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Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Strait of Hormuz After Iran Talks Collapse, Escalating Middle East Crisis

After peace talks between the U.S. and Iran failed in Islamabad, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Navy will immediately begin a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil shipping route.

Trump threatened to intercept all ships entering or leaving Iranian ports and warned of severe military action if Iran does not comply with U.S. demands to reopen the strait. The move dramatically raises tensions in the Middle East, with Iran vowing not to bow to threats and the U.K. refusing to participate in the blockade. The blockade risks disrupting global oil supplies and could provoke direct military confrontation, including with other major powers like China.

Trump's rhetoric has included threats of large-scale attacks on Iran's infrastructure, prompting international concern over the potential for escalation into a broader conflict.

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 @BCRQ4V7 from Alabama  commented…2mos2MO

Trump needs to go to jail he is a criminal

 @BCRPB7X from Florida  commented…2mos2MO

isn't that just worse for the both of us?

 @BCRPB57 from Florida  commented…2mos2MO

I think that the US should try and limit foreign involvement in terms of interacting with warring nations and act more in-line with interacting with foreign nations to help advance our country and the do what is in best interest of the world.

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Trump says U.S. will blockade Strait of Hormuz after Iran peace talks fail

https://cnbc.com

 @ISIDEWITHlinked…2mos2MO

US military says it will start blockade of all ships going to and from Iran on Monday

https://reuters.com

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Why Trump is threatening to blockade a strait that Iran is already blockading

https://cnn.com

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Elizabeth Warren Walks Back Murder Comments

Congressional Democrats broadly denounced the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Friday morning, after Republicans started accusing Sen. Elizabeth Warren of excusing violence.“No one's condoning this,” said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.). “Violence never is the right answer for anything. And it was a horrible murder, a tragic loss for his family.” Warren this week condemned the shooting, but added that people “can be pushed only so far.”"We'll say it over and over," Warren said on MSNBC’S “The ReidOut.” " Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."In a statement to POLITICO, Warren said, “Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.” Top Republicans denounced Warren's comments and the walked-back rhetoric, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) calling it “inappropriate and dangerous.”Some House Democrats asked about the incident on Thursday pivoted the conversation to discuss policy options on health care or gun safety.“I don't really know that this is really a space that Congress normally weighs in on,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). “But at the end of the day, I think it’s an opportunity, because now people are talking about health care and to talk about the fact that this industry has honestly not been as helpful as it could be.”“Violence is never the answer,” said Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.). “We know that there are people suffering, there’s great challenges in healthcare. There's great challenges, and people have, in fact, been wronged, but a process of governance is the way to address that, not violence.”And Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) who denounced the murder, said the killer should be prosecuted and that “I do know that allegedly a ghost gun was used, and we should also ban ghost guns. There's no reason for them beyond the streets.”

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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