— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Iran told me very strongly that they intend to give us the nuclear dust.

They told me ‘you’re getting it but you’re gonna have to take it out’.

Because the site was so obliterated there’s only one or two countries in the world that could get it, the U.S. or China.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘You have the moderates and you have the lunatics. The lunatics want to fight till the end.

I call them lunatics, they’re stupid people. But the moderates are dying to make a deal.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘The ceasefire is unbelievably weak. I would call it the weakest right now.

What they sent us [Iran’s latest response] was a piece of garbage, I didn’t even finish reading it.

It was a waste of time. So the ceasefire is on life support. It’s on massive life support. Like when the doctor walks in and says ‘sir, your loved one has approximately 1% chance of living’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Is Iran stupid? Are they stupid people? They think that I’ll get tired of this or I’ll get bored or get pressured.

There is no pressure, no pressure at all. We will have a complete victory, we’ve already in theory had a complete victory from a military standpoint’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran’s leaders are dishonorable people. They took 4 days to send us a piece of paper that should have taken 10 minutes to prepare, and it was garbage’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran’s leaders are crazy, they’re crazy — I deal with them all the time, they’re lunatics’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Iran attacked Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia — they attacked everywhere.

Nobody expected them to attack, they weren’t supposed to do that. But it was a waste, we knocked down all of those missiles with our beautiful patriots’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s semi-official media Tasnim News Agency reports that they have genuinely no clue what Trump is talking about anymore, and there was never a proposal to hand over uranium to the United States

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump is considering restarting military action against Iran following a deadlock in negotiations, and will meet with generals later today

Options that will be presented include a resumption of ‘Project Freedom’ that would see U.S. military escorts for vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

Another option is resuming strikes against 25% of identified targets in Iran that have not yet been hit.

Additionally, Israel is pressuring Trump to authorize a high-stakes special operation to retrieve Iran’s enriched uranium, but the President is hesitant due to high risks. – Axios

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🇮🇷| Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Ghalibaf:

Our armed forces are ready to respond in a lesson-teaching manner to any aggression.

We are prepared for all options; they will be surprised.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran is considering imposing fees on subsea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz

IRGC-affiliated Tasnim and Fars outlets reported today that any cable laid on the seabed without authorization constitutes ‘occupation of Iranian soil underwater’ and must be subject to licensing and fees.

The monetization blueprint is modeled loosely on Egypt, which earns between 250 million USD and 400 million USD annually from cables transiting the Suez corridor.

Under the proposed framework, foreign operators would pay per-meter infrastructure fees and licensing royalties to route cables through Iranian territorial waters.

The subsea cables in question—including the FALCON, GBI and Gulf-TGN networks—enable the bulk of Internet traffic, financial transactions and cloud data flowing between Europe and Asia via the Middle East.

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— 🇮🇷/🇦🇪 BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal confirms, based on informed sources, that the UAE has been carrying out strikes on Iran

One of the strikes back in April targeted the Lavan Oil Refinery Company (LORC) on Lavan Island.

The UAE had long been suspected of carrying out the attack, but it was unconfirmed until now. At the time, Iran responded by targeting an Emirati refinery.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf:

‘There is no alternative but to accept the rights of the Iranian people as laid out in the 14-point proposal.

Any other approach will be completely inconclusive, nothing but one failure after another.

The longer they drag their feet, the more the American taxpayers will pay for it.’

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Hebrew Walla News: ‘Israel assesses that Mojtaba Khamenei is a major obstacle in the negotiations with the U.S. and will not compromise’

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Land troops in Iran.

Trust me, just do it.

It’s a great idea Mr. President — we will hold all the cards. Total surrender!

But I thought Iran had no more enrichment capabilities?

— 🇮🇷/🇯🇵 NEW: Due to the oil shortage, Japan has started printing food packaging in black and white – Reuters

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇾🇪 BREAKING: The IDF says it intercepted a drone launched from Yemen above Eilat

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