• Presiden Trump memberitahu Kongres bahwa permusuhan dengan Iran telah berakhir, menandai pergeseran signifikan dalam konflik yang sedang berlangsung.
• Pemerintah menyatakan bahwa mereka "tidak puas" dengan proposal awal Iran untuk mengakhiri perang, namun negosiasi tampaknya terus berlanjut melalui saluran diplomatik.
• Trump menganggap kritik berkelanjutan terhadap upaya perang AS sebagai tindakan "pengkhianatan," yang menandakan sikap keras terhadap pesan keamanan nasional.
Di sebuah rapat umum di Florida, Presiden US menyampaikan kepada kerumunan yang bersorak ‘kami mengambil alih kapal tersebut’
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Donald Trump mengatakan bahwa US Navy bertindak “seperti bajak laut” saat ia menjelaskan operasi penyitaan sebuah kapal di tengah blokade American yang bersifat aksi balasan terhadap pelabuhan-pelabuhan Iran.
“Kami … mendarat di atasnya dan kami mengambil alih kapal tersebut. Kami mengambil alih kargo, mengambil alih minyaknya. Ini adalah bisnis yang sangat menguntungkan,” kata Trump di sebuah rapat umum di Florida pada hari Jumat.
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• Menteri pertahanan Jerman menanggapi pengumuman presiden AS bahwa 5.000 tentara AS akan meninggalkan pangkalan di Jerman
• Halo dan selamat datang di liputan langsung kami mengenai peristiwa di Timur Tengah.
• Menteri pertahanan Jerman, Boris Pistorius, mengatakan bahwa penarikan pasukan AS dari Eropa sudah "dapat diperkirakan", setelah Pentagon mengumumkan akan menarik ribuan tentara Amerika dari Jerman.
Presiden tampaknya menyiratkan bahwa tenggat waktu legislatif untuk menyetujui perang tidak lagi berlaku seiring perlawanan dari Democrats
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Donald Trump mengatakan dalam surat yang dikirimkan kepada para pemimpin Congress pada hari Jumat bahwa permusuhan dengan Iran telah “terminated”, menyiratkan bahwa tenggat waktu 60 hari untuk meminta persetujuan dari cabang legislatif tidak lagi berlaku.
Hari Jumat menandai 60 hari sejak presiden US memberi tahu anggota Congress bahwa US dan Israel meluncurkan serangan terhadap Iran pada 28 Februari.
Di bawah War Powers Act of 1973, presiden dapat mengerahkan pasukan untuk menanggapi “imminent threat” namun harus menerima persetujuan Congress dalam waktu 60 hari untuk melanjutkan operasi militer.
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• Scott Jennings ditanyai oleh Adam Mockler mengenai konsesi politik yang diperoleh US dalam perangnya dengan Iran
• Scott Jennings, komentator pro-Trump paling menonjol di CNN, terpancing mengeluarkan umpatan kasar kepada sesama panelis di siaran langsung televisi pada Kamis malam setelah berulang kali didesak untuk menyebutkan satu saja konsesi politik yang diperoleh US dari perangnya dengan Iran – dan ia gagal memberikan jawaban.
• Ledakan amarah tersebut terjadi dalam NewsNight With Abby Phillip, di mana Jennings berselisih dengan Adam Mockler, komentator berusia 23 tahun dari MeidasTouch yang progresif.
• Presiden US telah mengkritik Kanselir Germany, Friedrich Merz, dan mengangkat prospek penarikan pasukan US dari Italy dan Spain.
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• Selamat pagi. Donald Trump telah mengancam akan menarik pasukan US dari Italy dan Spain sehari setelah ia mengatakan sedang mempertimbangkan untuk membatasi jumlah personel yang dikerahkan di Germany.
• Pete Hegseth berargumen bahwa perjanjian gencatan senjata dengan Iran lebih dari tiga minggu lalu ‘berarti jam 60 hari dijeda, atau berhenti’
• Berlangganan email Breaking News US untuk mendapatkan peringatan buletin di kotak masuk Anda
• Halo dan selamat datang di liputan langsung kami hari ini.
• Pemerintahan Trump telah mengumumkan 'Operation Economic Fury,' menerapkan blokade komprehensif terhadap Iran sebagai bagian dari kampanye sanksi yang diperluas.
• Inisiatif ini mewakili eskalasi signifikan dalam tekanan ekonomi terhadap Iran, yang menandai pergeseran kebijakan luar negeri AS menuju tindakan yang lebih agresif.
• Tindakan ini terjadi di tengah ketegangan geopolitik yang lebih luas di Timur Tengah dan menyusul ketegangan diplomatik selama berbulan-bulan antara AS dan Iran.
Pemungutan suara dilakukan saat tenggat 60 hari mendekat, dengan dua GOP mendukung pembatasan dan perselisihan mengenai apakah gencatan senjata menjeda waktu
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Senate yang dipimpin Republican pada hari Kamis kembali memblokir upaya Democrat untuk menghentikan perang Donald Trump di Iran, menolak war powers resolution yang akan membatasi konflik sampai Congress memberikan otorisasi tindakan militer lebih lanjut.
