President Trump said Friday he did not ask Chinese President Xi Jinping to pressure Iran into reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the vital oil corridor that Tehran blockaded in early March after U.S. and Israeli airstrikes targeted the Islamic republic.
The U.S. military has set back Iran's naval power by a generation and retains sufficient munitions to resume combat operations if needed, the commander of U.S. Central Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
The Pentagon on Wednesday signed framework agreements with five defense contractors to mass-produce thousands of low-cost cruise and hypersonic missiles, responding to a munitions shortage created by the ongoing conflict with Iran.
President Donald Trump declared Monday that the ceasefire with Iran is "on massive life support" after he rejected Tehran's latest counterproposal to end the war, calling it "totally unacceptable" and a "piece of garbage."
Federal investigators have linked the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner to radicalization fueled by the ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran, according to a Department of Homeland Security intelligence report obtained by Reuters.