The U.S. military was fully postured and just three hours away from launching another round of strikes against Iran on Thursday when President Donald Trump abruptly halted the operation and announced that a breakthrough agreement with Tehran was nearing completion, according to a report published Thursday night.
The two crewmembers of the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopter shot down by Iran on Monday evening were rescued by a Saronic Corsair, an unmanned surface vessel (USV) or sea drone.
Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared on Wednesday that the Strait of Hormuz is “closed to the passage of all vessels” after the United States retaliated against Iranian attacks.
British Minister of Defence John Healey, one of Prime Minister’s most loyal allies, has resigned from government because Sir Keir Starmer and the treasury have been “unable… unwilling” to pay to fund the Armed Forces. A year of intense Westminster
The U.S. military launched a fresh wave of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Wednesday evening after President Donald Trump warned Tehran would “pay the price” for dragging out negotiations aimed at ending the conflict.
Iran will “pay the price” for taking “too long” to negotiate a Middle East peace deal, President Donald Trump cautioned Wednesday, making his pledge in the wake of Washington and Tehran exchanging fire following the downing of an American helicopter over the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. forces launched strikes against Iranian military targets Tuesday after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for downing a U.S. Army Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions despite ongoing negotiations aimed at securing a broader agreement between Washington and Tehran.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States “must” respond after Iran shot down a U.S. Army Apache helicopter while it was patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions as Washington and Tehran continue negotiations aimed at ending the months-long conflict.
President Trump confirmed two crew members of a U.S. Army Apache Helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz are uninjured and “fine”.
Chinese companies have reportedly delayed two major refinery projects, capable of producing 500,000 barrels per day combined, due to the shortage of crude oil from the Middle East after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.
The Trump administration is weighing a plan to use frozen Iranian assets to help rebuild Gulf allies damaged by Tehran’s missile and drone attacks. The consideration comes even as Iranian officials demand the release of billions of dollars in those same funds as a condition for any broader agreement with Washington.
Iran is demanding the release of $24 billion in frozen assets as a condition for advancing a potential agreement with Washington, while U.S. forces intercepted Iranian missiles and drones targeting Kuwait, Bahrain, and maritime traffic near the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald Trump’s top envoys quietly convened nuclear experts to prepare for the possible implementation of a deal.
“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi as India moves to cement its oil and other commercial-related ties with the South American nation.
“Self defense” strikes were launched by U.S. military assets across the Persian Gulf overnight into Wednesday morning, with a host of ballistic missiles and drones fired at ships and Gulf countries by Iran obliterated in the process.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared Tuesday that the Iran war is “over now,” while laying out what he described as the Trump administration’s non-negotiable conditions for any broader agreement currently under discussion with Tehran.
President Donald Trump said Monday he believes the United States could reach an agreement with Iran “over the next week” after personally intervening to halt a rapidly escalating confrontation between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon that Tehran warned could derail the negotiations altogether.
President Donald Trump has sent an amended peace proposal back to Tehran seeking more explicit commitments surrounding Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, nuclear program, and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz after declining Friday to immediately approve a proposed framework agreement during a Situation Room meeting with senior advisers, according to multiple reports published Sunday.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that President Trump remains “laser-focused” on securing what he described as a “great deal” with Iran, while warning that Tehran could face renewed U.S. military action if negotiations collapse.
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) said that an Iran deal that opens the Strait of Hormuz “and guarantees that it stays open and at least leads to a conversation around the nuclear weapons is
The United Arab Emirates carried out dozens of coordinated airstrikes against Iran alongside the United States and Israel during the conflict with Tehran — including strikes on strategic energy and military infrastructure that reportedly continued even after the April ceasefire announcement — according to a report published Friday.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday announced new sanctions on Iranian oil sales in a bid to choke off funding for Iran’s military apparatus.
President Donald Trump is meeting in the Situation Room to make a final determination on Iran amid reports that his sign-off is awaited on a ceasefire extension of 60 days.
Indian refineries are seeking alternative sources of oil from Latin America and Africa due to Iran’s disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, in the latest example of major energy importers pursuing alternative supply chains to avoid the easily-threatened Hormuz chokepoint.
Ship trackers said on Thursday that two more tankers were able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz with their transponders turned off.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reportedly reached a tentative agreement to extend the fragile ceasefire between the two countries by 60 days and launch negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program, though President Donald Trump has not yet signed off on the deal.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) accused Iran on Thursday of an “egregious ceasefire violation” for firing a ballistic missile at Kuwait and launching “five one-way attack drones that posed a clear threat in and near the Strait of Hormuz.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-PA) said that President Donald Trump has “exposed the limits of his ability to stop the Iranians from harassing shipping, it has made all of us more vulnerable,
Fresh strikes on southern Iran were launched by U.S. military forces early Tuesday morning targeting Iranian missile sites and vessels attempting to lay anti-shipping mines in the contested Strait of Hormuz.
Ship tracking services said on Monday that three tankers filled with liquefied natural gas (LNG) passed safely through the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, headed for Pakistan, China, and India.
President Donald Trump on Sunday forcefully defended the emerging U.S.-Iran peace framework as “THE EXACT OPPOSITE” of former President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, insisting Tehran would receive no sanctions relief or economic concessions unless it surrendered its enriched uranium and permanently abandoned any path toward a nuclear weapon as negotiators worked to finalize what administration officials described as a nearly completed agreement.
Aboard the RFA Lyme Bay docked off the coast of Gibraltar, hundreds of British sailors are waiting to be deployed for a mine-clearing mission to the Strait of Hormuz that is still in doubt.
Iran has reportedly agreed in principle to surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium as part of the emerging U.S.-brokered agreement President Donald Trump said Saturday, confirming the now “largely negotiated” agreement could be announced as early as Sunday.
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a peace deal between the United States, Iran, and other regional partners has been “largely negotiated”, including the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) talked about prices and said that even if the situation with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is “solved next week, it’s still going to take another month or
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday there has been “progress” in the U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks mediated by Pakistan, but there are still major hurdles to overcome.
Speaking at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Helsingborg, Sweden on Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “no country in the world should accept” Iran’s latest scheme to control the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity and extort “tolls” from international shipping.
Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that Turkey sold almost all of its U.S. Treasury holdings in March as part of a strategy to prop up its currency during the Iran crisis.
On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Amb. Nathan Sales, who served as Coordinator for Counterterrorism during the first Trump administration, argued that there needs to be more pressure on Iran and, “We can reopen the strait, or at
President Donald Trump warned Sunday that the “clock is ticking” for Iran to strike a deal to bring the conflict to an end, urging Tehran to move quickly toward an agreement as he warned the regime risks being “hit badly” if negotiations continue to stall amid mounting questions over whether diplomacy can prevent renewed fighting.
The regime in Tehran is bizarrely claiming to be the “protector of security” for the Strait of Hormuz, even as its terrorist attacks on commercial vessels continue to block vital traffic from passing through the strategic waterway.
