Trump shows himself as a divine healer in a new post amid Iran war. Check image

US President Donald Trump shared an image on social media depicting himself in a healer-like role, placing his hand on a person, amid ongoing tensions in the Iran conflict. The post comes after ceasefire talks between the US and Iran ended without agreement and as Washington considers further military and strategic options in the region.

The image posted without a caption shows Trump standing beside a patient on a hospital bed, with military personnel, a nurse and others around him, set against a backdrop featuring the US flag, aircraft and symbolic figures in the sky.

The US military said it will begin a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas on Monday after weekend talks failed.


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The talks in Islamabad, which ran from Saturday into early Sunday, were the first direct U.S.-Iranian meeting in more than a decade and the highest-level discussions since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution. The negotiations came days after a ceasefire began on Tuesday, aimed at ending six weeks of fighting that has killed thousands of people across the Gulf, throttled vital supplies of energy and sparked fears of a wider regional conflict.

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The U.S. Central Command said on Sunday that the ‌U.S. blockade, starting at ⁠10 a.m. ⁠ET (1400 GMT), would be "enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman."

Vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports will not be impeded, the U.S. military said. Additional information would be provided to commercial mariners through a formal notice prior to the start of the blockade, it said.

Trump on Sunday also said US forces would intercept every vessel in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran.

"No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas," Trump wrote on social media, adding: "Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!"

He added that the U.S. Navy will begin destroying mines that the Iranians had dropped in the Strait of Hormuz ⁠L1N40Q0L0, a ‌choke point for about 20% of global energy supplies.