US Navy opens fire on ship trying to break Iran blockade as Tehran deepens Pakistan ties
US Navy opens fire on ship trying to break Iran blockade as Tehran deepens Pakistan ties
A U.S. Navy helicopter fired on a Panama-flagged vessel after it attempted to bypass the American blockade of Iranian ports, CENTCOM confirmed Tuesday, as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with Pakistan’s interior minister in Tehran and pushed for stronger bilateral cooperation.
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[–>Trump says Secret Service called the shots over covert plane switch amid Iran threat
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he follows the directions of the Secret Service and U.S. military when it comes to his security, addressing reports that he was moved between aircrafts as part of a security operation last month in Ankara reportedly prompted by an Iranian assassination threat.
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“Well, it’s only up to the Secret Service. I just follow what they’d like to do,” Trump told reporters after traveling to Geneva, Ohio, for the Freedom 250 Patriot Games.
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“So I go by the Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go on a different flight, a different plane, equal safety,” he said.
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“But they wanted me to do it, so I do it. I do what they say.”
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“I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats,” Trump said.
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The president also went on to say that any “consequential president has a lot of threats.”
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“Non consequential presidents don’t get threats,” he added.
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The Washington Post first reported that Trump secretly switched to a military jet after appearing to board the older Air Force One in Turkey after the NATO summit.
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Iran moves to join BRICS development bank as Russia pushes tighter financial ties
Iran is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) in the near future, Central Bank of Iran Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati announced Tuesday, according to Iranian state media.
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The NDB, created by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, funds infrastructure and sustainable growth projects across emerging nations.
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Headquartered in Shanghai, the bank operates as an alternatives in the West such as the World Bank.
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Moscow reaffirmed its strong support for Tehran’s entry into the bank during a meeting between Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov and Iranian Ambassador Kazem Jalali in 2025.
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Chebeskov stressed the need for of tighter financial coordination between Russia and Iran to counter Western sanctions, according to reports.
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Trump: ‘I don’t trust Iran’ as he declares US has ‘total control’ of Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump on Tuesday declared that the United States has “total control” of the Strait of Hormuz and said Iran was no longer the dominant force in the Middle East, as talks between Washington and Tehran appeared to have stalled.
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“Iran is going fine. Going just absolutely fine. We totally control the Strait of Hormuz. We have control over it. Nobody else, only us,” he told reporters after traveling to Geneva, Ohio, for the Freedom 250 Patriot Games.
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“Our Navy is unbelievable, and things are going great for our country.”
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“I don’t trust Iran. Why are you saying I trust the right?”
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“I’m the last person to trust the rest. They’ve lied to me constantly,” Trump said.
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“We have total control over the Strait right now. They don’t have control. We have total control. We own it. And at some point, maybe they’ll do something and then they get blown away.
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“But right now, we’re in a very good position. We have a country that has been the bully of the Middle East for 50 years.
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“It’s really 51, if you think about it. Right. We’ve been saying 47 for four years, and they’re no longer the bully of the Middle East,” the president added.
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Lebanon abolishes death penalty in Middle East first as Iran executions surge
Lebanon abolished the death penalty Tuesday, replacing all existing death sentences with life imprisonment and aggravated hard labor, according to a statement from the parliament speaker’s office, Reuters reported.
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The decision makes Lebanon the first nation in the Middle East to formally eliminate capital punishment. Crimes previously punishable by death in Lebanon included murder and treason.
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Lebanese lawmakers introduced the legislation last year to formally eliminate capital punishment, the outlet said.
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Lebanon had maintained a de facto moratorium on executions since 2004, even as dozens of people remained on death row.
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The reform came after U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said Aug. 5 that Tehran had executed at least 56 people on national security-related charges since March 19, including 27 cases linked to protests earlier this year.
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Türk also said executions and death sentences had risen in Iran since March, with more than 100 other people facing similar charges and the death penalty.
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Economic squeeze gives Trump upper hand over Iran without major new strike, retired general says
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President Donald Trump’s economic pressure on Iran is giving the U.S. an advantage in its current standoff with Tehran without another major military strike, retired two-star Marine Corps Gen. Arnold Punaro said Tuesday.
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Speaking on “America Reports,” Punaro also said Trump has no intention of backing down.
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“We’re in a protracted conflict, but the balance of power is on our side, both militarily and economically,” Punaro said.
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“The president is not going to blink, and I think the economic strategy is the right strategy right now.”
