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Doubts over talks between Iran and US after violence flares in Strait of Hormuz
52+ min ago (602+ words) By MUNIR AHMED, JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING With tensions flaring and the ceasefire due to expire midweek, Pakistan has intensified diplomatic contacts with both Washington and Tehran over the past 24 hours with the goal of resuming the talks on…...
U. S. seizes Iranian-flagged ship near Strait of Hormuz and Tehran vows to respond
13+ hour, 18+ min ago (138+ words) Delco Times By MICHELLE L. PRICE, SAMY MAGDY and SAM METZ Associated Press WASHINGTON " The United States said it attacked and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around a naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday,…...
Well-timed bets on Polymarket tied to the Iran war draw calls for investigations from lawmakers
1+ week, 3+ day ago (560+ words) By KEN SWEET, AP Business Writer In January, an anonymous Polymarket user made a$400, 000 profitby betting that Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro would be out of office, hours before Maduro was captured. In the hours before the start of the Iran…...
Here's where things stand after a tentative, 2-week Iran ceasefire took effect
1+ week, 4+ day ago (836+ words) Reaching a permanent deal will be key to ending a war that's shaken the Middle East and global energy markets. But there are vast differences between President Donald Trump and Iran's surviving leaders, and America's ally Israel has its own…...
Trump has delayed several deadlines for Iran, but Tuesday's nears with his most menacing threat
1+ week, 5+ day ago (685+ words) Trump's previous deadline was weeks ago, but it was postponed several times as the Republican president oscillated between heated threats, announced delays and proclamations that the negotiations were going well, sometimes in the same statement. That was true in Trump's…...
Trump issues an expletive-filled threat against Iran as details of US aviator's rescue emerge
2+ week, 1+ day ago (1185+ words) By MATTHEW LEE, BASSEM MROUE, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and SAMY MAGDY A defiant Iran struck infrastructure targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries and threatened to restrict another heavily used waterway, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the Arabian Peninsula. Trump on social…...
We have all the cards: Trump uses Iran war address to urge patience from an increasingly skeptical electorate
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1043+ words) By AAMER MADHANI Associated Press WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump used his first major address since launching his war in Iran to assure Americans that all of his military objectives will be completed "shortly" and urge an increasingly skeptical electorate to…...
Trump says US forces will "finish the job" soon in first prime-time speech since starting Iran war
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1054+ words) By WILL WEISSERT, JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING, Associated Press Trump got a wide audience and a chance to articulate clear objectives for the war after weeks of changing goals and often contradictory messages about whether he's winding down or…...
Ali Larijani, believed to be running Iran since the beginning of the war, is killed in a strike
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (339+ words) Larijani was widely believed to be running the country following the killing of its supreme leader in U. S. and Israeli strikes late last month that sparked a widening war. Israel said earlier Tuesday that it had killed Larijani, but it was…...
Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (828+ words) By JULIA FRANKEL and MICHAEL BIESECKER The Feb. 28 strike, which had the highest reported civilian death toll since'the war began, has come under staunch criticism from the United Nations and human rights monitors. More than 165 people were killed, most of…...