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President Trump said Tuesday the US will strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility 'pretty soon and very heavily,' as the Iran conflict enters its 10th consecutive day of strikes. The deep underground site near Natanz is believed to house centrifuges transferred there last fall.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Qatar to meet mediators on all regional issues as Tehran sent its own delegation to Doha, despite denying any direct US-Iran meetings, following four days of Hormuz strikes.

Oil prices have dropped back to pre-Iran war levels as shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz gradually recovers following the US-Iran war deal. The resumption of tanker movement through the critical waterway has eased supply concerns that had driven energy prices higher.

Iranian officials have presented the nuclear deal with the United States as a major victory for Iran, claiming it preserves the country's sovereign right to enrich uranium — a key point of contention that remains unresolved in the agreement's text.

US destroyer USS Spruance intercepted and boarded the sanctioned Iranian cargo ship Touska after it refused to comply with blockade warnings in the Gulf of Oman, President Trump announced.