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“He clearly, and I think some in our military, don’t want to go back to the massive retaliation strike, so I believe, again, you’re costing them $15 trillion a year in revenues that they would use.”
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“And again, as I mentioned, the order of battle is in our favor.”
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“Even though we’re in a protracted conflict or stalemate, the president has reduced their nuclear capability, has significantly durated their military capability to export terrorism, and their economic, they’re painlessly suffering,” he said.
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Oil prices rise as doubts mount over US-Iran deal
Oil prices hit a one-week high Tuesday as traders grew doubtful that a deal could restore stability in the Middle East and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported.
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Brent futures LCOc1 rose $1.19, or 1.4%, to settle at $88.91 a barrel, while U.S. crude CLc1 rose $1.07, or 1.3%, to $83.20 a barrel.
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“This is going to be almost a war of attrition now,” Tony Sycamore, a market analyst at IG, told the outlet.
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“You probably can see the oil market sitting around the $75 to $95 range while we wait to see who blinks first,” he added.
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US-Iran deal reportedly ‘shaping up again’ as Tehran deepens ties with Pakistan
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi in Tehran on Tuesday, with both sides emphasizing stronger bilateral ties and cooperation.
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In a post on X, Pezeshkian said the “attention of Pakistani officials to solidarity and strengthening relations and ties with Iran is valuable.”
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In a statement, Pezeshkian said: “Expanding bilateral relations and deepening cooperation can help advance the mutual interests of the two nations and strengthen stability and security in the region.”
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Naqvi also emphasized the importance of implementing agreements between the two countries, saying his visit was intended to “strengthen mechanisms for cooperation and accelerate the implementation of bilateral agreements.”
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Pezeshkian met with Naqvi as Islamabad moved forward with its mediation efforts, Iran International also reported Tuesday.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, said the U.S. and Iran were close to “some sort of an arrangement,” adding that lasting peace would be in the region’s interest, according to Bloomberg.
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“Things are shaping up again in favor of a peace arrangement or a deal,” Asif said in Islamabad. “The signals in the last two, three days are that we are close to some sort of an arrangement.”
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US Navy fires on Panama-flagged vessel attempting to run blockade in Strait of Hormuz
A U.S. Navy helicopter fired on a Panama-flagged vessel after it attempted to bypass the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports Tuesday, U.S. Central Command confirmed.
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“Earlier today, CENTCOM forces disabled the steering gear of Panama-flagged M/V Vela Nova as the cargo vessel attempted to transit the Gulf of Oman and violate the U.S. blockade against Iran by sailing toward an Iranian port,” the command said in a post shared on X.
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CENTCOM added that a U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter had fired two hellfire missiles into the Vela Nova’s engine room after the ship’s civilian crew “ignored repeated warnings from American forces.”
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The ship is no longer transiting to Iran in violation of the U.S. blockade, which remains in full effect.
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“As of Aug. 11, CENTCOM has redirected 55 commercial vessels attempting to run the blockade, disabled 3 non-compliant vessels, and boarded 2,” it said before adding that its forces operating in the Middle East are “highly vigilant, lethal, and ready.”
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Khamenei adviser invokes Carter in warning to Trump, vows Strait of Hormuz stays closed
One of Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s advisers declared Tuesday that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until Tehran demands are met.
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Mohammad Mokhber also invoked the Carter-era Iran hostage crisis in an apparent warning to President Donald Trump on X.
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“Every time the enemy breaches its commitments and resorts to war again, it will face harsher conditions and greater resilience than before,” Mokhber said in a post on X.
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“This time too, the punishment of the aggressor continues, and the Strait of Hormuz will not be opened until Iran’s conditions are met,” he added, before stating that those who do not learn from the past will “become a lesson for the future.”
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Mokhber ended the post with the hashtags #Carter and #Trump.
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The reference appeared to invoke the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, during which 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days, a crisis that dominated the final 14 months of President Jimmy Carter’s term.
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Tehran claims missile stockpiles restored, boasts military stronger than before war
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An Iranian military spokesman claimed Tuesday that Tehran has fully restored missile stockpiles depleted during the war, while boasting its forces are now more powerful.
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“We have replenished all the missile stockpiles used during the war and regained a level of power even greater than before the conflict,” Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesman for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, said in a post on X.
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“Our military capability far exceeds your figures and statistics,” he said.
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In a separate post Tuesday, Zolfaghari claimed Persian Gulf leaders had traveled to Tehran over for talks on trade disputes, while criticizing the nations for hosting U.S. military forces.
