"Would Blow Them Up": Trump Threatens To Attack Oman Amid Hormuz Standoff

President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared to threaten to attack US ally Oman if it sides with Iran over reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump said Oman must "behave" or he would "blow them up," when he was asked if he would accept a short-term deal to allow Iran and the Gulf state to control the waterway.

"No, the strait is going to be open to everybody," Trump told reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House.

"It's international waters and Oman will behave just like everybody else or we'll have to blow them up. They understand that, they'll be fine."

The White House did not immediately respond when asked by AFP if Trump had misspoken and had intended to refer to Iran rather than Oman.

Oman is a key US ally which has tried to mediate the Middle East war and has itself come under attack from Tehran.

The US State Department later posted a clip and transcript of Trump's comments about Oman, without any correction or clarification.

The 79-year-old did earlier appear to mix up Iran and Venezuela, saying that the South American nation -- whose leader Nicolas Maduro was toppled by US forces in January -- "no longer has a navy, no longer has an air force."

Trump has repeatedly used such phrasing to refer to Iran, which the US and Israel attacked on February 28.

Iran has indicated that it seeks to impose a new reality in the Strait of Hormuz, through which one fifth of the world's oil normally passes, exacting tolls on transiting ships and sharing the revenues with Oman.

Trump has grown increasingly frustrated as talks to end the Middle East war and reopen the strait appear to have stalled once more, just days after he said a deal was near.

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Germany's Most Wanted Woman Sentenced To 13 Years After Decades On The Run

A former member of Germany's notorious far-left terrorist group, the Red Army Faction (RAF), has been sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted of a string of armed robberies carried out while living as a fugitive for decades. The landmark ruling, handed down on May 27, concluded her first major trial following her highly publicised arrest in Berlin. Daniela Klette, 67, was arrested in Berlin in February 2024 after evading authorities for nearly 30 years. Once considered one of Europe's most wanted women, she had been living under the alias Claudia Ivone in Berlin, where she maintained a quiet and seemingly ordinary life for around two decades, BBC reported. 

The Verden regional court in Lower Saxony found Klette guilty after a 14-month high-security trial. She was convicted on six counts of aggravated robbery, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, and weapons violations linked to crimes committed between 1999 and 2016.

Life Underground and Arrest

Klette was the only woman tagged as "dangerous" on Europol's most-wanted list. For over 30 years, she lived a surprisingly normal double life in Berlin's Kreuzberg district under the false identity "Claudia Ivone." She walked her dog, gave math tuition to local children, and frequented an Afro-Brazilian capoeira dance studio.

Prosecutors said Klette carried out the robberies alongside fellow former RAF members Burkhard Garweg and Ernst-Volker Staub, who remain on the run. The trio allegedly stole around 2.4 million euros through a series of carefully planned robberies used to finance their lives underground after the RAF officially disbanded in 1998.

Judge Lars Engelke said the group operated in a highly organised manner, using fake identities and rented getaway vehicles while treating the robberies as their source of income. "They carried out their robberies with a division of labour and in a highly conspiratorial manner," said Engelke.

Her run ended in February 2024 after an investigative journalist used AI facial recognition software to match old wanted posters with recent Facebook photos from her dance group. When police raided her apartment, they uncovered a hidden cache containing a Kalashnikov assault rifle, explosives, gold bars, and 240,000 euros in cash

Klette belonged to the RAF's so-called third generation. The organisation, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang, carried out bombings, kidnappings, and killings across Germany from the 1970s through the early 1990s as part of its violent anti-capitalist campaign. She still faces separate proceedings related to three politically motivated attacks allegedly committed during the final years of RAF activity in the 1990s.

The verdict sparked reactions from supporters in the courtroom, with some shouting slogans demanding her release. Klette has backing from parts of Germany's far left, as per the Guardian. She has remained unapologetic throughout the proceedings and previously told the court she would continue opposing capitalism and patriarchy. She still faces a separate trial for alleged crimes linked to the RAF and has not publicly confirmed membership in the group.

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The committee is expected to submit its report within a year but can get an extra six months if needed.

Making the announcement in a post on X, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said such an unnatural change in demography - driven by infiltration and other factors - poses a monumental challenge to the present and future of any nation.

घुसपैठ और अन्य कारणों से Unnatural Demographic Change किसी भी राष्ट्र के वर्तमान व भविष्य के लिए एक बहुत बड़ी चुनौती है।

इसी चुनौती से निपटने के लिए 15 अगस्त 2025 को प्रधानमंत्री @narendramodi जी ने 'High-Level Committee on Demographic Change' की घोषणा की थी। मुझे बताते हुए हर्ष...

— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) May 26, 2026

Headed by Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar (Retd), the committee will comprise the Census Commissioner, retired IAS and IPS officers Durga Shankar Mishra and Balaji Srivastava.

Among other things, the committee will analyse the patterns of abnormal population shifts at the level of various religious and social communities and will propose a systematic and time-bound framework for addressing these issues.

It will also recommend a streamlined and sustainable operational system for time-bound identification, detention, and deportation of illegal immigrants already residing in the country.

It can also recommend an appropriate institutional mechanism for strengthening border management, population stabilisation, and identification systems.

The committee may recommend any other measure it deems appropriate to address the challenges arising from demographic changes.

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