In a Truth Social post on Monday morning, President Donald Trump appeared to back away from his previous threats against Iran regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, settling fears on Wall Street about a potential expansion of the war. Trump wrote that his previous threats to retaliate against Iran by targeting the country’s energy sites — unless it allowed the strait to fully reopen…
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Democrats in Congress sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump pledging to commit more war crimes in Iran after he traded threats to energy infrastructure with the Iranian government, with the Republican declaring Saturday that he would take out the country’s power plants unless it reopened the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic. Just a day after Trump claimed that “we are getting very…
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As oil prices surge amid the U.S.’s continuing war on Iran, a new government report suggests it could be several months — and perhaps even years — before the cost of consumer-grade gasoline drops below $3 per gallon again. As of Thursday morning, the average price of regular grade gasoline is $3.884 per gallon, a 32 percent increase from where costs were just a week before the start of the…
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President Donald Trump wondered if the U.S. “shouldn’t even be there” when answering questions about the war on Iran on Sunday, claiming that Iran’s military is already totally obliterated as the U.S. and Israel’s bombardments enter their third week with no end in sight. A reporter asked Trump on Sunday about his demands that other countries aid him in trying to force transit through the…
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Several allies to the U.S. have rebuffed President Donald Trump’s demands and threats this weekend for countries to aid in opening transit through the Strait of Hormuz, as oil prices spike in the third week of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran. As of Monday morning in the U.S., no countries had committed to aiding in Trump’s plan to form a naval coalition for access to the strait as Iranian…
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth lashed out at the media during a press conference on Friday, bemoaning headlines he disliked and demanding that a more “patriotic press” cover the U.S.’s expanding war on Iran. During the presser, Hegseth, a former cable news personality on Fox News, appeared rattled over reporting that suggested the Trump administration was mismanaging the unauthorized war.
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