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‘The deal is very simple. If they shoot at ships, we’re going to knock the hell out of them,’ the vice president said.
The U.S. strikes are in response to an Iranian attack on ships in the Strait of Hormuz on July 7.
They include assassinations of political and religious figures, shootings, murders, kidnappings, extortions, assaults, and trafficking of drugs and weapons.
Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards went missing after an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter made an emergency landing in the Arabian Sea on July 1.
Communism ‘has become international,’ the president said, but has ‘never worked’ and will not succeed.
Meloni said she does not regret ‘political investment’ because she believes ‘in the unity of the West’ despite recent public tensions between the two leaders.
Iranian military officials said that allies in the Middle East will become a ‘legitimate target of the armed forces.’
The U.S. president also said that the United States will give a license to Ukraine to manufacture Patriot interceptors.
Eric Pauget, the conservative lawmaker who proposed the bill, said, ‘The time for words has given way to the time for truth.’
The U.S. president made the remarks just hours after he said that the ceasefire was over following Iran’s attacks on U.S. military sites in the Persian Gulf.
Economies exposed to the Middle East conflict face weaker activity, while countries benefiting from technology cycle see stronger growth, the IMF said.
