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Reza Pahlavi:

Every day that goes by, more Iranians are dying in Iran.

A rapid intervention will only help save more lives.

NATO's Rutte in Munich:

I am not here to talk about the Kurds.

Reza Pahlavi:

I call for maximum defections to make sure that, unlike what happened in Iraq after Saddam, we don’t have a failed state and we don’t have chaos.

Reza Pahlavi:

If yesterday's reformers today decide that it's no use, we'd better join with the people and have the same demands, they're welcome to join us. It's as simple as that.

As long as, again, they're not criminally implicated in the murder of their own citizens, because that's a different story, and they will have to account for it.

Reza Pahlavi:

I have yet to receive a penny of government support from any government.

Rubio:

If the Ayatollah said tomorrow that he wanted to meet with Trump, Trump would meet him.

Not because he agrees with the Ayatollah, but because he thinks that is the way you solve problems in the world.

Trump does not view meeting someone as a concession.

Rubio:

We don’t provide arms to Russia; we provide arms to Ukraine.

We don’t sanction Ukraine; we sanction Russia.

Rubio on Cuba:

The fundamental problem Cuba has is that it has no economy, and the people who are in charge of that country and in control of it don’t know how to improve the everyday lives of their people without giving up power over the sectors they control.

They want to control everything. They don’t want the people of Cuba to control anything. So they don’t know how to get themselves out of this.

And to the extent that they’ve been offered opportunities to do so, they don’t seem to be able to comprehend or accept them in any way.

They would much rather be in charge of a dying country than allow it to prosper.

Rubio on Cuba:

This is a regime that has survived almost entirely on subsidies.

First from the USSR, then from Hugo Chávez, and for the first time it has no subsidies coming from anyone.

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Zelensky:

Our people deserve gratitude and respect.

Zelensky:

There is not a single power plant left in Ukraine that has not been damaged by Russian attacks.

Not one.

Zelensky:

When the Iranian regime first gave Russia Shahed drones, they were simple weapons and could be shut down easily.

Now, however, they are different. They have jet engines. They can fly at different altitudes. They can be guided by an operator in real time and use Starlink to reach their targets.

They can even carry and deploy other FPV drones.

Zelensky:

We are grateful for all the supplies we have received. But you saw how long we had to push to be allowed to receive stronger and more advanced weapons—months for HIMARS, months for tanks, years for aircraft. Everything took time.

Not a single day—not a single opportunity to protect life—can be wasted.

Zelensky on Iran:

Ukraine does not share a border with Iran, and we have never had a conflict of interest with the Iranian regime.

But the Iranian Shahed drones they sold to Russia are killing—especially our people, Ukrainians—and destroying our infrastructure.

The Iranian regime has already done, and can still do, more harm than many other regimes could in a century.

And yet, this regime still exists, and it hopes to survive everything—even this crisis.

Zelensky on Iran:

Today, the people of Iran expect from the world what we in Ukraine needed on February 24th, when the Russian invasion began: unity, determination, and speed—of course, speed.

Regimes like the one in Iran must not be given time. When they have time, they only kill more.

They must be stopped immediately.

Zelensky:

We will reach the point where we produce enough interceptors to make Shahed drones meaningless for Russia.

Zelensky:

There is no country in Europe that could rely only on its own technology and money to defend itself.

Zelensky:

Putin still has guarantees of financial stability. A large part of those guarantees lies here in Europe.

Russian oil tankers still move freely along Europe’s shores—in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and the Mediterranean. Overall, Russia still uses more than a thousand tankers.

I recently discussed this with President Macron, with President von der Leyen, and with other leaders, and I thank them for their willingness to fix this. We spoke about it in detail.

It is important to block this entire fleet—all these tankers—and to have them confiscated, the same way the United States acts against shadow fleet tankers near its own shores.