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10/23Government of the United States: At a rally in Florida, President Trump said the US military "may do another Epic Fury", referring to the opening US-Israeli bombing campaign; on 25 October he told Fox News: "Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal?"

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10/13Government of the United States: President Trump wrote that the Houthis had re-emerged "probably at the behest of Iran", were hitting Saudi Arabia to drive up oil prices before the US elections, and repeated that the US could step up military action after the elections.

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10/08Government of the United States: President Trump wrote on Truth Social that the US "will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the midterm elections" on 3 November, that talks with Iran were "productive" and that the blockade would stay in "full force".

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10/07Government of the United States: Vice President JD Vance told Reuters Iran must make a "meaningful" reduction in enrichment to show it does not seek a nuclear weapon, asking "why do you need 60 percent enriched fuel?"

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10/05Government of the United States: At a campaign rally in Nebraska, President Trump said war-driven price rises were "a small price to pay" and that Iran "can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego"; California officials condemned the remark. Earlier he told Kurdistan24 he was "always" open to direct talks with Iran.

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09/30Government of the United States: Trump said the time had come to decide between a deal with Iran and military action, that it is going to end very soon, and, asked how he could negotiate with leaders he called irrational, said maybe you blow them up.

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09/27Government of the United States: Trump told Axios he expected negotiations with Iran to restart within the week and that he is always thinking about resuming strikes, saying Iran wants a deal but not the deal he wants. US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz called Iran's offer a cynical attempt to table something it knew was unacceptable.

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09/22Government of the United States: Addressing the UN General Assembly, Trump said he had a big decision to make on Iran, that he believed a deal would be made right after the US midterm election, that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and urged states to enforce Iran's complete economic isolation. Most of Iran's delegation walked out as he began the Iran section.

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09/17Government of the United States: Trump told Axios and Channel 12 by phone that he faced a big decision on whether to go in and annihilate the Iranian government or not, adding that anything could happen.

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09/16Government of the United States: Fox News, citing two sources, reported that four Iranian drones and at least one missile targeted a US-contracted vessel carrying American personnel near the strait earlier in the week, causing minor injuries. CENTCOM did not identify the vessel and gCaptain could not confirm the report.

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09/16Government of the United States: US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News that oil flows out of the Gulf were at record highs, with about 18 million barrels leaving the day before.

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09/15Government of the United States: Energy Secretary Chris Wright told CNBC at a G20 energy meeting in Houston that crude should resume flowing through Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline within days, while sources told Reuters repairs could take up to five to six weeks.

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09/14Government of the United States: President Trump wrote on Truth Social that 'the failing nation of Iran wants to make a deal, quickly and badly' and that the US was open to engaging, with him deciding whether it would.

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09/12Government of the United States: President Trump told reporters in Dublin that Iran was probably responsible for the attack that shut Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, said the Houthis had told his administration they did not want the US involved in Yemen and were letting most ships through, and repeated that the war would end after the midterms.

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09/11Government of the United States: At a Pentagon ceremony marking 25 years since the 11 September 2001 attacks, President Trump tied the Iran war to that vow, saying 'That's why we fight today' and 'There can only be victory', and thanked troops working to ensure Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon.

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09/11Government of the United States: Acting US Navy Secretary Hung Cao told the Epoch Times that Iran 'blew the hell out of Bahrain', referring to strikes on Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the Fifth Fleet headquarters, Reuters reported.

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09/09Government of the United States: President Trump said the Iran war would end immediately after the 3 November midterm elections because Iran could not hold out any longer, and that Tehran was trying to influence the vote. He also warned Iran 'not to get cute' or the US might strike the Pickaxe Mountain site.

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09/03Government of the United States: Vice President JD Vance said at a White House briefing that the US was not talking to Iran and would not until it stopped shooting at commercial shipping, said 15 million barrels had exited the strait the previous night, and said CENTCOM was investigating the reported wedding strike.

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09/02Government of the United States: Energy Secretary Chris Wright said 17 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, 31 August, the most since the war cut flows.

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09/01Government of the United States: President Trump told Fox News that the US strikes targeted Iran's rebuilt radar, warned Iran would be hit harder if it responded, and said an agreement with Iran was not worth the paper it was written on, appearing to rule out a near-term return to the June ceasefire.

