BREAKING: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain have completely lost trust and faith in the Trump administration and are now united in aggravation with the administration due to the lack of strategy and constant walking back from threats, with some thinking about cancelling the hosting of large US bases, per WaPo. A Gulf official says "Trump started this war, and we are paying the price," with anger now at its highest point of the entire war. Gulf states feel "unnecessarily entangled" in a war Trump is "trapped in and unable to resolve," with Trump's Iran policy described as "erratic" and "unpredictable," US "conduct in the region making them less safe, not more safe," and the US-Iran MoU described as "a joke." Severe US interceptor shortages have compounded the anger, with Gulf states being afraid of Iranian attacks and concerned that the US can't protect them anymore.

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visits a shrine to the nation’s war dead, prompting rebukes from China and South Korea, which consider it a symbol of Tokyo’s wartime aggression.