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President Donald Trump announced that the United States is producing “more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined” during his Wednesday night address to the nation on the Iran war.

Iran has asked for a ceasefire, President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday hours ahead of his scheduled address to the nation on Operation Epic Fury in Iran.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) said that the Strait of Hormuz has to be opened and can’t be controlled by Iran and said that if the U.S. achieves its goal of

On Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) said that he won’t be satisfied with an end to U.S. operations in Iran if the Strait of Hormuz isn’t reopened. Co-host John Berman asked, “Would you be satisfied

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States is “two weeks ahead of schedule” in Iran, and now wants to “clean up some ends.”

 Talks with Iran are “very real” and “gaining strength” despite claims to the contrary by some Iranian officials, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth affirmed Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a long-term solution to the escalating Strait of Hormuz crisis would require rerouting oil and gas pipelines westward across Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and Mediterranean, bypassing what he described as Iran’s “geographic choke point,” as Tehran moves to impose tolls on ships transiting the vital waterway and restrict passage through the corridor.

Iran’s plans to hide missiles on ‘container ships’ to raid commerce far away from its own waters has been disrupted, report states. 

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” on Monday to lay out the Trump administration’s plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The UK will not come to the aid of its allies in Iran, no matter who asks, PM Starmer said at a local election event.

Iran confirmed Monday a targeted Israeli air strike killed the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval units, Alireza Tangsiri, who Israel held responsible for the blocking of the vital Strait of Hormuz.

The Pentagon is preparing for what could become weeks-long ground operations inside Iran — including Special Operations raids and limited infantry missions — as U.S. forces, including a Marine expeditionary unit now in theater, continue to build up for a potentially more dangerous next phase of Operation Epic Fury, according to a report published Saturday.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced Friday that ships traveling to or departing from ports belonging to countries it described as allies and supporters of the United States and Israel would not be allowed to cross the Strait of Hormuz.

The campaign to prevent Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz continues with raid on country’s “primary” sea mine facility, Israel has said.

Restrictions on Japan’s coal-fired power plants were relaxed Friday as the Asian industrial giant seeks to ease an energy crunch caused by the Middle East war choking oil supplies.

President Donald Trump’s Pentagon is developing military options for what officials describe as a potentially “massive” final blow against Iran — including seizing strategic islands in the Strait of Hormuz, blockading Iranian oil exports, and securing Tehran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium — as the administration weighs sending 10,000 additional combat troops to the Middle East if diplomacy collapses and the vital waterway remains restricted.

Breitbart News hosted a policy discussion on Thursday focused on threats posed by China and the Chinese Communist Party, where Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said China and Iran have been allies and share a goal of opposing the United States as the dominant global power.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Thursday that the country’s military had eliminated Admiral Alireza Tangsiri of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), identifying him as the top official blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

South Korean Prime Minister Kim Min-seok announced on Wednesday that his government has activated an “emergency economic response system” to handle “the shock of the Middle East war.”

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban terrorist government is struggling with an influx of returning Afghan refugees fleeing the ongoing war in Iran and detentions in critical agricultural and raw material shipments in the Strait of Hormuz, reports this week indicate.

British military officers are embedded with CENTCOM in preparation for a long-term Strait of Hormuz freedom of navigation mission.

The Pentagon is expected to order roughly 3,000 troops from the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East “in the coming hours,” according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Iran has laid a small number of sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, an anonymously-sourced report claims.

The Wall Street Journal’s latest Iran commentary argues for a major escalation in U.S. involvement, with former Pentagon official Seth Cropsey urging President Donald Trump to put boots on the ground in southern Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and complete what he says is an “unfinished” campaign.

Multiple news outlets reported on Monday afternoon that the nation of Bahrain is working on a draft United Nations resolution greenlighting countries using “all necessary means” to stop Iran from blocking commerce in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced a new wave of airstrikes against regime infrastructure in Tehran on Monday, even as President Donald Trump said “good and productive” talks with Iran could bring the conflict to an end soon.

Talk of Iran deal sparked a major market rally Monday morning.

President Donald Trump flagged a pause in strikes targeting Iran and its power generation capabilities on Monday morning, taking to social media to declare his hopes for a peaceful resolution to hostilities sooner rather than later.

U.S. forces have struck more than 8,000 Iranian military targets and destroyed 130 vessels — marking the “largest elimination of a navy over a three-week period since World War II” — as Iran’s combat capability declines and U.S. forces remain “zeroed in” on dismantling its ability to threaten shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command commander Adm. Brad Cooper.

President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Iran that if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened within 48 hours, the United States will “obliterate” Iran’s “various POWER PLANTS.”

More than 20 nations spanning from Asia to Europe to the Gulf have expressed a “readiness to contribute” to the effort of opening up the Strait of Hormuz amid threats to ships by the Islamist regime in Iran.

President Donald Trump stated Friday that the United States is closing in on its objectives in Iran and that his administration is considering winding down the war. 

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on Friday that its spokesman, Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naini, was killed by U.S. and Israeli air strikes during Operation Epic Fury.

Iranian lawmaker Somayeh Rafiei told the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) on Thursday that her colleagues are considering a plan to impose tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has been blockading by launching wanton attacks on international shipping since the beginning of Operation Epic Fury.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) rolled out proposals for reducing oil and gas consumption during the Iran war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday the war with Iran could pave the way for new oil and gas routes across the Arabian Peninsula to Israel’s Mediterranean ports, allowing global energy flows to bypass Iranian threats in the Strait of Hormuz and other vulnerable maritime chokepoints.