💬 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇷 President Trump:

We have highly sophisticated underwater minesweepers, which are the latest and the greatest, but we're also bringing in more traditional minesweepers.

The UK and a couple of other countries are sending minesweepers.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump on Iran:

We fly over there at will, can take out anything we want.

As you know last week I said we're going to strongly consider knocking out their power plants and the rest of their bridges. We took down their big bridge.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump on Iran:

They haven't left the bargaining table.

I predict they come back and they give us everything we want. I want with everything.

I don't want 90%, I don't want 95%. I want everything! They have no cards.

158 ships are at the bottom of the sea — good and new ones.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump:

Nobody can be so stupid as to say that we want to have nuclear weapons and they have no cards.

Bartiromo: If they do not give up that effort, Will you further destruct Iran?

Trump: Yeah, I will.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump on Iran:

I could take out Iran in one day.

I took out one bridge just to show them because they went public with a statement that wasn't true.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump:

I was thinking about calling it the Gulf of Trump, and I decided not to do it.

I think that one maybe wouldn't have worked out. I'm not so sure.

But I was thinking about it's gonna be called the Gulf of Trump.

You know I'm kidding. The fake news will have a headline tomorrow.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump on Iran:

They fired 101 missiles in one day at the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, one of the beauties of the world, one of the great beauties of the world.

These things are going more than 2,000 miles an hour.

Out of 101 missiles, 101 were shot down like nothing and are now at the bottom of the sea, the remnants of them.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Fox's Bartiromo: Is this going to be enough—the blockade in this strait, the opening up of capacity in the US—to lower the price of oil and gas?

Trump: It might not happen initially… You want to see a stock market go down? Let a couple of nuclear bombs be dropped on us, or frankly, anyplace else. And then you'll see a stock market that goes down.

The stock market has not gone down very much at all, gone down a little bit, much less than I thought.

Gas hasn't gone up as much as I thought. But regardless, even if it did, we have to stop this group of people.

💬 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷 President Trump:

I hear news reports about China giving the shoulder missiles.

I doubt they would do that because I have a relationship and I think they wouldn't do that, but maybe they did a little bit at the beginning, but I don't think they would anymore.

But if we catch them doing that they get a 50% tariff.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

We have new machinery to kill the drones—the computerized bullets, they call that.

Also lasers melt the drone; it’s a beautiful thing to see.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The people we dealt with yesterday were, frankly, very smart, very sharp, very good.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The Strait is critical for Japan — they get about 93% of their oil through it. South Korea gets roughly 45%. Yet these countries haven’t really helped us.

I ask them: are you going to help?

We have about 45,000 U.S. troops in Japan and about 50,000 in South Korea. We guard them and protect them.

But when we ask for a little help in return, they don’t help us.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump:

The only to thing left really is their water, which would be very devastating to hit.

I would hate to do it, but it's their water, their desalination plants, and their electric generating plants.

We could have them all down. And I mean, down like you couldn't have electricity for ten years because it takes you ten years to build those plants from scratch. You'd never probably be able to build them again.

I think we pretty much maxed out other than those few items. We still have some plants left.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Key sticking points in US–Iran talks:

Stopping uranium enrichment
Removing enriched uranium from Iran
Dismantling key nuclear facilities
Deciding how much Iranian money will be unfrozen
Reopening the Strait of Hormuz (ending fees)
A regional security deal, including ending support for groups

- Axios

#️⃣ 🇬🇧 The UK will not join the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran’s Ghalibaf:

If the United States wants to find a way out, the only path is to decide to earn the trust of the Iranian people.

You are indebted to the Iranian nation and still have much to do to make amends.

If you choose war, we will fight; if you come with logic, we will respond with logic.

We will not submit to any threats. If they test our will again, we will give them a greater lesson.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran’s Ghalibaf:

Threats have no effect on the Iranian nation. We have proven that this is not a slogan—the world has seen it with its own eyes.

We have shown that the enemy has reached a state of desperation. We have proven that we do not surrender under threats.

Over 47 years of the revolution, in military arenas, economic sanctions, political pressure, and more, the Iranian people have demonstrated this in practice.

💬 🇮🇷 Commander of the Iranian Navy:

Trump’s threats to impose a naval blockade on Iran are "ridiculous."

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Regional countries are urgently trying to bring the U.S. and Iran back to negotiations after talks in Islamabad ended without a deal, WSJ reports.

Despite firm rhetoric from both sides, the door to diplomacy remains open, with a possible second round of talks within days, while regional states are also working with Washington to extend the two-week ceasefire.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 IF TRUMP TAKES ACTION AGAINST THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, HE WILL LOSE THE BAB EL-MANDEB STRAIT — PRESS TV, CITING AN IRANIAN REPORT.

Around 5–6% of global seaborne oil shipments pass through this strait.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

Iran is in very bad shape. I think they’re very desperate.