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Iran Launches Strikes at US Base in “Attempted Surprise Attack”

‘War is deceit’ said Muhammad, profit of islam…..

Iranian missile launch with the national flag in the foreground, showcasing military capabilities and defense technology during a test or demonstration.

JUST IN: Iran Launches Strikes at US Base in “Attempted Surprise Attack” After Trump Halted Strikes Against Iran

Iran launched a missile strike on US forces in the Middle East on Tuesday in what US Central Command described as a “attempted surprise attack.”

All of the missiles were intercepted, CENTCOM says.

This comes after President Trump called off the nearly two-week-long bombing campaign against Iran to continue negotiations on Friday.

“At 5:45 p.m. ET today, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted. U.S. forces remain vigilant and at a high state of readiness,” US Central Command announced in a statement.

US, Saudi forces attack Iraq; IRGC fires missiles at Jordan

  • United States and Saudi forces have launched attacks on Iran-aligned groups in Iraq in retaliation for “30 IRGC-directed” drone attacks in the past 30 days, including on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.
  • Iran claims an attack on a US base in Jordan, with the Jordanian army saying it shot down five missiles at dawn.
  • Tehran has rejected Oman’s proposal to split transit routes through the Strait of Hormuz, instead calling for full control of the inbound corridor and partial control of the outbound corridor.
  • US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held “positive and productive” talks, the White House says.

Trump Derangement Syndrome has become so severe that too many Democrats now appear more determined to stop President Trump than to stop the Iranian regime.

Iran is not merely another country involved in a policy disagreement.

It is a hostile theocracy that has spent decades threatening Americans, funding terrorist proxies and destabilizing the Middle East.

Yet in the middle of an active conflict, Democrats are making “Stop This Illegal War” their rallying cry while American forces remain in danger. Continue reading Iran Launches Strikes at US Base in “Attempted Surprise Attack”

Iran: “more people are dying when there is no war…”

“Our regime has massacred Iranians for 47 years. When girls were poisoned in schools and thousands executed by the regime, where were you all?”

The US abruptly suspended a campaign of air strikes against Iran over the weekend, raising hopes of a diplomatic solution that would allow shipping to resume in the Strait of Hormuz, which carried one-fifth of global energy supplies before ⁠the US-Israel war on Iran.

Trump Says U.S. in ‘Very Deep Talks’ with Iran

Warns of ‘Strong Military Action’ if Diplomacy Fails

President Donald J. Trump makes an announcement on American nuclear innovation, Friday, Ju

President Donald Trump said Monday the United States is engaged in “very deep talks” with Iran but warned Washington is prepared to resume “very strong military action” if diplomacy fails, saying he agreed to pause plans to expand the U.S. military campaign to give negotiations another opportunity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington to meet with Trump.

Oman sends Hormuz management plan to Iran; Gulf nations onboard

  • Oman presents a proposal to Iran ⁠for ⁠joint management of the Strait of Hormuz with “voluntary fees” that would ensure Tehran does not exercise sole control ⁠of the vital waterway.
  • US President Donald Trump says Washington is having “very friendly talks” with Tehran but suggests he is not prepared for prolonged negotiations.
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Trump later on Tuesday with the US-Israeli war on Iran topping the agenda.
  • Saudi Arabia condemns a drone attack launched by Iran-backed groups in Iraq that targeted Riyadh as well as oil facilities in the Eastern Province.
An Israeli soldier stops Palestinians from passing in Hebron (File Photo)

Protesters confront Netanyahu’s motorcade

Protesters in the US capital targeted Benjamin Netanyahu’s motorcade by shouting slogans, waving Palestinian flags and calling for his arrest.

The Israeli prime minister arrived in Washington, DC, for talks with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Mojtaba Khamenei writes to Hizballah: ‘No path remains except jihad’
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This is how the Iranians, or at least the supporters of Iran’s Islamic regime, view their conflict with the United States. They see it as a religious conflict, a jihad for Islam, which is the one aspect of it that State Department analysts, and virtually everyone else in the West, resolutely ignore.
 

