—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 WATCH: The Iranian Police has released footage showing them engaging American helicopters with medium weapons during the pilot rescue mission

The video also shows security forces searching the wreckage of the two C-130 Hercules, finding ID cards of American pilots and their temporary resident permits from Israel.

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— The ID card of ‘Major Amanda M. Ryder’ of the U.S. Air Force

It can be seen that she got a B2 stay permit from Israel, which is interesting because it only allows tourism or business.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 BREAKING: Iran has submitted its response to Pakistan regarding the U.S. 45-day ceasefire proposal – IRNA

Iran rejects a temporary ceasefire and demands the following:

– A permanent end to the war on all theatres in the Middle East, including Lebanon and Gaza, with guarantees.

– The dismantling of all U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf.

– Implementation of a new transit protocol that recognizes Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz and allows Iran to collect tolls.

– The lifting of economic sanctions on Iran.

– Acknowledging Iran’s right to peaceful uranium enrichment per its inherent right under the NPT and the United Nations charter.

– The paying of reparations for economic damages suffered during the war.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Barak Ravid, reporter for Axios, confirms that Iran sent a 10-point response to the U.S. ceasefire proposal

According to him, Iran’s demands are ‘maximalist’ and will not allow moving forward with a diplomatic solution.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘I don't think it gets much more hostile than Iran, they're capable fighters, they're very tough people.

You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong. Not so strong like they were about a month ago.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘If I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil, because it's there for the taking, there's not a thing they can do about it.

Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home.

If it were up to me, I'd take the oil, I'd keep the oil, I would make plenty of money. ‘

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘We’ve done, in fact, regime change in Iran. I think I deserve credit for that. We took out the first regime, we took out the second regime, and now we’re dealing with frankly much smarter people’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘When the Iranian people don’t hear bombs go off, they get upset. They want to hear the bombs, because they want to be free’

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: Satellite imagery shows three oil and gas facilities burning in the UAE yesterday

Asab, Bu Hasa, and Habshan were all struck by Iranian missiles, despite Emirati claims that the missiles were intercepted.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump, apparently unaware of the U.S. ceasefire proposal to Iran:

‘Who is talking about 45 days? Nobody said 45 days, I will decide when the ceasefire happens and for how long.’

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— 🇺🇸 President Trump with kids on Easter:

‘You know, children, Biden couldn’t do this. He couldn’t sign these. Biden used this thing called the ‘auto pen’, he was unable to sign his name, so he gave his documents to his people and a machine signed it for him. It’s called the auto pen. That’s not very good, right? But Trump doesn’t do that.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran is a sick nation with demented leaders’

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Guys tomorrow is Power Plant Day! I’m so excited

—❗️🇮🇷 A statement by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei:

‘In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

{Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with God. Some of them have fulfilled their pledge, and some are still waiting, and they have not altered their commitment in the least} – Holy Quran

Once again, the American-Zionist enemy, having suffered successive defeats in the war imposed on our nation and the valiant fighters of Islamic Iran, and in its evil schemes, has resorted to the ever-present weapon of Zionist terrorism: the assassination of one of the leaders of the country's intelligence and security establishment.

The commander of the IRGC Intelligence Organization, Major General Seyyed Majid Khademi, who dedicated decades of quiet and tireless service to the nation's security, intelligence, and defense sectors, has been martyred.

However, the ranks of the fighters and mujahideen for truth and justice in Islamic Iran and its loyal armed forces are so vast and unwavering that assassinations and crimes cannot undermine their principles of jihad.

I offer my condolences and congratulations to the family of this courageous commander, his colleagues, and the leaders of the IRGC Intelligence Organization. May God Almighty elevate his status.‘

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❗️Launches from Iran

False identification

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: An American MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drone was shot down above Qeshm

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⚡️Trump: Iran’s military is very good very talented very evil

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘We are going to blow up the entire country of Iran’

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