Overview

• In the coming days, Iran is expected to begin shutting down its first oil wells because of a lack of storage space and an inability to export due to the American blockade.

• Lebanese President Joseph Aoun delivered a clear message to Hezbollah, saying that the purpose of negotiations with Israel is to end the war, and that he will not accept a humiliating agreement.

• In an interview with Al Jazeera, one Hezbollah commander declared that Hezbollah is preparing to bring back 1980s-style suicide terrorists.

• Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan stated that Hamas will not move forward to the second stage of Trump’s plan until Israel, advances its own commitment, meaning a withdrawal to the red line and disarming, despite Hamas’s own failure to agree to disarm.

• The United Arab Emirates announced that it is withdrawing from OPEC. The UAE Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, Suhail Al Mazrouei, said that the decision to withdraw from OPEC is a sovereign national decision based on the UAE’s long-term strategic and economic vision.

• A Muslim terrorist stabbed two Jews in the predominantly Jewish, London neighborhood of Golders Green.

Iran

Iranian-American Negotiations

• On April 30, Mojtaba Khamenei published a written statement saying that Iran will retain control over the Strait of Hormuz…