—❗️🇷🇺/🇷🇴 NEW: Romanian authorities issued alerts shortly before the impact

There are several injuries.

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— 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 NEW: Yemen shot down an American MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drone

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

1. We seize concessions not through dialogue, but with missiles; in negotiations, we merely make them understand.

2. We have no trust in guarantees or words—only actions are the measure. No step will be taken before the other side acts.

3. The winner of any agreement is the one who is better prepared for war from the day after.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: President Trump announces the end of the U.S. naval blockade on Iran

In return, he asks Iran to do a bunch of things — many of which have not been agreed to, including handing over the enriched uranium stockpile.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NOTE: It is unusual and strange that President Trump has lifted the naval blockade before an MoU has been mutually agreed by both sides

In the post, Trump even says he is still making his ‘final determination’ on the deal. So why was the blockade lifted if he hasn’t agreed to the MoU yet?

It is either a massive American concession (a show of ‘goodwill’), or Trump is desperate for some reason.

And most importantly, what will Iran do next. Will the Strait actually open?

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 IRIB: ‘A final decision to open the Strait of Hormuz has not yet been made, but Iran will review it’

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— I suspect Iran will also soon issue a statement, and likely an MoU will be officially announced soon.

Now what matters is the details.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NYP Chief Foreign Policy reporter:

‘President Trump is headed to the Situation Room now to decide whether to accept the deal with Iran’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency:

‘Informed sources have rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's new claims about a possible agreement with Iran, describing his statements as ‘a mix of truth and lies’ and an attempt to show a fake victory. The MoU is in the final stages of ratification in Iran, but a final decision has not yet been made.

In contrast, Trump has already raised issues that contradict the clauses of the MoU text:

1. Strait of Hormuz: Trump has claimed that Iran is obliged to open the Strait of Hormuz without receiving fees, but there is no such clause in the text of the agreement. Iran has emphasized that after the naval blockade is lifted, it will open the Strait based on its predetermined arrangements. These arrangements could range from monitoring and inspecting ships to providing services and security, which according to Fars correspondents, Iran is preparing the ground for these arrangements.

2. Destroying the enriched uranium materials: Trump has claimed that Iran will dismantle or destroy its enriched uranium stockpile. Informed sources emphasize that not only is there no such a clause in the memorandum of understanding, but this claim is fundamentally baseless.

There are also key clauses of the agreement that Trump has skipped:

1. Immediate release of $12 Billion in frozen assets to Iran. According to the text of the agreement, this amount must be paid immediately and until that has been completed, Iran will not enter any further negotiations.

2. Ceasefire in Lebanon.

According to informed sources, only if these issues are resolved will Iran enter into talks regarding the lifting of all sanctions and the nuclear issue, in accordance with its red lines.‘

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— Iranian TV does not seem to care that much about Trump’s post.

It was not even mentioned on the 7:30 PM evening news, and they’re just playing the prayer call as usual.

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— 🇷🇺/🇷🇴/🇺🇦 NEW: President Vladimir Putin says the drone that hit Romania yesterday was not Russian but Ukrainian

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Informed sources told Al-Jazeera’s Iran correspondent Ali Hashem that Trump’s post about lifting the naval blockade was an Iranian precondition before moving to next steps of the MoU

• He also confirms there have been no discussions on the nuclear file.

• A ceasefire announcement between Israel and Hezbollah is also expected before any further steps.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ismael Baqaei, on Trump’s latest post:

‘Regarding his announcement on lifting the naval blockade, we need to see what happens in practice; is this a real action or a propaganda claim?

I also say once again that nobody can use the language ‘should’ or ‘must’ with Iran. Trump cannot tell us what we ‘must’ do, we decide it by ourselves’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry: ‘We haven’t discussed or made any commitments on nuclear matters at this stage’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry:

‘It’s prohibited for any ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz without coordinating beforehand with Iran.

In terms of a future framework for managing the Strait, this is up to the two states that own this waterway — Iran and the Sultanate of Oman.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry: ‘Negotiations are still ongoing and a text for the MoU has not yet been finalized’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Air defenses active in Qeshm Island

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