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Trump threatens to take key Iranian island: President Donald Trump warned Thursday morning the US will hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and threatened to take Kharg Island, which handles roughly 90% of Iran’s crude exports.

Oil prices shot higher Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump declared that Iran will “pay the price” for being too slow to negotiate a peace deal.

U.S. President Donald Trump repeated the claim that a deal to end the war in Iran could be reached in “two or three days,” and that the critical Strait of Hormuz would reopen “immediately” after such a deal.

Iran’s military has ceased strikes against Israel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNBC on Monday, but Tehran warned it would resume hostilities if the IDF continues operations in Lebanon.

US President Donald Trump said talks with Iran over an interim peace deal will “work out well,” even as the countries’ forces clashed again near the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald Trump’s swift rejection of Iran’s response to a U.S. peace proposal pushed oil ​prices higher on Monday, fuelling concerns that the 10-week-old conflict will drag on and continue to paralyse shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

For much of America, the Iran war has meant pain at the pump. For Whirlpool, it has caused what it calls a “recession-level industry decline,” and higher appliance prices are coming as a result.

Oil prices fell sharply Wednesday on optimism that the U.S. and Iran were close to an agreement to end the conflict.

President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will attempt to “free” stranded ships that have been trapped by the Strait of Hormuz closure since the war with Iran began.

Iran has given the US a new proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war that includes postponing nuclear negotiations, Axios reported, citing a US official and two people with knowledge of the matter.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday extended the two-week U.S. ceasefire with Iran, saying the extension was warranted due to Tehran’s government being “seriously fractured.”

Fifty days into the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, tensions escalated again after clashes in the Gulf prolonged shipping disruptions and cast doubt on a fragile ceasefire set to expire this week.

Trump told the Financial Times on Sunday that his “preference would be to take the oil,” comparing it with the U.S. military operation in Venezuela earlier this year where the U.S. effectively gained control of the Latin American country’s oil industry

U.S. President Donald Trump announced a new extension of his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of its energy plants, after Iran rejected his ​15-point proposal to end the war he launched with Israel.

President Donald Trump on said in a Truth Social post Monday that he would order the U.S. military to postpone strikes on Iran’s power plants and energy infrastructure for five days following talks with Tehran’s authorities.

The United States is allowing Iranian oil tankers to transit the Strait of Hormuz, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC in an interview Monday.

Iran will allow Indian-flagged tankers ​to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for 40% of the South Asian nation’s crude imports, an Indian government source said ‌on Thursday, but an Iranian source outside the country denied any such deal was reached.

«Υπάρχει μεγάλη αβεβαιότητα και όλα θα εξαρτηθούν από την έκταση της κρίσης», δήλωσε στο mononews.gr ο Διοικητής της Τράπεζας Ελλάδος Γιάννης Στουρνάρας και συμπλήρωσε: «Οι επιπτώσεις στην οικονομία έρχονται πρωτίστως από την αγορά της ενέργειας».

President Donald Trump warned Iran on Thursday it must make a deal over its nuclear program or “really bad things” will happen, and set a deadline of 10 to 15 days, drawing a threat from Tehran to retaliate against U.S. bases in the region if attacked.

Iran’s supreme leader warned on Tuesday that U.S. attempts to depose his government would fail, as Washington and Tehran began indirect talks in Geneva on their long-running nuclear dispute amid a U.S. military buildup in the Middle East.