Hasil pemungutan suara menunjukkan 47-50, dengan dua Republicans – Susan Collins, senator Maine, dan Rand Paul, dari Kentucky – memberikan suara setuju dan satu Democrat – John Fetterman, dari Pennsylvania – menentangnya.
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Pernyataan presiden AS menyusul komentar kanselir Jerman bahwa AS sedang ‘dipermalukan’ dalam konflik. Presiden AS Donald Trump mengancam akan mengurangi jumlah pasukan yang ditempatkan di Jerman tadi malam, setelah Kanselir Friedrich Merz mengatakan pekan ini bahwa AS sedang “dipermalukan” oleh Iran. Trump mengatakan bahwa AS sedang “mempelajari dan meninjau kemungkinan pengurangan pasukan di Jerman, dengan keputusan yang akan dibuat dalam periode waktu singkat mendatang.” “Kanselir Jerman, Friedrich Merz, menganggap tidak apa-apa jika Iran memiliki Senjata Nuklir. Dia tidak tahu apa yang dia bicarakan! Jika Iran memiliki Senjata Nuklir, seluruh Dunia akan disandera. Saya sedang melakukan sesuatu terhadap Iran, saat ini juga, yang seharusnya dilakukan oleh Bangsa-Bangsa, atau Presiden lain, sejak lama. Tidak heran Jerman berkinerja sangat buruk, baik secara Ekonomi maupun hal lainnya! Presiden DONALD J. TRUMP” Lanjutkan membaca...
• Pasar minyak terguncang karena Donald Trump tampak bersedia mempertahankan blokade US Navy dan Iran membuat strait of Hormuz nyaris tertutup sepenuhnya
• Harga Brent oil melonjak di atas $126 per barel pada hari Rabu, level tertingginya sejak 2022, setelah Donald Trump memperingatkan blokade terhadap pelabuhan Iran bisa berlangsung berbulan-bulan dan pembicaraan damai tetap menemui jalan buntu
• Melonjak lebih dari 13% dalam 24 jam, Brent crude mencapai rekor harga sejak perang dimulai pada 28 Februari
• Harga gas telah melonjak di atas $4 per galon dan harga penerbangan meroket karena blokade Selat Hormuz berdampak pada pasar energi di tengah perang AS-Israel dengan Iran, mengikis keunggulan politik utama Trump.
• Lebih dari tiga perempat pemilih terdaftar—termasuk lebih dari separuh Republik dan 82% independen—kini menyalahkan Trump atas krisis biaya hidup yang memengaruhi bahan bakar, bahan makanan, perumahan, dan layanan kesehatan.
• Rating persetujuan masa jabatan kedua Trump telah turun jauh lebih cepat dibandingkan presiden sebelumnya setelah penghentian operasi pemerintah (government shutdown), tarif, dan serangan gabungan AS-Israel terhadap Iran, dengan Ketua Federal Reserve Jerome Powell memperingatkan bahwa perang tersebut memicu inflasi.
U.S. President Donald Trump is unhappy with the latest Iranian proposal on resolving the two-month war, a U.S. official said, dampening hopes for a resolution to the conflict that has disrupted energy supplies, fuelled inflation, and killed thousands.
Iran's foreign minister arrived in Russia on Monday, after a whirlwind weekend of diplomacy, seeking to gain political leverage and foreign backing as peace talks with the U.S. remain on hold.(Image credit: Dmitry Lovetsky)
US president says there’s ‘no reason to meet’ Tehran unless they agree never to have nuclear weaponsWelcome to our live coverage of events in the Middle East.Donald Trump has said Iran can telephone if it wants to negotiate an end to the war and that it must agree never to have a nuclear weapon, while Pakistan’s leaders have sought to revive the stalled peace talks between Washington and Tehran.Iran gave the US a new proposal on reopening the strait and ending the war, with nuclear negotiations postponed for a later stage, according to the news site Axios. The US state department and White House did not immediately comment on the Sunday report, which cited an unnamed US official and two sources.Araghchi’s talks with Pakistani officials on Sunday had included “implementing a new legal regime over the strait of Hormuz, receiving compensation, guaranteeing no renewed military aggression by warmongers and lifting the naval blockade”, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency. In the talks with Omani leader Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, Araghchi called for a regional security framework free of outside interference.Araghchi would meet with Putin “in continuation of the diplomatic jihad to advance the country’s interests and amid external threats”, Iran’s envoy in Russia, Kazem Jalali, said on X.Two US air force C-17s carrying security staff, equipment and vehicles used to protect US officials flew out of Pakistan after the latest diplomatic trip was called off, two Pakistani government sources told Reuters on Sunday. Continue reading...
