day one-hundred twenty-two (13. 583)

Without irony, US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz proclaims that Iran is holding the world economy hostage by its violations of the Islamabad MOU, whilst US permanent representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker says that the alliance has moved past operational frictions in the Middle East and is ready to demonstrate and deliver on defence alignment and spending ahead of next week’s summit in Ankara. Iran holds funeral services, a multi-day mass for the country’s leaders killed in strikes on the Khamenei compound at the start of the war at the end of February. Revolutionary Guard troops clash with Kurdish rebels in the far north of the Islamic Republic.