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Iran makes new strait demands, the UAE says a ship was targeted and other Middle East news

Oman says talks to manage the strait between it and Iran continue

Iran issued dramatic new demands for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen as the United Arab Emirates said one of its ships was targeted by an Iranian missile. Yemen’s military attacked the country's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. And Turkey’s Kurdish peace bill won approval in parliament.

Iran says strait won't open until the US ‘corrects’ behavior

Iran's politburo-like body known as the Supreme National Security Council said the Strait of Hormuz will not open until the United States "corrects its behavior," issuing new demands that could shake up talks on a deal to manage the waterway and traffic on it.

Iran's state broadcaster published the statement by the council’s secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, who is also a commander in the powerful Revolutionary Guard.

The U.S. must never threaten Iran again, the statement said, and must permanently end the war with Iran and its armed allies in the region. The U.S. must lift the naval blockade of Iranian ports and withdraw its military from the area. It also must "completely compensate" Iran for war damage, lift sanctions and "unconditionally" release frozen assets.

There was no immediate response from the U.S., which has wanted an acceptable deal first on the strait before ending the blockade.

Iran earlier said it was close to reaching a deal with Oman to manage the strait, which runs between the two countries.

Oman, a mediator Gulf Arab country which has said relatively little on the talks, said in a statement Saturday that the discussions were ongoing "in a positive and constructive atmosphere," and condemned attacks on ships on the strait.

Iran attacks a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, UAE says

A vessel owned by Abu Dhabi's state-owned ADNOC oil and gas company was attacked while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, Emirati authorities said. The Foreign Ministry said Iran fired the missile as part of attacks on commercial shipping.

ADNOC said in a statement that there were no casualties following the attack early Saturday. The company said over a dozen of its vessels have been attacked by missiles and drones while passing through the strait since the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran in February. One crew member has been killed and 20 others wounded, it said.

ADNOC didn't elaborate on where the attack took place nor on any damage.

Later, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said a vessel east of the town of Khasab, Oman, had been struck by a projectile that caused a fire that was put out, with the vessel and crew safe. It was not immediately clear whether this was the ADNOC incident.

Iran and Oman, on the other side of the strait, have been discussing a deal to manage the waterway, which had been considered an international one before the war.

Yemen's military attacks Iran-backed Houthis

The attacks were in response to the Houthis' recent strikes in central and eastern Yemen. Col. Majed al-Nazili, spokesperson for Yemen's military, said the attacks targeted the rebels' "sites and capabilities" on multiple front lines, without elaborating.

The escalation between the Houthis and Yemen's internationally recognized government and its backer, a Saudi-supported coalition, threatens to reignite Yemen's civil war following a 2022 truce.

On Friday, United Nations envoy Hans Grundberg urged the parties to exercise restraint, saying that "Yemen today faces a greater risk of renewed large-scale conflict than at any point since the U.N.-brokered truce of April 2022."

Turkey's Kurdish peace bill wins approval in parliament

A Turkish draft law aimed at advancing a peace effort with the country's Kurdish insurgents passed its first hurdle in parliament on Saturday, with a committee approving the measure that includes a conditional, pardon-like mechanism for thousands of former fighters.

Last year, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, declared its decision to disarm and disband as part of the peace initiative aimed at ending the decades-long conflict with the Turkish state.

The draft legislation, expected to be approved in the general assembly next week, defines the procedures for the group's disarmament and the rehabilitation of some PKK members. It would suspend some prison sentences for people convicted of membership and postpone the prosecution of others.

The measures would come into effect once Turkey's National Security Council confirms that the group has disbanded and surrendered all weapons.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people since it began in the 1980s and has spilled into neighboring Iraq and Syria. Turkey and its Western allies consider the group a terrorist organization.

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Just before this incident happened trump planned to announce that an official deal on opening the Strait of Hormuz had been reached and the U.S. had won the war...... again.

Because of the question surrounding the quarterback what will be the offensive identity of the team?

Monken knows that whoever he names as the starter. That guy has to be in charge of the offense.

Monken will be the play caller. It is his playbook. He was hired because of his offensive experience.