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were to travel to Islamabad to attempt to revive ceasefire negotiationsDonald Trump said he has told US envoys not to go to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, shortly after Tehran’s top diplomat left Islamabad late on Saturday.Trump added to Fox News: “They can call us anytime they want.” The White House on Friday said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would travel to Pakistan’s capital to attempt to revive ceasefire negotiations. Continue reading...
Lack of a sustained plan to end the war has convinced US allies that the White House is running out of ideasNearly eight weeks after Donald Trump launched his assault on Iran, the White House has shifted from a strategy of shock-and-awe bombardments and leadership decapitation to a plan of sustained economic pressure as it tests the wills of a regime practiced over decades at wars of attrition.Since the negotiations stalled, the White House has begun to shift its messaging to say it is willing to wait to strike a more durable deal with Iran – despite the growing economic toll inflicted on the world economy by the closure of the strait of Hormuz. The reason, senior officials have said, is because of the joint US-Israeli strikes were so successful that they have fractured Iran’s leadership and prevented a new consolidation of power. Continue reading...
Tensions around US negotiations may reflect mistake of assassinating more pragmatic and experienced figuresMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has claimed that the infighting between moderates and hardliners in Iran’s leadership is so intense that the country has “no idea who their leader is”, but many Iranian experts questioned his analysis, saying that – given the mass assassinations of senior commanders – the country has shown remarkable institutional cohesion.Trump’s allegations of “CRAZY” splits in the Iranian leadership – the second outing for this argument in three days – is remarkable since he has previously said either he has little knowledge of the new Iranian leadership or that there has already been regime change. Continue reading...
US president says Tehran hobbled by infighting as Pentagon reportedly briefs mine clearance may take six monthsMiddle East crisis – live updatesDonald Trump has again said that the US has “total control over the strait of Hormuz,” adding that Iran’s leadership was so hobbled by infighting that it was unclear who was in charge.But the US president’s claim seemed questionable in the face of the seizure of two container ships by Iranian commandos and a US report warning it could take six months to clear the strait of mines. Continue reading...
US special envoy Zampolli hopes for Italy involvementDoubts remain over Iran’s participationAn envoy to the US President Donald Trump has asked Fifa to replace Iran with Italy in the upcoming World Cup, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.The plan is an effort to repair ties between Trump and Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni after the two fell out amid the American president’s attacks against Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war, the FT reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Continue reading...
U-turn comes after Trump said the US military was ‘raring to go’. Plus, Virginia voters pass new congressional maps in blow to presidentDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Donald Trump unilaterally announced an extension of the two-week ceasefire with Iran on Tuesday amid frantic efforts to bring the two sides back to the negotiating table.How are Trump’s negotiating tactics being received? The president’s impatience and rough-house diplomatic style, including his frequent online posting, has been a key stumbling block to restarting peace talks, writes the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour.Is Tehran united on how to deal with Washington? Analysts say it is not, with fierce disagreement among Iranian leaders over how to respond to US pressure and whether to risk a new wave of bombing.Follow the latest updates with our liveblog.How much of a boost for the Democrats is Virginia’s referendum result? It could help them win four additional House seats in November’s midterms, which could prove pivotal in an evenly divided Congress. Continue reading...
US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says Iran’s Kharg Island storage facilities will be full and their ‘fragile’ oil wells shut in mere days because of the blockade; oil prices rise amid ongoing uncertaintyTrump announces extension of Iran ceasefire until ‘discussion concluded’Shares have been mixed in early trading across Asia, while oil prices have eased on hopes the US and Iran may resume talks to end their war.The price of Brent crude edged 0.2% lower but was still above $98 a barrel. US benchmark crude fell 0.4% to $89.29 a barrel. Continue reading...
US president’s hubristic and contradictory social media statements are key stumbling block to ending the warDonald Trump’s blend of threats and hubristic commentary, often casually dismissive of Iran, has, as much as the continuation of the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, been the key stumbling block to restarting peace talks between the two countries under Pakistan’s mediation in Islamabad.However much the Iranian foreign ministry insists it would not respond to every social media utterance issued by the US president on Iran, and sometimes there are as many as seven a day, Tehran cannot ignore them all, even if they contradict what the Iranians are being told in private about Trump’s true intentions. Continue reading...
The US has deployed more forces since the truce and senior Iranians seem to be relishing the prospect of the fightIt is the doomsday scenario that Donald Trump repeatedly swore he would never countenance: putting boots on the ground in a deployment that could embroil the US in a Middle East “forever war”.Now, with a two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran coming to an end and prospects for renewed negotiations hanging by a thread, the chances of the president breaking that pledge and ordering some kind of ground incursion seem to be rising. Continue reading...
The US president rejects extending truce as Tehran warns of response and negotiators head to IslamabadSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxDonald Trump said on Tuesday that he expects to resume bombing Iran, as a fragile 14-day ceasefire approaches its deadline Wednesday with no deal in sight.“I expect to be bombing because I think that’s a better attitude to go in with,” Trump told CNBC’s Squawk Box. “We’re ready to go. The military is raring to go.” Continue reading...