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“Over the past month, leaders from Persian Gulf states have repeatedly visited Tehran to resolve their trade issues,” he claimed, before stating that the talks will “solve your problem only ‘temporarily.’”
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“The real solution is to expel the U.S. military from your territory!” he added.
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6 killed after suspected Houthi strike hits cargo ship in Red Sea
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Six people were killed Tuesday after Houthi rebels fired three ballistic missiles at a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to The Associated Press.
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The dead included four crew members and two members of the government-allied National Resistance Forces, Yemen’s coast guard said.
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Reports of fresh attacks on shipping in the Red Sea emerged as Yemen’s Transport Ministry said earlier in the day that people were killed in a suspected strike by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis.
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According to Reuters, the vessel, the Tihamah, is a small Egyptian-owned cargo vessel that was traversing the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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The oulet also reported ten people were injured, including seven crew members, two Coast Guard personnel and one NRF member, the Coast Guard said.
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The Houthis have not claimed responsibility for the attack, the outlet said.
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The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) also said that authorities were investigating reports of an unknown projectile striking the vessel midship and added that there were “multiple crew fatalities and injuries reported.”
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“Yemini authorities assisted and reported coming under fire,” the UKTMO said.
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Trump admin says oil is still flowing through Strait of Hormuz despite Iran’s efforts
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright says oil is continuing to flow through the Strait of Hormuz despite Iran’s efforts to close the trade artery.
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Wright wrote in a post on X that oil was passing through Hormuz at roughly half of its normal rate of 20 million barrels a day.
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“Thanks to the coordinated efforts of the U.S. military and our gulf allies, the seven-day average for oil leaving the Strait of Hormuz is currently up to almost 9 million barrels per day,” Wright wrote.
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“When combined with the additional 5-7 million barrels per day leaving the region via newly upgraded pipelines and export facilities, total oil flows are currently averaging approximately 15 million barrels per day,” he continued.
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“On Sunday alone, over 20 million barrels left the Arabian gulf region, which is above the pre-conflict average,” he added.
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White House not denying report Trump switched planes to avoid Iranian plot
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Senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich offered new details on President Donald Trump’s apparent decision to switch planes to evade a potential threat from Iran last month.
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The White House has not denied reports that Trump was smuggled off of Air Force One via a catering truck and taken to a smaller military jet during his departure from a NATO conference in Turkey last month.
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Reports say the U.S. had received credible intelligence about a potential Iranian plot targeting the president during his visit to Turkey.
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US and Iran are ‘far apart’ in negotiations, former CENTCOM official warns
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Former CENTCOM Intel Director Lt. Gen. Karen Gibson joined “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday to analyze U.S.-Iran geopolitical tensions as well as President Donald Trump’s latest demands to bring peace in the region.
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Gibson warned that despite claims that the U.S. and Iran could be close to a deal, it remains his opinion that the two parties are “far apart” in talks.
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Gen Jack Keane: US ‘underestimates where Iran’s head is at’
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Ret. Gen. Jack Keane discusses the latest developments in the U.S.-Iran conflict on Fox News, saying that he doesn’t think U.S. negotiators fully understand where Iran stands on the conflict.
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Keane argued there is no way Iran will abide by any of the agreements it makes with President Donald Trump’s administration in the coming days or weeks.
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Iran demands concessions as Strait of Hormuz tensions escalate
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Iran is demanding concessions from the U.S. as Strait of Hormuz tensions escalate on Tuesday.
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U.S. experts like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described Tehran’s list of demands as “maximalist,” and a complete non-starter for the U.S.
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Among the list are huge payments to Iran for damage from the war, as well as a demand that the U.S. withdraw all of its forces from bases across the Middle East.
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Gen Jack Keane warns Iran won’t honor any Strait of Hormuz deal
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Senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane (Ret) warned President Donald Trump that Iran will not honor any deal they make to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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Keane made the statement during a Tuesday appearance on Fox News as the U.S. and Iran continue to trade demands over a peace agreement.
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Trump demands Iran pay reparations for decades of damage
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President Donald Trump responded to Iran’s list of demands in talks this week with his own demand that Tehran pay reparations for the decades of damage the regime has caused throughout the Middle East.
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Trump made the statement on Monday after Tehran issued its own demands for the U.S. to pay Iran for damage sustained throughout this year’s war.
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Trumps calls Iranians ‘very devious negotiators’
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President Donald Trump said Iran’s leaders are “devious negotiators” on Tuesday as his administration continues to attempt to reach a peace agreement with Tehran.
