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.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Iran:

What is being confused here is this: people’s frustrations over the economic and other hardships they face are being portrayed as if they were an ideological uprising against the regime.

When you look closely, there is actually no situation here that would whet the appetite of some Iran-hostile countries abroad.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Greece:

In Greek domestic politics, the perception of Türkiye as a threat has always played a driving role in politics.

Whenever someone wants to take an initiative regarding Türkiye, they inevitably have to pay a political price.

In Greece, a political leader is forced to choose between resolving problems with Türkiye and bringing peace to the region, or risking their own political career.

This situation needs to come to an end.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Syria:

When problems are not resolved through dialogue, unfortunately I see the use of force as also being an option on behalf of the Syrian government.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

We are a country that recognized Israel many years ago. So why are we now cutting relations with Israel, cutting trade? We have told them this repeatedly. Most recently, because of the genocide they launched after October 7. That is why we have brought relations to this point.

When Israel’s pressure and oppression against the Palestinians stop, when everything returns to normal life, there would be no problem for Türkiye in seeking normalization in its relations.

Even if killings through bombs dropped from aircraft or by sniper fire may have stopped for now, we still see on our screens every day children, women, and the elderly dying because sufficient humanitarian aid is not being allowed in: from cold, hunger, lack of medicine, and lack of treatment.

As long as this continues, it is not possible—not just for us, but for many countries—to normalize relations with Israel.

Greenland’s Foreign Minister Vivian Motzfeldt gets visibly emotional, briefly breaks down on live interview:

“We are doing our utmost. But the last days, naturally… oh, I am getting very emotional. I am overwhelmed.”

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

Apart from the Greek Prime Minister, do you see any other European prime minister going to Tel Aviv and posing for photos? You don’t—no one is going.

European leaders come to power through elections, and they know that being photographed with Netanyahu these days is not something that is viewed positively.

Can Netanyahu himself travel anywhere other than the United States? He can’t. Maybe he might come to Greece—I don’t know.