‘Better to Finish the Military Operational Plan’

Trump: “not one boat gets in”

Trump says Iran is pleading the US to stop its naval blockade

Trump has asked a crowd at General Motors in Michigan: “How good is our navy with a blockade?”

Referring to the US naval blockade on Iran, he said that: “Not one boat gets in”.

He added that Iran is saying: “Please, please, no blockade”.

Update:

U.S. and Iran Pause Strikes for Second Straight Day

Iran Focuses Attacks on Saudi Arabia and Red Sea Shipping Lanes

Iran Focuses Attacks on Saudi Arabia & Red Sea Shipping Lanes

Trump says US in talks with Tehran, ‘good things can happen’

  • US President Donald Trump says “we are having good talks” with Iran but that he is not interested in prolonged negotiations. Trump also again denies that the United States is low on munitions.
  • Iran’s top joint military command says that it will view any attempt by the US to implement its “illegal” maritime blockade as an escalation of the regional conflict.
  • Iran says the US is “stuck and struggling” after five months of war it began under the influence of Israel and will “inevitably pay the price”.
  • A series of suspected Iranian drone attacks have been reported in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, with US jets and drones said to have flown over Erbil in defence of the city.

LOL! Trump Calls Iranian Leader Khamenei a “Gay Dictator” During White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (VIDEO)

Netanyahu arrives in Washington, DC, for Trump talks

The Israeli prime minister has touched down on US soil, according to media reports in Israel.

Iran’s health minister says 60 killed, 670 injured in recent US attacks

Mohammad Reza Zafarghandi said that 60 Iranian citizens were killed and about 670 injured in attacks by the United States in the south of the country, over a period of between 10 and 12 days, according to Iranian news agency reports.

The US is ‘winning big time’ with Iran, Trump says

More from Trump’s speech in Michigan:

The president says he is making the “largest ever investment in the United States armed forces”, adding that the US has the strongest military in the world and that he is using it now.

“We’re winning big time with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said, adding, “We’re ensuring that they’re never having a nuclear weapon.”

“”If you understood the power of the nuclear weapons, you’d understand exactly what I was saying.”

Trump says Iran has been “the bully of the Middle East” for 47 to 50 years.

He said that US President Barack Obama thought it was possible to bribe Iran, but that “you can’t bribe them, you gotta beat them, and we’re beating the hell out of them”.

“We’ll see how it turns out,” he added. “Right now there are very friendly negotiations going on.”

Iran: ‘Former Supreme Leader Ordered Us to Negotiate’

Tankers and cargo vessels in the Gulf of Oman

Houthis and Saudi Arabia exchange fire as US-Iran war intensifies

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its “condemnation and strong denunciation” of the Houthi attacks against ships in the Red Sea.

  • Saudi Arabia launches strikes on Yemen’s Houthi-held city of Hodeidah in the latest escalation during the regional war between the United States and Iran.
  • President Donald Trump says dialogue between Washington and Tehran continues and a threatened “massive” attack may be unnecessary, although the US remains “locked and loaded”.
  • Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran does not fear threats or succumb to pressure.
  • Iranian army spokesman Mohammad Akraminia has claimed that “almost all” US military infrastructure in Iraq’s Erbil has been destroyed during recent attacks by the IRGC, he told Iranian state television, as reported by Anadolu Agency.
  • The Houthis have condemned those attacks and claimed air defences “intercepted enemy aircraft”.
  • The IRGC naval forces stopped four vessels in the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours after firing warning shots, Iranian state television has reported.

A public rift has emerged between Iran’s government and state television over how to portray the state of war and negotiations with the United States, as mediators try to nudge both countries towards diplomacy.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, centre right, and Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, centre left, attend a farewell ceremony for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for international delegates at the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosalla in Tehran, Iran, July 3, 2026

Former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei publicly said there would be no negotiations with Washington – but privately had given his approval.

“We went to the dear leader, explained the situation, and asked him what to do since he had said the ‘no war, no peace’ conditions are bad for the country,” the president said. “He ordered us to go negotiate. We started the talks based on his order.”

