The US Central Military Command (Centcom) disputed and described as ‘false’ reports on Iranian state TV that Tehran forces had shot down an American aircraft near Bushehr<\/p>\n
Trump, ‘narrow window but conditions for US-friendly agreement’<\/p>\n
There is ”a narrow time window” with respect to Iran, but US President Donald Trump will do ”what is right” because the conditions are right for a deal to be in favour of the United States. This was stated by the US president himself in an interview with Fox News that will be broadcast in full on Saturday at 9pm Washington time. The Iranians are ”very good” negotiators, Trump added according to previews, saying, however, that Tehran’s military is ”decimated” and this offers the US ”leverage to get the terms they prefer”, first and foremost a ”nuclear disarmed” Iran. Thus, the Iranians ”are cunning, but in the end we hold all the cards because we have defeated them militarily,” the president said.<\/p>\n
US Treasury Department announces new sanctions against Iran<\/p>\n
The US Treasury Department announced new sanctions against Iran and its oil sales, used by Tehran to finance the reconstitution of its armed forces and to continue to pose a threat to the US and its partners in the region. “We will continue to increase pressure to deprive the regime and its armed forces of the financial resources needed to threaten US allies and partners in the Middle East,” commented Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “We will not allow Tehran to increase oil revenues to replenish its armed forces and military capabilities,” he added.<\/p>\n
Media, ‘more Chinese ships leave the Strait of Hormuz’<\/p>\n
According to the trade magazine Lloyd’s List, an oil tanker is the latest of more than 10 Chinese ships that were stranded in the Strait of Hormuz to have left its waters. The Hua Lin Wan, a medium-sized Aframax tanker owned by the Chinese shipping company Cosco, crossed the strait on Wednesday, according to Lloyd’s List. Cosco’s president Lin Ji told Lloyd’s that the safety of the crew and the ship is the top priority in the operations to withdraw the remaining vessels from the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LiveLast updated 11 minutes ago The US Central Military Command (Centcom) disputed and described as ‘false’ reports on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-671655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}