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Iran rejects ‘delusions’ after Trump says he wants the Strait of Hormuz to be a U.S. territory
A defiant Iran called on the U.S. to “accept the reality of defeat and stop indulging in delusions” after President Donald Trump suggested that he would soon declare the Strait of Hormuz as a “territory of the United States.”
The crucial waterway that handled one-fifth of the world’s oil before the war “cannot be seized with a tweet, nor with an aircraft carrier, nor by issuing an order, nor through an election speech,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said in a post on X early Saturday.
Did we hurt his feelings?
https://www.cpr.org/2026/08/14/trump-retaliation-colorado-email-tina-peters/
Trump push to retaliate against Colorado described as ‘weaponization’
Multiple Colorado congressional lawmakers are speaking out after an email from a White House staffer seemed to confirm that the Trump administration was looking to retaliate against Colorado.
… Republican Rep. Jeff Hurd pointed out that politics has always involved hardball and that presidents of both parties have had disagreements with states in the past. But he worries that this is different.
“We do not know all the facts yet, and the Administration should explain what happened, but federal power cannot be used for political retaliation,” he said in a statement to CPR News. He added if federal agencies were directed to punish Colorado, that “crosses a serious line.”
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