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.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

There has been an unusual level of partnership between the U.S. and Israel, not an unusual level of partnership between the U.S. and Türkiye.

Source: Israeli Channel 12

All Routes To European Security Lead Through Türkiye?

🗣 Only Türkiye in European NATO has the potential to put tens of thousands of boots on the ground in Ukraine.

Opinion by Timothy Ash

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Lord Mandelson has resigned from the Labour Party, saying he does not want to cause further embarrassment over links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Source: BBC

Trump:

Trevor Noah said, INCORRECTLY about me, that Donald Trump and Bill Clinton spent time on Epstein Island. WRONG!!!

I can’t speak for Bill, but I have never been to Epstein Island, nor anywhere close, and until tonight’s false and defamatory statement, have never been accused of being there, not even by the Fake News Media.

Noah, a total loser, better get his facts straight, and get them straight fast. It looks like I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$.

Trump:

Just think? It has just been announced that the United States of America made more Steel last year, 2025, than the Great Country of Japan, a major Steelmaker.

Thank you President Trump!

Trevor Noah:

Song of the Year — that is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton.

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