Several Istanbul–Tehran flights were cancelled tonight amid growing fears of a possible U.S. strike on Iran.

Trump on Iran:

I’m not happy with the fact that they’re not willing to give us what we have to have.

We will have some additional talks today.

Trump on Bill Clinton:

I like him and I don’t like seeing him deposed.

Trump on Howard Lutnick:

He is a very innocent guy.

Trump on Iraq:

I get along very well with the Iraqi leadership.

Trump on Iran:

We haven’t made a final decision. We are not exactly happy with the way they are negotiating.

They cannot have nuclear weapons, and we are not thrilled with the way they are negotiating.

Trump on Cuba:

Maybe we will have a friendly takeover of Cuba.

Trump on Epstein:

I don't know anything about the Epstein files.

I've been fully exonerated.

Trump on Iran:

It will be wonderful if they negotiate in good faith.

But they are not getting there.

Trump on Iran:

It’d be nice if we could do it without the military, but sometimes you have to do it with it.

Trump on Cuba:

They have no money. They have no oil. They have no food.

They want our help.

Rubio is dealing on it at a very high level.

Reporter: Are you considering declaring a national emergency around the midterm elections?

Trump: Who told you that? No.

Reporter: Pakistan is facing war again in Afghanistan. Are you seeking to intervene?

Trump: Well, I would, but I get along with Pakistan, as you know, very well — very, very well.

You have a great Prime Minister, you have a great general there, you have a great leader — two of the people that I really respect a lot.

And I think that Pakistan is doing terrifically well, yeah.

Pete Hegseth takes the stage at an event in Arkansas to “Many Men (Wish Death)” by 50 Cent.

Hegseth on Venezuela:

Three minutes before our helicopters landed on the objective, 44 missiles landed simultaneously on 44 different targets, powered by rocket motors and launched from different platforms and systems across the Caribbean.

Oman’s Foreign Minister, Badr Albusaidi:

I met Vice President JD Vance today and shared details of the ongoing negotiation between the United States and Iran and the progress achieved so far.

I am grateful for their engagement and look forward to further and decisive progress in the coming days.

Peace is within our reach.

Interviewer: The Kremlin is claiming that Ukraine is trying to get a nuclear weapon via Britain and France. Is that the case?

Zelensky: I didn’t have proposition… but with pleasure.

Interviewer: So we can put that to bed. That’s not happening at all?

Zelensky: No. It’s not happening.

Zelensky:

If we withdraw from this territory like you said — for example Kramatorsk, Sloviansk — at this very moment 200,000 people who are there now will be occupied by Russians who say to Russians that these people are ready to be Russian people, and if they don’t, they will kill them or push them to the front or push them to prison.

They did the same steps in Luhansk, in Donetsk, in Crimea.

Zelensky:

I’m not playing games with Putin. I’m ready to meet and I’m ready to speak.

But not in Russia and not Belarus, because they are allies during this war. Belarus is a passive aggressor. They attacked us from the territory of Belarus.