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15:08
Trump: Iran Killing Protesters ‘Even When They Are Not Protesting’
US President Donald Trump stated Iran’s “failing” regime is killing protesters “even when they are not protesting” at an unprecedented fee.
In a put up on Truth Social on August 25, Trump wrote: “The failing Islamic Republic of Iran is not paying large segments of their military, while at the same time killing protesters, even when they are not protesting, at levels not seen before. It is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions, and must be stopped, NOW.”
Trump didn’t present additional particulars or proof for his declare. It was unclear whether or not he was referring to individuals killed throughout the mass crackdown on protests earlier this yr or to new, unreported killings.
The protests started on December 28, 2025, and continued into January, prompting a lethal crackdown by Iranian safety forces.
Iran has since executed protesters and others arrested in reference to the rebellion. The UN human rights chief stated earlier this month that Iran had executed at the least 56 individuals on national-security costs since March 19, together with 27 individuals linked to the anti-government protests.
In whole, Iran has executed 494 individuals this yr, based on the most recent information.
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15:04
Qatar Calls US Sanctions Against Iran ‘Unilateral’
The Qatari authorities considers the brand new US sanctions in opposition to Iran “unilateral,” however Doha helps continued mediation efforts to resolve the dispute between the US and Iran, stated a spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry on August 25.
Despite being the goal of missiles by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in latest months, Qatar, together with Pakistan and Turkey, has tried to convey Tehran and Washington nearer collectively by mediation.
“Across the globe, our goal is to cut off all the economic arteries that sustain this tyrannical regime until Tehran is completely alone,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated at a press convention on September 2, concerning the new strain marketing campaign in opposition to Iran.
Alongside the renewed financial strain, efforts at mediation proceed. On September 24 , the Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir traveled to Tehran, and on September 25 Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi arrived within the Iranian capital to satisfy with officers.
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14:52
USS Abraham Lincoln To Dock In Thailand After Long Iran War Deployment
The USS Abraham Lincoln (file photograph)
The US plane provider USS Abraham Lincoln, which left the Middle East on August 22 after a chronic deployment supporting US navy operations in opposition to Iran, is scheduled to dock in Thailand subsequent week for crew relaxation and recreation, a Thai official stated.
The ship, carrying roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines, has gone greater than 200 days with no port name, setting a modern-day report for consecutive days at sea. The provider has been deployed for 274 days since leaving its house port of San Diego in November.
Reports in latest weeks have cited meals and water shortages, plumbing issues, disrupted mail, and deteriorating morale among the many crew. Families of sailors have additionally raised considerations about psychological well being. The Pentagon has disputed studies that circumstances aboard the ship have considerably deteriorated.
Democratic lawmakers have demanded solutions from the Pentagon over the extended deployment and circumstances aboard the provider. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, despatched Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth a listing of questions concerning the deployment and its impression on the crew.
US President Donald Trump has downplayed considerations concerning the sailors, saying the ship was “beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of,” whereas Hegseth stated studies of deteriorating circumstances had “completely misrepresented” the scenario.
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14:48
US Suspends Sports Exchanges License for Iran
Jayson Tatum of the United States and Mike Rostampour of Iran compete throughout the males’s basketball group-stage sport on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Saitama, Japan, in July 2021.
The US Treasury Department has indefinitely suspended a common authorization for skilled and newbie sports activities actions and exchanges between the United States and Iran, efficient August 24.
General License F beforehand licensed sure companies supporting sports activities actions and exchanges between the 2 international locations, together with sports activities matches and occasions, sponsorship of gamers, teaching, refereeing, and coaching. The suspension means actions that aren’t in any other case licensed would require a selected license from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
OFAC additionally indefinitely suspended General License G, which coated sure tutorial exchanges and academic companies, in addition to separate authorizations protecting sure instructional actions in third international locations, noncommercial private remittances to or from Iran, and companies associated to conferences.
The suspensions are a part of the Trump administration’s broader marketing campaign to extend financial strain on Iran. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has warned that Washington intends to chop off Iran’s financial lifelines.
OFAC issued a separate common license permitting transactions ordinarily incident and essential to wind down actions that had beforehand been licensed underneath the suspended provisions by September 8.
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14:37
US Secret Service Says Aware of Iran Video ‘Appearing to Threaten’ Trump’s Son
The US Secret Service stated on August 24 that it was conscious of a video aired by Iran’s state broadcaster that seems to threaten Barron Trump, the youngest son of President Donald Trump.
The video, which was aired on Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, purported to point out details about Barron Trump’s whereabouts and actions in New York City, together with his college, escort automobiles, and the positions of Secret Service personnel. It additionally claimed that his actions have been “fully monitored.” The claims within the video couldn’t be independently verified.
Barron Trump
A Secret Service spokesperson instructed CNN that the company “investigates anything that can be perceived as a threat” towards its protectees, however declined to debate protecting intelligence for operational-security causes.
CNN reported that Iranian hard-line media have repeatedly featured content material threatening Trump and members of his household because the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several other members of his household on the outset of the US-Israeli struggle with Iran in February.
In late July, Tasnim, an Iranian news company affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, revealed a video discussing alleged vulnerabilities within the safety of first girl Melania Trump and suggesting methods she may very well be attacked. The video additionally included a risk directed at Barron Trump.