‘Military action alone’ won’t change Iran’s perspective

Iran has “no perfect choices or even good ones”, according to Michael Mulroy, former US deputy assistant secretary of defence for the Middle East and a CIA paramilitary operations officer.

However, if Iran can sell energy, then the US is “not going to be able to isolate them to the point where they change their perspective on a new agreement that’s more conducive to the United States”, he told Al Jazeera.

“So I think we need to build an international coalition to identify how we’re doing this: sanctions, secondary sanctions, freezing assets, the IRGC’s global infrastructure – all these things need to happen”, he said, adding “they probably won’t happen fast enough for the White House’s perspective, but they do need to happen because it’s clear that just military action alone is not changing that perspective”.

“From the US perspective, it needs several things to happen for this not to be considered a strategic failure; they need the Strait of Hormuz to be open, completely open and they need a new nuclear agreement that guarantees Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon, and we’re pretty far from that.”

  • Iran summons Ukraine’s diplomats after Kyiv bombs an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea, killing at least one sailor and wounding another.
  • Ukraine says it was targeting Russian vessels carrying Iran-linked military cargo, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is assisting Iran in its military campaign in the Middle East.
  • Yemen’s Houthis launch missile and drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities in Jizan and Yanbu on the Red Sea coast, in retaliation for Saudi-led coalition strikes on Hodeidah port and Kamaran Island.
  • Trump has ordered the US military to set aside plans to attack Iran, according to US media, amid concerns the conflict could “dangerously drain” air defence munitions stocks.
  • Kuwait’s ambassador to the US had denied a Wall Street Journal report that claimed the Gulf state had sent fighter jets to attack Iran.

US bombs Iran for an eighth consecutive night

  • The US launches new strikes on Iran after two American soldiers were killed in Iranian strikes in Jordan.
  • US President Donald Trump says the deaths were “a very sad thing”, adding that “we’re never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
  • Kuwait’s state-owned oil company says one of its main facilities has been hit in an Iranian strike as Iraqi media report that the US consulate in Erbil activated air defences amid drone attacks.
  • Top Iranian commander Ali Abdullahi has warned the US, saying “any aggression or barbarism will be met with a decisive and devastating response” from Iran’s armed forces.

Cardboard mufti still in hiding, tries to rally the masses….

 

Iran’s supreme leader warns US of ‘unforgettable lessons’ amid MoU breaches

Mojtaba Khamenei says Trump’s signature is ‘worthless’ and that ‘bullying’ is a core element of US foreign policy.

Iran says 10,000 without water after US attack; fire at Kuwait water site

  • Iran’s national water company says some 10,000 people across 20 villages are without water after overnight US attacks.
  • Iran’s army says it has hit US assets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait following the latest round of US strikes. Kuwait says fire broke out at a power and desalination plant after an Iranian strike.
  • Earlier, US Central Command said it had completed its seventh consecutive night of strikes on Iran, employing “fighter aircraft, aerial drones and warships” to hit the country’s “surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities”.
  • Iranian state media says at least three people have been killed and eight wounded in attacks in Hormozgan province which borders the Strait of Hormuz.
  • US Central Command says a claim by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards that two oil tankers have exploded in the strait after hitting mines in the international waterway is “false”.

  • What to expect after the US reimposes naval blockade on Iran’s ports?

Behind enemy lines:

Iran: US pledges to protect Hormuz vessels during Iran strikes

Washington will “become the guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz for a 20 percent fee, sez Trump.

Iran said on Saturday it has once again shut the Strait of Hormuz to traffic. The US has maintained it remains open.

“Iran does not control the strait. Traffic is flowing,” US Central Command wrote early on Sunday.

US launches new wave of strikes against Iran, aimed at ‘degrading’ military

Sunday’s attacks follow three previous days of tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and US as a June ceasefire deal frays.