The expectations of Berry and Haslam is that Monken will produce an offense that can score.

The OL has been completely remade. Investment in receivers has added first and second round talent. Judkins returns and is healthy.

What will the offense look like under Monken?

IMO number one will be an emphasis upon precision and fast paced execution. Not unlike a version of the WCO. Get the ball out.

Diverse route trees with clear quick options. Run the ball. Develop the hard inside run game. I am expecting Judkins to get a lot of carries.

KC will be the quick out option like Zay Flowers. Tight end use with Fannin will not be much different from Mark Andrews who was a focal point in the Ravens offense.

He will use Jeudy, Bond, and Boston to carve out offensive zones to cover the field. That part of the game may be slow to develop. The reason being is the quarterbacks and the chemistry it takes may take some time. Factoring in a new OL.

I am expecting hiccups this may take some time.

At this point I try not be be so hard on Monken. He knew he didn't have a QB on the roster when he took this job IMO. If he thought he did that's on him. The fact he didn't come right in here and name a starter might be one of the smartest things he has done so far. I get what you're saying about having continuity and reps by knowing who you're starter is early on and I agree with you to a certain extent.

But it's still early in the process and being a new HC here he has to at least figure out how each QB can operate within his system. So I think when you look at it from both directions it's six of one and half a dozen of the others.

In all honesty I think we are going to see multiple QB's start over the course of the season anyway so no matter how much continuity they build early on, in the end it won't matter. If that proves to hold true it may actually be better that the rest of the offense is learning to adapt from QB to QB now.

I can't say for sure. I know a president can make changes to the grounds and the interior facade of the White House. As far as some permanent structural changes one would think it would take the approval of the congress. I mean that only makes sense but laws, rules or the lack of them doesn't always make sense.

It has been known as the people's house since the time of Jefferson and John Quincy Adams and rightfully so I might add. A president is nothing more than a temporary resident granted a free lease while he is holding office. Many see this is yet another reason to claim he acts more like a king or dictator than a president. And before anyone on the right gets unhinged over that comment, it means in some ways, not all.

I mean look at the interior of the White House now. While he claims everything he hung on the walls is real "24 k gold" investigators and critics have widely claimed these wall appliqués are mass-produced polyurethane or plastic molding pieces spray-painted gold. Whatever they're made of he has made the White House look so gaudy it deserves its own episode of Cribs.

And that comes as quite a surprise when you stop to think about it. After all it was Obama who was the first black president.

Don't forget that they're the party of family values. Unless that family is brown and from a different country. Then all bets are off.

What is?

Doomsday plane flying around with callsign Order66. Absolutely nothing to be worried about.

Worse yet, after 3 K in the 1st.

Great game. Eyes bulging on the Carson Beck eye test!

She has a voice made for singing the blues.

This guy speaks with more common sense than almost anyone in politics. This is what I'm saying. This crap may fly in primaries, but you can't win elections when you buddy-up with a despicable commie. Piker celebrates 911 and calls for us to abolish property rights... Landlords? "Kill them. Murder those mother #$%^ in the street. Let the streets soak in their #$%^ red capitalist blood, dude."

There are parts of the series I have to fast forward.

I have seen more of the Holocaust than I want to see. I can't stomach it. What was done to Warsaw was heartbreaking.

The civilian casualties in WWII are staggering. It is interesting to see how the different countries involved treated their own civilian populations. Especially Russia, Germany, and Japan had completely different approaches.

The scale of the war and the logistics is unreal.

The ethics committee came to this conclusion...... The panel added that “his pattern of behavior would lead a reasonable observer to interpret it as such, including providing the young women with lavish and recurrent gifts, making comments regarding their appearance and dress, inviting them to intimate dinners and vacations, sending notes regarding his effusive affection, and inviting them to other activities as a way to spend time together.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...bid-censure-sexual-harassment-rcna590919

As of August 1, 2026, Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent from public view and the U.S. Senate for 49 consecutive days, missing 38 or more roll call votes. He was last seen casting a vote on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2026, and was officially hospitalized following a fall at his home on June 14, 2026.