate harm to them while maintaining the safety and security of its troops," while adding that "the map of the forward defense line has been published and the area has been evacuated."
Khalil’s death comes on the eve of the second round of direct talks between Israeli and Lebanese officials in Washington, DC, on extending the ceasefire that went into effect last Friday. Her death was denounced by Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, who said the targeting of journalists and the obstruction of relief efforts constituted "war crimes."
"Lebanon will spare no effort in pursuing these crimes before the relevant international bodies," he said on X.
Khalil, who was from southern Lebanon, had been covering the area since 2006 for al-Akhbar. Her latest reporting was about Israeli demolitions of Lebanese homes in villages where the IDF is now positioned inside Lebanon as part of a buffer zone.
Her death brings to nine the number of journalists killed in Lebanon so far this year. At least 2,300 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since the latest Israel-Hezbollah war erupted on March 2, according to Lebanese figures that don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants. The IDF has said that it has killed some 1,700 Hezbollah operatives during the fighting, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force.
In late March, an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon killed three journalists covering the conflict, which began when Hezbollah attacked Israel amid the US-Israel war with Iran. Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV said its longtime correspondent Ali Shoeib was killed. The IDF confirmed it targeted Shoeib, accusing him of being a Hezbollah intelligence operative.
Also killed in the same strike was news hound Fatima Ftouni, who worked for Hezbollah-affiliated al-Mayadeen TV, along with her brother Mohammed Ftouni, a video journalist.
Days earlier, an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in central Beirut killed Mohammed Sherri, the head of political programs at Hezbollah’s at al-Manar TV, along with his wife.
Courtesy of Gephids Wheasing9964:
FAFO. Lebanese journalist who was warned by Mossad to stop reporting was attacked and hospitalized. Her collegaue was killed. Darwin: "Damn, missed!"
VIDEO | "I received direct threats targeting me on my phone from the Mossad, from the Israelis, and they threatened to kill me. They were literally saying they would sever my head from my shoulders if I didn’t leave south Lebanon."
[IsrelTimes] Judiciary says Mehdi Farid, arrested in 2023, was executed for ‘extensive cooperation’ with Mossad; NGOs say he worked for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... hanged a man on Wednesday convicted of links to Israel’s Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... spy agency, the judiciary said, with two NGOs based outside the country saying he worked for the Iranian atomic energy organization.
The execution of Mehdi Farid was the latest in a number of hangings of high-profile convicts in an accelerating trend that has alarmed rights groups.
"Mehdi Farid... was hanged this morning for extensive cooperation with the terrorist spy service Mossad after the case was examined and the final verdict was approved," the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said, adding that he had been convicted of the capital offense of "corruption on earth."
Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights, which monitors executions in Iran, said Farid had been working for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization when he was arrested on May 31, 2023.
It said he was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison, but in a new trial in July 2025, was sentenced to death on charges of spying for Israel.
The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) also said Farid, 55, was an employee of the atomic energy organization and that the new trial was a result of an appeal from the prosecutor.
Mizan said Farid was a manager in the Passive Defense Organization, a civil defense body, which issued a statement denying that he had "any membership, responsibility or position" there.
Iran has carried out multiple executions since the start of the war with the United States and Israel on February 28. A fragile ceasefire has been in place since April 8.
On Sunday, Mizan reported that Iran had executed two men convicted of cooperating with Mossad. The two, identified as Mohammad Masoum Shahi and Hamed Validi, were accused of belonging to a spy network linked to Mossad and had received training abroad, including in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
Iran is the world’s second most prolific executioner after China, according to rights groups based outside the country, and Iranian officials have warned there will be no leniency for anyone deemed to have collaborated with Israel.
Earlier this month, Iran’s hardline judiciary chief urged courts to speed up verdicts linked to the US-Israeli war, including capital punishment, as activists sounded the alarm about surging hangings of convicts seen as political prisoners.
"You need to speed up the issuing of sentences for executions and the confiscation of property," judiciary chief Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei told a televised meeting of senior judiciary officials.
[IsraelTimes] Macron says Cpl. Anicet Girardin succumbed to injuries in France after being hit by gunfire in attack on base in south Lebanon last week
A second French soldier has died of wounds suffered in a weekend ambush against UN peacekeepers in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel... blamed on Hezbollah, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday.
"Corporal Anicet Girardin... brought home yesterday from Lebanon, where he was badly maimed by Hezbollah fighters, died this morning of the consequences of his wounds," Macron posted on X.
Another French soldier, Staff Sergeant Florian Montorio, was killed in the attack on April 18, which occurred when the UNIFIL peacekeepers were clearing unwent kaboom! ordnance in a village in southern Lebanon.
Three other troops, including Girardin, were maimed in the incident, with one more described as being at death's door.
Girardin, a member of a specialist dog-handling unit, was part of a mission "to clear a route booby-trapped with an improvised bomb," Armies Minister Catherine Vautrin posted on X.