  • US forces are “positioned and prepared” to ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz despite “Iranian aggression”, CENTCOM says.
  • Iran claims attacks on Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman with missiles and suicide drones as fears rise of a return to full-scale war in the Middle East.
  • The US military says it struck more than 140 targets in Iran with explosions reported in the southern port cities of Bandar Abbas, Sirik, Chabahar, Bandar-e Deyr, Jask and Asaluyeh
  • The hostilities come after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard declared the Strait of Hormuz “closed until further notice” and said it fired at a ship attempting to transit through what it called an unapproved route.

Gulf tensions rise as Iran strikes Qatar, disrupting mediation efforts

Iran hit Kuwait and Bahrain following US attacks while avoiding Qatar since early April.

Sunday’s attack on Qatar targeted a state whose mediation efforts have been central to attempts to broker a ceasefire between the US and Iran.

In Tehran, life for more than 10 million people has carried on mostly as usual since the capital has not been recently attacked. But the economy is in the doldrums and the outlook is increasingly uncertain, more than four months after the US and Israel began their aerial campaign.

Here’s the latest:

  • The UAE says two of its national tankers were hit by Iranian cruise missiles, as India summons Iran’s deputy ambassador after an Indian crew member was killed and several others were wounded in the attacks.
  • The US has carried out more strikes on Iran, with Iranian media reporting explosions on Kish and Qeshm islands, as well as Bushehr and Bandar Abbas.
  • Iran says it attacked US military sites in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and two oil supertankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
  • US President Donald Trump says a US blockade will be reinstated on Iranian ports in the coming hours, and Washington will “become the guardian” of the Strait of Hormuz for a 20 percent fee.

Hormuz cargo fee ‘would be fundamentally wrong’: Hapag-Lloyd

Charging fees for passage through international waters “would be fundamentally wrong”, German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd says.

China urges US and Iran to restore safe passage through Hormuz

China called on the United States and Iran to restore safe passage through the crucial Strait of Hormuz after fighting reignited over how the strategic waterway should be managed.

Iran Hits Several Ships in the Strait, US Military Launches Powerful Strikes Against Iran

Trump Goes Off on NATO During Summit in Turkey, Suggests He May Withdraw Troops from Europe

Military aircraft captured from an aerial perspective, displaying its features on a cracked road surrounded by vegetation, marked as unclassified.

BREAKING: US Military Launches Powerful Strikes Against Iran

Map showing maritime traffic in the Persian Gulf, with various vessels marked in different colors, indicating their positions and movements.

JUST IN: Iran Hits Another Ship in the Strait of Hormuz – Audio Shows Iranian Navy Threatening Ships: “This is Last Warning. You Are All in Danger” (VIDEO)

Iran: Khamenei mourners carry huge banner proclaiming ‘We will kill Trump’

Iranians threaten to murder Trump, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, Peter Thiel and others

When the Islamic Republic Threatens to Kill You, Believe Them.

Turkish foreign minister: Israel ‘a burden that humanity can no longer bear’

 

UN Fires Whopping 70 Gaza Staffers in Wake of Israeli Claims Aid Workers Were Terrorists, as Tel Aviv Provides Evidence of Claims

UN Watch Asks UN to Strip UNRWA Head of Legal Immunity

During the course of its campaign in Gaza, the IDF found evidence, including lists of Hamas members, that hundreds of members of UNRWA were also members of Hamas, and some had even taken part in the October 7, 2023 attack on the Nova Music Festival and more than 20 kibbutzim.

Leaders engaged in conversation at a formal dinner, with a floral centerpiece and national flags in the background.

Multiple Bombs Go Off in Damascus During Macron’s Visit to Syria (VIDEOS)

Continue reading Iran Hits Several Ships in the Strait, US Military Launches Powerful Strikes Against Iran

Fanatical Frenzy in Teheran: ‘Death to America,’ ‘Death to Israel’

Don’t worry, they don’t really mean it. They really want nothing more than Coca Cola & MacDonalds hamburgers, and to be Facebook friends with us….

“They’re dying to settle,” Trump said. “They want to settle so badly.” Yeah, they’re making that clear every day.
  • Supporters of the Islamic Republic at Ali Khamenei’s funeral in Tehran chanted “kill Trump” and “kill Bibi” while holding banners calling for revenge for the slain supreme leader.

