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South Korea’s presidential office said in a statement on Sunday, “we will communicate closely with the US regarding this matter and make a decision after careful review.”Takayuki Kobayashi, policy chief of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), told public broadcaster NHK, “I regard the threshold as extremely high for sending Japanese navy ships to the region under existing Japanese laws.”US President Donald Trump renewed his calls for allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz in a post on Truth Social on Saturday.“….the Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that…

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Update: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the country’s military, said in a post on X that it had launched a wave of “extensive strikes” across western Iran.It claims it is striking “infrastructure” of the Iranian regime, per The Guardian.In the last hours, the IDF said on X that Iran continued to launch missiles toward the territory of the State of Israel.“Defense systems are operating to intercept the threat,” the IDF added, while warning citizens to enter protective spaces.This comes after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) pledged to target Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the war with the US and Israel continues.“We will continue…

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In an interview with NBC News on Saturday, US President Donald Trump commented on the military strikes on the Kharg Island and whether he was prepared to make a deal with Iran while pressing allies once again to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.Key quotesI’m not ready to make a deal with Iran because the terms are not good enough yet.We’ve totally decimated it. Except, as you know, I didn’t do anything having to do with the energy lines, because having to rebuild that would take years.Strikes on Kharg Island totally demolished most of the island, but we may hit…

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