🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Top Israeli officials were surprised by Trump’s turn from calling on Israel to strike Iran’s nuclear program in October 2024, to waving off their attack plans in 2025.

Top IDF and Mossad officials believed that Trump would be open to a full attack on Iran’s nuclear sites at some midpoint in 2025," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "I pledge to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. If we lose the battle against Iran, Western countries will be next.

No country will stop us from holding Iran accountable, and if necessary, we will stand alone," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🏫🇺🇸⚡️- An open letter condemning the Trump administration's revocation of federal funds over "anti-semitism" has been signed by 320 university presidents, including 7 of the 8 Ivy League universities. The lone Ivy refusing to sign is Dartmouth College.

🇵🇰🇮🇱⚡- Talal Chaudhry, former Pakistani Interior Minister, says the government is exploring options to impose 'travel restrictions' on Pakistani journalists visiting Israel, risking 'losing [Pakistani] citizenship'.

This comes after several Pakistani journalists, notably Sabeen Agha, visited Israel in recent months, and accused Islamabad of preparing the grounds for normalization with Tel-Aviv. The process of normalization reignited after the signing of the Abraham Accords, but derailed again post October 7th 2023.

This was evident with Pakistan softening its stance on the Palestine-Israel conflict, under US pressure - the stance which was publicly praised by the American Jewish Congress last week, April 16.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️- US Democrat Senator John Fetterman is advocating for President Trump to stop Iran peace talks and instead follow Israel's plan to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- India has summoned Pakistan's top diplomat in New Delhi Saad Ahmad Warraich.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani media are hinting that the Islamabad government may suspend the Shimla Agreement of 1972 (which followed the 1971 India-Pakistan war), in retaliation for India's suspension of the Indus Water Treaty.

🇮🇷⚡- At the request of several Gulf Arab nations, Google has begun renaming the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Tensions at the Luzon Strait between the US and China continue to rise.

China deploys its CNS Shandong-17 aircraft carrier for the second time in two weeks to the Philippines Sea (last known location is shown on the map), following the US decision to station a NMESIS anti-ship missile system in northern Philippines.

🇷🇺🇨🇩🇷🇼⚡- Russia's large military cargo ship, LADY MARIIA, has arrived at the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Russia, mainly Wagner, had in the past supported the DR Congo's military, FARDC, against the M23. It was one of the few African arenas in which Wagner were defeated completely, taking large casualties at the hands of M23.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: India's Foreign Ministry advises all Indian nationals in Pakistan to leave immediately.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif is holding an emergency cabinet meeting.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan condemns India from withdrawing from the Indus Water Treaty, and any "infringement" on Pakistan's "water rights" will amount to a "declaration of war".

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan has closed its airspace for all Indian aircrafts.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan has cut all trade with India, including via third-parties.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- BREAKING: Pakistan's Punjab Rangers military unit have captured an Indian Border Guard that had allegedly entered Pakistani territory.

🇺🇸🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- Unusual deployment of a US MQ-4C surveillance UAV off the coast of Egypt and Israel, in particularly near the Sinai region. The drone is presumably monitoring Egypt's military build-up in the Sinai.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "Whatever allegations the Modi government is making, they have not directly named Pakistan so far, but such discussions are ongoing in the media," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "We have information that India is planning acts of terrorism in our cities. If they proceed, there will be a tit-for-tat response. We will make them pay," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.

🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- "We warn them [India], if our citizens aren't safe then yours won't be either," - Khawaja Asif, Pakistan's Defense Minister.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- China has called Trump's comments regarding talks on trade between the two countries 'fake news'. China has said there has been no contact between the two nations on the tariffs.

US President Trump yesterday had claimed that the US was in talks with China.