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08/31Government of the United States: President Trump told Fox News the US is going to hit Iran hard and there will be a response to the missile attack on US forces in Jordan, adding that almost all the missiles were intercepted.

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08/26Government of the United States: President Trump told radio host Glenn Beck he does not think Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is dead but that he is very seriously wounded, with injuries to the left side of his body. Khamenei has not been seen in public since the war began.

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08/25Government of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio told foreign counterparts the US does not currently expect new offensive strikes on Iran and is shifting to economic pressure and normalising shipping through Hormuz, while not ruling out force if Iran resumes hostilities, according to Axios and Israel's Channel 12. US officials said the Navy had cleared mines from the main traffic separation scheme.

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08/21Government of the United States: President Trump told reporters Iran was not ready to make the right deal and that the US has total control of the entire region around the Strait of Hormuz, including land areas well into it.

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08/20Government of the United States: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC the US will impose the toughest sanctions in history on Iran, describing the naval blockade and sanctions as a one-two punch that would likely make a large-scale military restart unnecessary. Iran's foreign ministry called the measures economic terrorism and Foreign Minister Araghchi said they were a diversion from US economic problems.

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08/19Government of the United States: A day after saying no talks with Iran were going on or scheduled, President Trump told reporters he might renew negotiations at some point but that the situation was so good right now.

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08/19Government of the United States: President Trump declared an economic D-Day on Truth Social, saying oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries and front companies serving Iran must stop and that any country giving Iran a lifeline will face tremendous economic consequences. He gave no detail of the measures.

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08/17Government of the United States: In a Fox News phone interview, President Trump warned that the US would bomb Oman if it got in the way, responding to Iran-Oman talks on managing the Strait of Hormuz. He also confirmed a US back-channel with IRGC officials and said the blockade was adding pressure on Tehran.

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08/13Government of the United States: Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters in Panama that the US Navy could maintain the blockade of Iran indefinitely, partly by rotating ships in and out of the region.

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08/12Government of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that the United States had total control over the Strait of Hormuz, that the naval blockade was being called a wall of steel, and that Iran could do nothing about it.

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08/03Government of the United States: Trump called the Iranian leadership unbelievably duplicitous after Tehran denied talks, then said at the White House that talks were going on, that the Strait of Hormuz would open to traffic on Tuesday as phase one with the nuclear programme as phase two, and that this was Iran's last chance. He said the strikes he called off would have been the biggest attack since the Second World War and could still be carried out.

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07/29Government of the United States: Trump said at the White House that Iran would be 'hit very hard' after the IRGC ballistic missile attack on US forces in Jordan.

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07/27Government of the United States: Trump told reporters on Air Force One that Iran requested a meeting 'through their surrogates and directly, and we're meeting', said 'we are having good talks', and said Patriot interceptors are being built.

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07/26Government of the United States: US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz told Fox News that Trump paused the attacks to give talks time: 'He's giving talks some space, he's giving it a little bit of room.'

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07/23Government of the United States: Trump said on Truth Social that until further notice damage to ships, cargo or related property would be paid for with Iranian money the US holds, and told Axios he was 'considering a massive attack' that would be 'bigger than ever before'.

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07/22Government of the United States: Trump said in a social media post that each time Iranian forces fire on a vessel in the strait, 'the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT', including in or next to Tehran.

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07/22Government of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in Manila, said Washington is open to negotiations with Iran: 'If they're serious, we're serious.'

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07/20Government of the United States: Trump said US military leaders were directed to make Iran pay 'many times over', and that 'every time Iran kills an American soldier, they will pay for that killing many times over'.

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07/14Government of the United States: Trump told Fox News that 'next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges' unless Iran negotiated, and told Hugh Hewitt the US would 'take out Pickaxe Mountain', a fortified site linked to Iran's nuclear programme.

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07/12Government of the United States: Trump told NBC the strait was open, that the US 'bombed the hell out of them', and that Iran had agreed to 'a perfect deal' giving up 'everything' before attacking a ship within an hour.

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07/01Government of the United States: Vice President JD Vance said he could not guarantee that the US would not return to combat before the memorandum's deadline, and told Fox News that Iran's nuclear programme and military had been 'destroyed'.

