President Trump said in a new interview he is “low-keying it” when it comes to the war with Iran as it nears its sixth month “We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money,” Trump told Axios on Sunday. #trump #iran #whitehouse
State of the Union: Iran’s Foreign Ministry appeared to confirm that Iran will eventually charge fees for transit through the Strait of Hormuz. The post Iran War Day 164: Iran Replaces Secretary of Supreme National Security Council appeared first on The American Conservative .
President Donald Trump told Axios on Sunday that the U.S. is “low-keying it” with Iran, adding that “we are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.” The Islamic Republic on Sunday named former IRGC commander-in-chief Mohsen Rezaee as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council. The Financial Times raised doubts that the move would change much of Iran’s current posture, noting that he and his predecessor Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr are both “hardliners and have previously commanded the guards.” Zolghadr, in one of his final acts as secretary of the Council, published a list of conditions Saturday for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Washington would…Open
An Afghan man who posed as a 14-year-old boy on Snapchat to groom and rape a 13-year-old girl in Nottingham, England, has been jailed.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Abdul Khan, an Afghan asylum seeker believed to be 28, was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison at Nottingham Crown Court after being convicted of grooming and twice raping a 13-year-old girl. He will theoretically be subject to automatic deportation to Afghanistan after serving two-thirds of his term, but the British government does not currently return Afghans to their homeland, even if they are subject to deportation orders. DETAIL: Khan arrived in Britain hidden in the back of a truck in 2015 and claimed a false date of birth in his asylum application. Using the name “Abs” on Snapchat, he pretended to be a 14-year-old boy and exchanged sexual messages with the victim. He arranged to meet her…Open