Four Weeks of Bombing, 36 Hours of Blockade — and Iran’s Economy Goes Dark

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Trump’s quieter weapon is doing the loudest work. There is a subtle kind of power. It arrives quietly, settles in, and waits. That is the power President Trump described Thursday, standing on the South Lawn before boarding Marine One for Las Vegas, and it is worth listening to what he said. “We have a very good relationship with Iran right now,” the president told reporters. “As hard as it is to believe, and I think it’s a combination of about four weeks of bombing and a very powerful blockade.” Then came the line that deserves to travel. “The blockade is

For Trump and Xi, the Correspondence That Could Shape the Coming Meeting

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There are moments in diplomacy conducted through letters and TRUTH Social posts that nonetheless carry genuine weight. This may be one of them. President Trump disclosed Wednesday that he had written directly to Chinese President Xi Jinping, warning him against supplying weapons to Iran, and that Xi wrote back to say he was doing no such thing. “I had heard that China is giving weapons to Iran,” Trump told Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria. “And I wrote him a letter asking him not to do that, and he wrote me a letter saying that essentially he’s not doing that.” 🚨

700,000 Records. One Damning Conclusion: Biden’s DOJ Played Favorites and Hid the Evidence

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The Justice Department released a report Tuesday, finding that the Biden Administration turned a federal civil rights law into a tool of political persecution, selectively prosecuting pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act while shielding abortion-rights allies from comparable scrutiny. The review drew on more than 700,000 internal records. What investigators found was not mere bureaucratic overreach. It was coordination. DOJ prosecutors, the report alleges, worked hand-in-glove with Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority Foundation, accepting information those groups compiled on pro-life activists and using it to build cases. They sought harsher

After Islamabad Talks Collapse, America Draws a Line in the Strait of Hormuz

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At ten o’clock this morning, Eastern time, the United States Navy drew a line in the water. A blockade of Iranian ports and a partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz went into effect. Whether the first American ships have yet moved to enforce it is unclear. But the order is issued. The line is drawn. Vice President JD Vance led the American delegation. Pakistani mediators worked the room. It wasn’t enough. On the central question — Iran’s nuclear ambitions — there was no give. There is reportedly still a diplomatic thread: Pakistan is pressing both sides to return to

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