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06/29Government of the United States: Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Witkoff and Kushner would fly to Doha for high-level meetings with technical talks on the sidelines, that the US was 'holding up our end of the ceasefire', and that 'violence will be met with violence'.

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06/27Government of the United States: Trump called the Ever Lovely attack a 'foolish violation' of the memorandum, wrote 'It is very possible that they will never learn', and warned the US could 'militarily complete the job' and that Iran 'will no longer exist' if it came to that.

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06/25Government of the United States: Secretary of State Rubio, in Bahrain, said 'we are very close in our hopes of getting a commitment of intent' between Israel and Lebanon and that their governments were talking directly for the first time in 30 years.

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06/24Government of the United States: Energy Secretary Chris Wright said crude flows through Hormuz were 'similar to what they were before the start of the Iran war', that Iranian mines delayed normal navigation, and that the US would ensure flows even without a deal.

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06/23Government of the United States: A White House official said the Senate's war powers vote had 'no significance', blamed 'Republican absences', and said hostilities with Iran ended with the April ceasefire.

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06/22Government of the United States: Vance said Iran had agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back, that nuclear talks should begin 'at the minimum this week', and that any released Iranian assets would be used to buy American products.

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06/20Government of the United States: Trump posted that there would be no tolls in the Strait of Hormuz for the 60-day ceasefire period, and none afterward unless the United States imposed them if a deal were not completed.

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06/20Government of the United States: Vance told Fox News he was skeptical of reports that Iran had closed the strait, saying 16 million barrels had moved through it in the previous 24 hours, roughly pre-war levels, and 'we're not seeing any evidence that the Iranians are still closing down the Strait of Hormuz'.

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06/18Government of the United States: Vice President Vance told reporters in Washington that 12.5 million barrels of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz overnight, the most since the conflict began, that Iran had not fired on ships for a second night, and that Iran's enrichment facilities 'remain destroyed'.

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06/16Government of the United States: Trump, at the G7 in Evian, said Iran 'will never have a nuclear weapon', that 'all hell will rain down' if it tries to build one, and that Iran 'has rational leadership now'.

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06/15Government of the United States: Vice President Vance told ABC's Good Morning America 'we already signed the deal digitally yesterday', with an in-person ceremony expected in Switzerland later in the week.

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06/10Government of the United States: Defence Secretary Hegseth, speaking at CENTCOM headquarters, accused Iran of 'choosing to play games' and said the US would 'negotiate with bombs' if needed. President Trump said Iran had taken too long to negotiate and would 'pay the price'.

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06/07Government of the United States: In an NBC Meet the Press interview recorded on 5 June and aired on 7 June, President Trump said frozen Iranian assets would be released only after a deal, that the sides were 'very close to a deal' or he would 'blow the hell out of them', that he was not demanding Lebanon be part of a deal, and that he wanted 'a more surgical attack on Hezbollah'.

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06/04Government of the United States: Speaking in the Oval Office, President Trump said Iran's enriched uranium was 'entombed' and watched by cameras at three sites, that the US could take it without a deal but had no reason to, and that he had rejected a roughly two-week ground operation to retrieve it early in the war. He said he did not want to meet Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei but would be respectful if a deal led to a meeting.

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05/30Government of the United States: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that the US is "more than capable" of restarting the war if no satisfactory deal is reached.

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05/30Government of the United States: Trump told Fox News he was in "no hurry" for a deal, that talks were progressing "slowly but surely", and that the "one guarantee" he needed was no nuclear weapons.

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05/26Government of the United States: Rubio said the Strait of Hormuz had to be open "one way or the other" and that talks on the draft's specific language could take "a few days".

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05/24Government of the United States: Rubio said in India that "significant progress" had been made on the Strait of Hormuz, that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon, and that the US would get "a good agreement" or "deal with it another way".

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05/22Government of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in Helsingborg, Sweden, that there had been "slight progress" and "a little bit of movement" in talks with Iran, and that Washington had "other options" if talks failed.

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05/21Government of the United States: Trump said the two sides were "right on the borderline" between a deal and renewed war and that he would give diplomacy "a few days"; White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller warned of military consequences "unmatched in modern history" if Iran rejected a deal.

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05/19Government of the United States: Trump told lawmakers the war would end "very quickly", gave Iran "two to three days" to make a deal and said he had been an hour away from ordering an attack before postponing it. Vice President Vance said talks were "in a pretty good spot". The old tracker filed this under 20 May.

