Trump says he will give primetime speech Thursday amid flare-up with Iran

President Trump said Monday that he will be addressing the nation later this week amid escalations with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz.

The speech is set to be delivered on Thursday at 9 p.m. EDT, Trump announced on Truth Social.

He did not say what the speech would be about, but it comes amid signs the war with Iran, rather than ending after a memorandum of understandings last month was to have triggered negotiations, is actually accelerating again.

Trump earlier on Monday announced that a naval blockade will be placed back on Iranian ships in the strait and that the U.S. will be acting as its “guardian.” That followed new........

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