Only weeks ago, the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard were chasing sanctioned oil tankers affiliated with Russia and Iran across the world, intercepting, boarding, and at points seizing them for the United States. Now the Trump Administration is considering removing the sanctions levied on these same vessels, allowing them to continue making money for the regimes in Moscow and Tehran.

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While taking questions earlier in the Oval Office alongside Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, President Trump was asked by a Japanese reporter why the United States did not inform allies - like Japan - prior to strikes against Iran, to which he responded:

“Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much, you know. When we go in, we went in very hard, and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise? Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

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In a written statement posted to Iranian-linked social media channels, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei congratulates his followers on the occasion of the festivals of Eid al-Fitr and Nowruz. This is his second written statement since assuming power following claims from the U.S. and others that he had been injured in an earlier strike.

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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released video of a U.S. Air Force A-10 "Thunderbolt II" refueling from a U.S. Air Force KC-135 "Stratotanker" of the 190th Air Refueling Wing, Kansas Air National Guard, over the CENTCOM area of responsibility (AOR).

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U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has announced the kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean operated by a designated terrorist organization. The U.S. Coast Guard was notified following the strike to begin search & rescue operations for 3 survivors.

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Following reports of an explosion, a massive fire can be seen at the Valero oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.

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Several fires are burning and extensive damages can be seen following multiple Iranian ballistic missile impacts in Tel Aviv, Central Israel.

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The Royal Navy has been authorized to step up hostile action against the Russian Shadow Fleet in the waters of the United Kingdom, including the English Channel, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer ordering warships, commandos, and law enforcement personnel to stop and board tankers suspected of evading sanctions imposed on Russia since the Invasion of Ukraine, according to Navy Lookout.

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Following today’s Israeli strikes against two of Iran’s major steel processing plants, the Iranian state-run Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has published a graphic highlighting and warning of retaliatory attacks soon against a number of steel factories in Israel and the Gulf Nations.

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Speaking during today’s Pentagon press conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth compared the American media and journalists that criticize President Trump, with the Pharisees, a Jewish sect in the first century that clashed and denied Jesus Christ.

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U.S. President Donald J. Trump states that his representatives will be leaving soon for Islamabad, Pakistan, to attend the second round of peace negotiations with Iran, expected to take place Monday evening, adding that, “We're offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They'll come down fast, they'll come down easy and, if they don't take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years.”

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