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05/17Government of the United States: President Trump wrote on Truth Social that Iran "better get moving, FAST" or "there won't be anything left of them", and that the clock was ticking for a deal. The old tracker placed this on 18 May.

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05/15Government of the United States: Trump said he would accept a 20-year suspension of Iran's nuclear programme if the commitment was real, and that he would decide within days whether to lift sanctions on Chinese companies that buy Iranian oil.

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05/15Government of the United States: Trump said Xi offered China's help to reopen Hormuz and pledged not to send military equipment to Iran; the White House said Xi agreed the strait must remain open to support the free flow of energy.

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05/14Government of the United States: Vice President JD Vance said progress was being made in talks with Iran and that the question was whether it would meet Trump's red line that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.

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05/07Government of the United States: Trump said a deal could be within reach after very good talks, but threatened to resume bombing at a much higher level and intensity if Iran did not agree, and said the US would knock Iran out harder if it did not sign quickly.

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05/07Government of the United States: NBC News reported, citing officials, that Trump dropped the Hormuz escort plan after Saudi Arabia suspended US military use of its bases and airspace for the operation; Drop Site News reported Kuwait also cut access. Neither government confirmed this in the source seen.

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05/05Government of the United States: President Trump warned that Iran would be blown off the face of the earth if it targeted US Navy ships in the strait and said Iran had better hope the ceasefire held.

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05/01Government of the United States: In a letter to congressional leaders, President Trump said the hostilities that began on 28 February had terminated, while the threat from Iran remained significant.

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04/30Government of the United States: A senior US administration official said hostilities with Iran had 'terminated' for War Powers purposes because there had been no exchange of fire since the 7 April ceasefire.

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04/28Government of the United States: Trump said Iran was in a 'state of collapse' and had been 'militarily defeated', and said King Charles III agreed that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon; he also criticised German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who had said Tehran was humiliating Washington at the negotiating table.

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04/28Government of the United States: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said US measures against Iran's shadow banking, crypto access and oil networks had cut its revenues and that the blockade was pushing storage at Kharg Island near capacity, which could force production cuts costing Iran about 170 million dollars a day.

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04/22Government of the United States: White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that Iran's seizure of two ships did not violate the ceasefire because they were international vessels rather than US or Israeli ships, called the seizures piracy, and said Trump had set no deadline for an Iranian proposal.

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04/17Government of the United States: Trump said the Strait of Hormuz was open but that the US naval blockade would remain in full force as it pertains to Iran until a deal with Iran was 100 percent complete, and later that Iran had agreed never to close the strait again.

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04/13Government of the United States: Trump said Iran's navy was completely obliterated with 158 ships destroyed and warned that its remaining fast attack boats would be immediately eliminated if they approached the blockade; he later said the right people in Iran had called wanting a deal.

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04/12Government of the United States: Vice President Vance said Iran chose not to accept US terms, that the US had put forward its final and best offer, and that it needed an affirmative commitment that Iran would not seek a nuclear weapon; he called the lack of a deal bad news for Iran much more than for the US.

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04/11Government of the United States: Trump said Iran had no cards beyond short-term disruption of international waterways, that its 28 mine-laying boats were on the seabed, and that whether or not a deal was reached made no difference because the US had won.

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04/09Government of the United States: Trump posted that Iran was doing a very poor job of letting oil through the Strait of Hormuz, that this was not the agreement, and that if Iran was charging ships fees it had better stop now.

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04/06Government of the United States: At a press conference Trump said any deal must include free traffic of oil through Hormuz, that only he would set a ceasefire, that the US had flown 10,000 combat flights and struck more than 13,000 targets since late February, and claimed the Iranian government had killed more than 45,000 people in the past month, without giving evidence.

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04/05Government of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that Tuesday would be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day in Iran, threatening to strike Iranian power plants and bridges unless the Strait of Hormuz reopened.

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04/01Government of the United States: Trump told the Telegraph he would strongly consider pulling the US out of NATO, amid allied reluctance to join operations in the Strait of Hormuz. UK Prime Minister Starmer said the UK remained fully committed to NATO, and Secretary of State Rubio said the US would reexamine the relationship.

