The proposals come as security around the White House remains under heightened scrutiny following several threats against Trump
US reconsiders Iran regime change as Donald Trump loses faith in diplomacy – The Jerusalem Post
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Trump drops Strait of Hormuz tolls for Gulf trade deals– www.washingtonexaminer.com
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned plans to charge fees for American policing of the Strait of Hormuz in lieu of inking new trade and investment deals with Gulf states.
The president, following the breakdown of the memorandum of understanding with Iran, has said that the United States will implement a blockade of Iranian-controlled shipping lanes while maintaining unencumbered commerce for other countries looking to make commercial use of the strait.
Still, despite guarantees from other top administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that the international waterway would not be charged, Trump stated that the U.S. would collect a 20% “reimbursement fee” on cargo moving through the strait.
“Oil is flowing like never before, thanks to the awesome Power of the United States Military,” the president wrote on Truth Social Tuesday morning. “The Strait of Hormuz is open to ALL Ship traffic except for Iran — and that is because of their lying, violent, malicious leadership, which is taking them down the path of TOTAL DESTRUCTION.
“We will therefore have a FULL Blockade, but only on Ships coming to and from Iranian ports, or carrying anything have to do with Iranian cargo. Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States,” he continued. “Those Investments will be MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future. As everyone is aware, we have the largest Dollar Investment into the United States, of any Country in History, but these new Investments will make that Number even larger, and we will see Factories, Plants, and Equipment pour into the United States at Historic levels, which will create additional millions of High Paying AMERICAN Jobs!
“America is WINNING again, winning like never before,” Trump concluded. “The days of Iran killing hundreds of thousands of people, including 52,000 protestors, are OVER and, most importantly, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!”
U.S. Central Command announced Monday that the American military will re-implement its blockade of the strait on Thursday at 4 p.m. ET.
TRUMP RETURNS TO WAR WITH IRAN FROM ‘POSITION OF STRENGTH’
Earlier Tuesday morning, the White House attributed the reopening of the strait to June’s positive inflation report.
“President Trump consistently said that, as traffic in the Strait of Hormuz normalizes, oil prices – and thus overall inflation – would plummet like a rock,” White House spokesman Kush Desai wrote in a statement. “The expectation-smashing June [consumer price index] report proves President Trump was right: driven by lower energy prices, inflation clocked its biggest drop since April 2020.”
Trump Issues Order to Protect Defense Supply Chains Amid Iran War › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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Good Tuesday morning.
Here is whats on President Trump’s agenda today:
8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time
10:00 AM THE PRESIDENT greets Denison University Student Athletes
11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT greets the President of the Republic of Lebanon
11:15 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Lebanon
4:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting
5:00 PM THE PRESIDENT greets House GOP Members
5:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Policy Meeting
News roundup:
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The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI
Canada’s Indigenous Community Angry as Government Abandons Them to Wildfires
Joshua Kerry Charged With Murder of Brexiteer Ann Widdecombe
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Catholic nuns sue New York, say assisted suicide law forces them to violate their faith
Lindsey Graham succession fight upended as Trump’s chosen successor jumps in
More than 100 Haitian immigrants with violent offense and sex crime convictions deported: DHS
War erupts on far left as DSA endorses challenger against sitting House progressive
US bases, ICE facilities targeted in Cuba-linked 24-hour activist mobilization plan
Commerce Department’s AI safety director resigns after just three months in post
Trump issues order to protect defense supply chains amid Iran war
Darline Graham Nordone confirms she will seek full term
DOJ moves to denaturalize 10 convicted criminals
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Cuba-linked groups plan ‘nationwide actions’ against US bases, ICE facilities: State Department
‘Manosphere’ influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate expected in Miami court Monday
Greeks ready to pick a fight about ‘The Odyssey’
Nancy Mace won’t run for Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat
President Trump To Attend Dignified Transfer Of ‘Our Fallen Heroes’
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9 dead, 60 hurt in 9 different mass shootings across US
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Black Leaders Accuse Democrats Of Leaving Them Behind
While The World Watched Soccer, The DOJ Was Building A Case
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Following Iran’s provocation, the Houthis of Yemen have pledged they will shut the Red Sea down. The hope is that shutting down two major shipping lanes, the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, will cripple the global economy.
Iran-Backed Houthi Terrorists Announce Blockade of the Red Sea– gellerreport.com
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The Houthis is another Islamic terror arm of Tehran. They must be confronted accordingly. Iran’s terror regime is a scourge upon humanity, and its reign must be brought to an end.
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Yemen’s Ansarullah has started enforcing a naval blockade on all Saudi ports in the Red Sea.
Ansarullah has deployed anti-ship missiles, increased military activity along the Saudi border, and stepped up naval operations in the Red Sea as part of the blockade. pic.twitter.com/0dbfzt3fQP
— Current Report (@Currentreport1) July 20, 2026
Washington Times: The Houthis, a Yemen-based rebel faction backed by Iran, announced a new blockade of the Red Sea on Monday, potentially opening a new front in the U.S.-Iran war even as Pakistani and Qatari mediators work to broker a ceasefire. Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said in a video statement that the group would immediately impose a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, which borders the Red Sea. Houthi-affiliated media confirmed the blockade would take effect immediately, saying it was in response to what the group called Saudi Arabia’s illegal “blockade on Yemenis for over 10 years.”