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“They’re very devious negotiators because they’ll agree to something, then they’ll go out and tell the press that they never agreed to it. They’re very dishonest people,” Trump said in a clip shared by the White House.
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Catering truck spotted near Air Force One after Trump reportedly used it to evade Iran threat
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A catering truck was spotted near Air Force One on Tuesday following reports that President Donald Trump’s security used a similar vehicle to smuggle him out of Air Force One during his return trip from a NATO summit in Turkey last month.
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Trade vessel struck with projectile off coast of Yemen, UKMTO says
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A trade vessel was struck with an “unknown projectile” off the coast of Yemen on Tuesday, United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations confirmed.
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The UKMTO said it received reports of casualties from the incident, but did not say what flag the vessel was sailing under nor did it share the ship’s name.
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The incident comes after Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have increasingly harassed shipping in the Red Sea, specifically targeting Saudi Arabian vessels.
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Israel’s new $634M German-built ‘doomsday’ sub gives major boost to Iran deterrence
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Israel has taken delivery of its most advanced and expensive submarine from Germany, expanding its fleet amid escalating regional threats, according to reports.
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The handover of the INS Drakon is expected to significantly bolster Israel’s underwater strike and reconnaissance capabilities, The Algemeiner reported. The warship had been scheduled to be delivered in 2025.
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A statement following the submarine’s naming ceremony in Kiel in 2024 said the INS Drakon is of the Dolphin AIP class and “equipped with unique systems, including groundbreaking technologies that expand the range of the IDF’s capabilities across various arenas.”
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Built specifically for the Israeli Navy by Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), the submarine is said to provide a vital sea-based layer of “deterrence and retribution,” amid the war with Iran, defense analysts say.
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Dr. Ehud Eilam, an Israeli national security expert and former researcher for Israel’s Ministry of Defense, told Fox News Digital that maintaining a continuous undersea presence is paramount for the nation’s national survival.
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“Some of them would have to be at sea, on high alert, around the clock, if Iran suddenly attacked Israel in such a way that would cripple the IDF, including its strategic capabilities,” Eilam said.
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This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Emma Bussey.
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Pompeo says final Iran deal is ‘not remotely close,’ warns Tehran will leverage midterm elections
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Iran’s demands from the U.S. show that the regime in Tehran is not “remotely close” to accepting a long term peace agreement with the U.S.
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Pompeo made the statement during an appearance on Fox News, saying Iran has an incentive to frustrate negotiations ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.
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“They’re fully aware that there’s an election coming up, and they fully want to make President Trump lose that election,” Pompeo said. “They’ve had no president that’s taken down their military this way. No previous president, Republican or Democrat, has been prepared to do that.”
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Pompeo went on to say that he is convinced the U.S. will have to “ratchet up the pressure” against Iran in the long run.
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Trump bets economic pressure can squeeze Iran as regime’s own failures deepen the pain
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President Donald Trump is signaling, at least for now, he is prepared to let mounting economic pressure on Iran do more of the work rather than immediately expand military action against Tehran.
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“We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money,” Trump told Axios’ Barak Ravid in a phone interview Sunday. Axios reported Aug. 9 that Trump described the U.S. approach as “low-keying it” and said Iran was in severe economic distress and struggling to pay its troops.
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Trump has argued that the U.S. naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz has compounded Iran’s financial crisis. His comments come after weeks in which the administration repeatedly raised the possibility of renewed large-scale military action.
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But as the administration increasingly points to Iran’s financial distress as leverage, a more complicated question is emerging: How much of Iran’s economic crisis is the result of U.S. sanctions, the war and blockade — and how much stems from decades of corruption, economic mismanagement and spending decisions by the Islamic Republic itself?
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Trump reinforced the message on Truth Social Sunday, writing that Iran had shown “51 years of bad behaviour” while sharing a graphic depicting the Iranian rial’s steep decline. The graphic was titled “Iran has NO MONEY” and described the currency as “trash.”
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The economic pressure is increasingly visible in the daily lives of ordinary Iranians. An investigation published by the Iranian newspaper Jahan-e Sanat last week described supermarket workers encountering customers who allegedly shoplifted basic groceries including bread, cheese and meat, or ate packaged food inside stores because they could no longer afford it. The accounts offered a stark glimpse of the strain on Iranian households as prices rise and purchasing power erodes.
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This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Efrat Lachter.
