🇺🇸🇮🇷 — The USS Gerald R. Ford is expected to depart the Middle East in the coming days after a 10-month deployment to undergo necessary repairs, WaPo reports.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷Footage of the landing of a Force Recon special forces group from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to inspect the container ship M/V Blue Star III in the Arabian Sea, which was suspected of attempting to transit to Iran in violation of the blockade.

The ship was released after the inspection and confirmation that the ship's voyage would not include a call at an Iranian port.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷The US intends to continue the blockade of Iranian ports until Iran agrees to a deal, Donald Trump stated to Axios.

According to the publication, at the moment, Trump considers the continuation of the blockade as the main lever of pressure, but is ready to consider the possibility of resuming military actions if Iran does not give in.

The publication also reports that CENTCOM, hoping to break the deadlock in the negotiations, has prepared a plan for a "short and powerful" wave of strikes on Iran, which are likely to include strikes on infrastructure objects.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺Zaluzhny stated that before his death, he would make his son swear that he would return the "occupied" territories.

... however, he never had a son; he has two daughters.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇦It seems that Trump confused Iran with Ukraine, declaring its military defeat, as he then began his favorite speech about sunken ships and downed aircraft.

"As for Ukraine [Iran], they suffered a military defeat. You wouldn't know about it if you read the fake news.

They had 159 ships — every single one of them is now underwater. That's usually a pretty good indicator.

Every one of their aircraft was shot down or destroyed."

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🇺🇸🇮🇷❗️NEW:- Axios reports Trump will receive a Thursday briefing from CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper and Gen. Dan Caine on potential military action in Iran. Trump views the blockade as his primary leverage but remains open to military action if Iran does not back down. Planners are also assessing the risk of Iranian retaliation against U.S. forces.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷The USA may for the first time use Dark Eagle hypersonic missiles against Iran.

The request was voiced by the CENTCOM command, explaining that Iran has moved its launchers beyond the reach of the existing weapons. This was reported by Reuters.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧🇱🇧Trump asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to conduct only targeted military operations in Lebanon and to avoid the resumption of a full-scale war.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷The US plans to deploy hypersonic complexes LRHW Dark Eagle in the Middle East for strikes on Iran's ballistic missile launchers, which Iran has placed deep within the country, writes Bloomberg.

The need to deploy these complexes is due to the fact that the Precision Strike Missile missiles are capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 480 km, while the range of the Dark Eagle exceeds 2,700 km.

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