Key Takeaways:

  1. Iranian officials demanded immediate sanctions relief and rejected the P5+1’s proposal for IAEA-led military site inspections as part of the nuclear framework agreement, which Supreme Leader Khamenei has neither supported nor opposed.
  2. Al Houthis lost ground to anti-al Houthi militias in Aden and Abyan but expanded into Shabwah where they seized the governorate’s capital, Ataq.
  3. The Kenyan government continues to target al Shabaab militants both in Kenya and Somalia following the April 2 Garissa University attack.