Iranian media reported U.S. forces attacked the railway hub at Abbas Port, injuring two people.

The National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Natural Resources and and Ministry of Water Resources issued a notice publishing the Seawater Desalination Industry Development Action Plan. The plan directs stronger planning and deployment to ensure key islands are covered by seawater desalination supply projects and calls for building centralized desalination plants on islands that cannot be served by conventional water networks in the near term. It supports construction of seawater desalination plants of no less than 1,000 tonnes/day on populated islands with mature network infrastructure, encourages county-level upgrades and standardization of existing desalination facilities with unified operation-and-maintenance, and urges fitting ocean-going fishing vessels and offshore platforms with desalination units while gradually raising domestic content to strengthen at-sea supply resilience.

Fed vice chair Jefferson said if AI-driven productivity gains reduce production costs sooner, inflation could come under downward pressure.