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04/01Government of the United States: Trump said on Truth Social that Iran's president had just asked the US for a ceasefire, and that the US would consider one only once the Strait of Hormuz was open.

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04/01Government of the United States: In a prime-time address on the evening of 1 April (US Eastern time), President Trump said the operation's core strategic objectives were nearing completion, that the US would hit Iran extremely hard over the next two to three weeks, and that if no deal was reached it could strike Iran's electric plants and possibly its oil industry. He told countries that rely on the Strait of Hormuz to take charge of it and claimed Iran had been close to a nuclear weapon, which CBS noted US intelligence had said last year Iran was not actively pursuing.

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03/30Government of the United States: President Trump said the US was in serious discussions with a new and more reasonable regime, and that if a deal was not shortly reached and Hormuz was not open for business the US would obliterate Iran's electric generating plants, oil wells, Kharg Island and possibly all desalination plants. Legal scholars quoted by Al Jazeera called the threat collective punishment; the White House said it would act within the law.

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03/30Government of the United States: Secretary of State Rubio told Al Jazeera the Strait of Hormuz would reopen one way or another, that messages and some direct talks were taking place through intermediaries, that Iran's air force had been destroyed and its navy largely destroyed, and rejected Iran's demand for sovereignty over the strait.

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03/29Government of the United States: In a Financial Times interview President Trump said he wanted to take the oil in Iran and that maybe the US would take Kharg Island, maybe not; aboard Air Force One he said he saw a deal with Iran that could be soon and that Iran had agreed to most of the 15-point plan.

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03/28Government of the United States: President Trump said he was very disappointed with NATO and that allies were not there on Hormuz despite the US spending hundreds of billions on them; envoy Witkoff said he expected meetings with Iran that week.

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03/27Government of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after G7 talks in France that he expected the operation to end in weeks, not months, and called Iran's planned Hormuz tolls illegal, unacceptable and dangerous to the world.

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03/26Government of the United States: In a cabinet meeting President Trump said Iran was begging for a deal, called reports that Iran rejected the 15-point plan wrong, and said the strait would open if they make the right deal.

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03/23Government of the United States: President Trump said the US and Iran had very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of hostilities, that Witkoff and Kushner had held talks, and that Iran must give up its enriched uranium stockpile for a deal.

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03/20Government of the United States: In a Truth Social post President Trump called NATO countries cowards and said the US would remember, arguing that with the fighting militarily won the allies complain about oil prices but will not help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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03/20Government of the United States: President Trump said the US was getting very close to meeting its objectives and was considering winding down military efforts, that other countries should guard and police the Strait of Hormuz, and that he was not looking for a ceasefire.

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03/19Government of the United States: President Trump said neither the US nor Qatar knew of the South Pars strike, that Israel would not strike it again, and that if Iran attacked Qatar's energy facilities again the US would massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars field. He also said he was not sending ground troops.

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03/17Government of the United States: President Trump pressed the UK and France in particular to help secure shipping in Hormuz and asked to delay his late-March trip to China by a month, saying the US had a war going on.

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03/16Government of the United States: President Trump said the US was hitting Iran's drone factories and that Iran had very little firepower left; on Truth Social he called Iran militarily ineffective and weak and said it used AI as a disinformation weapon, without offering evidence.

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03/15Government of the United States: Trump urged other countries to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open, according to Al Jazeera's live coverage of 15 March, which also reported Tehran saying it was ready for a long war as Israel expanded its strikes.

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03/14Government of the United States: Trump told NBC News that Iran wanted to make a deal but the terms were not yet good enough, questioned whether Mojtaba Khamenei was alive, and said the US might strike Kharg Island again.

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03/14Government of the United States: Trump said he hoped China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and others would send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz "open and safe". Britain said it was discussing a range of options with allies.

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03/13Government of the United States: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US believed Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was wounded and likely disfigured.

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03/13Government of the United States: Trump said US forces had "totally obliterated every MILITARY target" on Kharg Island and that "for reasons of decency" he had chosen not to wipe out its oil infrastructure, but would reconsider if anyone interfered with ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. He said Iran was "totally defeated and wants a deal" but not one he would accept.

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03/10Government of the United States: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said a military investigation into the strike on the Minab school, which killed about 175 students, was under way and that the administration would accept its results.

