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Read the latest on the Strait of Hormuz. The United States and Iran struck a two-week ceasefire deal just hours after President Donald Trump threatened to wipe out "a whole civilization." The proposal ...

Hours after after President Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran amid global calls for diplomacy, Pope Leo XIV praised what he called "a truce" between the ...

President Donald Trump took to social media this morning and threatened to destroy an entire civilization unless Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be ...

CNN commentator Scott Jennings endorsed President Donald Trump’s threat to annihilate Iranian civilization on Tuesday, stating that he was not going to “second-guess” the president. Earlier in the day ...