— 🇺🇸/🇰🇷/🇰🇵 NEW: President Trump says the U.S. will reduce joint military exercises with South Korea

Trump stated that he has a great relationship with Kim Jong Un and that North Korea has always been ‘unthreatening and respectful’.

Trump called previous U.S. military exercises ‘innapropriate and hostile’ to the People’s Republic of North Korea.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran must raise the WHITE FLAG OF SURRENDER! They are dying!’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ismael Baqaei:

‘There is no such thing as 60-day ceasefire. There was supposed to be a period of cessation of hostilities for 60 days, in which the U.S. and Iran would try to reach a deal.

If it did not succeed—but provided the U.S. abided by its committments—this could have been extended.

But the U.S. never abided by a single one of the MoU terms, and no serious talks ever began. Therefore, there is nothing to extend, and the issue of the ‘60-day ceasefire’ is completely void and irrelevant.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran has issued an ultimatum to the United States; return to serious diplomacy and remove the naval blockade, or face an expansion of the war

The deadline, which is said to be several weeks at most, has been communicated to the United States through Pakistan and Qatar, according to Reuters.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian leaders have used the period following the June Memorandum of Understanding not to prepare for deescalation, but for a larger conflict with the United States – Wall Street Journal

In Iran’s view, the MoU was just an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to take pressure off the economy and buy time for a larger attack in the future.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s stock market has reached a new all-time high

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘The Strait of Hormuz is open’

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— 🇺🇸/🇰🇷/🇰🇵 President Trump: ‘Kim Jong Un likes me, and I like him too. But you know what I don’t like very much? South Korea, because they didn’t help us against Iran’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘Last week, you said you would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz to be a territory of the United States’

Trump: ‘I think it’s a great idea, yeah. We completely control the Strait of Hormuz. We have a blockade, and we have total control over the Strait.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran’s military has been totally defeated’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran wants to make a deal, but they’re not going to make the kind of deal that I feel is necessary’

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇪 BREAKING: Iran has seized an Emirati oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz – Fars

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—❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇱 BREAKING: At least 4 airstrikes against a military airport in Idlib, Syria, marking the first Israeli strikes in many months

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has struck a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz

The attack caused a fire in the engine room and resulted in casualties among the crew.

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