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BREAKING: Donald Trump is attacking CNN after the network aired the full statement from Iran’s Supreme National Security Council saying it achieved a “great victory” and forced the U.S. to accept its 10-point plan. In a furious response, Trump called CNN’s reporting a “FRAUD” and demanded a retraction, and said "authorities are looking to determine whether or not a crime was committed"—despite the network simply relaying Iran’s official statement.

NATION CELEBRATES HISTORIC MILITARY VICTORY AS STRAIT OF HORMUZ NOW HAS TOLL BOOTH 28 Days, $340 Billion In Defense Spending, And Three Aircraft Carrier Groups Later, America Has Secured The Right To Pay $47 To Pass Through A Floating Shack STRAIT OF HORMUZ – After nearly a month of sustained military operations involving the most sophisticated weapons systems ever deployed in human history, Pentagon officials confirmed Tuesday that the United States has successfully established a functioning toll station at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, operated by a man in a black robe who counts cash by hand. “This is what winning looks like,” said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, gesturing toward a laminated sign reading TOLL STATION above what military analysts described as “a booth made largely of corrugated metal and wishful thinking.” The station, which sits atop a platform apparently constructed from sandbags and geopolitical audacity, began collecting fees from tanker crews Wednesday morning, with a senior Iranian cleric processing payments using what witnesses described as a rubber stamp, a stack of paperwork, and the quiet confidence of a man who has absolutely nowhere else to be. The tanker crew, reached by telephone, said the experience was “pretty much like the Lincoln Tunnel, but with more warships and a STOP sign.” Military planners had originally outlined 14 strategic objectives for Operation Epic Fury. The toll booth covers approximately one of them, depending on how generously you read the mission parameters. “We did not come here to collect $47 per vessel,” said Admiral James Stavridis, who retired six years ago but has been on CNN continuously since the operation began. “But I will say this. That booth is not going anywhere.” At press time, a second carrier group was being repositioned to defend the booth from a speedboat. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@RepLuna Biggest capitulation in world history. Congrats not every day someone achieves this.

I just spoke with the President and would like to publicly congratulate him on this. Some of my not-so-smart Democrat colleagues will soon be forced to issue public statements of support when they understand the terms of what the agreement is. To be clear, President Trump has been consistent and precise in his messaging from the beginning. Only weeks ago, Iran was viewed as an existential threat to the US and most of Europe. NATO exposed who they really are. Many people got exposed. Those who try to use this to sow division or just straight-up lie have also outed themselves. To be clear, from the beginning, this was about saving American lives. President Trump has truly accomplished something that no other POTUS could have pulled off. PEACE WILL ULTIMATELY PREVAIL.

Next month: the US strikes Greenland and it somehow ends with Trump giving Alaska to Denmark.

@dimidp5 @NXT4EU And you? What are you? A propagandist? From russia?

@ipgrms @NXT4EU Tell me how I use it please? They are using me and you. Unless you're on their payroll. Or do you work for an NGO?

🚨 - 83% of Canadians support the possibility of Canada joining the EU. According to a new poll, done by Spark, shows extreme support for closer ties to Europe, with only 17% rejecting the idea of joining the EU! Europe is the future 🇪🇺

@dimidp5 @NXT4EU Evrybody uses statistics and they need to come from somewhere. No organization in the World spends more on them than Europe and they have the most advanced statistics in the world. Fighting against it is stupid and makes no sense. I am an entrepreneur with offices in 7 countries.

We count dead Russians in the footage we track. We track around 300 videos per day from around 2000ish video sources across mainly telegram, instagram, and facebook. It is a broad swath of the available footage every day, although there are probably lots of small sources we miss. Individual soldiers, small or obscure combat units, etc. In March, the number of Russian KIA dipped. This was expected, because KIA follow a known seasonal trajectory. They peak in December/January and reach a minimum in June. In spring every year you see KIA begin to dip. That said, this March was the 4th highest KIA/Day month we have ever seen after Feb 2026, Jan 2026, and December 2025. Russian KIA in March (5771) are up 40% from last March (4113). Russian casualties remain very high. Russian morale remains very low. We will see significantly more Russians die in combat this year than last year, although the monthly totals will, barring dramatic upticks in Russian assaults, continue to drop until late June before climbing up again throughout late summer, autumn, and peaking again next winter.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 60–70% SELF-SUSTAINED… let that sink in "Ukraine now probably covers 60 to 70 percent of its own defense needs. They've re-engineered the war around low-cost drones that are hard to track, hard to shoot down, operate at long distances, and continuously innovated to evade Russia's detection and countermeasures." - Kurt Volker 🇺🇸 This isn’t the Ukraine of 2022 anymore Hundreds of thousands of drones, some costing a few hundred dollars, taking out equipment worth MILLIONS, hitting deep, nonstop Russia brings mass, Ukraine brings brains, and that gap is getting wider When you can sustain most of your war effort AND keep innovating faster, that’s how you flip the balance

@LindseyGrahamSC @jmart The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild. Period

@LindseyGrahamSC Kick Trump out of office or you will be kicked by a dictstorship. USA DOWNFALL is now clear.

