🇮🇷⚡- Explosion (gas leak) near an IRGC site north of Karaj, Alborz province, just west of Tehran.

🇮🇷⚡- Scenes from the explosion at Enghelab Street, Tehran.

🇸🇾🇮🇱 - Confirmed: Israel's Air Force struck the Arab Tribal Army's positions in the Daraa region, southern Syria.

🇮🇷⚡- Iranian outlet Student News Network says the explosion was at a shoe factory on Damavand Street, just off Enghelab Street, with the cause unknown. No injuries reported.

🇷🇺🇲🇩⚡- "NATO is transforming Moldova into a new military platform against Russia," - SVR, Russia's Foreign Intelligence.

🇮🇷⚡- Emergency teams present to tackle the fire at the shoe store near Enghelab Street, Tehran.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A Philippine Coast Guard vessel intercepted a Chinese spy ship that was operating just 130km from Manila, Philippines, in the South China Sea.

China has reacted strongly to the incident, with Chinese Think Tank SCSPI saying the Philippines have "no right intercept Chinese military vessel in this area," even though the event occurred right at Manila's doorstep.

🇺🇸🇦🇺🇨🇳⚡️- "Our biggest export partner is China. Engaging with China is in our interest to build a stable and secure region," - Anthony Albanese, Australia Prime Minister's response to the Pentagon.

Albanese has begun his tour of China today.

🇺🇸🇦🇲🇦🇿⚡- US Envoy Barrack says the US could offer to oversee the Armenia-Azerbaijan dispute tied to the Zangezur Corridor, southern Armenia. Barrack says a US firm could "take over" the area to advance peace talks between Yerevan and Baku.

🇺🇸⚡- President Trump hosts NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House.

"It's a great honor to have a friend of mine, we've become very friendly over the last number of years. We knew each other before. But Mark is the head of NATO, Secretary General of NATO. Highly respected by everyone that knows him, but in particular the European countries that have great reliance on NATO. He's done a fantastic job," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "The US decision to supply weapons to Ukraine is very important," - Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦⚡- "I have been in contact with several European countries that want to play a role in providing weapons to Ukraine," - Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "We will provide several military aid packages to Ukraine," - Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "One of the reasons that you're here today is to hear that we are very unhappy with Russia. We're very, very unhappy with them.

We're going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days. Tariffs that are about 100%. You call them secondary tariffs, you know what that means.

We've spent $350 billion approximately on this war with Russia and Ukraine. I would like to see it end. It wasn't my war, it was Biden's war. It's not my war, I'm trying to get you out of it. I want to see it end.

I'm disappointed in President Putin, because I thought we would of had a deal two months ago. But it doesn't seem to get there.

So based on that, we'll be doing secondary tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days. It's very simple. And they will be at 100%," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "This is really big. You called me on Thursday that you have taken a decision. The decision is that you want Ukraine to have what it needs, to be able to defend itself against Russia, but you want Europeans to pay for - that's totally logical.

This builds on the success of the NATO Summit, the 5% [GDP spending on defense], to keep Ukraine strong, and to increase our defense production.

This is Europeans stepping up. They all want to be apart of this," - Mark Rutte NATO's Secretary General.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We make the best equipment, the best missiles, the best of everything. The European nations know that. We made a deal today, we're going to be sending them weapons [for Ukraine], and the Europeans will be paying for it," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "We should have had a [Russia-Ukraine] deal done a long time ago. But it just keeps going on and on. Every night people are dying, a lot of Russian soldiers are dying, a lot of Ukrainian soldiers too, but a lot of Russian soldiers," - President Donald Trump.

"100,000 Russian soldiers [in 2025]," - Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General.