— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Iran should wave the white flag of surrender. They need to say ‘uncle’, when are they gonna cry uncle?’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Iran has no chance. They know it, they express it to me — then they go on TV and say how well they’re doing.

They have no Navy, totally wiped out. They have no Air Force, totally wiped out. They have no anti-aircraft capability, totally wiped out. They have no radar, they have no leaders. The leaders are wiped out, the whole thing.’

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—❗️🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran announces the ‘Persian Gulf Strait Authority’, a new legal framework for passage through the Strait of Hormuz

According to the framework, ships can obtain transit authorization from Iran after contacting the authority and paying tolls.

Ships intending to pass through the Strait of Hormuz can find the transit regulations by emailing info@PGSA.ir

With the framework, the Strait of Hormuz is reinforced as Iran’s sovereign territory.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: A cargo vessel was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz – UKMTO

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio: ‘The leaders of Iran still haven’t made the rational choice and surrendered. That’s because they’re insane in the brain.’

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— 🇮🇷 Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian:

‘We Muslims have already submitted to the Almighty God; no one else can make us surrender.

In my call with Iraq's Prime Minister Ali Falih Al-Zaidi, I urged him to make the U.S. withdraw its military threat from our region.

Followers of the Shia school of thought cannot be forced to submit, not even by force.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: After just one day, President Trump announces the suspension of ‘Project Freedom’

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— 🇮🇷/🇨🇳 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, has landed in Beijing

For the first time ever that I’ve seen him not wearing a suit.

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— 🇮🇷 Instructions for passing through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Persian Gulf Strait Authority:

1. Payment of tolls in Iran's national currency, the Rial.

2. Issuance of guarantees within the Iranian banking system.

3. If a vessel belongs to a country that caused damages to Iran in the recent war, or contributed to causing damages, it must pay reparations before obtaining a passage permit. Countries that have sanctioned Iran or blocked Iran's assets abroad are not allowed passage.

4. The correct name ‘Persian Gulf’ must be written in all documents.

5. Non-compliance with the above will result in seizure of the vessel and a fine equivalent to 20% of the cargo value.

6. All vessels must pass through the designated maritime corridors as specified by Iran, and must comply with instructions of the Iranian Armed Forces.

7. Vessels belonging to the Zionist regime, originating in any of the ports of occupied Palestine (Haifa, Ashdod, Eilat), or heading to any of its ports, are banned from passage through the Strait.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘Assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is, perhaps, a big assumption, the already legendary Epic Fury will be at an end, and the highly effective Blockade will allow the Hormuz Strait to be OPEN TO ALL, including Iran

If they don't agree, the bombing starts, and it will be, sadly, at a much higher level and intensity than it was before. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’

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Fyi, every time he posts stuff like this, it makes Iran less likely to accept a deal.

If I was Araqchi I would just tear up any deal out of sheer spite at this point.

Can’t give Trump the satisfaction.

— 🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Ministry calls the United Arab Emirates a whiny little bitch and says it didn’t attack them, tells them to stop being American-Zionist pawns

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