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Trump confirms new US strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island

The US president also claims ‘a lot of progress’ in Washington’s negotiations with Tehran.

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Trump confirms new US strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island

Trump blamed the election results on the Iran war.Since Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump has shifted between threatening Iran and suggesting that a resolution to the war is near. On Thursday, Trump said the US may have to “destroy” the rest of Iran, adding that people will “know soon enough” if he acts.Unnamed Pentagon officials and military commanders told The New York Times on Wednesday that thousands of US air and naval forces on more than a dozen ships and at bases around the Middle East and in the US are poised to resume major combat operations against Iran on Trump’s orders.Tehran has stepped up diplomatic efforts amid suggestions from Trump that the US could resume full-scale strikes on Iran.