"Coming under sustained fire from concealed Hezbollah fighters at very close range, he moved to aid his section leader who had just fallen, only to be seriously hit in turn," she added.
Macron and Vautrin offered their condolences to Girardin’s family and loved ones.
He is the third French soldier to die since the start of the recent round of fighting in the Middle East, after Montorio and the killing of Arnaud Frion last month by an Iranian drone in Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
Both Macron and UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... have blamed Iran-backed Hezbollah for the Saturday attack on peacekeepers belonging to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
French soldiers in UNIFIL "are working bravely and determinedly in service of La Belle France and peace in Lebanon," Macron wrote.
While La Belle France and the UN leader named Hezbollah in their statements on the attack on the peacekeepers, UNIFIL itself refrained from doing so explicitly, instead blaming "non-state actors," code for the Iran-backed terror group.
Hezbollah has denied any involvement, expressing its "surprise at positions that rushed to make baseless accusations" against the group.
During a visit to Gay Paree on Tuesday, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said he was personally following the investigation into the incident.
"I have instructed the police force to carry out all necessary inquiries in order to identify those responsible and bring them to justice," he said.
La Belle France, which has deep historical ties to Lebanon, has about 700 troops as part of the UNIFIL mission.
Girardin’s death adds to the growing toll of UNIFIL troops killed recently in southern Lebanon. Three Indonesian peacekeepers were killed last month, with a preliminary UN investigation finding one was killed by Israeli tank fire, while the two others were killed by an improvised bomb likely planted by Hezbollah.
Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East conflict on March 2 when Tehran-backed Hezbollah attacked Israel to avenge the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , with Israel responding by firing waves of strikes at Hezbollah targets and launching a ground offensive. A 10-day ceasefire was declared by the US last week, following direct talks in Washington between Israeli and Lebanese envoys, and Beirut is currently pushing for an extension of the truce to allow for further negotiations.
UNIFIL is stationed in southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the border. The mission, which will be halted at the end of 2026, has been sporadically caught in the crosshairs of both Israel and Hezbollah over the last few years.
Israel has long argued that the observer force has failed in its mission, doing little to block Hezbollah from building up its forces near the Israeli border over the decades.
Clearing the naval mines set by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz will take six months, according to the Pentagon, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
The outlet also said officials from the Department of Defense provided the information at a classified House Armed Services Committee briefing on April 20, according to a source. Who immediately ran to the press
At the briefing, lawmakers also asked for information about the cost of the Iran war, strategy, and objectives, the source said.
WHAT TO KNOW
President Donald Trump extended the U.S. ceasefire with Iran until Tehran presents a "unified proposal" for talks in Pakistan. Initial talks scheduled for Wednesday have been cancelled.
President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire indefinitely with Iran after a second round of peace talks were cancelled in Pakistan.
The U.S. says the ceasefire will continue until Tehran presents a "unified proposal" to continue Pakistan talks.
The U.S. is continuing its blockade on Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz and Arabian Sea throughout the ceasefire.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf accused the U.S. of breaking the ceasefire by imposing a blockade on Iranian ports.
President Donald Trump confirmed that there is “no time pressure” surrounding the ceasefire, or agreeing to a new date for peace talks.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said President Donald Trump must “end his war immediately.”
[IsraelTimes] Maritime security source says US Navy is working to target Iranian ships away from the Mideast waterway due to threat of mines, which Pentagon predicts could take 6 months to clear
The US military has intercepted at least three Iranian-flagged tankers in Asian waters and is redirecting them away from their positions near India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, shipping and security sources said on Wednesday.
Washington has imposed a blockade on Iran’s trade by sea while Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has fired on ships to prevent them sailing through the Strait of Hormuz waterway at the entrance to the Middle East Gulf. Nearly two months after the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran to begin the war, there is little sign of peace talks resuming during an uneasy ceasefire.
The closure of the strait has disrupted supply of a fifth of the world’s oil and gas supplies, and caused a global energy crisis. US forces have seized an Iranian fat merchantman and an oil tanker in recent days. Iran said it had captured two container ships seeking to exit the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday after firing on them and another vessel, its first seizures since the war began.
One of the vessels was the Iranian-flagged Deep Sea supertanker, which was part loaded with crude and last seen on its public tracking transponder off Malaysia’s coast a week ago, according to the sources and ship tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform.
The smaller Iranian-flagged Sevin, which had a maximum capacity of 1 million barrels and was carrying 65% of its load, was also intercepted. The vessel was last seen off Malaysia’s coast a month ago, ship tracking data showed.
The Iranian-flagged supertanker Dorena was also intercepted, fully loaded with 2 million barrels of crude, and last seen off the coast of southern India three days ago, according to the sources and ship tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform.
