Iran, Trump and Strait of Hormuz
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As war with Iran continues, President Donald Trump said he is holding a press conference on Monday, March 9 in Florida.
US Iran war LIVE updates: The IRGC has claimed that American naval forces “lack the courage to approach the Persian Gulf”, asserting that the Strait of Hormuz remains under complete Iranian control. This comes in response to Donald Trump saying that the US had “completely decimated” Iran's navy.
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States was in discussions with Iran as the war enters its third week but that Tehran was not ready for a deal to end it. Follow our liveblog
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Though the president has long professed an “America First” policy prioritizing the U.S., Trump suggested at his news conference that the war was for the benefit of other nations, especially those dependent on oil that’s shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.
In a social media post on Saturday, Mr. Trump said the “Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage, and we will help — A LOT!” It was far from clear, however, if any countries would volunteer to patrol the Persian Gulf strait, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil transits.
President Trump told a reporter during a press conference Monday on Iran that the school bombed near Tehran on the first day of the war is still under investigation.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that the United States was in discussions with Iran as the war enters its third week but that Tehran was not ready for a deal to end it.
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The FCC chairman may be threatening the broadcast networks over their coverage of the Iran war, but Saturday Night Live again went with a cold open that skewered Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth for their lack of planning for the fallout from the Middle East intervention.
Democratic lawmakers have consistently criticized the administration for not laying out its goals in the war more clearly.