NEW LEADER 'LIKELY DISFIGURED': Iran’s new “not so supreme leader” is “wounded and likely disfigured,” Hegseth said today. Mojtaba Khamenei issued a fiery first public statement yesterday, vowing to keep blocking the vital Strait of Hormuz trade route and attacking Gulf states. The written statement was read by a state television announcer.

As war with Iran continues, President Donald Trump said he is holding a press conference on Monday, March 9 in Florida.

Though the president has long professed an “America First” policy prioritizing the U.S., Trump suggested at his news conference that the war was for the benefit of other nations, especially those dependent on oil that’s shipped through the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump told a reporter during a press conference Monday on Iran that the school bombed near Tehran on the first day of the war is still under investigation.

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President posts on Truth Social to ‘watch what happens today’ and says it is an ‘honor’ to be killing regime’s leaders

The appearance is part of a broader trip to the Greater Cincinnati region, which also includes a stop in Ohio in the day.

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President Donald Trump will be in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky on March 11. Follow the updates from what's happening throughout the day.

President Donald Trump announced he will hold a press conference around 5:30 p.m. on Monday March 9. The topic of the press conference has not yet been disclosed.

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