Trump also claimed in the post that the US has hundreds of billions of dollars in Iran’s “money” and controls the Strait of Hormuz, signaling he plans to continue ramping up the blockade and economic war.

“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S. The Blue States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters,” the president wrote.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” he added.

The Israeli strike hit the hospital’s surgery ward, with witnesses describing two missiles crashing into the building and knocking the surgery department out of operation. At least 20 people were also wounded in the attack. “All of a sudden, the world turned upside down. It went dark all at once,” Ayman Abu Obeid, a doctor who was injured in the attack, told Reuters.

The surgeon who was killed, Rizk Abu Shaaira, was recently featured in the film “American Doctor,” which followed three US doctors as they volunteered in Gaza and worked alongside Palestinian medical professionals.

“My colleague and friend Dr. Rizk Abu Shaaira was killed yesterday at work when Israel, backed by the US as always, bombed the surgical recovery room at Nasser Medical Complex,” Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, an American trauma surgeon who was in the film, wrote on X.

The poll asked if respondents would support or oppose the incoming Democrat-led Congress passing legislation to end the Iran war, and 71%, including 51% of Republicans, said they would support the effort.

The poll was conducted in the days following the midterm elections, which saw a major Republican defeat, and the war and the increase in the cost of living as a result of it were identified as the major factors in the Democrats’ victory.

Both Vice President JD Vance and President Trump have acknowledged that the war cost the GOP the midterms, though Trump continues to defend his decision to launch it and continues to escalate the ongoing blockade and sanctions campaign against the Islamic Republic.

The death toll in Saudi airstrikes that hit civilian homes in the Bani Hashish District of Yemen’s Sanaa province on Saturday has risen to 44, according to the Health Ministry within the Sanaa-based Ansar Allah-led Yemeni government.

The death toll makes the attack the worst civilian massacre committed by the US-backed Saudi coalition since Riyadh reignited the war back in July by bombing the Sanaa International Airport.

According to Health Ministry spokesman Dr. Anis al-Asbahi, who announced the updated death toll,21 children and 10 women were among those killed. Another 40 Yemenis, including eight children and nine women, were wounded.

The scale of the “threat”

Here are some key figures by which to judge the scale of the “threat” posed by Nicaragua. First, some basics. The US population is nearly 50 times Nicaragua’s and its economy is 1,400 times bigger, with Nicaragua’s national income (GDP) only 0.07% that of the US.

Second, a military comparison. Nicaragua has one of the smallest defense budgets in the Americas, devoting just 0.6% of its GDP ($116 million) to its military. The US, of course, has the world’s biggest “defense” budget at $954 billion or more than 3% of its GDP (see chart), and Trump wants to make it even bigger. Nicaragua deploys around 12,000 military personnel, under 1% of its northern neighbor’s 1.3 million.

Under the terms of the Rubio ceasefire, Israel has permission to continue occupying what is called a “security zone,” while Lebanese forces are deputized to accomplish the objective of “disarming” Hezbollah. Only once Hezbollah is disarmed must Israel redeploy from Lebanon. The agreement was designed to supplant the terms of the Iran-U.S. MOU negotiated in Switzerland by J.D. Vance and signed on June 17, 2026, which tied the end of the Iran War to the “immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon” and on “ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon.”

As Lebanese journalist Mohamad Kleit explained to Dragnet, Lebanese forces have only replaced Israeli occupation forces in three southern villages while Israel’s wholesale destruction of villages continues unabated. A recent New York Times investigation reported that “48 of the roughly 60 villages and towns within Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon are mostly leveled,” noting that “of the 48 villages that have been mostly destroyed, almost all are majority Shiite.”

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