Islamic Republic of Iran: Muslims scream ‘Kill Trump’ and ‘Kill Bibi’ at Khamenei’s funeral

Authorities shut down streets, airspace, and daily life for the mourning

Huge crowd for Khamenei funeral procession in Tehran

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians gathered on Azadi Street in Tehran to bid farewell to Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

A truck carrying the coffins of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his family members makes its way through crowds of mourners in Tehran
  • A massive crowd gathers for the funeral procession of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran with authorities estimating millions of people are on the streets.

  • Ten Japan-linked vessels have begun leaving the Strait of Hormuz after spending months stranded in the Gulf because of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

    The ships include six oil tankers carrying 12 million barrels of Middle Eastern crude as well as two chemical tankers, a vehicle carrier, and a container ship.

  • Israeli Defence Minister Katz threatens Iranian leaders

    Israel’s defence minister has claimed that his country assassinated Khamenei for allegedly leading a “plan to destroy” Israel and again threatened to “eliminate” any Iranian leader who tries to promote such actions, according to Israel’s Channel 13.

    Israel Katz made the comments in response to the ongoing funeral procession in Tehran, the Israeli broadcaster reported.

    Ghalibaf says peace in Lebanon cannot happen without Tehran

    Ghalibaf says peace in Lebanon cannot hold unless Iran plays what he describes as its stabilising role in the region.

    Iran’s top negotiator made the remarks during a meeting in Tehran with Muhammad Fneish, a senior Hezbollah official who travelled to Iran to attend Khamenei’s funeral ceremonies.

    Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members. But Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as Iran’s supreme leader, did not make an appearance reut.rs/4eMyrqB.   Reuters

    Iranian official likens U.S.-Iran talks to Muhammad’s Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, ‘it paved the way for future victories’

    As The History of Jihad explains, Muhammad concluded the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah with the pagan Quraysh on terms unfavorable to the Muslims, much to the confusion and anger of some of his companions. A new revelation promised the disgruntled Muslims “much booty” (Qur’an 48:19). Perhaps to fulfill this promise, Muhammad led them against the Khaybar oasis, which Jews, many of them exiles from Medina, inhabited, and massacred the Jews there, seizing the promised abundance of booty. The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah only lasted until the Muslims were strong enough to break it. Now Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi is likening U.S.-Iran negotiations to the same treaty. The Trump administration should take careful note of this, and ponder its implications for the usefulness of the negotiations altogether. But it won’t.

    Exclusive — Lt. Col. Allen West: U.S. Should Separate Iran Regime from Oil and Gas Revenue to

    …U.S. Should Separate Iran Regime from Oil and Gas Revenue to Win War

    Friday, on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Lt. Col Allen West talked about Iran.

    West said, “We should be going after their center of gravity which is their oil and gas revenue and separate this regime from that and I believe — that’s how I believe you bring about the collapse.”

Iran Bitches & Threatens Its Neighbours & the U.S.

  • Iran’s top negotiator warns if the US and Israel do not fulfil commitments to end the war then it “will respond”, adding the February attack “failed” and Washington ultimately asked for a ceasefire.

Iran supreme leader’s funeral under way as foreign dignitaries arrive

  • More than 20 million people are expected in Tehran for the funeral of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who was killed with family members at the start of the US-Israel war on Iran.
  • Iran’s army commander says it will “avenge blood” against the “enemies” who killed Ayatollah Khamenei.
Ali Akbar Velayati

Advisor to Iran’s top dog tells Gulf countries: ‘Your survival depends on picking up the crumbs from this table’

“Supreme Leader Advisor: Small Countries on the Margins of the Persian Gulf Should Know Their Place Better,” IranWire, June 26, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

This is how a victorious nation speaks, and the Islamic Republic of Iran has maintained this posture unflinchingly amid Trump’s claims that the U.S. is actually the winner. It could all, of course, be an elaborate game of deception. The problem is trying to discern which side is being deceptive.

