🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷🛢 Treasury sanctions Chinese refiner, port operators over Iranian oil

The Treasury Department on Thursday said it was imposing sanctions on a Chinese refinery and the operators of a Chinese port over shipments of Iranian crude oil.

"The United States remains resolved to intensify pressure on all elements of Iran's oil supply chain to prevent the regime from generating revenue to further its destabilizing agenda," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement.

The sanctions affect refiner Hebei Xinhai Chemical Group Co., Ltd., as well as three companies operating a terminal in Dongying Port in China.v

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said it was also targeting a half-dozen "shadow fleet" ships involved in the transport of Iranian oil, as well as two ship captains.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/08/trump-china-iran-sanctions-oil

🇺🇸📝‼️🇬🇱 — 📰 The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland | Effort underscores seriousness of Trump’s intent to acquire the island from Denmark | May 6, 2025:

"The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island, according to two people familiar with the effort.

Several high-ranking officials under Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a “collection emphasis message” to intelligence-agency heads last week. They were directed to learn more about Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes on American resource extraction on the island.

The classified message asked agencies, whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground, to identify people in Greenland and Denmark who support U.S. objectives for the island."

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇪🇻🇪❗️ — General License 8, which authorized oil contractors to continue operations in Venezuela, expired today at 12:01 AM.

It means that the Chavista Regime soon will face a shortage of Western capital inflow that allowed the Regime to ease the economic mismanagement of Maduro's rule

It happened despite a very suspicious campaign lately by known American grifters to let Chevron exploit Venezuelan oil

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🇵🇰❌🇮🇳❗️ — Pakistani Armed Forces Spokesperson:

We are at war with India.

🇮🇳❌🪖🧑‍💻 — Famous facts-focused, Pro-Western & Conservative-leaning OSINT account "OSINT Defender" has been banned in India at legal request of Indian Government, despite not being Pro-Pakistan at all

Over 8,000 accounts on Twitter/X have been restricted by Indian Government, including Pro-India accounts

🇲🇽❗️🇺🇸🔍 — ⚖️ Mexico announces lawsuit against Google after it changed the name of the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" on its digital maps.

🇻🇦🙏📹 — Newly elected Pope Leo XIV enters the Sistine Chapel to celebrate Mass with the cardinals.

🔗 Vatican News (@VaticanNews)

🇵🇰❌🇮🇳 — Air Raid Sirens sounding at Srinagar, India-controlled Kashmir earlier

🔗 Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul)

🇵🇰❌🇮🇳❗️ — Pakistani Defence Minister Khwaja Asif says, Pakistan has no other option than a full blown war against India because of India’s “aggressive actions” since last 4 days.

🇺🇸🗯🇨🇳🏢📍🇨🇺 — 🎤 Fox News |China's spying in Cuba sparks alarm on Capitol Hill after fresh satellite images show surveillance buildup | Cuba offers Beijing a platform to 'monitor U.S. military movements, disrupt critical communications,' lawmakers warned | May 7, 2025:

"FIRST ON FOX: Republican leaders in the House are increasingly concerned about China’s presence in Cuba and its capacity to spy on the U.S. from the island.

A new report analyzing open-source intelligence found the addition of what appears to be a circularly disposed antenna array (CDAA) at the Bejucal signals intelligence site near Havana, Cuba. The antenna could pinpoint radio signals from between 3,000 and 8,000 miles away, putting key U.S. military installations and even Washington, D.C., well within range. 

"The CCP’s poisonous alliance with Cuba has posed significant threats to U.S. national security for decades," House Intel Chairman Rick Crawford, R-Ark., told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement. 

"Their alleged involvement in signals intelligence hubs in Cuba is outward, unconcealed adversarial behavior against the U.S. The CCP’s actions are becoming increasingly more bold and thereby detrimental to Western Hemisphere security." 

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"The geographic proximity of suspected PRC-linked facilities in Cuba to sensitive U.S. installations, including Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Kennedy Space Center, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, may enable the PRC to monitor American detection and response capabilities, map electronic profiles of U.S. assets, and prepare the electromagnetic environment for potential future exploitation," the lawmakers wrote."

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🇺🇦❌🇷🇺❗️ — A Ukrainian kamikaze drone struck a government building in Belgorod region today, injuring the deputy governor and a Russian Rosgvardiya (National Guard) officer.

🇮🇳🇵🇰🏏❗️ — India and Pakistan cancel cricket league matches amid ongoing conflict

🇮🇷🤝🇵🇰⁉️ — On TikTok and Twitter/X, Shia muslims started a meme campaign to say that Shia holy Imam Ali is guiding Pakistani Air Force missiles against India, after a parody account pretending to be the Pakistani Army on Twitter/X posted "Nara e Haideri" (the pledge allegiance to Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib) and getting 2 million views there

https://x.com/MilitaryPakISPR/status/1919870358624026677

⏺🇮🇳🛬❌Airports Authority of India temporarily suspends civil flights at 32 airports.

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🇮🇳❌🇵🇰 — Footage of an Indian cruise missile hitting Pakistan’s PAF Nur Khan Airbase moments ago.

The Airbase, just outside Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, was targeted by multiple missiles this evening.

🔗 OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical)

🇮🇳❌🇵🇰 — Pakistan military spokesman:

Indian aircraft fired missiles at an PAF airbase in Rawalpindi

🇮🇳❌🇵🇰 — Pakistan army spokesman to Reuters:

India must now wait for our response