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👉 Based on Reuters/Ipsos polls, President Trump’s approval rating has increased slightly and reached 35 percent, while the figure had fallen to its lowest point at 33 percent in late August ✅
👈 Daily charter rate for a supertanker from the Persian Gulf to China has reached one million dollars for the first time in history ✅
👈Taliban foreign minister: Both the Islamic world and the West want us to reopen girls’ schools, but we should not be viewed through a Western lens ✅
👈 Kuwait strongly condemned Yemen’s missile attack on the cities of Abha, Khamis Mushait, and Taif in Saudi Arabia. ✅
👈 An Iranian government aircraft with the flight identifier “IRAN06” has taken off from Tehran and has been observed over Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ✅
👈Bafel Talabani, head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of Iraq, met Iraqchi and held talks ✅
👈 Satellite images show that a sudden fire broke out at an oil complex in Sharyanba, Saudi Arabia. The fire occurred through flare towers, and its intensity was about 4 times the usual level ✅
👈 Ahmed al-Batsh, known as “Abu Osama,” commander of a battalion in the Northern Brigade of the Gaza Strip, affiliated with Hamas’s military wing, was killed in an Israeli army attack on a vehicle in the north of Gaza City ✅
Bahrain condemns Houthi ballistic and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. The Bahrain Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while announcing full support for Saudi Arabia, called on the United Nations Security Council to take action to stop further attacks by the Houthis and to hold the officials behind these attacks accountable. ✅
👈 Tanker Trackers: Based on analysis of satellite images, we can see that the Strait of Hormuz is now hosting two-way daily traffic of VLCC supertankers. In addition, more crude oil, LNG, and LPG are being exchanged via ship-to-ship (STS) transfer in the Gulf of Oman ✅
Reuters: Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has declined after increased tensions in the Middle East. This has raised concerns about this route, and it appears that Saudi Arabia may run out of oil reserves available for exports within a few days unless operations are resumed through the “East-West” pipeline. ✅
👈 The New York Times, citing U.S. and Saudi officials: Saudi Arabia is facing the “worst scenarios” after Trump declined to intervene militarily against the Houthis. Saudi Arabia does not want to take on the Houthis alone, especially after its previous military operation in Yemen turned into a war that lasted about a decade, yet did not achieve its goals. Any new confrontation would require international support and…
