— 🇸🇦/🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Saudi Arabia told Trump the war in Iran should be ended and the Strait of Hormuz should be open, citing ‘immeasurable economic losses’ if the situation continues

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Chairman Xi is a great friend of mine. They [China] have promised they won’t send any military equipment to Iran’

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— 🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: ‘The Strait of Hormuz is open for anyone that isn’t an enemy of Iran. You just need to pay the tolls.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇸🇾 NEW: Syria’s new Chargé d’Affairs in Washington D.C., Mohammad Qanatari, meeting with U.S. special envoy Tom Barrack

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Israeli President Isaac Herzog has canceled his trip to New York next week due to 'circumstances preventing the visit at this time’ – Yedioth Ahronoth

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The IDF will enter the maximum state of alert, starting tomorrow, when Trump leaves China

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, calls Pete Hegseth a failed TV host & says he does nothing but LARP and cosplay as Secretary of War

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump writes a long post praising Xi Jinping, and says Iran’s military decimation will ‘be continued’

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘What exactly did President Trump ask President Xi for when it comes to Iran?’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio: ‘He didn’t ask him for anything. We’re not asking for China’s help, we don’t need their help. We made it clear that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇳/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘How does the administration aim to lower gas prices?’

Marco Rubio: ‘Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon’

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Iran is the last stand.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇨🇳 President Trump: ‘I told China that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, because they’re crazy people. They would have immediately nuked Israel and America.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Gas prices have only risen by a very small amount, and they’ll come down quickly’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Iran:

‘I’m not going to be much more patient, no. They should make a deal, any sane person would. But they might be crazy.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Iran has probably dug up some missiles from underground, they’ve rebuilt a little bit, we know exactly what they’re doing.

It will all be gone within one day, what they’ve built up the past four weeks.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 President Trump:

‘I mean, you could make the case of why we’re even in [Iran].

We’re doing it to help Israel.’

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