California Gov. Gavin Newsom:

We’re talking about regime change?

For two years, they haven’t even been able to solve the Hamas question in Israel.

Q: Do you think, looking down the road, that the United States should consider maybe, you know, rethinking our military support for Israel?

California Gov. Newsom: It breaks my heart, because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don’t think you have a choice about that consideration.

Iran will hold a three-day farewell ceremony for Khamenei starting Wednesday at 10 p.m. (1830 GMT) at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini prayer ground.

Funeral procession details will be announced once finalized.

Source: Reuters

Asian markets tumbled Wednesday, led by a record 12% plunge in Seoul, as investors dumped semiconductor stocks and braced for an oil shock from the widening Middle East War.

South Korea’s benchmark index has lost over 18% in two days, while the won fell to a 17-year low. Japan’s Nikkei dropped 3.9% and Taiwan stocks fell 4.3%.

Source: Reuters

Argentina's President Milei posted this video on his Instagram account.

CIA Weighs Arming Kurds Against Iran

In recent days, the CIA and Trump administration have discussed arming Iranian Kurdish forces operating along the Iraq-Iran border to spark unrest in Iran, CNN reports, as the IRGC conducts drone strikes and Kurdish leaders seek U.S. political assurances.

READ MORE

Zohran Mamdani on Iran:

I've said before that the Iranian government has engaged in systematic repression of its own people, even killing thousands of Iranians who were seeking to express the most basic forms of dissent earlier this year. It is a brutal government.

And I've also said that while I may be a young mayor, I am old enough to remember the devastating consequences of our country pursuing a war with the intent of regime change in that very same region not that many years ago.

Zohran Mamdani:

Muslims in this city, for almost as long as we have been in this city, have had to deal with those with power and platform dehumanizing us.

And to be called animals, insects, to be called a jihadist mayor, to be called a cockroach—this language is both painfully familiar to me as a Muslim New Yorker, but also as someone who was born in East Africa. And it is difficult to hear.

It is also a reminder that the silence that often greets this kind of bigotry, this kind of Islamophobia, is what allows it to fester—the temptation to treat it as politics as usual.

I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of my faith. I am not ashamed of being the first Muslim mayor in the history of our city.

And there is no amount of racism that will change the way in which I lead or the commitment that I hold to each and every New Yorker in this city.

WATCH: Likely U.S. bomber strikes pounded Tehran nonstop last night.

CENTCOM’s Operation Epic Fury struck nearly 2,000 targets in Iran using 2,000+ munitions, degrading air defenses, destroying missiles, drones, and ships, with 50,000 U.S. troops involved, signaling the largest Middle East buildup in a generation.

READ MORE

Senior aide to Khamenei:

Americans have been trying to cause Iran to break apart since the beginning of the Revolution.

The United States is not trying to take over Iran, but rather wants Iran to be divided.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

The position of the Spanish government in this situation is clear and consistent. It is the same one we have maintained in Ukraine and also in Gaza.

First of all, no to the violation of international law that protects us all, especially the most vulnerable, the civilian population.

Secondly, no to assuming that the world can only solve its problems through conflicts, through bombs. And finally, no to repeating the mistakes of the past.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

Twenty-three years ago, another US administration dragged us into a war in the Middle East. A war that, in theory, it was said at the time, was being fought to eliminate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, bring democracy and ensure global security.

But which in reality, seen in perspective, produced the opposite effect, it unleashed the greatest wave of insecurity that our continent has suffered since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Iraq War generated a drastic increase in jihadist terrorism, a serious migration crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean and a generalized increase in energy prices.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

The position of the Government of Spain is: no to war.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

And it is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure and, in the process, fill the pockets of a few.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran:

You cannot respond to one illegality with another, because that is how humanity's great disasters begin.

BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez to Trump:

We are not going to be accomplices to something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply because of the fear of reprisals from some.

We have absolute confidence in the economic, institutional and I would also say moral strength of our country.

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

When complex nuclear negotiations are treated like a real estate transaction, and when big lies cloud realities, unrealistic expectations can never be met.

The outcome? Bombing the negotiation table out of spite.

Mr. Trump betrayed diplomacy and Americans who elected him.

IDF Spokesperson:

An Adir (F-35I) aircraft of the Israeli Air Force recently shot down an Iranian Yak-130 fighter jet over the skies of Tehran.

This is the first time in the world that a manned fighter aircraft has been shot down by an F-35.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson on Iran:

We have no ability to get into nation building. We are not the world’s policeman. We have enough trouble of our own.

But I think this is a great development for the Iranians.