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In what was one of the most confusing moments in recent geopolitical history, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran agreed to a much-ballyhooed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that extended the already-shaky ceasefire between the two powers, which had been in place since late April, for another 60 days.
In the late hours of Sunday, though, the two sides agreed to the MoU, with an official signing ceremony scheduled for this Friday.
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If accurate, parts of what could be an Iran deal are coming out, and they don’t look so good for the Trump Administration.
According to a source inside Iran’s government that is being reported in many outlets, Fars News states that Iran will allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz free of charge for only 60 days, after which the country intends to provide security, maritime, environmental, and insurance services to crossing vessels and use the ‘revenues’ for its economic development. Yes, that sounds like a toll.
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Airmen from the Rhode Island National Guard and soldiers from the Michigan National Guard moved a powerful rocket artillery system more than 2,000 miles across the country this month, flying a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System from Michigan to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin to test rapid deployment capabilities.
Troops from the two states’ National Guards pulled off a “HIMARS Rapid Infiltration,” or HIRAIN, over the course of June 6-13, according to a release from the Michigan National Guard.
For the rest of his life, Clyde Lassen rarely spoke of the night of June 19, 1968.
A private man, Lassen—who achieved the rank of commander during his two decades in the United States Navy—kept the harrowing details largely to himself. He rarely opened up, even to his own family. His two children did not even obtain a complete picture of their father’s heroism until a half-century later.
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Lassen didn’t have to say much.
Iran Just Published 14 Points Of The Deal Donald Trump Called “Complete” — And They Describe Something Far Shakier: Less than a day after President Trump declared the war with Iran over and the agreement “complete,” Iranian state-affiliated media published what it says are the 14 points of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) — and the terms describe a far weaker, more conditional arrangement than the one Trump announced.
Honestly, if this is the deal Trump agreed to or even sort of somehow agreed to in some vague sense, it’s hard to see how it makes it to a Friday signing.
The framework taking shape this week fixes the crisis that the war itself produced. It does almost nothing about the three problems Washington had with Iran before any of this started.
That distinction is getting lost in the relief. Oil is cheaper. The Strait of Hormuz is supposed to reopen. The Lebanon front is supposed to go quiet. Markets like all of that, and they should — a closed strait was costing the global economy real money every day it stayed shut.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., is pressing the Pentagon to disclose how it’s confronting potentially serious operational risks to U.S. military personnel as insiders hustle to fulfill the Trump administration’s new 90-day mandate to rewrite the policy for deploying and safeguarding autonomous weapon systems in warfare.
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An F/A-18D Legacy Hornet belonging to VMFA-323 crashed while flying the VR-1355 low-level route in Washington State, with the pilot’s ejection caught on