🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- "Azerbaijan reserves the right to take appropriate measures," - Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷🇦🇿⚡- Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Iranian Ambassador.

🇶🇦🇮🇷⚡- Explosions over Doha, Qatar.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - IDF publishes footage showing the moment an Israeli F-35I shot down an Iranian YAK-130 fighter jet over Tehran during a dogfight.

🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡- Iran's General Staff denies the reports of firing a missile at Turkey, and says Tehran "respects the sovereignty of its friendly neighbor."

🇷🇺⚡- Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has proposed a temporary ceasefire across the Middle East.

🇶🇦🇮🇷⚡- Heavy air defense activity over Doha, Qatar.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- The volume of tankers and commercial cargo vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz has been reduced by 90%, Kpler reports.

🇮🇷🇴🇲 - The closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Credit: Kpler's MarineTraffic.

🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- BREAKING: Smoke rising from Al Udeid Airbase, Doha, Qatar.

Footage exclusively sent to Rerum Novarum.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- There are currently 200 tankers stuck in the Persian Gulf, waiting to transit the Strait of Hormuz. 60 of those are VLCCs.

Source: Lloyd's List.

🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- Reuters confirms smoke can be seen rising from the western part of Doha.

🇹🇷🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- The Turkish Ministry of Defense reports that they are closely following the movement of Iranian Kurdish separatist groups, such as PJAK and Komala.

The Defense Ministry states that any attempt at separatism in Iran isn't just a security concern for Iran, but also for Turkey and the wider region.

🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: China has told its largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline, as the Middle East regional war risks crashing the global energy supplies.

🇮🇷🇶🇦⚡️- More explosions heard throughout Doha, Qatar.

🇨🇳⚡- China's Shanghai INE crude futures have surged to $98.5 per barrel!

🇺🇦🇮🇷⚡- The Financial Times reports that the Pentagon is considering Ukrainian interceptor drones to 'counter' Iranian drones

🇯🇵⚡- BREAKING: Japanese oil refineries, at risk of facing severe crude shortages amid the supply constraints due to the Middle East war, have asked the government to release oil from national reserves.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Israel, along the Lebanon border

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Sirens were activated due to a Hezbollah rocket attack, the situation is now ever with no reports of impacts.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- 77 dead and 527 wounded since the start of the new Israeli-Hezbollah war, Lebanese Ministry of Health reports.