The US Central Command said on Wednesday in a post on X that the Dorena has been under the escort of a US Navy destroyer in the Indian Ocean after attempting to violate the blockade.
US forces may have intercepted the Iranian-flagged Derya tanker, shipping sources said. The vessel failed to discharge its cargo of Iranian oil in India before a US waiver on Iranian crude purchases expired on Sunday. That vessel was last seen off India’s western coast on Friday, according to MarineTraffic data.
US Central Command said on Wednesday that since the start of its blockade against ships entering or exiting Iranian ports, US forces had directed 29 vessels to turn around or return to port.
The US military has not listed all the ships it has intercepted and did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the Deyra and the Deep Sea.
A third maritime security source said the US military was looking to target Iranian ships away from the Strait of Hormuz and in open waters to avoid any risk of floating mines during operations. According to a person familiar with the situation, the Pentagon said during a classified briefing at the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that it will likely take six months to clear mines set in the strait.
🚨 ARAB REPORT: HEZBOLLAH FIGHTER HANDED OVER TO IDF
Arab sources claim an injured Hezbollah fighter who retreated from Bint Jbeil toward Ein Ebl was handed over to Israeli forces.
According to the report, the fighter was initially expected to be transferred via a Red Cross ambulance in Rmeich, but locals in Ein Ebl allegedly intervened and delivered him to the IDF, where he was taken into Israel.
The report also suggests additional Hezbollah fighters may still be present in Bint Jbeil and the surrounding “red zone.”
Hezbollah launched a drone at troops stationed in southern Lebanon during the day, which was intercepted by air defenses. The IDF called the attack a “blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement.” Tuesday saw Hezbollah launch a barrage of rockets at troops in southern Lebanon and a drone at Israel, also citing truce violations.
Israel has not yet responded to those attacks beyond striking a rocket launcher used in the barrage.
The military also said Wednesday that it had struck and killed two Hezbollah operatives the previous day after they crossed the ceasefire line in southern Lebanon.
The two operatives killed by the army on Tuesday were spotted by troops of the 7th Armored Brigade near the Wadi Saluki stream. The IDF said the operatives "crossed the forward defense line and approached the troops in a manner that posed an immediate threat."
The Israeli Air Force then struck and "eliminated the turbans to remove the threat," the military said.
On Wednesday, the IDF said Hezbollah launched a drone at its troops stationed in southern Lebanon. According to the IDF, the drone was intercepted by air defenses. No injuries were reported.
The IDF called the attack a "blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement."
Hezbollah took responsibility for the drone attack, saying it targeted an Israeli artillery site in the Ras al-Bayada headland south of Tyre, in response to Israeli violations of the ceasefire.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another explosion... the IDF denied carrying out a strike in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley on Wednesday morning.
Lebanon’s state media had reported earlier that one person was killed and two others maimed in an Israeli dronezap overnight on the outskirts of al-Jabbour.
In response to a query, the military told The Times of Israel that it was unaware of any strikes conducted in that area.
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We cannot survive if we only seek peace and not security Analysis: The Israelis who live in the north are tired of wars, but they know that they will only have true peace when Hezbollah is truly dismantled; We need to return to seeking a solution, and use an effective threat: the conquest of territories
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[Regnum] Nearly 20 Iran-linked vessels have breached the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz since it was imposed. This was reported on April 22 by the British publication The Financial Times (FT), citing monitoring data.
According to the report, at least 19 Iran-linked tankers passed through the blockade zone and exited the Persian Gulf. Additionally, at least 15 more vessels entered the Persian Gulf, heading toward Iran from the Arabian Sea.
At least six of the ships were carrying Iranian crude oil, with a total volume exceeding 10 million barrels.
"Representatives from more than 10 countries, some of the most vulnerable and facing the greatest energy shortages, have approached me and asked us to extend this authorization. And it's only for 30 days," Bessent noted.
After the US and Israel began military action against Iran on February 28, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz was blocked. This led, among other things, to problems with energy supplies. Consequently, on April 18, the US Treasury suspended sanctions on the purchase of Russian oil until May 16. Transactions were permitted for the "sale, delivery, and unloading of crude oil and refined products from the Russian Federation" loaded onto any vessel, including sanctioned vessels, until April 17.
On April 19, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced that the US had extended its license for oil from Russia at the request of G20 members. He also noted that the US would reinstate its ban on Russian oil supplies at some point.
Commenting on the situation, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that Russia remains a responsible and important player in the energy market. He added that energy markets are currently experiencing challenging times, making it difficult to ignore Russian raw material volumes.
According to a statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Naval Command, the vessels were moving without the necessary permission, thereby creating a danger.
"Two offending vessels, the MSC-Francesca (linked to the Zionist regime (Israel. - Ed.)) and the Epaminodes, were detained by the IRGC Navy," the statement said.
The vessels were sent to the territorial waters of the Islamic Republic to check documents and cargo.
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...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
