By Sarah Ferris, Adam Cancryn, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Monday revealed that a US congressman had faced a “terminal” health condition and said he had only months to live before he personally intervened to help the Republican get surgery.

Trump, sitting alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson, was touting the fierce determination of Rep. Neal Dunn of Florida, a 73-year-old who he said had been showing up to work despite his health challenges.

“He would be dead by June,” Trump said of Dunn, though he did not specify any diagnosis the congressman had received from doctors.

“OK, that wasn’t public,” Johnson said. “But yeah, OK. It was grim, that’s what I was going to say.”

Trump added, “This was a heart problem” — revealing more details that Dunn’s office hasn’t shared publicly.

Republican leaders, including Johnson, have carefully avoided any public discussion about Dunn’s health, though the leadership teams have been keeping a careful eye on him, as CNN has reported. Johnson and his team are governing a House with the smallest margin since before World War II, and they’ve already had one unexpected death in the last year, along with severe injuries.

Dunn has said little about his health though he and his office have made clear that he had no intentions of leaving his seat early.

Dunn’s office did not return a request for comment from CNN about Trump’s remarks.

Johnson and Trump said Monday that they hope Dunn’s health has improved after the president intervened in his treatment.

The speaker said that after Trump personally phoned Dunn to thank him for showing up to work despite his health condition, the president offered to have Dunn see his doctors. “Within a number of hours,” Johnson said, Dunn was at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in emergency surgery.

“The man has a new lease on life,” Johnson said of Dunn’s improved health.

Trump recalled the call where he found out about Dunn’s condition: “He called to say that he was terminal, really bad heart. There’s nothing they can do. I said, ‘That’s bad.’ Number one, it was bad because I liked him. Number two, it was bad because I needed his vote.”

Shortly after Trump spoke of Dunn in the meeting, he turned attention to his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and the health challenges she’s facing.

Trump called Wiles an “amazing fighter” shortly after he had announced in a Truth Social post that she had been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer.

“She announced a little minor difficulty, which will be in good shape,” Trump said, turning to Wiles, who was sitting next to him. “She’ll be around for a long time.”

In his Truth Social post, Trump wrote that Wiles has an “excellent” prognosis and would be “virtually full time at the White House” while she receives treatment.

“She’s going to take care of it immediately, as opposed to waiting,” Trump said. “She’s going to be in great shape. The prognosis there is excellent, beyond excellent.”

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Cinco integrantes de la selección femenina de fútbol de Irán retiraron sus solicitudes de asilo y partieron desde Australia hacia Irán, en el último de una serie de cambios de postura que involucran a jugadoras que inicialmente habían solicitado refugio durante la Copa Asiática Femenina.

Esto deja solo a dos mujeres iraníes en Australia con visas humanitarias, tras una intensa actividad de las autoridades de inmigración después de la eliminación del equipo del torneo.

A las mujeres se les concedió asilo tras alegar temor a ser perseguidas si regresaban a su país, devastado por la guerra, luego de que se negaran a cantar el himno nacional iraní durante el partido inaugural contra Corea del Sur. Esta acción provocó una fuerte reacción de los sectores más conservadores en Irán, incluyendo a un presentador de medios estatales que las calificó de “traidoras de guerra”.

Dos jugadoras, Mona Hamoudi y Zahra Sarbali, así como una miembro del cuerpo técnico, Zahra Meshkekar, llegaron a Malasia el sábado y se dirigirán a Teherán, según informaron los medios estatales iraníes, que publicaron una fotografía de las tres juntas.

Otra mujer retiró posteriormente su solicitud. Los medios estatales iraníes la identificaron como la capitana del equipo, Zahra Ghanbari.

En declaraciones a Sky News, afiliada de CNN, el lunes, el viceministro de Asuntos Exteriores, Matt Thistlethwaite, afirmó que las jugadoras habían estado en contacto con sus familias y funcionarios iraníes.

“Entiendo que algunas de ellas contactaron con la embajada iraní aquí en Australia; obviamente, no podemos cortar la comunicación”, declaró.

Anteriormente, el ministro del Interior australiano, Tony Burke, había dicho que a las jugadoras se les habían brindado “oportunidades reiteradas para hablar sobre sus opciones”.

“Si bien el Gobierno australiano puede garantizar que se les brinden oportunidades y se les informe, no podemos ignorar el contexto en el que las jugadoras toman estas decisiones tan difíciles”, añadió.

La semana pasada, la delantera Mohadeseh Zolfi fue la primera en devolver su visa humanitaria, abandonando Australia el miércoles para unirse al resto del equipo en Malasia.

Siete integrantes de la selección nacional femenina de fútbol de Irán —seis jugadoras y una miembro del cuerpo técnico— habían recibido visas de refugiado para permanecer en Australia tras la Copa Asiática por temor a ser perseguidas en su país.

El equipo llegó a Australia antes de que Estados Unidos e Israel lanzaran ataques aéreos contra Irán, en los que murió el líder supremo de la República Islámica, el ayatolá Ali Jamenei.

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(CNN) — Two months after Donald Trump disparaged NATO allies for what he cast as their lackluster efforts in Afghanistan, the US president has warned that the alliance faces a “very bad” future if those same allies fail to support the United States in securing the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran effectively closed after it was attacked by the US and Israel.

“It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there,” Trump said Sunday in an interview with the Financial Times. “If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response, I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO.”

Trump’s latest threat against the alliance has put Europe in a bind. Since Trump’s return to the White House, European leaders have taken plenty of punishment from Washington — in the form of tariffs, tirades and territorial threats — so as not to jettison US support for Ukraine. Now, Trump appears to be upping his price, asking that US allies do “whatever it takes” to secure the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil ordinarily flows.

But this time, American allies have balked at Trump’s request to send warships to help transport oil through the strait, suggesting there is a limit to how far Europe will go to keep Trump onside in Ukraine and demonstrating the upshot of Trump’s derisive attitude toward alliances.

“This war has nothing to do with NATO. It is not NATO’s war,” a spokesman for

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday. “Participation has not been considered before the war and is not being considered now.”

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius also dismissed Trump’s request. “What does … Trump expect a handful or two handfuls of European frigates to do in the Strait of Hormuz that the powerful US Navy cannot do?” he asked. “This is not our war; we have not started it.”

The comments were a far cry from the tentative support that Merz voiced during a White House visit for the US-Israeli assault on Iran. Sitting next to Trump in the Oval Office on March 3, Merz said the US and Germany were “on the same page” in terms of getting rid of “this terrible regime in Tehran.”

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, also responded frostily to Trump’s request for help, saying the strait is “out of NATO’s area of action.” Officials in Italy, Japan and Australia also said their countries would not take part in efforts to reopen the strait.

Even countries that signaled a willingne