— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Iran is a defeated nation. But actually, I must say, we’re dealing with some very good people.

We’re dealing with people that are far more reasonable than before, people with talent, people with good brain power. We’re pretty impressed by it.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran’s leaders have big brain power’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘Did the U.S. offer Iran oil sanctions relief?’

President Trump: ‘I’m not doing any relief, we’re not offering anything’

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Tabriz North missile base, which was hit by Israeli / U.S. strikes more than almost any other base, is nearly back in operation

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇹/🇫🇷/🇧🇪/🇨🇦/🇳🇱/🇬🇧/🇵🇹/🇪🇸 NEW: Italy, France, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain have all summoned the Israeli ambassador in their countries and demanded clarification

This comes after Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, posted footage showing Gaza Flotilla activists being humiliated and mistreated by Israeli police.

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(Admin note: How nice that European countries finally pretended to care about human rights when it’s about European or Western citizens — when Palestinians and Lebanese have been subjected to far worse than this)

— 🇮🇷 NEW: The Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) has published an official map of Iran’s area of supervision over the Strait of Hormuz

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Reuters reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has banned the transfer of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile to any location abroad

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Today, 30 ships that contacted the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) were issued transit permits for the Strait of Hormuz, after paying the necessary tolls and signing the relevant documents

The ships will be safely guided through the Strait of Hormuz according to the guidelines and regulations of the Islamic Republic.

Transit will proceed in a phased manner and in accordance with Iran’s traffic separation scheme.

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— 🇮🇷 Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi: ‘For 47 years, we have cared about international law, but international law did not care about us’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has rapidly started rebuilding military capabilities that were lost in the recent war, according to U.S. intelligence assessments

Among these capabilities, Iran has already restarted some of its drone production during the six-week ceasefire that began in early April, according to two sources familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments.

Four sources told CNN that U.S. intelligence indicates Iran’s military is reconstituting much faster than initially estimated. ‘The Iranians have exceeded all timelines the IC had for reconstitution’, one U.S. official said.

While the time to restart production of different weapons components varies, some estimates indicate Iran could fully reconstitute its drone attack capability in as soon as six months, one of the sources, a U.S. official, told CNN.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran’s defense industrial base has likely only been set back by a matter of months, not years – CNN

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: U.S. and Israeli strikes did not inflict as much damage on Iran as they had hoped, sources told CNN

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Iran is so awesome

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, met with the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army, Major General Amir Hatami

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: In case of a renewed conflict with the U.S. and Israel, Iran will consider targeting American bases in Greece, Romania and Germany – MES

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz, as you know.

We wiped out Iran’s navy, wiped out their air force, we knocked out 85% of their drone and missile capacity.

But look, we will either make sure Iran won’t have a nuclear weapon, or we will have to do something very drastic.’

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