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03/10Government of the United States: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president and the military had set an initial timeline of four to six weeks for the operation, with the goals of destroying Iran's missiles and missile production and its navy, permanently denying it nuclear weapons, and weakening its allies in the region.

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03/10Government of the United States: At a Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 10 March would be "our most intense day of strikes inside Iran". General Dan Caine said Iranian missile attacks had fallen 90 percent and one-way drone attacks 83 percent since the war began, and that US and Israeli forces had struck about 5,000 targets.

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03/09Government of the United States: Trump said the war would be over pretty quickly but not this week, that the US had struck more than 5,000 targets and destroyed Iran's navy and air force and 80 to 90 percent of its missile launchers, and that he was not happy with Iran's new supreme leader.

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03/06Government of the United States: President Trump said there would be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender, after which the US and allies would help choose acceptable leaders and rebuild Iran's economy.

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03/05Government of the United States: Trump said he intended to play a direct role in choosing Iran's next leader and called Mojtaba Khamenei an unacceptable choice.

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02/28Government of the United States: Trump said the strikes aimed at eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime and that the bombing would continue throughout the week or as long as necessary.

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05/08Government of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said US mediation had not yet produced a fruitful outcome and had stagnated, but that the US stood ready if circumstances changed.

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02/16Government of the United States: President Trump said Ukraine had better come to the table fast, after telling Zelensky on 13 February that he was going to have to get moving.

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01/29Government of the United States: President Trump said he had personally asked Putin not to fire on Kyiv and other cities for a week because of extreme cold, and that Putin agreed.

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11/23Government of the United States: Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social before the Geneva talks that Ukraine's leadership had expressed zero gratitude for US efforts, and pointed to European purchases of Russian oil.

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11/22Government of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that the peace proposal was authored by the US and later said any final agreement would have to be signed off by the presidents.

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10/22Government of the United States: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, announcing sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, said now was the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire, and that Treasury was prepared to take further action.

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09/23Government of the United States: Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, after meeting President Zelensky at the UN General Assembly, that Ukraine with EU support was in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form, and called Russia a paper tiger. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected both points.

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08/18Government of the United States: Donald Trump said at the White House that Vladimir Putin had agreed Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine, calling it a very significant step, and that the US would give Ukraine very good protection.

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07/29Government of the United States: President Donald Trump, aboard Air Force One, said Russia had ten days from 29 July to agree a ceasefire, shortening the 50-day window he set earlier in July, after which he had threatened secondary tariffs of up to 100 percent on buyers of Russian goods. He said he was very disappointed in Vladimir Putin.

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06/04Government of the United States: Trump said after a call of more than an hour with Putin that it would not lead to immediate peace and that Putin had said "very strongly" Russia would have to respond to the attack on its airfields.

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05/25Government of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that Putin had "gone absolutely CRAZY" and that Zelensky was "doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does"; asked whether he was considering more sanctions on Russia, he said "Absolutely".

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04/24Government of the United States: After the Kyiv attack, Trump posted "Vladimir, STOP!" and told reporters he had his own deadline for a ceasefire, describing Russia's agreement not to take over the whole of Ukraine as a "pretty big concession".

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04/18Government of the United States: Rubio said the US was ready to abandon its Ukraine peace efforts within days if there was no sign of progress, and Trump said the US would "take a pass" unless a deal came quickly.

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03/11Government of the United States: Rubio said in Jeddah that Ukraine was ready to stop the fighting and get to the table, that the ball was now in Russia's court, and that if Russia said no the impediment to peace would be known.

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02/19Government of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that Zelensky was "a Dictator without Elections" who "better move fast" or would not have a country left, after earlier suggesting Ukraine was to blame for the war; Zelensky had said Trump was living in a Russian "disinformation bubble" and that a claim his approval stood at 4 per cent was false.

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02/12Government of the United States: Defence secretary Pete Hegseth told the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels that Europe must provide the overwhelming share of future aid to Ukraine, that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic, and that the US could not be primarily focused on European security.

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01/22Government of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that Russia's economy was failing, urged Putin to "settle now and stop this ridiculous war", and said that without a deal he would impose high taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russian goods sold to the US and other countries.

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02/16Government of the United States: US President Joe Biden said Putin was responsible for Alexei Navalny's death.

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