Tehran aims now not only to remove Trump's threat that the Iranian 'civilization will die' and to settle passage in the strait, but also to draw out a new map of regional control in a security agreement under which it preserves the status of a regional power
Tehran aims now not only to remove Trump's threat that the Iranian 'civilization will die' and to settle passage in the strait, but also to draw out a new map of regional control in a security agreement under which it preserves the status of a regional power
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06:00 AM • April 09 2026 IDT
Iran's Supreme National Security Council was quick on Wednesday to release a statement of "total victory" after over five weeks of war. It said that "the enemy, in its cowardly, illegal and criminal war against the Iranian nation, has suffered an undeniable, historical and crushing defeat."
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