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Donald Trump sets up Project Freedom.

And within hours of him announcing that, some French container ship gets hit.

There must be plenty around Trump now, who realize that every time he uses a word like surrender and capitulate,

all it does is it gets the back of Iran out. I feel I've read this about 15 million times. If you don't do what we say, we're going to blow you to smithereens. Oh, you're going to kill another civilization? Oh, you're going to wipe the north face of the earth. Oh, right, okay. And it just sounds so meaningless. You crack on. We'll call the Undertaker. Iran had never exercised that degree of control over the Strait of Hormuz.

The operation is over.

Epic Fury is the President notified Congress.

We're done with that stage of it.

We're now on to this project of freedom.

As far as a negotiation is concerned, I think the president's been clear that part of the

negotiation process has to be not just the enrichment, but what happens to this material that's

buried deep somewhere that they still have access to if they ever wanted to dig it out.

Marco Rubio announcing that the military operation, Epic Fury, is over in the tone of someone who thinks we're the stupid ones

for not having realised.

And saying that it's all about Project Freedom, reopening the straight-of-hoose with American

military hardware.

Except Donald Trump undermined him moments later and said, I'm putting that on pause because a peace deal is close.

Really? Welcome to the Newsagents USA.

The Newsagents USA with Emily Maitliss and John Sopal.

It's Maitliss.

It's, I don't know what I am. John, I think. And Marco Rubio yesterday

was at the White House briefing room lecterned, standing in for Caroline Levitt, not standing in for

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