Trump Says Opening the Strait of Hormuz ‘Should Be Easy.’ Will It?
President Trump is asking U. S. allies to “go to” the Strait of Hormuz “and just take it.
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Rival Nations Seize On Choke Points to Counter Trump
From Iran to China, President Trump’s global aggression has encouraged other countries to search for new ways to pressure the U. S. economy.
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Arab Countries Want the U.N. to Authorize Force to Open the Strait of Hormuz. The Idea Hit Roadblocks.
Several permanent members of the Security Council opposed the resolution, drafted by Bahrain in coordination with its Gulf neighbors, officials said.
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Trump Hails Destruction of Iranian Bridge, Warning ‘More to Follow’
Fars, a semiofficial news agency, said eight people had been killed in the attack and dozens wounded.
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On Iran, Trump Offers No Plan and No End in Sight
The president failed to provide any meaningful strategy on the two central issues that define the war on Iran: reopening the Strait of Hormuz and what to do about that country’s uranium.
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Trump Has No Idea How to Clean Up His Own Mess
His speech told us very little, at least explicitly, but revealed quite a lot.
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How Trump Boxed Himself In on Iran
President Trump faces the possibility that at the end of his own two-to-three week window for wrapping up the war in Iran, nothing much will have changed.
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Trump’s Positive Thinking Won’t End This War
President Trump’s Wednesday night address about the war in Iran is evidence of how poorly his war of choice is going, the columnist Jamelle Bouie argues.
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Macron Snaps Back at Trump’s Mockery and Criticism of NATO
President Emmanuel Macron of France suggested that President Trump’s daily comments on the war in Iran were unserious. “Maybe one shouldn’t speak every day,” Mr. Macron told reporters.
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Why Trump’s Iran Address Failed to Soothe Markets
Oil surged and stocks sold off after the president delivered an unclear case for continuing the war in the Middle East.
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Primetime Trump
We have takeaways from the president’s address to the nation.
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Trump Says Strait of Hormuz Is Not America’s Problem, and How Musk May Get Richer
Plus, does every middle schooler really need a laptop?
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5 Takeaways From Trump’s Address on Iran
President Trump did not define a clear path out of the conflict, which he estimated would end within three weeks.
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Trump Asserts War in Iran Is ‘Nearing Completion’
During a prime-time address on Wednesday, President Trump said the United States was on track for completing its military objectives in Iran, but offered no clear timeline to end the war.
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Lost Friendships, Broken Relationships: How the War in Iran Is Dividing the Diaspora
Amid months of protest, repression and war in their native country, Iranians living abroad are navigating their biggest rifts yet.
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Transcript: Trump’s Speech on Iran War
The president made his case for the U. S. attack, and said that the main objectives had been achieved.
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Oil Prices Jump and Stocks Drop After Trump’s White House Speech
President Trump claimed in a White House address that the war on Iran was “nearing completion” but made no new announcements about the conflict.
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What Happened in the War in the Middle East on Wednesday.
Formidable strikes rocked Tehran early Wednesday morning. Iran launched what its state-aligned media called one of the largest attacks on Israel yet, damaging several cities.
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Trump Laid Out Five Goals for the Iran War. Here’s Where They Stand.
The United States and Israel have done significant damage to Iran’s military capabilities. But Iran still fires missiles, has nuclear material and coordinates with militias in the region.
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Iran Is Skeptical About Diplomacy, U.S. Intelligence Says
Any decision by Iran to keep fighting would complicate President Trump’s stated goal of trying to end the war within weeks.