As I stated before, I prefer diplomacy if it leads to the right outcome regarding the Iranian terrorist regime. I appreciate the hard work of all involved in trying to find a diplomatic solution. At this early stage, I am extremely cautious regarding what is fact vs. fiction or misrepresentation. That’s why a congressional review process like the one the Senate followed to test the Obama Iranian deal is a sound way forward. Fair and challenging questions with a full opportunity to explain, and a healthy dose of sunlight is generally the right formula to understand any matter. Simply put, kick the tires.

Now it is time to focus on the real enemy. Greenland.

I wish Putin was as dumb and weak as Trump. The war in Ukraine would have been over in April 2022 with a full Russian capitulation.

Tonight, the United States threatened to erase a civilization. Ninety minutes before its own deadline, it blinked. The deal, announced by Tehran, not Washington, reads as follows: safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran’s Armed Forces. In China’s currency. On Iran’s terms. At Iran’s price. The US didn’t contest it. The US didn’t rebut it. The US went to bed and it handed operational control of the world’s most strategically critical waterway to the country it just spent 38 days bombing, settled the bill in yuan, and called it a victory. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

So here are Iran’s peace terms, published in the Wall Street Journal. Non-aggression guarantee. Control of the Strait. Uranium enrichment rights. All sanctions lifted. UN resolutions scrapped. IAEA resolutions scrapped. Compensation payments for war damage. US forces out of the region. And a ceasefire covering Israel and Hezbollah as a bonus. Iran entered this war with none of that. Iran is leaving with all of it. Meanwhile the United States got a two-week trial of a strait that was already open. Masterclass, they said. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

America’s Greatest Military Achievement Since Vietnam: Giving Iran Everything It Wanted Let’s be absolutely clear about what just happened, because the White House press team will spend the next several months making sure you aren’t. The United States of America, master of eleven aircraft carrier groups, and proud inventor of the phrase “shock and awe,” has just concluded a 38-day war against a country with a GDP roughly the size of Romania’s. And it lost. Not lost badly, mind you. Lost spectacularly. Lost in the specific way that only a very confident man can lose, which is by announcing victory so loudly and so early that everyone notices when it doesn’t arrive. Donald Trump told us this would be over in four to six weeks. He was right, in the same way that a man who says he’ll be home by seven is technically correct when he staggers in at half past three in the morning wearing someone else’s jacket. Ahead of schedule. Now, let’s look at what Iran walks away with. Before this little adventure, Iran had a nuclear program under significant international pressure, a regional influence that was widely contested, and a military establishment that was, shall we say, unfashionably equipped. Today? The pressure is gone, the program is intact, and the entire Middle East just watched the U.S. blink first. Iran didn’t just survive. Iran graduated. And America? America got the Strait of Hormuz reopened. The same strait that was open before Trump decided to have a war. Congratulations, gentlemen. You have successfully restored the situation to what it was before you destroyed it. This is the geopolitical equivalent of smashing your own television. What the world has now seen, with uncomfortable clarity, is an America that is surprisingly weak without its allies. Militarily, diplomatically, at the negotiating table. On every level that matters, the United States needed partners it didn’t have. And the reason it didn’t have them is sitting in the Oval Office, furious at the very countries that have kept American power relevant for eighty years. Rumours are already circulating that Trump is considering pulling the United States out of NATO entirely. If that happens, we will know the precise date when America’s tenure as a superpower officially began its closing chapter. It is worth remembering, as it always is when America charges enthusiastically toward a military conflict, that the last war the United States won entirely on its own was against itself. Every significant military victory since 1945 has come attached to allies, coalitions, and partners willing to share both the burden and the blame. Here, they had none. Turns out allies aren’t just decorative. The Strait is open. Iran is stronger. America is exactly where it started, minus the credibility. Ahead of schedule. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

No regime change. Iran gains leverage over the Strait of Hormuz it didn’t previously have. Talk of charging for passage through one of the world’s most critical waterways. Sanctions relief creeping back in. And we’re calling this “world peace”? Get him out of office, get them all out!

A Casa Branca diz que a operação dos EUA no Irão era para durar 4 a 6 semanas e que durou só 38 dias. Eu traduzo: achavam que iam ganhar a guerra em 6 semanas e perderam-na em apenas 38 dias. Art of the deal.

@AKDay89 Only Trump can start a war with overwhelming superiority and end up surrendering the strait of Hormuz. He must be taking lessons from Putin. #TrumpEpsteinWar

@AKDay89 Ya’ll are a bunch of fucking dumb asses. We are out $100+ trillion, we owe Iran Billion$, Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is going to keep their missile program, and Iran will get to keep enriching uranium. This was a colossal cluster fuck