Trump Extends Iran Deadline on Strait of Hormuz
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More than 850 Tomahawks have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, alarming some Pentagon officials because the weapon’s supply is limited.
President Trump says he will extend a pause on Iranian energy attacks to April 6 after 10 ships were allowed passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
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After markets rattle, Trump once again punts on following through with threat on Iran power plants
Facing a convulsing stock market, President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to buy himself more time and hold off, once again, on carrying out a threat to obliterate Iran’s energy plants over the Islamic Republic's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
At the annual gathering of conservative activists, many express reservations about the war, amid support for Trump.
European stocks opened lower despite the U.S. extending its pause on military strikes on Iran by 10 days. Asian markets fell overnight, while U.S. stock futures rose slightly. The sell-off in European stocks accelerated on Friday after U.
Iran and the United States have hardened their positions after diplomacy aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the Middle East war appeared to be faltering.
A new front has opened up in the war with Iran — the virtual one. Along with launching drones and missiles, Iran is now firing off memes. And President Trump is the regime’s favorite target. War propaganda is as old as battles of centuries past — but as NPR’s Carrie Kahn reports it’s now hitting a wider audience at a furious pace.
Foreign investors are pulling out a record $12 billion from Indian equities as the Iran conflict drives up energy costs and raises doubts on economic growth.
When the U.S. launched Operation Earnest Will in 1987 to safeguard commercial vessels in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, the first escort mission ended in calamity, when a U.S.-flagged oil tanker, the Bridgeton, struck a mine. Another mine blew a hole in the hull of a Navy frigate, the USS Samuel Roberts, the following year.
A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.
As the diplomats gathered, France’s Minister of the Armed Forces Catherine Vautrin said the war in the Middle East "is not ours."