Bessent Drops the Financial Hammer on Iran, With a Personal Message to the Ayatollah – RedState– redstate.com
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Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent is at it again, tracking down Iranian regime’s cash and grabbing or freezing it with Operation Economic Fury, the financial side of the actions against the regime.
Bessent explained how they’ve been tracking accounts all over the world, and now they’ve frozen a crypto wallet containing about $130 million linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
🚨 JUST IN: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent drops this chilling line on the Iranian regime — he’s tracking the Ayatollah’s accounts and assets WORLDWIDE and just FROZE $130M in crypto wallets
“We found the money man for the Ayatollah! We are tracking the Ayatollah’s properties… pic.twitter.com/9Y4VT9NsO7
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 21, 2026
Jordan downs Iranian drones as Bahrain thwarts aerial attacks – سانا
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Several terrorist U.S. troops killed during IRGC strike in Jordan’s Rukban area – Pars Today
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US State Department report accuses Cuba of helping Iran expand influence in Americas – thenationalnews.com
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Iranian official: Azerbaijan, Turkey warned against hosting US, Israel forces – The Jerusalem Post
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U.S. Soldier Killed In Iraq While Conducting Controlled Detonation Of Iranian Drone Identified– wltreport.com
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The third U.S. Service member who was killed in the Middle East last week has been identified.
Last week U.S. CENTCOM announced two U.S. Service members were killed in Jordan after Iran struck a base in Jordan where U.S. troops were stationed.
U.S. CENTCOM further revealed a third soldier was MIA but later revealed an unidentiefd body discovered in the aftermath of the attack is believed to be the third service member.
Around the same time a U.S. soldier was killed in Iraq while conducting a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone.
The soldier who was killed during the controlled detonation has now been identify as 30-year-old Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton.
CBS News provided further details on the death of the U.S. soldier and provided remarks from Secretary of State Marco Rubio:
A 30-year-old U.S. soldier was killed over the weekend in Iraq during what the U.S. military said was a controlled explosion to destroy an attack drone.
Pentagon concealing true casualty numbers in Iran war – NYT — RT World News– www.rt.com
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Dozens of soldiers were injured in previously unreported strikes last week, the New York Times says
The Pentagon has withheld information about dozens of service members injured during the war with Iran, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing US officials.
On Friday, Iran struck a US military site in Jordan, killing two soldiers, wounding four, and leaving one missing. According to the Times, however, dozens of service members were injured throughout the week in three other strikes against US forces in the country. Several helicopters were also reportedly damaged in the attacks.
An official told CNN that “it can take several days or even weeks” for an injury to be logged into the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS), an official database. A total of 427 service members have been injured in the war with Iran, the Times said, citing official figures.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell argued that “providing real-time information on non-fatal casualties to the media is the same as providing that information directly to our adversaries.”
U.S. strikes unlikely to move Iran, intelligence reports say – The Washington Post
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Tehran launches drones, missiles, towards Kuwait – The Jerusalem Post
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Iran War Risk Pushes African Central Banks to Hold Rates Higher– financialpost.com
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“It is very unlikely that the CBN would restart monetary easing as long as inflation expectations remain elevated,” said Gergely Ürmössy, emerging markets strategist at Societe Generale SA. “In the CBN’s latest inflation survey, over half of respondents expected inflation to accelerate over the next six months; in March, before domestic fuel and energy prices spiked, roughly 60% expected inflation to hold steady or decelerate.”
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Ukraine will produce French-made cruise missiles, precision guided bombs, and air defense interceptor missiles through a license granted by Paris to Kyiv, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday.
Macron made the announcement during Monday’s “Coalition of the Willing” meeting in Paris that saw Macron, President Volodymyr Zelensky, and several other European heads of state reiterate their support of Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of its territory and reaffirm their calls for a ceasefire and direct negotiations between both sides.
At the meeting, Macron revealed that France has issued a license to Ukraine for the manufacturing of the missiles — marking the first time France has granted such a provision to Ukraine. The license contemplates the production of AASM precision-guided air-to-ground bombs, Aster air-defense interceptor missiles and SCALP, long-range air-launched cruise missiles.
The deal, Macron detailed, stems from a letter of intent signed between Paris and Kyiv in November 2025 that outlined Ukraine’s acquisition of 100 aircraft over the next ten years.
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Washington — President Trump has been trying to force Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz for months, turning to everything from airstrikes and naval blockades to negotiations and threats to destroy a “whole civilization.”
But restoring oil tanker traffic in the vital Middle East shipping corridor to prewar flows likely will require a much bigger armada of U.S. warships if not tens of thousands of American troops on Iranian soil, experts say. Despite on-and-off fighting, Iran can still target vessels in the slim Persian Gulf waterway with drones and missiles that have been hidden in a country a third the size of the continental United States.
