Donald Trump is now pushing to eliminate Iran's nuclear stockpile in ongoing negotiations, a stockpile that grew substantially after his own 2018 decision to pull the US out of the Iran nuclear deal. The original agreement, signed under Barack Obama in 2015, capped Iran's uranium enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief. Trump called it the worst deal ever and withdrew, triggering what officials describe as an enrichment spree by Tehran. Iran has since built up far larger reserves of enriched uranium than it held when the deal was in place, making any new agreement harder to reach and verify. The core tension in current talks is that Trump wants a more complete dismantlement of Iran's nuclear capacity, but Iran is negotiating from a position of significantly greater enrichment than it had in 2018. How far Iran will agree to roll back that stockpile, and under what verification terms, is the central unresolved question in the diplomacy.
Iranian armed forces attacked a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, briefly halting traffic through the waterway. The strike threatens a fragile US-Iran arrangement and could push shipping insurance costs and oil prices higher.
The US has struck Iran, with President Trump citing an Iranian attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz as justification. The action raises immediate risks for global oil flows through one of the world's most critical shipping chokepoints.
The US struck ten Iranian targets on the second consecutive day of military action, putting a fragile ceasefire under serious pressure. The escalation raises immediate risks for Gulf shipping, global oil supply, and regional stability.
Venezuela's twin earthquakes, magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, have killed at least 164 people and injured 971, interim president Delcy Rodriguez confirmed Thursday. The quakes are the country's strongest since 1900, collapsing buildings across Caracas and prompting a state of emergency, with the death toll expected to rise as
