Last Wednesday there was a massive explosion on a ship at Dubai’s Jebel Ali Port. The blast shook the city, and the fireball was seen for miles around. Although authorities are explaining it away saying it was “friction and extreme heat”, it was 1:00 a.m. and the ship was already in port. This has all the fingerprints of an attack. If you want to hear my take on the explosion, watch my Breaking News Update.
Much of the Middle East is in turmoil. The reason? No electricity. In Iran, extreme heat reaching well over 50°C/122°F has caused a demand for power that far exceeds the supply. Large swaths of the country are either without electricity or experiencing regular power outages. This has caused unprecedented infighting within the new presidential administration. It also has people taking to the streets, some even demanding “death to the dictator” referring to Ayatollah Khamenei. You can learn much more about this crisis by watching my most recent Middle East Update.
Because Iran is a power source for other countries, their situation has had terrible consequences in surrounding nations, particularly Iraq. For the first time since the Gulf War, power went out at Baghdad airport. Water is scarce and there is no electricity for refrigerators. People are suffering. The situation is made that much worse by militia groups who have blown up more than 70 high voltage towers in order to make the misery worse.
After satellite photos appeared showing significant damage to a centrifuge production factory, Iran was forced to retract their earlier claim that a late June sabotage attack was thwarted. The pics, which showed a huge portion of the roof missing, led Iranian cabinet spokesman Ali Rabiei to explain that a small hole had been made in the roof, so they had to remove the entire roof to make the repair. Rabiei also took time to blame Israel for the attack, to which Israel informally responded, with a shrug of its shoulders, “Centrifuge? What’s a centrifuge?”
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