“Iran has been preparing for this type of asymmetric conflict for decades now,” said Jason H. Campbell, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and a former Pentagon official. “I think they’re starting to demonstrate why no other U.S. president since Reagan has elected to engage at this level of conflict with Iran, because they have that ability to completely disrupt the Strait of Hormuz.”
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In the 26 days between the signing of the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding and the reinstatement of the U.S. blockade, Tehran shipped over $6 billion worth of oil products to foreign buyers.
Iran shipped out over 80 million barrels of crude oil and refined products between June 18, when the first blockade was lifted, and when it was reimposed on July 13, according to TankerTrackers.com, a tanker-tracking research firm. The blockade, however, closed around Iran before Tehran was able to ship out all of its storage capacity, so around 30 million barrels of Iranian crude oil were unable to embark.
TankerTrackers said over 60 million barrels of floating storage capacity remain available within the blockade perimeter, with the shipments and returned ships taken into account.
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Senior Iranian official Ahmad Alamolhoda:
“The fatwa to kill the American dog Trump must be implemented through an organized mechanism, so it is not left unfulfilled like in the Rushdie case. Our revenge will continue until America collapses like the USSR.”
Enough is enough.
Senior Iranian official Ahmad Alamolhoda:
“The fatwa to kill the American dog Trump must be implemented through an organized mechanism, so it is not left unfulfilled like in the Rushdie case. Our revenge will continue until America collapses like the USSR.” pic.twitter.com/Lncf9oV1fB
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 12, 2026
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The U.S., early Sunday morning, launched strikes against Iranian military targets as the Islamic Guard (IRGC) claimed that it has closed the Strait of Hormuz “indefinitely.”
U.S. strikes targeted Iran’s coastal region, destroying naval assets, missile installations, and drone facilities in response to ongoing IRGC attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to Central Command (CENTCOM), U.S. forces “completed a third round of strikes this week against Iran, July 11, holding Iranian forces accountable for attacking another commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz.”
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said this morning they targeted American military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait, destroyed radar systems in Oman and struck fuel tanks and ammunition depots at Prince Hassan air base in Jordan as part of its retaliatory strikes against the US.
Jordan said a few hours ago that it intercepted and downed four missiles fired from Iranian territory, while Kuwait’s military said it was intercepting “hostile aerial targets” in the country’s airspace.
The strikes marked an escalation in the recent tit-for-tat attacks between the US and Iran as Tehran seeks to assert sovereignty over the strategic strait of Hormuz, which it sees as its biggest leverage in negotiations with Washington.
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Good Monday morning.
Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:
8:00 AM THE PRESIDENT participates in Executive Time
1:30 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Freedom 250 Grand Prix Showcase
3:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a Meeting with the Speaker of the House and Chairman of the NRCC
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TEHRAN — The elaborate funeral rites for Iran’s slain supreme leader that drew huge crowds of mourners offered a show of strength by the country’s surviving leadership as key senior officials boldly emerged into public view for the first time since the war. And in its posture toward the United States, Tehran also now seems emboldened.
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America’s fight for independence continues to inspire other people around the world 250 years after the Declaration of Independence.
Exiled Persian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi posted a statement on X on July 9 in which he compared the courage of his fellow Persians who stood up to tyranny in spite of horrendous massacres earlier this year to the indomitable spirit that won the American Revolution and World War II. It is remarkable to note that just after the celebration of America’s 250th birthday, the Founding Fathers are not only still setting an example for American patriots but also for all freedom lovers in many diverse and ancient lands on the other side of the globe.
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The United States and Iran traded some of their heaviest fire since last month’s ceasefire agreement, but the latest round of fighting has exposed just how badly Tehran is struggling to match American firepower.
U.S. forces have landed most of the blows in the latest volley, pounding roughly 170 targets over two days while Iran’s retaliatory strikes on U.S.-linked bases in the Middle East were limited and largely intercepted by air defenses.
The U.S. military said its strikes targeted Iranian military infrastructure tied to Tehran’s attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
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BEIRUT: A United States military delegation has met with Lebanon’s army in Beirut to discuss the implementation of Israel’s withdrawal from one of the “pilot zones” in occupied territory, a Lebanese military official told AFP on Saturday (Jul 11).
Under a framework agreement reached on Jun 26, Israel will gradually withdraw from areas of southern Lebanon where it has sent troops as part of its military campaign against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia movement that has long battled Israel.
As part of the agreement, the long-disempowered Lebanese military will take full control of two small areas dubbed pilot zones.
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An Iranian news agency infamous for its close connection with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — the regime’s terrorist military and brute squad — has published a direct threat once again against President Donald Trump
Fars interestingly did not apparently post the threat on its English language X channel, at least as of Saturday morning. It did, however, makes the threat its pinned post on its Persian language channel.
The message is allegedly from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, presuming that the son of the late mass murderer Ali Khamenei is actually still alive. The statement does express the official regime position. Grok’s translation of the Persian says, “We pledge to take revenge for the pure blood of the martyred Leader and all the martyrs of these two wars from the criminal and disgraced killers.”