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Iran installs new war chiefs as Tehran signals ‘prolonged confrontation,’ expert warns
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Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei formally appointed six senior military commanders Monday, cementing a wartime reshuffle as Tehran rebuilds a command structure impacted by months of U.S. and Israeli strikes.
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The appointments, announced by Khamenei’s office and promoted on social media, fill posts across Iran’s armed forces, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij paramilitary force, with a counterterrorism expert warning the timing and language of the decrees signal Tehran is preparing for “prolonged confrontation” and not a settlement with Washington.
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“Strategically, the announcements made were issued in English, on X, while Iranian and Omani negotiators finalize the coordinates of a proposed shipping route through Hormuz, which is deliberate sequencing,” Dr. Omar Mohammed, director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, told Fox News Digital.
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“Tehran is establishing its command structure as a fact on the ground before it signs anything.”
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Mohammed also pointed to language in the appointment announcements blaming the deaths of predecessors on what Iran called the “Zionist-American enemy.”
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“That phrase, in formal state documents, codifies the United States as a co-belligerent,” Mohammed said.
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Khamenei appointed Ali Abdollahi as chief of staff of the armed forces and Kioumars Heydari as his deputy. He also formally named Ahmad Vahidi commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, promoting him to the rank of major general.
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Mostafa Izadi was named deputy IRGC commander, Ali Azmaei as commander of the IRGC Navy and Hossein Taeb as commander of the Basij.
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Mohammed said Vahidi was also instructed to maintain readiness for “powerful offensive operations against the enemy,” by the Supreme Leader, while Abdollahi was tasked with completing the integration of the General Staff into the Khatam al-Anbiya wartime joint command.
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Pentagon races to buy 10X more missiles as Iran war dwindles arsenal, threatens readiness for China
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The Pentagon is preparing a dramatic course correction after years of purchasing key missile-defense interceptors in relatively modest numbers — even as China built up the world’s largest arsenal of conventional ballistic and cruise missiles and the U.S. increasingly focused on the threat of a conflict in the Indo-Pacific.
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Following a string of missile-heavy conflicts, U.S. air defenses have been used repeatedly to protect Israel, American forces in the Middle East and Navy ships in the Red Sea, drawing down some of the Pentagon’s most sophisticated and difficult-to-replace munitions.
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The Pentagon’s abrupt course correction raises a question that has taken on new urgency after years of missile-intensive warfare: Why did the U.S. wait so long to build deeper interceptor magazines?
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The Army’s fiscal 2027 budget, reviewed by Fox News Digital, calls for a massive increase in purchases of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors, part of a broader effort to rapidly expand a munitions industrial base that cannot be scaled overnight.
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The shift is particularly striking when compared with what the military was buying only a few years ago.
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The budget documents show PAC-3 MSE procurement at 230 missiles in fiscal 2024 and 214 in fiscal 2025. The same FY2026 budget book shows the Army Requirements Oversight Council had increased its acquisition objective for the missile from 3,376 to 13,773 in April 2025 — more than quadrupling the requirement.
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“The problem is 25 years of not buying enough munitions,” retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.
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PAC-3 MSE and THAAD are among the military’s most important defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Patriot batteries provide shorter-range protection for troops, air bases and other critical assets, while THAAD is designed to intercept ballistic missiles at higher altitudes and greater distances, giving commanders another layer of defense against incoming attacks.
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This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Morgan Phillips.
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Trump demands Iran compensate Americans and protesters after Tehran seeks war reparations
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President Donald Trump on Monday demanded that Iran compensate Americans killed or seriously wounded in attacks he blamed on Tehran, while also calling for payments to the families of Iranian protesters killed by the regime.
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The president also said he had instructed his representatives to raise his compensation demands in any future negotiations with Iran.
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Trump’s remarks came after senior Iranian officials demanded compensation from Washington as part of Tehran’s conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
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“I see that Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran are asking for compensation for the damage done to them during the last five month Military Conflict (started because, THEY WILL NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON), even though it was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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Trump also called Iran’s request for compensation “an interesting idea” before saying he was also demanding compensation from Iran, “for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts, for which they are famous, as led initially by General Soleimani, including the families of those killed on the USS Cole, and thousands of others killed in combat.”
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“Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protestors that Iran has killed over the last 50 years, not to mention the 52,000 that have been killed in the last five months,” he wrote.
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“I have instructed my representatives to put this firmly into any and all future negotiations,” Trump wrote.
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This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Emma Bussey.
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