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PRESIDENT TRUMP on the UAE pulling out of OPEC: Ultimately it's a good thing for getting the price of gas and oil down. pic.twitter.com/jhE2IDtl2R
— Department of State (@StateDept) April 29, 2026
The enemy has entered a new phase and wants to activate economic pressure and internal division through naval blockade and media hype to weaken or even make us collapse from within Iran parliament speaker
You call it a quagmire, handing propaganda to our enemies? Shame on you for that statement US Defence Secretary
.@SecWar on Iran: "The biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless, and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans... two months in on an existential fight for the safety of the American people. Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb. We are⦠pic.twitter.com/lgXGlZ2r2H
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 29, 2026
.@SecWar: Obama's Iran deal "allowed them to fund their proxies, and spread Hamas and Hezbollah all around the region, build up nuclear capabilities."
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 29, 2026
"@POTUS has been clear-eyed... you have to stare down this kind of enemy, who's hellbent on getting a nuclear weapon..." pic.twitter.com/mlzL7unqdI
It took decades to build stable societies, to develop local economies, and it took only several weeks of war to destroy that The head of the UN Development Programme
The sorrow of the students of Minab school is a great sorrow, and certainly we must keep alive the memory of the martyred students of Minab and the crime of the Zionist regime and America in sports arenas Iran’s World Cup Cultural Committee chairman Hojjatoleslam Hassan Khani
If Opec countries conduct their policies in an uncoordinated manner [after UAE exit] and produce as much oil as their production capacities allow and as much as they want, prices will go down accordingly. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov
Our country has, to date, made representations to Iran on every possible occasion, from the standpoint that it is important to ensure the early restoration of free and safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz for vessels of all countries, including Japan. Japan PM Sanae Takaichi
Kharg Island, Iran’s primary oil export terminal, is soon nearing storage capacity, which will force the regime to reduce oil production, resulting in an additional approximately $170 million per day in lost revenue, and causing permanent damage to Iran’s oil infrastructure. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
These actions have disrupted tens of billions of dollars in revenue that would be used to fund terrorism. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
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