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IRAN: STRAIT OPEN
*OBAMA GAVE THEM $400 MILLION
OIL PRICE PLUNGE
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CUBA IN MAY?
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But it's unclear whether the strategic waterway is really open without conditions.
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CBS SAILS INTO STRAIT...
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President Trump on Thursday repeated his claim that a deal to end the war on Iran is "very close" and that direct talks with Iran could resume in Pakistan as soon as this weekend. Despite the claims, the Pentagon is surging thousands of additional troops to the Middle East, including an additional 6,000 sailors and aviators joining the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier battle group. Around 4,200 others with the Navy and Marines are expected to arrive near the end of the month. Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, says "we might be, at some point, returning to a hot war" because the Iranians, too, have "preserved a degree of retaliatory capacity." The main question on the negotiating table is whether the Iranians, who "have been saying for years that they don't want nuclear weapons," will curb their nuclear activity, and if so, whether the U.S. would "be willing to provide them with economic incentives and sanctions relief."
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Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement...
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But analysts said it was not clear how quickly the oil industry in the Persian Gulf would be able to get back to normal.
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