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14:31
China Says New US Sanctions Won’t Disrupt Business With Iran
In response to the most recent US sanctions in opposition to Iran, China’s Foreign Ministry stated on August 25 that cooperation between Beijing and Tehran is performed throughout the framework of worldwide legislation and shouldn’t be interfered with or disrupted.
Ministry spokesman Lin Jian stated China was intently following developments and would take “all necessary measures” to firmly safeguard its rights and pursuits.
He reiterated China’s opposition to what it calls unlawful unilateral US sanctions, saying financial warfare and most strain “will only further fuel conflicts.”
The United States on August 24 imposed sanctions on practically 60 people, entities, and vessels linked to Iran, as a part of a marketing campaign Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated was geared toward chopping off the Islamic republic’s financial lifelines.
“Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone,” Bessent stated at a press convention on August 24.
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11:10
Washington’s $10 Million Wanted List Has A Dead Man On It
The US State Departments Reward for Justice program is providing as much as $10 million for info on 5 senior Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders it says are chargeable for assaults on US personnel and infrastructure.
But at the least one of many males pictured in its newest enchantment has been useless for months.
The program posted the enchantment on X on August 24, describing the 5 as IRGC leaders who command models concerned in assaults in opposition to US personnel and malicious cyber operations.
Among them is Majid Khademi, the previous head of the IRGCs infamous Intelligence Organization. Khademi was killed in an Israeli air strike in Tehran on April 6, throughout the US-Israeli struggle in opposition to Iran. His demise was confirmed by each the IRGC and Israel.
Another man pictured, Saeed Aqajani, the IRGC Aerospace Forces drone commander, was additionally reported killed in an Israeli strike in northern Iran on March 2,1 although Iran has not confirmed his demise.
The different names on the checklist embrace Ahmad Vahidi, who now instructions the IRGC, Ali Abdollahi, who was not too long ago promoted to chief of employees of Irans armed forces, and Hamidreza Lashgarian, who leads the IRGC’s cyber digital command.
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10:07
Oil Tanker Disabled By Projectile Off Coast Of Oman, Says Shipping Monitor
An oil tanker was struck and disabled by an unknown projectile within the Strait of Hormuz off Oman early on August 25, a British delivery safety monitor stated, within the newest incident to hit delivery within the strategic waterway.
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) stated the projectile broken the vessels engine room, leaving it disabled, however that its crew was protected. The incident occurred 9 nautical miles (16.7 kilometers) northeast of Ash Shishah, Oman. UKMTO didn’t determine the tanker or what flag it was crusing underneath.
Tehran has largely restricted passage by the strait because the United States and Israel struck Iran in late February, attacking vessels it accuses of circumventing its most popular delivery route.
The assault comes amid persistent threats to delivery throughout the six-month battle.
The International Maritime Organization hasconfirmed 68 incidentsin the Persian Gulf and close by waters — a median of 1 each 2.6 days — with at the least 20 seafarers or port staff killed, 35 wounded, and one lacking.
Around half the incidents concerned tankers. The fee slowed throughout peace talks however has risen since their collapse to at least one incident each 2.8 days.
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06:35
US Not Ruling Out Military Force Against Iran, Hegseth Says
(file photograph) US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks throughout a cupboard assembly on July 31.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the United States was not ruling out using navy pressure in opposition to Iran, as Washington imposed new sanctions on practically 60 entities, people, and vessels as a part of a significant effort to economically strain Tehran.
By no means are we foreclosing utilizing kinetic strikes wherever within the Strait of Hormuz or round Iran, Hegseth instructed reporters on August 24, including that Iran wouldn’t be capable to stand up to the financial strain being positioned on it.
Earlier this month, Hegseth stated that US forces may preserve the naval blockade of Iran indefinitely, including that Washington may rotate its navy ships out and in of the area as wanted.
Hegseths newest feedback got here because the US Treasury Department introduced the launch of an financial D-Day in opposition to Iran and warned that international locations persevering with to assist Tehran risked turning into a worldwide pariah.
Washington says the marketing campaign is meant to sever the financial lifelines that maintain the Iranian authorities and additional isolate Tehran internationally.
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19:24
24.8.2026
Bessent Says US Launching ‘Economic Onslaught’ On Iran, Demands Countries Cut Trade Ties With Tehran
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters in Washington on August 24.
WASHINGTON — US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent introduced a brand new effort to ramp up the strain on Tehran, saying the United States is “launching an economic onslaught against Irans financial connections around the globe.”
“Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone,” Bessent instructed a news convention in Washington on August 24, days after he and President Donald Trump warned of an “economic D-Day.”
The announcement got here practically six months after the beginning of the US-Israeli struggle with Iran, which has choked off power provides from the Persian Gulf by way of the Strait of Hormuz.
The US is “ending” the risk from Iran, Bessent stated, warning third international locations that the United States will “be uncompromising in targeting any source of the [Iranian] regime’s illicit revenue.”
Bessent stated that Trump was making cellphone calls to world leaders with particular requests, and that ever nation could be given an outlined timeline to “shut down…Iran-related activity we have identified.”
Any nation supporting Iran should be ready to face US Sanctions, he added.
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