Iran be like: ‘We’re not negotiating’

Pakistan: ‘You can’t do that, Pakistan decides if you negotiate’

— The mutually agreed upon ceasefire ends in 1 hour and 50 minutes.

(Trump’s extension not included)

— 15 minutes

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social posts a long rant about Iran:

‘THE WALL STREET JOURNAL HAS LOST ITS WAY!

An IDIOT on The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board, named Elliot Kaufman, just wrote an Op Ed entitled, "The Iranians Take Trump for a Sucker." Really?

For 47 years, they have killed our people, and many others, and taken advantage of every President, except me - And what did I give to them, a Country in tatters!

Their entire Navy is at the bottom of the Sea, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft and Radar is wiped out, their Nuclear Labs and Storage Areas were OBLITERATED late one dark June evening by our Great B-2 Bombers, their leaders are DEAD, including General Soleimani, their evil genius who destroyed the lives of so many with his favored roadside bombs, the Strait of Hormuz is BLOCKADED and totally controlled by the U.S., with no Ships allowed to go to Iranian Ports - It is said that they are losing 500 Million Dollars a day because of this - Their Country is an Economic Catastrophe, that is hanging by a thread.

Barack Hussein Obama gave them 1.7 Billion Dollars in "Green" Cash, flown in by a Boeing 757 to their leaders, and Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in order to help them on their way to a Nuclear Bomb.

Other Presidents did nothing to stop them, a BLIGHT on the Office of the Presidency! But despite all of this, I have a MORON on the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal writing about me being taken for a "sucker." Iran certainly doesn't think so! Neither does anyone else. I guess Rupert Murdoch told him to write it this way, because The Wall Street Journal has lost its way, no longer required reading, just another failing political "RAG!" PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The initial 2-week ceasefire, as agreed upon by Iran and the United States, has now expired

Iran has not yet issued an official response to President Trump’s unilateral extension of the ceasefire.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 White House to Bloomberg: ‘All objectives we set out at the start of Operation Epic Fury have been achieved. Iran is defeated.’

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇳 NEW: The Indian-flagged oil tanker ‘SANMAR HERALD’, which was fired upon by IRGC gunboats last Sunday, fell victim to a crypto scam

Reportedly, the ship was contacted by an Indian man claiming to represent the IRGC Navy. The captain then transfered a large amount of money in USDT, and was ‘granted a right of passage’.

When the vessel arrived in the Strait of Hormuz, it got fired upon by the actual IRGC Navy, who had not issued any permission for the ship to pass.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: The atmosphere of Tehran’s Revolution Square, 3:30 AM, after the expiration of the ceasefire

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NOTE: The U.S. is probably waiting for the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier strike group to arrive in the Arabian Sea, before resuming operations against Iran

Based on publicly available flight tracking information, the carrier strike group is currently located somewhere near the coast of Tanzania or Kenya, and will arrive in the Middle East in 3-5 days.

It will be the third carrier group deployed to the CENTCOM area, alongside the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Gerald R. Ford.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘Iran doesn't want the Strait of Hormuz closed, they want it open so they can make $500 Million Dollars a day (which is, therefore, what they are losing if it is closed!).

They only say they want it closed because I have it totally BLOCKADED (CLOSED!), so they merely want to "save face."

People approached me four days ago, saying, "Sir, Iran wants to open up the Strait, immediately."

But if we do that, there can never be a Deal with Iran, unless we blow up the rest of their Country, their leaders included!

President DONALD J. TRUMP’

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The fact that Iranian officials still haven’t issued any statement on the ceasefire or replied to Trump, is slightly annoying yet somehow also very funny.

I guess Araqchi, Qalibaf, Pezeshkian and the rest of the gang are all sleeping. So I probably should too.

POV: ‘Maybe if we pretend we don’t want it open, they’ll open it’

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: An IRGC gunboat approached a container vessel 15 Nautical Miles off Oman and opened fire at it, causing heavy damage – UKMTO

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The IRGC Navy attacked another vessel, 8 Nautical Miles off Iran, forcing it to stop

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘Iran is collapsing financially! They want the Strait of Hormuz opened immediately-Starving for cash! Losing 500 Million Dollars a day. Military and Police complaining that they are not getting paid. SOS!!!’

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