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🇺🇸⚡️ — The nationwide average price of regular gasoline in the U.S. dropped below $4 per gallon on Tuesday for the first time since July 20.

🇵🇱⚡️ — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called for stricter regulation of online spaces following the deadly Krakow shooting, warning that what happens online can influence people's thoughts and actions just as strongly as events in the real world. He revealed that the Krakow shooter had passed psychological examinations less than a year earlier while applying for a firearms permit. Acknowledging that authorities cannot create a “perfect world,” Tusk emphasized the importance of keeping Poland among the safest countries, describing the attack as the first case of its kind and urging action to ensure “it is the last.”

🇩🇰🇺🇦⚡️ — Danish PM Mette Frederiksen to Zelensky: I don't know if you remember, but when this terrible war started, I said on behalf of the Danish people that we will be with you to the end of this war. And that's still our message.

🇺🇦🇩🇰⚡️ — Ukrainian President Zelensky is in Copenhagen, Denmark, for talks with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦🇾🇪 — Ansarallah announces conducting four military operations against KSA and Yemeni PLC forces reportedly operating under Saudi command with ballistic missiles and UAVs in response to Saudi strikes against Ansarallah-controlled Yemen, including a strike conducted with GBU-12 Paveway II 500-pound bombs against the Al-Hadhara market, Ta'izz Governorate, and a strike "wiping out an entire village" with GBU-12 Paveway II 500-pound bombs and GBU-38 500-pound bombs in Bani Hushaysh, Sana'a Governorate: - King Khalid Int'l Airport, Riyadh and several East-West Crude Oil Pipeline terminals in Riyadh Province, claiming fires at the locations - Abqaiq Oil Field, Eastern Province - PLC forces reportedly commanded by Saudi officer Badr al-Harbi in Al-Mudharibah and Ras al-Arah district, Bab al-Mandeb front, Yemen, claiming large number of casualties - Financial center in Riyadh Ansarallah also denied responsibility for the earlier reported strike against East-West Crude Oil Pipeline facilities in Al Madinah Province, western KSA.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Talk about all the instabilities in the Middle East: the Houthis, the militias in Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas, the civil war that occurred in Syria that almost destroyed that country. What do these things all have in common? Behind every single one of these destabilizing activities in the Middle East, there's one common denominator: the Iranian regime. They are behind all the instability in the region. They are the source of instability in the region.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Why would we talk to Iran about Lebanon? That's none of their business.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: When Obama gave Iran sanctions relief, they didn't use that money to build hospitals, roads, bridges, and universities. They used that money to build weapons and arm proxies in the region to attack us and other countries.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: I’m telling you that the Iranian demands are totally unrealistic. We expect that could change, and if it does, we’ll be prepared for diplomacy. We don't need to conduct military strikes if we're achieving the same objective through economic means and economic pressure. But that's not a stalemate. That's actually not. That's the contrary of a stalemate. It is an increased pressure on Iran that continues to grow every day.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Reporter: Why is a stalemate in the Iran war beneficial to the U.S.? Marco Rubio: It’s not a stalemate. You call it a stalemate. I know it’s not a stalemate. How is it a stalemate?

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: The Iranians are still launching, you know, a couple of drones a night trying to sink commercial vessels. But oil is getting out. On some nights, it's, you know, 80-85% of what was getting out pre-conflict. The only oil that's not getting out consistently through the Straits of Hormuz is Iranian oil. We've actually encouraged our partners to join us in the effort of defending global shipping. We shouldn't have to defend global shipping, but in this particular case, because the IRGC is intent upon trying to, you know, sink these ships, we'll continue to do that and have been doing it quite effectively.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: Iran is demanding reparations. They should be the ones paying reparations because they're the ones who destabilized the region. They’re demanding pallets of cash, which, as the president has made clear, is not going to happen.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: It’s not going to be a stupid or bad deal. Otherwise, they’ll just continue to impoverish themselves.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: I think Iran would love a deal. The problem is the conditions they continue to place are absurd. Like, they're not even serious right now. But that could change, certainly. Eventually the economic realities penetrate the skull of even the most radical lunatic.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: There's other things that Iran is trying to do to get around the sanctions. But Scott Bessent and the Treasury Department, working alongside our intelligence agencies and others, keep closing those off. The economic pain that is being inflicted on Iran right now, and on that regime, is extraordinary, and it compounds. It’s growing every day, like these sanctions. They get worse. Over time, they get more painful as time goes on. And it's all brought about by the fact that this radical regime of lunatics is imposing this on their own people. They're destroying their own country in how they're doing it.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Reporter: On Iran, you said that there's no need for any major military campaign right now because the blockade and sanctions are working. So, where does that leave us? Status quo? Marco Rubio: No, not status quo. The economic pressure is going to get even worse. I mean, understand that these sanctions begin to compound. So, for example, Iran still has a small number, just a handful, of barrels of oil left on the water. Once that dries up, almost all of their oil revenue will dry up.

🇺🇸⚡️ — Reporter: I wonder if you can confidently say that Secretary Hegseth's actions and orders on the Iran war, on drug boat strikes, on the capture of Maduro, on actions against Yemen have been entirely lawful? Marco Rubio: Yeah, the President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief, and he has a right to defend this country and to address imminent threats that pose a threat to the United States, and he's done so.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺⚡️ — Secretary of State Rubio on the trilateral US-Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi: It looks like the talks in Abu Dhabi were very productive. Obviously, there's a lot of work to be done in that regard. It's not like something that's on the verge of being solved in the next 24 hours or anything like that. But what's really important is that the Europeans are at the table. It's actually our goal at some point to expand this trilateral, so it's not just the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia, but also that the Europeans be represented at that table directly with these talks.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: The Iranian people deserve better than to be a third world country, which is where their leadership is taking them. But that's what their leaders have brought upon them.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran: If Iran crosses certain red lines, if their regime does certain things that should not happen, and I'm not going to speculate what those are, but you know what they are, obviously the U.S. military, the most capable military in the world, stands ready to address it. But as of now, there's really no need for major combat operations any longer because the blockade and the economic sanctions are doing devastation to their economy.