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Trump warns Iran over Strait of Hormuz blockade

United States President Donald Trump has warned Iran that any attempt to block oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz will trigger a devastating US military response — "twenty times harder" than strikes already carried out.

"Death, Fire and Fury will reign upon them," Trump posted on Truth Social, adding he hoped it wouldn't come to that.

Trump framed keeping the Strait open as a gift to global economies, including China, which heavily depends on the shipping lane.

While Trump told CBS News the conflict was "pretty much over" with Iran's military severely weakened, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps flatly rejected that claim — saying Tehran, not Washington, would decide when the war ends.

EAM's Parliament statement bereft of any laser-eyed insights into paradigm global shift: Congress

The Congress has termed as "vapid" External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's statement on the West Asia situation in Parliament and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy "(mis)adventurism" coupled with the government's undermining of the Indian Foreign Service, is pushing India into "vassalage".

In a statement on Monday, the Congress' foreign affairs department, headed by former external affairs minister Salman Khurshid, said the EAM's statement "inexplicably" made no protest against the sinking of IRIS Dena in India's strategic backyard, which compromises India's role as a net-security provider in the Indian Ocean Region.

Jaishankar's statement neither condemned the targeted killing of the head of state of a sovereign nation nor did it offer solutions to redress the serious geo-economic and geopolitical costs that India is having to bear, and escalations that it may have to face, the party said in the statement.

"The Indian National Congress (INC) expresses grave concern at the External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar's vapid parliamentary statement on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party government on 9 March 2026," it said.

"The EAM's statement also offered no solutions on how India will diversify our energy security needs or reassert our energy sovereignty, which is being dictated by foreign powers (who are deigning to 'allow' a 30-day OFAC waiver)," the AICC foreign affairs department said.

The EAM's statement also skirted around the issue of how "Prime Minister Modi's ill-advised endorsement" of the war through his recent trip has not only contributed to the perception that India is abdicating moral leadership of the Global South, ironically in a year when we chair the BRICS, but is directly complicit in the dismantling of the rules-based global order, it said.

"The EAM's statement was sadly bereft of any laser-eyed insights into the paradigm global shift underway, or a structured vision for India to better navigate global disruptions, and any resolve to effectively defend India's values and interests in an increasingly unstable global order," it added.

"Prime Minister Modi's foreign policy (mis)adventurism coupled with the BJP government's undermining of the Indian Foreign Service are regrettably pushing India into vassalage, circumscribing the bipartisan strategic and diplomatic achievements since independence," the statement said.

7 killed as wall collapses at Gurugram

Seven workers were killed after an under-construction wall collapsed in Gurugram district, Haryana, officials said on Tuesday.

The incident occurred on Monday evening at the Signature Global Society in Gurugram's Sidhrawali area, they added.

Around 12 to 15 labourers got trapped under the rubble after the wall collapsed at around 8 pm on Monday. They were taken to a hospital at Bhiwadi where seven of them were declared dead, the officials said.

Six of the seven victims have been identified as Satish, Bhagirath, Milan, Shiv Shankar, Mangal and Parmeshwar, they said, adding that the condition of four -- Chotelal, Deendayal, Shivkant and Indrajeet -- is critical.

Trump says Iran war could be over soon

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the war against Iran could be short-lived, but he left open the possibility of an escalation in fighting if global oil supplies are disrupted by the Islamic Republic, which chose a new hard-line supreme leader.

Oil prices briefly shot to their highest level since 2022 a day after Iran selected Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as Iran's supreme leader. Investors saw it as a signal that Iran was digging in 10 days into the war launched by the United States and Israel.

But prices later fell and US stocks rose on hopes that the war with Iran may not last much longer.

"We took a little excursion" to the Middle East "to get rid of some evil. And, I think you will see it is going to be a short-term excursion", Trump told Republican lawmakers at his golf club near Miami.

Hours later, Trump posted on social media: "If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far." In an apparent response to Trump's remarks published in Iranian state media, a spokesperson for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Ali Mohammad Naini, said, "Iran will determine when the war ends." The war has choked off major supplies of oil and gas to world markets and sent fuel prices rising across the US. The fighting has also led foreigners to flee from business hubs and prompted millions to seek shelter as bombs hit military bases, government buildings, oil and water installations, hotels and at least one school.

Trump says Iran war is 'very complete'

US President Donald Trump said that the Iran war is 'very complete' but it's also the 'beginning of a new country'.

The President was asked about his comments earlier on Monday in which he told a reporter that the war was "very complete", while the Pentagon on Monday said on social media: "We have Only Just Begun to Fight." Trump was asked whether it was the end or the beginning and said, "It's the beginning of building a new country," a comment that seemed to suggest the US might be engaged in the building of a new Iran.

Trump says US is undertaking Iran operation for the other countries in the world Though the president has long professed an "America First" policy prioritising the US, Trump suggested at his news conference that the war was for the benefit of other nations, especially those dependent on oil that's shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.

"I mean, we're doing this for the other parts of the world, including countries like China," Trump said.

Trump and Putin discuss Iran war during phone call, Kremlin says

US President Donald Trump had a call on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Iran and other issues, which according to the Kremlin was a "frank and businesslike" conversation that lasted about an hour.