Amazon raised US retail prices for multiple hardware products last weekend, including Fire TV streaming devices, Echo smart speakers, Kindle e-readers and Eero routers. The low-end Echo Dot was repriced from $49.99 to $79.99, about a 60% increase. An Amazon spokesman said the consumer electronics industry is facing large increases in memory and storage component costs; after absorbing those cost rises as long as possible the company recently adjusted pricing across its product lines and will con

Tasnim quoted a senior Iranian intelligence official saying Trump’s economic pressure campaign is largely a media-driven "psychological warfare" aimed at increasing domestic pressure. The official said the US has already used all available tools, including primary and secondary sanctions and maritime blockades, and characterized Trump’s remarks about striking infrastructure and "opening the Strait of Hormuz" as propaganda rather than imminent action. He added such moves are often timed before market open to influence energy prices and are subsequently followed by conciliatory statements or regional mediation; Iran sees the campaign’s concurrence with a Pakistani mediator visit as a recurring public-pressure pattern, not evidence of substantive new measures.

YONHAP reported South Korea's foreign minister held a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio on Monday.