The White House said last week that Iran “very much continues to talk” with U.S. negotiators and has expressed that they “want to make a deal” because of the “devastating blows” absorbed by the U.S. military.
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TRUMP RE-IMPOSES NAVAL BLOCKADE OF ALL IRAN’S PORTS AS MOU CRUMBLES
The Trump administration announced last week that it would reimpose the naval blockade outside the Strait of Hormuz on all ships with connections to Iranian ports to choke Tehran economically and reimpose its will in the region.
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TRUMP’S FORMER DEFENSE HEAD SAYS U.S. CAN’T JUST BOMB IRAN INTO SUBMISSION
Mark Esper, the former head of the Department of Defense during President Donald Trump’s first term, said in an interview last week that it is unlikely that air strikes alone will bring the Iranians back to the negotiating table, and said it seems the administration has two options.
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TRUMP CHANGES IRAN WAR GOALS
President Donald Trump has been accused by critics of never really explaining why the U.S. and Israel launched their illegal war of aggression against Iran, but the president’s decision to publicly move the goal posts has left Israelis concerned that Washington will ignore their war goals.
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IRAN ENGAGED IN FULL-SCALE WAR WITH U.S., PRESIDENT SAYS
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Monday that Iran is engaged in a “full-scale” war with the U.S., which includes military strikes and economic punishment.
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U.S. AND IRAN LOCK HORNS OVER STRAIT OF HORMUZ
The U.S. and Iran carried out bombing attacks on each other’s assets last week, with both sides accusing the other of violating the memorandum of understanding (MOU) in the Strait of Hormuz, which has become the war’s top flashpoint.
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TRUMP SAYS HE THINKS CEASEFIRE WITH IRAN IS ‘OVER,’ CALLS IRANIAN NEGOTIATORS ‘SCUM’
President Donald Trump told reporters last week during a NATO summit in Turkey that he believes the ceasefire between Washington and Iran is over after the Iranians carried out strikes on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz that did not receive permission to exit the waterway from Tehran.
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U.S. CARRIES OUT FIRST STRIKES ON IRANIAN INFRASTRUCTURE SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE MOU
The U.S. last week carried out its first strikes on Iranian infrastructure since the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MOU), taking out railway bridges that connect Tehran to cities in the south, which angered Iranians because the strikes took place during the burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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MILLIONS OF IRANIANS JOINED COUNTRY’S FAREWELL TO AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI
Millions of Iranians paid their respects last week during the extended funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which the country’s new leadership used as an example of how his killing brought the country closer.
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IRAN: HORMUZ WILL NEVER BE REOPENED THROUGH WAR
A top Iranian commander said in a statement Tuesday that the Strait of Hormuz will never be reopened through military means and that the “aggressive and corrupt president of the United States must learn to respect international law, the rights of nations, and the dignity of peoples.”