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United States President Donald Trump on April 18 convened a White House Situation Room meeting to discuss the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz and ongoing talks with Iran, Axios reported, citing American officials.
The news website noted that Iran’s announcement earlier in the day about a renewed closure of the strategic strait — responsible for 20% of the world’s total oil and liquefied natural gas shipments —, along with reported attacks on vessels in the waterway, came less than 24 hours after Trump said a deal to end the war could be reached “within a day or two.”
It added that “if there is no breakthrough soon, the war could resume in the coming days,” when the ceasefire is set to end.
The meeting reportedly included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Also present were White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, special envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Caine.
A separate report from The Wall Street Journal said that the U.S. military is preparing in coming days to board Iran‑linked oil tankers and seize commercial ships in international waters.
According to the report, the U.S. is expanding its campaign to the entire globe and will target ships ferrying Iranian oil outside the Persian Gulf as well as vessels transporting weapons that could support the Islamic Republic.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office earlier in the day, Trump said that Iran “got a little cute … they wanted to close up the Strait again,” adding that the country “can’t blackmail us.”
He also said the U.S. is continuing talks with Iran and that he expects to know by the end of the day whether the parties will move forward with a deal.
In an apparent response to the recent escalation by the U.S., the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned that any ship approaching the Strait of Hormuz will be treated as a target.
“We warn that no ship, of any kind, should leave its anchorage in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman. Any attempt to approach the Strait of Hormuz will be considered cooperation with the enemy, and the offending vessel will be targeted,” said the statement published on the IRGC’s official Sepah News website.
These developments indicate that an agreement between the U.S. and Iran before the end of the ceasefire is still highly-unlikely.
The U.S. is clearly gearing up to resume war, and if it moves on with its plans to seize tankers, the Islamic Republic will likely respond.
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time to bomb the goatfuckers back to the stone age!!!
heheheh
no. in the end, antichrist israel and usa will be destroyed and people like you, who support them, will burn in hell.
too bad you decided to reject god’s word. but in the end, you will not be missed nor mourned.
you obviously haven’t even read revelations. typical trollope.
yes i have and it is clear that israel is antichrist.
read 1 john chapter 4: he who rejects yahshua messiah is “not” of god and is antichrist.
israel didn’t just reject him, but they killed him.
israel today is the antichrist of revelations. the usa, and the type of government that it created, which rose from the sea, is the beast that gives antichrist power.
john 11:48 tells you why they killed him. israel today is that same antichrist.
time to exterminate the ukrainazis, end their civilisation and send them all, children included to bandera in hell!!!
hehehehehe
a duplicitous nature is never truthful
americunts only win in gay bars–americunts live in ugly stone age transgender society
your fantasies are your works
what’s up bug? still living your bug life in the shit and waste?
and your fantasies are your wanks.
it is time to bomb child rapists to stone age. hehehe
your messiah will not comes. he was there 2000 years ago and you killed him.
operation ‘rolling thunder’ mk 2. hehehehehe
your loosing heheh 🤭 don’t tell us your fantasies
good to see that you’re on-site and ready to participate, walter. 💩
dump is about informed as a pile of horse crap. crash time for the usa.
we see you picking new names by the dozens daily you don’t need to tell anyone.
that’s for sure, one old trollope with about a dozen.
you too and all other trolops.
nice to see inferior feminized ugly americunt species self destruct
mirror mirror. you’re so naive you probably think hitlers top brass were alpha romeos..
hahahaha he wouldn’t have a clue he probably believes hitler never married or had kids because that’s what catholic priests do.
hahaha isn’t it wonderful how down votes don’t register for the moderators political views??
russia and china are in on it. they are helping israel and the usa.
just goes to show how stupid they are, because they are next.
they most certainly do not kill rabies infected dogs. maybe mr putin get infected in alaska ? what a idioti to visit the madhouse. they probably support all murderers, that post tweets with them selfs as jesus 😂 halleluja
oh grow up its only the pope who is the embodiement of jesus and god united, as the vicar of christ in communion only he talks to god
that’s right by catholic law they are the one and only true church in the entire universe.
the bishop of rome doesn’t speak for anyone but himself.
just your conjecture based on ignorance, and wrapped up in an unproven assumption.
they are both pro israel, which means they are both pro antichrist. just like america.
again, just your conjecture, and an unproven one at that.
active military systems: the israeli military is currently running offensive operations under code names like “silver plough,” which utilizes heavy engineering equipment to demolish homes in over 20 lebanese border villages. these systems are supported by a unified “ai data factory” that processes real-time surveillance and drone feeds, making them highly resistant to external interference.
time for iran to drop a few ballistic missiles on that “ai data factory” then to take it permanently off line. hehehehhehe
40 american strike and support aircraft at muwaffaq salti air base in eastern jordan, positioned to reach iraq, syria, and western iran.
muwaffaq salti air base is within iranian ballistic missile range.
uss abraham lincoln (cvn-72): currently in the arabian sea leading csg-3 blockade operations.
uss gerald r. ford (cvn-78): operating in the red sea/eastern
uss george h.w. bush (cvn-77): en route; sailing around the cape of good hope to avoid houthi-
uss tripoli (lha-7): forward-deployed in the centcom aor as
uss boxer (lhd-4):
uss frank e. petersen jr. (ddg-121) & uss michael murphy
mine countermeasures (mcm): uss pioneer (mcm-9) and uss chief (mcm-14) are en route to the region.
so many floating targets. hehehehhe
many of them will kiss the floor. others will turn around and run.
lgbt americunt navy humiliated by taliban😂
and if it is a chinese ship with a chinese crew will the us pirates board that, as that constitutes an act of war against china?
maybe it’s third time lucky for the usadmin? the next few weeks/months should be interesting. the us hasn’t suffered a heavy cost for their warmongering since vietnam. usadmin dreams of ruling the world and its fuel supply are numbered.
iran humiliates inferior species americunts–no negotiations w monkey species
americunts only prepare their anuz w bleach before hebrews squirt jizz in their colons