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Hours earlier caller subject strikes were exchanged successful nan strait of Hormuz, vice-president JD Vance continued to reiterate nan administration’s triumphant statement connected nan warfare pinch Iran.
“If we make nan last deal, past great,” nan US vice-president told HBO’s Bill Maher.
“If we don’t make nan last deal, their atomic programme is still destroyed. They’re still overmuch weaker arsenic a country, truthful my cognition is America wins either way.”
The shaky ceasefire betwixt nan US and Iran is being progressively tested, pinch much retaliatory strikes this weekend. President Donald Trump has besides claimed nan US has nan precocious hand.
“There whitethorn travel a constituent erstwhile we are nary longer capable to beryllium reasonable, and will beryllium forced to militarily complete nan occupation that we very successfully started,” he posted to Truth Social successful nan aftermath of Saturday’s strikes.
“If that happens,” he wrote, “the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist.”
JD Vance claims US holds each nan cards successful Iran and will triumph ‘either way’
JD Vance said connected Friday that nan US wins “either way” regarding negotiations pinch Iran, pointing to what he called nan demolition of its atomic programme and diminishment arsenic a country.
Vance said that nan accrued travel of lipid done nan strait of Hormuz was a “signal that there’s thing existent going on”.
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US says it struck targets successful Iran complete ‘continued aggression’ against shipping
The US subject has launched further strikes connected aggregate targets successful Iran, nan US Central Command (Centcom) confirmed, a time aft it had struck Iran successful retaliation for a drone onslaught connected a cargo vessel successful nan strait of Hormuz.
Centcom said its strikes connected Saturday were successful “direct consequence to continued Iranian aggression against commercialized shipping”. The US strikes targeted “Iranian subject surveillance infrastructure, connection systems, aerial defense sites, drone retention facilities, and minelayer capabilities”, Centcom said successful a statement.
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Appeals tribunal rejects Trump EPA bid to wantonness norm restricting deadly soot pollution
A national appeals tribunal connected Friday rejected nan Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to wantonness a Biden-era norm that sets reliable standards for deadly soot pollution.
The unanimous ruling by a three-judge sheet is simply a setback for nan Trump administration’s deregulatory schedule and its repeated efforts to boost coal, a reliable but polluting power source.
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Trump says he will nominate Lance Schroyer arsenic adjacent ICE director
Donald Trump said connected Saturday that he will nominate Lance Schroyer arsenic the adjacent head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), succeeding David Venturella, who had been performing nan duties of nan director.
Trump said successful a Truth Social station that Schroyer “has complete 29 YEARS of Law Enforcement acquisition successful Oklahoma — A State wherever I WON each 77 Counties successful 2016, 2020, and 2024! Lance is simply a erstwhile Oklahoma State Trooper, and United States Marine”.
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Catching up? Here’s what happened connected Friday 26 June.
