Iran’s currency plunged through another historic low Monday as the Trump administration prepared a new sanctions offensive aimed at tightening the financial pressure on Tehran after nearly six months of war and disruption across the Persian Gulf.
Iran said on Saturday that negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz are close to completion, but made new demands from the US, including an end to the Naval blockade. Oman is currently negotiating with Iran to reach an agreement on the use of the Strait of Hormuz, which is crucial to ending the US blockade.
President Trump on Monday told reporters that talks with Iran are “going on right now” and expected to “go quickly” after Iran earlier claimed they were not participating in negotiations. “They’re not denying it now,” Trump said.
President Trump is scheduled to sign executive orders in the Oval Office with the press this afternoon, as negotiations with Iran are set to kick off today.
President Trump on Monday slammed the Iranian Leadership for giving “their usual blather” and claiming they are not negotiating with the United States after the President agreed to call off attacks to continue talks. The President announced late on Saturday that he called off strikes against Iran after he was “asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to.” Trump further told reporters on Sunday that negotiations would begin on Monday afternoon after he agreed to call off strikes, which he said would have been “the biggest attack since World War II WATCH: However, Iran denied the assertion, according to CBS.
On July 20, the Houthis declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, retaliation for what they called a Saudi “siege” on Yemen, the group’s formal entry into the wider US-Iran war.
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen targeted Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil company on Saturday with missiles and drones, marking a significant escalation in the second front of the ongoing Iran conflict.
US Central Command announced on Saturday that US forces disabled another oil tanker sailing toward Iran for violating the US Navy blockade of Iranian ports. Video from the mission released by CENTCOM shows US forces conducting a “verification boarding” on a Comoros-flagged tanker in the Arabian Sea and attacking a Mozambique-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Oman after it “attempted to violate the blockade multiple times.” WATCH: The disabled tanker is “no longer transiting to Iran,” and the Comoros-flagged tanker is “now continuing its journey,” CENTCOM announced.
Iran has threatened the United Kingdom over its support for US strikes in Iran by allowing the US military to use British bases. This comes after US forces completed a twelfth consecutive night of attacks on Iranian military sites on Wednesday night.
President Trump on Thursday responded to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebel group’s attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, threatening to hold both Iran and the Houthis responsible.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt will deliver a press briefing this morning as the war in Iran escalates further.
US Central Command announced on Wednesday that US forces completed a twelfth consecutive night of attacks to degrade Iranian military capabilities.
Yemen’s Houthi rebel group targeted tankers in the Red Sea on Wednesday, threatening to escalate the Iran war to a regional conflict. As The Gateway Pundit reported on Monday, Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have also imposed a naval blockade on the Bab el-Mandeb strait, the gateway between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden near Saudi Arabia’s western coastline.
President Trump on Wednesday warned that he will target one bridge or power plant for every ship Iran attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting threats to issue an equal response from Iran. President Trump previously threatened to escalate the war further by targeting Iran’s energy, oil, and transportation infrastructure starting this week.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his administration is in an active internal conversation with the city’s Law Department over whether he could direct police to detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he travels to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly.
UPDATE: US Central Command announced that the tenth consecutive night of strikes against Iran was ordered by President Trump and began at 4 pm ET.
President Trump on Monday warned that Iran will pay “many times over” after multiple US troops were killed in action this past week.
US Central Command announced the completion of its seventh consecutive night of strikes against Iranian military sites on Friday evening.
US Central Command announced on Friday that in strikes against Iran last night, a decades-old Iranian surveillance tower used to target ships in the Strait of Hormuz has been destroyed. The tower’s destruction “degrades IRGC’s ability to coordinate attacks on innocent civilian crew members” and “protects freedom of navigation in regional waters for all vessels, except for ships attempting to violate the ongoing U.S.
CENTCOM on Wednesday announced a new wave of strikes against Iran after President Trump declared the ceasefire over.
US forces hit Iran early this morning for the fifth consecutive day since the memorandum of understanding and ceasefire collapsed last week. The strikes began at 6 am ET and are meant to “further degrade military capabilities Iranian forces have used to attack commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” CENTCOM said.
UPDATE: US Central Command released new video footage from strikes against Iran.
President Trump on Tuesday teased his speech to the nation, scheduled for Thursday evening, confirming that he will be breaking “really, really big news” on elections. Trump announced the upcoming speech on Monday as the war in Iran escalated with continued US strikes and resumption of the US Naval blockade against Iran, which Trump suggested he would be talking about as well.
US Central Command on Monday evening released unclassified footage of the latest wave of strikes against Iran.
US Central Command announced that US forces are attacking Iran for a third night in a row on Monday. This is the fifth round of strikes since last Tuesday.
President Trump announced on Monday that he plans to address the nation on Thursday amid resumed fighting in Iran. The President wrote on Social, “President Trump will be making a Speech to the Nation on Thursday evening, at 9 P.M.
CENTCOM on Monday released unclassified footage of the first time the US military has used sea drones to strike an Iranian submarine.
“Trump Is Literally Cooking the Islamic Regime from the Inside”.
“We’re going to bomb the hell out of you,” President Trump warned the Iranian regime.
Details are emerging from the memorandum of understanding, signed by the US and Iran this week, which reportedly extends the ceasefire to Israel and Hezbollah, reopens the Strait of Hormuz, and provides various forms of relief for Iran.
President Trump on Thursday announced that he made a “great settlement” to end the war with Iran and that it could be signed as early as this weekend. Trump announced last month a “largely negotiated” framework and memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a 60-day ceasefire to continue negotiations and reach a final deal to end the war.
The takeaway from the Trump-Xi meeting was a number of statements made by Xi Jinping to President Trump.
Peace between Iran and the United States has seemingly taken a step forward as Iran has moved to reopen traffic on the Strait of Hormuz.
President Trump has ordered a total blockade of oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela and formally designated the Nicolás Maduro regime as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, accusing it of using oil revenues and seized U.S.
People close to Greta Thunberg are claiming the environmental activist is facing brutalization by Israeli authorities.
A ‘very happy anniversary’ it does not seem to be, for either Giorgia Meloni or Rishi Sunak.
Pope Francis is spending a couple of days in the southern French city of Marseille, where, along with President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, he is attending the “Rencontres Mediterraneennes” meeting.
