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Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps joint military command issued a statement this morning,
“claiming that control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state, and the”
strategic waterway is now under strict management and control by the armed forces. In a statement cited by Iranian state television, the IRGC command said the restriction will be in place until the U.S. completely lifts restrictions on vessel traffic to and from Iranian ports. President Trump slammed NATO during a speech in Arizona last night, claiming the alliance
was slow to offer help clearing the Strait of Hormuz. "I received a call from NATO asking if we would like some help." "Thank you very much, NATO. And I told them I would have liked your help two months ago, but now I really don't want your help anymore."
The Trump administration also reauthorized its pause on sanctions of tens of millions of barrels of Russian oil Friday when the sanctions were supposed to resume. Ercanada says it's spending some flights to New York this summer, Dan Carpenter reports
“that conflict in Iran is making certain routes unprofitable.”
The decision over rising jet fuel prices will affect flights from Toronto and Montreal to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport from June 1 to the end of October. Ercanada says jet fuel prices have doubled since the beginning of the Iran conflict and it no longer makes sense economically to continue some routes. Effective customers will be contacted with alternate travel options such as flying to
LaGuardia and Newark Liberty, daily from six Canadian cities. Aviation experts say that jet fuel prices is getting serious, and airlines will have to consolidate the routes. Some are already passing on fuel prices increases to their customers. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpenter, and Toronto.
The President of Lebanon is urging unity after the first full day of a ceasefire aimed at stopping fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. NPR's Catlaun store reports is also vowing to rebuild after weeks of violence.
“Calling the ceasefire and achievement President Owens said his one determined and clear”
mission was to save his country and his people. Lebanon will not be anyone's battlefield, he said. He said that he had three objectives going forward. To end Israeli military aggression withdrawal of the Israeli military occupation and for there to be one unified Lebanon.
The Lebanese government in the Iran-backed militia has been an odds about direct negotiations with Israel. Israel, meanwhile, has said it will remain occupying a large swath of Lebanon's south throughout the ceasefire, possibly beyond.
More than a million people have been displaced by this war in Lebanon and many cannot return
home. Catlaun store, NPR News, Beirut, this is NPR. The Tufts University student detained by Eis last year for writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed in her student newspaper has settled with the government on her immigration and federal cases, Sarah Betinkord of Member Station, G.B.H. has more on the case of Rumasa Az Turk.
Az Turk, who spent over six weeks in detention and her attorneys have agreed with the government to dismiss her pending board of immigration appeals case in another federal case. She's graduated and has already returned to Turkey. Jesse Rosman of the ACLU of Massachusetts was one of Az Turk's attorneys.
Rumasa can now move forward in her career without devoting another ounce of energy to the Trump administration's baseless campaign against her. There is no financial component to this settlement. Once the cases are dismissed officially, Az Turk will have no pending immigration issues against her.
The Department of Homeland Security told NPR, "It's glad to see Az Turk self deported. And that visas are a privilege, not a right. For NPR news, I'm Sarah Betinkord in Boston." Fans heading to the World Cup matches in New Jersey this summer are facing higher transit prices with round-trip ticket prices from Manhattan expected to reach about $150. That's more than ten times the usual price for the short trip to the stadium in East
Brotherford. Parking near the venue will also be limited, transit officials estimate around 40,000 fans
will rely on mass transit per match with total transportation cost topping $60 million.
This is NPR news in Washington. Right now we are living through some of the most tumultuous political times our country has ever known. I'm David Remnick and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'll try to make sense of what's happening alongside politicians and thinkers like Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Liz
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