Reporter: Khamenei said today that a U.S. attack could start a regional war.

Trump: Why wouldn’t he say that, of course he is going to say that.

We have the biggest, most powerful ships in the world over there, very close.

Hopefully we’ll make a deal.

If we don’t make a deal, then we’ll find out whether or not he was right.

Trump on Cuba:

We’re talking to the people from the highest levels in Cuba. Let’s see what happens.

I think we’re going to make a deal with Cuba.

Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado:

If they had captured me before I left, I probably would have disappeared or worse.

Right now, I don’t think they would dare to kill me because of the United States’ presence and pressure and actions.

BREAKING:

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

Trump said no nuclear weapons, and we fully agree. We fully agree with that. That could be a very good deal.

In return, we expect sanction lifting, so that deal is possible. Let’s not talk about impossible things.

NEW: Gulf states warn that despite recent losses, Iran’s missile forces can still seriously threaten U.S. bases.

Gulf officials say Iran’s missile program is damaged but not crippled: “key elements remain intact and other capabilities have been rebuilt.”

Iran now views conflict with the U.S. as existential: the regime sees a fight with Washington as “an existential threat.”

After a symbolic strike on al-Udeid in Qatar, Iran is signaling future attacks would be real: they would not be “measured and telegraphed” like before.

Iran still has weapons that can hit U.S. forces: “shorter-range munitions, launchers and some elements of its missile production system” remain.

A former Iranian diplomat claims rapid recovery: “Tehran has doubled missile production since the 12-day war.”

Iran is hiding launchers in mountains: “It is not possible to reach and damage these capabilities easily.”

Iran remains dominant in missiles: it has “the largest missile program in the region.”

Source: WaPo

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

The talks so far have been fruitful.

Trump remains open to a diplomatic solution with Iran.

Trump’s latest statements about Iran are not just posturing.

Qatar, Türkiye, and Egypt are working to arrange a meeting in Ankara between Witkoff and senior Iranian officials.

Source: Axios, citing WH official

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Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

If the war starts, that would be a disaster for everybody.

In the previous war, we tried hard to limit the scope of the war between Iran and Israel.

This time, if it is between Iran and the U.S., since the U.S. bases are spread all over the region, then inevitably many parts of the region will be involved.

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

Our missiles were tested in a real war last time, and we were able to understand their weak points and their strengths.

We learned many lessons during the 12-day war. I think we are now very well prepared.

But being prepared doesn’t mean that we want war.

Director of National Economic Council Kevin Hassett:

We are reordering the world order, and it’s going to end up being great for everybody.

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

There was no plan for executions or hangings.

Right now, I can affirm that the rights of each and every person who is arrested will be guaranteed.

Belgian PM Bart De Wever on his meeting with Trump:

I’m the most pro-American guy you can find, but it needs two to tango in a marriage — you need to love each other.

And if Atlantism comes to an end, globalization will go with it, and we will be the victim of it.

And of course, if you are threatened with violence within an alliance and you don’t draw the red line there, well, where will you ever draw it?

So we nicely, politely delivered the message. This I can say. I will not say how he reacted to it.

But I don’t think I will get invited to the White House in the very near future.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

Trump is hostile to the idea of the European Union.

When he says he loves Europe, he actually means he loves 27 separate countries that would live in vassalage or drift toward slavery.

The only economy large enough to stand up to him is the economy of the European Union — and he doesn’t like that.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

When the war in Ukraine started in 2022, I thought we were back in the 1980s.

We have a tyrant in the East, an autocrat, invading a democratic country that wants to belong to the free West.

I thought we would again see the leader of the free world come to Europe, just like Reagan did in 1987 when he said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

I thought we would see the leader of the free world say, “Mr. Putin, get out of Ukraine.”

But we didn’t. We see an American administration saying: between Putin and Zelensky, we don’t take sides.

Between tyranny invading democracy, the United States says it does not take sides. Then you know you are not in the 1980s — you are in the 1880s.

This is a new age of imperial thinking, with imperial hemispheres and gunboat diplomacy.

That layer may disappear after Trump, but we cannot bet on that. It could get better or it could get even worse.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

We depended on the big stick of the United States — and now we see that the man with the big stick can also use it against us.

We have never seen this before: that the United States no longer simply does what we want, but dares to threaten us with the big stick.

This is a turning point.

Belgian PM Bart De Wever admits:

We made dogmatic choices against nuclear energy, which was the stupidity of the century.

We’re trying to come back from it and we’re far from there now.

So we made dogmatic choices, but the worst is we are still making dogmatic choices in Europe.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

I was a sharp critic of what Europe was doing on immigration. I think Europe was foolish.

We attracted the wrong kind of immigrants. We need immigrants, but we need to attract the right kind of immigrants — active immigrants that can reinforce our labor market.

But our main specialty is attracting immigrants that are actually weighing on the social system. And our citizens see this, and this has fueled the extreme right.

Steve Bannon: Do you think you are the devil himself?

Jeffrey Epstein: Why would you say that?

Bannon: Because you have all the attributes, you are incredibly smart...

Epstein: Is the devil smart?

Bannon: The devil is brilliant.

Epstein: No, the devil scares me.

(From a 2018–19 interview, newly made public.)

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

Trump is going to do what he can do for two things: one, to protect the Iranian people who are being slaughtered by a runaway government that has brutalized its own people and has, for 47 years, threatened Israel and the U.S.

The other thing he is going to be adamant about is that Iran is not going to get a nuclear weapon and they are not going to enrich uranium.

Source: Israeli Channel 12

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

Every enemy that Israel has is an enemy of the United States.

We are quite aware of that.

Source: Israeli Channel 12

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

Who got the F-35s? Israel. Türkiye will not get F-35 jets.

Türkiye, by law, would not be able to get them unless they made major changes in the hardware they have from Russia.