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President Donald Trump early on Wednesday threatened Iran with an AI-generated meme while appearing to reiterate his claims the country was in a state of disarray and incapable of signing a peace deal as the Strait of Hormuz remains blockaded.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump threatened Iran with an AI meme on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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In a post on Truth Social<\/a>, the president shared an AI-generated image of himself holding an assault rifle with explosions in the background and the caption \u201cNO MORE MR. NICE GUY!\u201d<\/p>\n In the post, Trump claimed that Iran can\u2019t get its \u201cact together\u201d and the country doesn\u2019t know how to \u201csign a nonnuclear deal,\u201d before warning that the country \u201cbetter get smart soon.\u201d<\/p>\n It’s unclear what the president means by \u201cnonnuclear deal,\u201d although he has repeatedly stated that his goal is to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s meme post comes days after reports<\/a> suggested<\/a> Iran was pushing for a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while postponing nuclear talks to a later date.<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> Trump and his aides, however, are \u201cskeptical\u201d of such a deal.<\/p>\n President Trump shared an AI generated meme of himself in a Truth Social post threatening Iran.<\/p>\n Truth Social, @realDonaldTrumpTangent<\/p>\n In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday<\/a>, Trump claimed Iran told his administration the country was in a \u201cState of Collapse,\u201d adding, \u201cthey want us to ‘Open the Hormuz Strait,’ as soon as possible, as they try to figure out their leadership situation (Which I believe they will be able to do!).\u201d Iranian officials have not publicly commented on Trump’s latest assertions; however, similar claims made last week were met with a concerted pushback. Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on X<\/a>: \u201cIn Iran there are no \u2018hardliners\u2019 or \u2018moderates\u2019 We are all Iranians and revolutionaries. With ironclad unity of nation and state and obedience to the Supreme Leader, we will make the aggressor regret. One God, one nation, one leader, one path; victory for Iran, dearer than life.\u201d Iran\u2019s Parliament speaker, Mohammad Ghalibaf, one the country\u2019s most powerful leaders, posted the same message on X.<\/a><\/p>\n How Have Oil Prices Been Impacted?<\/p>\n As talks between both sides have stalled and the Strait of Hormuz remains blockaded, oil prices have continued to creep up. The global benchmark Brent Crude Futures rose to $114.42 per barrel on Wednesday, up nearly 2.9% from the previous day. Average U.S. gas prices soared to $4.229 per gallon<\/a> on Wednesday according to AAA\u2019s national tracker, hitting their highest level in more than three and half years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline President Donald Trump early on Wednesday threatened Iran with an AI-generated meme while appearing to reiterate his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,117780,46,125,196653,157371,196652,196654],"class_list":["post-416674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-trump-ai-meme","tag-trump-iran-war","tag-trump-threatens-iran","tag-trump-truth-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}