Using derogatory language, Velayati described the Persian Gulf Arab states as “the small countries on the margins of the Persian Gulf,” writing: “Your survival depends on picking up the crumbs from this table. In the rearrangement of grand equations, the small countries on the margins of the Persian Gulf have no place at the table; they will be eliminated, and their strategic existence is indebted to Tehran’s ceiling of tolerance.”…

‘Hormuz not the playground of aggressor America,’ says Iran

  • Iran’s military headquarters warns any US interference in the Strait of Hormuz will be met with a “decisive and swift response” as tensions continue to roil negotiations.

  • The US envoy to the UN Security Council, Mike Waltz, warned Iran over threats to close the Strait of Hormuz during an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council.

    More Threats:

    • Iran’s top negotiator warns if the US and Israel do not fulfil commitments to end the war then it “will respond”, adding the February attack “failed” and Washington ultimately asked for a ceasefire.
    • US envoy warns Iran over Hormuz closure during emergency UNSC session

    Trump administration renews pressure on International Criminal Court

    The US says it will reject any effort by court to assert authority over citizens, days after judges sue over sanctions.

    The US is not a party to the Rome Statute, the court’s founding document, and the country is therefore not subject to the court’s jurisdiction.

    The administration of United States President Donald Trump has once again denounced the International Criminal Court (ICC), pledging that any effort to assert authority over US citizens would be considered a “direct affront” against the country’s sovereignty.
    Israel is also not a party to the Rome Treaty — though ‘Palestine’ is — and it has rejected the court’s authority.
     

    British lawyers’ body suspends ICC Prosecutor Khan over misconduct claim

    Khan is the subject of multiple investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct at the ICC.

Iran: the only thing that you get when you negotiate with terrorists is more terrorism

Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute or protection money to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged.

Once you paid the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.

Pay the jihadis and you never get rid of the jihad.

When Has Negotiating With Islamic Terrorists Ever Worked?

Nearly 250 years ago, the United States tried negotiating with Islamic pirate states to stop the capture of American ships and the enslavement of Americans. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams all learned the painful lesson that the negotiations were a trap.

Treaties would be signed, agreements would be reached and would soon be broken because Muslims could freely lie to ‘infidels’ and had a religious obligation to wage war on them.

“The precept of the Koran is perpetual war against all who deny that Mahomet is the prophet of God,” Adams summed it up. “The command to propagate the Moslem creed by the sword is always obligatory, when it can be made effective. The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force.”

This isn’t ancient history, it’s current events as the United States once again conducts futile negotiations with an Islamic pirate and terrorist state to stop its attacks on international shipping.

Iran Is Never Going to Stop Shutting Down the Strait of Hormuz

Iran only has one card to play and that’s shutting down the Strait of Hormuz. So it’ll never stop doing it.

Iran’s leaders, unsatisfied with billions in oil sales, access to cash, and promises of sanctions relief and $300 billion in the deal, are trying to charge for access to the strait, meanwhile despite the waivers of oil sales, they’re attacking ships passing through the strait to show they’re in charge.

US says if Iran tries to ‘threaten its neighbours’, Trump ‘has options’ for responding

US Vice President JD Vance says that if Iran pursues various measures he says could destabilise the region, then Trump has several ways in which he could respond to the Islamic Republic.

Former President Trump stands behind Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is signing a document at a table in the Oval Office, surrounded by military flags.

High-Ranking Iranian Clerics Call for Trump and Netanyahu’s Assassinations “Under Any Circumstances” as President Reportedly Weighs “Finishing The Job” in Iran

  • Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says talks in Qatar’s capital, Doha, with Pakistani and Qatari officials have concluded.
  • US President Donald Trump has hailed the US’s own talks on Iran in Doha as “very good”.

Iran says Strait of Hormuz is its ‘greatest instrument of power’

Ships still using Oman route through Hormuz despite Iran warnings

Vessels are continuing to pass through the Strait of Hormuz using the Oman-designated route despite Iran’s rejection of the lane and warnings to ships crossing outside routes approved by Tehran.