Trump accuses Iran of 'foolish violation' of ceasefire in Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump accused the Iranian regime on Friday of a “foolish violation” of the ceasefire. The president said Iran's military fired at least four one-way attack drones at ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.

Covered by: Robert McGreevy, Greg Norman-Diamond, Benjamin Weinthal and Jasmine Baehr / FOX News

 

WHAT TO KNOW

• An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) drone struck a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, two U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News.

• The International Maritime Organization said it is temporarily pausing its vessel evacuation operation in the region following the attack.

• Officials from Israel and Lebanon are set to begin the fourth day of peace negotiations in Washington, D.C. on Friday.

• President Donald Trump said Thursday that unfrozen Iranian assets would be used to buy American crops for the Iranian people.

• Iranian officials pushed back on Trump's crop claim, with Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf writing in a post on X "The only crop we're harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust. It's organic, abundant, and homegrown." 

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Trump Asks Congressional Republicans to 'Unify' As 'Save America Act' Fight Intensifies

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President Donald Trump wants to get the House back in motion, as some Republicans wanted to pause action in the lower chamber in protest of the SAVE America Act not getting passed in the Senate. 

While the act is considered an extremely high legislative priority of the president, he expressed the need for a cohesive Republican Party following a meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday afternoon. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and other lawmakers had intended not to vote on any rules to keep the House from voting on any legislation. 

“House Republicans should unify, and stop voting down ‘Rules’ or, threatening to do so,” he posted to Truth Social. 

“Giving power to the Radical Left Dumocrats in the House to control what goes up for a Vote will make our outcomes worse, not better. No more grandstanding, please! They are the Dumocrats, and we can’t let them WIN! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” he added. Read more, and see Xs here.

Iranian dissidents warn Trump of handing regime a ‘victory it could never win on the battlefield’ in peace talks

Jonathan Harounoff / NEW YORK POST

Iranian dissidents are warning the Trump administration to stay tough and be wary of the Islamic Republic’s deception as it tries to end the war there.

Last week’s 14-point memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the US and Iran ended fighting and set the stage for 60 days of broader talks aimed at dismantling the regime’s nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

But members of the disapora say the US risks emboldening a regime that has repeatedly violated past commitments and has a long track record of repression and regional destabilization.

“This agreement hands Iran a victory it could never win on the battlefield, just as Hamas and Hezbollah have repeatedly used ceasefires, not as peace, but as leverage to attack again,” said Pedram Bral, Iranian-born Republican Mayor of Great Neck. 

The fragile peace was tested Thursday as Iran attacked a Singaporean cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, which it has largely closed since the war, and threatened further action against “violators” who didn’t obey its routes.

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Trump gets into shouting match with Sen. Bill Cassidy over Iran war in closed-door meeting

Josh Christenson, Ryan King and Ally Goelz / NEW YORK POST

WASHINGTON — President Trump and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) got into a shouting match during a lunch meeting Wednesday over the US war with Iran, according to sources and lawmakers who were in attendance.

GOP senators described Trump as being “mad as a murder hornet” and raising his voice at the Louisiana Republican for joining three other Republicans in a vote limiting his wartime authority.

Cassidy — who later quipped that the talks went “swimmingly” — called the president “my brother” several times during the heated exchange to lower tensions, Senate GOP sources said. The president spat back that Cassidy wasn’t his brother and told him to sit down, per CNN.

“[Trump] did not particularly care for my comments, raised his voice, I lost my temper,” Cassidy later recounted to reporters. “It’s the Irish in me.” 

“But again I matched his tone and his volume, and it went back and forth,” he further explained. “So I sat down and tried to de-escalate. I guess my point is, though, that the American people need to know more than we are being told. The Senate needs to know.” Read more, and see photos here.

Israel furious with Trump for being left out of the US-Iran peace talks: ‘It’s a huge mess’

Ronny Reyes and Caitlin Doornbos / New York Post

Many on Israel’s right are fuming at President Trump about the Jewish state’s exclusion from the US-Iran peace talks and the fate of the war against Hezbollah.

Shima Shine, an ex-Mossad official and INSS senior researcher, told The Post it was a mistake to keep Israel at arms-length from the negotiating table, especially when the deal hinges on its current fight with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

“What did America think about that? How did they think that they can — at the same time — talk with Iran about Lebanon and force Israel to stop, and then bring the Israelis and the Lebanese to negotiate two sides when they are not in any way part of the negotiations with Iran,” Shine said.

“I really think it’s a huge mess,” she added.

After details of the memorandum of understanding were published last week, the Israel Hayom newspaper — owned by Miriam Adelson, one of Trump’s biggest, pro-Israel backers — published a scathing opinion piece accusing him of betraying the Jewish state.