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The remarks were made as Vance and other Trump administration negotiators met with Iranian officials in Switzerland.
The annual planned exercise focuses on active-duty forces and comes before July’s joint-defense drills and August’s live-force war games.
Starmer has not officially made an announcement about his future.
Trump said Iran must stop its ‘proxies’ in Lebanon from causing trouble or US will ‘hit Iran very hard again.’
Washington has been boosting its presence in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian nations, an area increasingly courted by the communist regime in Beijing.
Iranian authorities earlier announced they had closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli military operations in Lebanon.
Talks had been postponed because of clashes between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Dozens of state-owned enterprises are selling stakes in solar and energy projects amid mounting losses, bankruptcies, and oversupply.
Insiders say Beijing is vetting officials across Party and military systems, with political loyalty overtaking performance as the key criterion for promotion.
