—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump says he has changed his mind and won’t charge 20% tolls from ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz

Instead, he will seek ‘investments’ and ‘trade contracts’ from Gulf states.

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

‘Oil is flowing like never before, thanks to the awesome Power of the United States Military. A special salute to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, and Commander of the United States Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper. Because of them, and all members of the Most Powerful Military anywhere in the World, BY FAR, the Strait of Hormuz is open to ALL Ship traffic except for Iran - and that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which is taking them down the path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION.

We will therefore have a FULL Blockade, but only on Ships coming to and from Iranian ports, or carrying anything have to do with Iranian cargo.

Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States. Those Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future. As everyone is aware, we have the largest Dollar Investment into the United States, of any Country in History, but these new Investments will make that Number even larger, and we will see Factories, Plants, and Equipment pour into the United States at Historic levels, which will create additional millions of High Paying AMERICAN Jobs!

America is WINNING again, winning like never before. The days of Iran killing hundreds of thousands of people, including 52,000 protestors, are OVER and, most importantly, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran is CRAZY, VIOLENT and INSANE!’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇶 President Trump: ‘I love Iraq. What an incredible country.’

(He is currently meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister at the White House)

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—❗️🇰🇼/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Sirens in Kuwait; interceptions ongoing

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—❗️🇰🇼/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Impacts in Kuwait, interceptions failed

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇰🇼 NEW: Smoke is seen rising in Kuwait, filmed from the Iraqi border

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Happened in the early morning hours, Tasnim is officially reporting it now.

Currently no new U.S. strikes have taken place since the morning.

—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦 NEW: Yemeni Air Defenses shot down a Saudi ‘Wing Loong ll’ drone in Bayda Governorate

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: The IRGC targeted and disabled two more violating oil tankers, one Emirati-flagged and one Liberia-flagged

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇶 President Trump: ‘I’m a student of history. I know a lot about the history of Iraq.’

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— NOTE: No new aggression against Iran has taken place since this morning, except the targeting of Qeshm about an hour ago with a single projectile.

—❗️🇮🇷/🇧🇭 BREAKING: Sirens in Bahrain; heavy explosions heard

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Iran is turning up the pace.

Daytime attacks without prior warning.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. is ‘outraged’ at Israel, after American refueling planes are no longer allowed to land at Ben Gurion Airport

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇧🇭 The skies of Bahrain

Possible cluster warhead for the first time, but most likely an interceptor missile broken apart.

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Christmas came early this year

(These are self-destructed Patriot missiles after failed interceptions)

—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Ballistic missiles were seen launching from Shiraz

By the looks of it, a heavy missile.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇰🇼 BREAKING: New sirens and explosions in Kuwait

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