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Interesting response to my Lebanon post. One takeaway: Lebanon really is enslaved to Iranian imperialism — the imperialism that forced Hezbollah into this new round of war.

🇺🇸 VP JD Vance: "We are not going to have a deal that allows the Iranians to have a nuclear weapon — so as President Trump just told me, we're locked and loaded. We don't want to go down that pathway, but the President is willing and able to go down that pathway if we have to."

US officials say Trump never actually decided to strike Iran, despite claiming he was “an hour away” from the order. Sources say he is using the threat to pressure Iran in negotiations - Axios

Iran has submitted a new proposal to the United States to end the war. The terms include five demands: U.S. troops leaving areas close to Iran, the U.S. paying war reparations, lifting sanctions on Iran, releasing Iran's frozen assets, and ending the U.S. blockade. - Reuters

BREAKING: The Pentagon reveals Trump paused the strikes on Iran not for negotiations as he claimed, but because Iran is becoming rapidly more effective at tracking US air operations, improving its air defenses and becoming too strong at detecting signs of a surprise attack, per NYT. Iran has used the ceasefire to successfully dig out all bombed ballistic missile sites, making them fully operational again. Iran also moved a large number of new mobile launchers across the entire country and adjusted tactics for any resumption of strikes, per a US military official. Iranian commanders studied US fighter jet and bomber flight patterns with close Russian and Chinese help. The recent downing of an F-15E and groundfire striking an F-35 revealed American flight tactics had become "too predictable."

🇺🇸 Vance offered to cover Karoline Leavitt's press briefing in exchange for one thing: "When Usha has our baby in July, that she would be Vice President for a couple of weeks." Change of job position: VP Leavitt and Press Sec. Vance 😂