— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to FOX:

‘What they [Iran] mean by opening the Strait of Hormuz is that yes, the Strait is open, as long as you coordinate with Iran and get our permission or we’ll blow you up, and you pay us.

That’s not opening the Strait. Those are international waterways, they cannot normalize nor can we tolerate a system in which Iran decides who gets to use an international waterway and how much you have to pay them to use it.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, confirms that Iran has received another request from the U.S. to hold a new round of talks

Iran is reviewing the possibility.

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— 🇮🇷 Iran’s Vice President, Mohammad Reza Aref:

‘Countries that used to insult us and belittle us & refuse to export jet fuel to us, are now begging to let their ships pass the Strait of Hormuz and secure their energy supplies’

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🛳️🇹🇭🇨🇳🇮🇷 — Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow:

"We asked China for help to get our 8 ships through Hormuz, and they told us they are struggling to free 70 of their own ships".

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🇺🇸🇮🇷| Trump & his national security team at the White House are discussing Iran’s latest proposal, which Iran had delivered Pakistan 3 days ago.

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—❗️🇮🇶 NEW: The Iraqi Coordination Framework (Shiite Bloc) has nominated Ali Al-Zaidi as the next Prime Minister candidate

He will be tasked with forming a new government, and if successful, he becomes Iraq’s next Prime Minister.

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— 🇮🇷 Iranian MP, Manouchehr Mottaki:

‘Iran doesn’t even need nuclear weapons, because every Iranian is a nuclear weapon.

I am a nuclear weapon, you are a nuclear weapon, all of us are nuclear weapons — we cannot be defeated.

The Iranian nation is a nation unlike any other, and it will never submit to the dictates of foreign powers.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump is not satisfied with Iran’s latest proposal, says it ‘denies reality’, and is frustrated that Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has not authorized the Iranian delegation to make concessions on the nuclear program – NYT

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— 🇮🇱/🇪🇺/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: The EU is weighing imposing sanctions on Israel for helping Russia bypass sanctions by importing wheat from occupied areas in Ukraine – Haaretz

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— Admin note: Apparently, three years of genocide and decades of brutal occupation were not enough for the EU to impose sanctions on Israel, but importing a single ship of Russian wheat is worthy of capital punishment.

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— 🇸🇦/🇦🇪/🇶🇦/🇰🇼/🇧🇭/🇴🇲 NEW: An extraordinary session of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) will be held today in Jeddah, with the UAE teasing it will be a ‘historic day to remember’

Allegedly, an important statement is expected to be announced, possibly related to Iran.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 Tamir Pardo, former Mossad Chief (2011-2016) during a tour in the West Bank:

‘My mother is a Holocaust survivor, and what I saw here [against Palestinians] reminds me of the persecution against Jews in the previous century’

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