President Trump on Iran:
“They are not ready yet..”
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White House says Saudi nuclear deal puts "America first."
Reporter: "Why does Saudi Arabia get a civilian nuclear deal, but Iran doesn't get a civilian nuclear deal?"
Leavitt: "The deal that has been discussed thus far... absolutely puts America first."
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is seriously considering restarting major combat operations in Iran, including strikes that would be bigger than the ones carried out during "Operation Epic Fury," he tells Axios.


President Trump to Israel’s N12:
“I am considering a massive attack [on Iran]. Larger than anything that has been done before. I am close to making a decision.”
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Iran:
"Iran is begging us, both directly and indirectly, let's do a deal, let's talk. The problem with Iran is every time they make a deal, the people that are in charge there either break it or want to change it. It looks like they're not ready to make a deal. So they're going to continue to pay a price. Every night the price gets higher and higher, and that's what's happening now."
On the Houthis: "Iran has involved the Houthis in this conflict, and we will see what happens."
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The Al Abdali Border Crossing between Iraq and Kuwait was temporarily closed earlier today after a building on the Kuwaiti side of the border was targeted by an Iranian one-way attack drone, likely in response to missile strikes this morning on sites near the border with Iran by the U.S. Army.
Newly released footage of American forces conducting airstrikes on Iranian targets overnight, hitting construction equipment and small boats.
"We have lunatics and crazies involved in the ICC" - Sec. Rubio
Russian forces reportedly attempted a mass mechanized assault earlier today in Donetsk Oblast.
Per Ukrainian channels, it went disastrously, with dozens of Russian armored vehicles lost.


U.S. confirms they began strikes on Iran.


Following reports that the Yemeni Houthis struck a Saudi tanker 70nm west of Al-Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia, the Houthi military spokesperson has said that they in fact struck two tankers, LAYLA and ENCELIA, for violating he Houthis’ self-imposed blockade of vessels traveling to and from Saudi ports.
Trump on Iran: "They're getting hit so hard, and they want to make a deal -- but I say they're not ready to make a deal because every time they make a deal they want to change it and everything. They're not ready."
Trump: We are likewise winning in the Islamic Republic of Iran and we are ensuring that they will never ever be able to do to us what they have done to so many
Trump:
I am here to announce my candidacy... I'm only kidding.
American CRAM system engaging Iranian drones over the northern Iraqi city of Erbil tonight.
Trump attends dignified transfer of fallen soldiers killed in the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.
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Footage of German and Polish engineering troops working together to fortify Poland's eastern border against Russia.