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Donald Trump said that countries, quote, doing business with Iran, would face immediate new tariffs of 25%.

The true social post follows announcements by the White House

that it was considering strikes on Iran, should diplomacy not suffice.

Iran's regime has reportedly killed more than 600 anti-government protesters since late December.

Earlier, Mr. Trump said that Iran's leaders had proposed negotiations.

Three former heads of the Federal Reserve criticized the Trump administration's criminal investigation

into its chair, Jerome Powell. In a statement, they spoke of America's rule of law as its greatest strength and the, quote,

foundation of our economic success. Mr. Powell said the investigation relating to a renovation of the

Fed's headquarters was a pretext to curb the central bank's independence.

Stocks seemed to recover after a panic caused by the Trump administration's attack on the Federal Reserve.

The benchmark SMP 500 index of large American companies regained ground at market close.

The yield on 10-year treasuries jumped to 4.19% while gold and silver,

often seen as safe haven assets, rallied to fresh highs. Google's parent company, Alphabet, hits a market valuation of $4 trillion, becoming the fourth tech company after NVIDIA, Apple and Microsoft

to do so. Investors' confidence has been boosted by the performance of its latest AI model,

Gemini 3, which was chosen to run an AI version of Siri, Apple's digital assistant.

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