—❗️🇮🇷/🇻🇦/🇺🇸 Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian:

‘His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I condemn the insult to Your Excellency on behalf of the great nation of Iran, and declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person.
I wish you glory by Allah.’

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— Exactly 25 minutes left till Trump’s naval blockade takes effect.

The blockade has begun.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump once again claims the Iranian Navy has been completely destroyed, now claiming 158 ships were sunk, while saying that IRGC speedboats were not sunk because ‘they posed no threat’, warning them that they will be destroyed if they approach the U.S. Naval Blockade

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Can someone try to sail a ship through the Strait? I want to see if the blockade is working or not. This is boring.

—❗️🇮🇷/🇷🇺 NEW: Russian Mi-28 helicopters, acquired by Iran just before the war, are seen above Tehran

They haven’t been destroyed by the U.S. contrary to claims.

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: About 15-20 vessels crossed the Strait of Hormuz in the past 36 hours using the new Iranian-assigned shipping corridor and with IRGC permission after paying tolls

Most of the vessels were Chinese, Pakistani, Russian or Iranian.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇨🇳 Chinese Defense Ministry:

‘Chinese ships continue to move in and out of the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. We have trade and energy agreements with Iran, which we will respect and abide by.

We expect others not to interfere in our affairs. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and has opened it to us.’

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Possibility of another round of Iran-U.S. talks. Allegedly Thursday in Islamabad.

Very preliminary info.

— 🇮🇷 Scenes from an Iranian cabinet meeting during the war:

Minister: ‘Mr. President, we’ve just been informed hostile aircrafts entered our airspace’ (on their way to bomb)

Pezeshkian: ‘OK, (no problem). So anyway what were you saying?’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇸🇦 NEW: Less than a day in, Saudi Arabia is pressuring Trump to drop the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, warning that it could push the Houthis to escalate in the Red Sea and Bab Al-Mandab – WSJ

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