Former Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi has died at age 81 from wounds sustained in the April 1 strike in Tehran.

BIG: Chinese President Xi Jinping met Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing:

The leaders of the two parties are meeting today to safeguard the peace and tranquility of our shared home.

To promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.

We are willing, based on the common political foundation of adhering to the 1992 Consensus and opposing Taiwan independence...

To seek peace for both sides of the strait, to seek well-being for our compatriots, and to seek rejuvenation for the nation.

To firmly hold the future of cross-strait relations in the hands of the Chinese people themselves.

Reza Pahlavi:

We never sought military intervention in our country.

Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun to Chinese President Xi in Beijing:

Today... I deeply feel the concerned gaze of the entire world.

Kuomintang and the Communist Party to jointly promote the institutionalization of cross-strait peace.

Based on the common political foundation of adhering to the 1992 Consensus and opposing Taiwan independence, the two sides should further plan and construct institutional and sustainable dialogue and cooperation mechanisms.

To make the peaceful development of the two sides irreversible, and to fundamentally eliminate all root causes of conflict.

Reza Pahlavi:

Everyone keeps asking: when will the Iranian people rise?

I don’t say they will rise right away—but at the right moment.

Chief of Indian Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi on 2025 India–Pakistan conflict:

We made sure that when the people on the other side are going through that Namaz prayer in the terrorist camp, we said this time we'll not touch.

Because God is one for everyone.

Zelensky:

Without Ukraine and Türkiye, Europe will not have an army similar to Russia’s.

Zelensky:

We have to save our country, and then the economy.

First of all, security; second is the economy—not the other way around.

Zelensky:

With Ukraine, Türkiye, Norway and UK you will control security on the seas — not one sea.

Zelensky:

It’s a pity, but we have to recognize that some Americans feel that it’s not such a big price for us—for peace—to leave our territories.

They don’t want to recognize that Putin will lie to them and continue the occupation even after such steps.

I think that is the biggest problem: we don’t trust Putin, but they do.

Israel removes Spain from the coordination center in Kiryat Gat over “anti-Israel bias”

At Iran’s state-backed night rallies:

“A ceasefire without Lebanon is a betrayal of Islam.”

Cheng Li-wun, Leader of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang, after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping today:

I am willing to do anything that is helpful to cross-strait peace.

I am willing to meet anyone who is helpful to cross-strait peace.

Cheng Li-wun, Leader of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang, after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping today:

We cannot let Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait become a battlefield.

We are the vanguard; the road has begun.

Cheng Li-wun, Leader of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang, after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping today:

This is a choice between peace and war.

Hezbollah:

Resistance will continue until its last breath.

Cheng Li-wun, Leader of Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang, after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping today:

No one wants to see Taiwan’s next generation go to the battlefield.

Clash Point host Isaac Eshetu sits with Middle East Expert Adam Weinstein, deputy director of the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, to examine the recent ceasefire between Iran & the United States.

• Is it a real path to de-escalation?
• Is it simply a pause in the conflict?
• Is it being deliberately sabotaged?
• Who benefits & who doesn't?

WATCH

JD Vance departs for peace talks with Iran in Pakistan:

We’re looking forward to the negotiation. I think it’s going to be positive.

If the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith and extend an open hand, that’s one thing.

If they’re going to try to play us, they’re going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive.

The President has given us some pretty clear guidelines, and we’ll see how it goes.