The United States is calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council regarding the situation in Iran.

Source: Al Jazeera

Trump said Reza Pahlavi appears “very nice” but questioned whether he could gain enough support inside Iran to lead the country if the Islamic Republic collapses.

In a Reuters interview, Trump said any regime can fail but stressed it is unclear whether Iranians would accept Pahlavi as a leader.

Trump on Iran’s Regime:

Whether or not it falls or not, it's going to be an interesting period of time.

Source: Reuters

Trump to Reuters:

Putin is ready to make a deal. We have to get Zelensky to go along with it.

Trump on María Corina Machado:

She’s a very nice woman. I’ve seen her on television.

I think we’re just going to talk basics.

Source: Reuters

Trump on Reza Pahlavi:

He seems very nice, but I don’t know how he’d play within his own country.

I don’t know whether or not his country would accept his leadership, and certainly if they would, that would be fine with me.

Source: Reuters

Iran has extended its NOTAM, keeping the airspace restriction in place for an additional two hours.

Reza Pahlavi:

In security and foreign policy, Iran’s nuclear military program will end. Support for terrorist groups will cease immediately.

A free Iran will work with regional and global partners to confront terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, and extremist Islamism.

In diplomacy, relations with the United States will be normalized and our friendship with America and her people will be restored.

The State of Israel will be recognized immediately. We will pursue the expansion of the Abraham Accords into the Cyrus accords bringing together a free Iran, Israel, and the Arab world.

Germany's Merz admits:

It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy.

We are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world.

I know of no other country that makes things so difficult and expensive as Germany.

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Danish Defence Minister Truls Lund Poulsen on Greenland:

We consider it unlikely that one NATO country would attack another NATO country.

The standing order, as it has always been in modern times, is that if one is attacked, one must defend the Kingdom.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:

We have been applying a maximum pressure campaign on Iran’s oil exports to cut off the sources of the regime’s funding.

And what we have seen in the past month is a total financial collapse of the regime.

We’re seeing banks go out of business. We are seeing inflation. We are seeing a lack of hard currency.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Iran:

What we are now seeing is the rats fleeing the ship.

We can see millions, tens of millions of dollars being wired out of the country, smuggled out by the Iranian leadership.

They are abandoning ship, we are seeing this happen.

In response to potential U.S. annexation threats, NATO members including Germany, France, Sweden, and Norway are sending military personnel to Greenland to take part in joint exercises with Danish forces.

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Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to conclude the war in Ukraine, while President Volodymyr Zelensky is reluctant to move forward.

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Germany's Merz:

Yes, we want and we must push back irregular migration...

But we also want and we must remain a country that welcomes people from other countries of the world if they want to live and work in Germany.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Iran:

We absolutely want problems to be resolved through dialogue.

I believe that large-scale instability in Iran would be far beyond the region’s capacity to handle.

Russia has expelled a British diplomat it accuses of working as an undeclared intelligence officer, giving him two weeks to leave the country.

Türkiye will send fighter jets to Estonia from August–November 2026 and to Romania from December 2026–March 2027 as part of NATO’s enhanced air policing missions.

Uganda’s election commission chief Simon Byabakama says he has received threats not to declare opposition candidates as winners even if they win, reiterating intimidation won't work.

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Reporter: Does Türkiye want to be part of a (regional) alliance like the one formed by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia?

Turkish FM Fidan: As of now, there are ongoing talks, but we have not yet signed any agreement.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

We are against a military intervention targeting Iran.

Iran needs to resolve its internal problems on its own.

Iran also needs to resolve its problems with the countries in the region.