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The Rest of the World Report | August 11, 2026 — Morning Edition
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President Trump rejected Iran’s demand for war compensation outright in Oval Office remarks Monday, even as he pressed his own counter-demand for Iran to pay the United States. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council had listed compensation among its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, ROTWR reported Monday. Trump dismissed that demand and repeated his own: that Iran pay for the 2000 USS Cole bombing and for what he called 52,000 Iranian protesters killed by their own…
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