Netanyahu:

I think Mojtaba Khamenei is alive. What his condition is, it’s hard to say. He’s holed up in some bunker or in some secret place.

Netanyahu says “jealousy” and “envy” are among the reasons for antisemitism.

Netanyahu says some Arab states want to “strengthen [their] alliance with Israel” because that “deters Iran.”

IDF Reserve Sgt. Maj. Alexander Glovanyov, 47 years old, was killed in a Hezbollah drone attack near the Lebanon border yesterday.

📸 Russian Black Sea Fleet Project 21980 Grachonok anti-saboteur boat has been fitted with cope cage anti-drone protection.

Iran executed Erfan Shakourzadeh, a 29-year-old aerospace engineering master's student at Iran University of Science and Technology who worked on satellite projects.

He was convicted of espionage for the CIA and Mossad, accused of sharing classified satellite data, employee information, and receiving cryptocurrency payments after contacts via LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Google calls.

The body of 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr., 27, has been recovered off the coast of Morocco, U.S. Army Europe and Africa confirmed.

Key, an Air Defense Artillery officer, went missing on May 2 along with a second U.S. soldier near the Cap Draa Training Area while off-duty hiking during the African Lion 2026 exercise.

Reports indicate one soldier fell from a cliff into the Atlantic and the other jumped in to help.

Search operations for the second soldier — involving over 1,000 U.S. and Moroccan personnel — are still underway.

Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada registered draft law, proposing to recognize the Gagauz — a Turkic-speaking Orthodox Christian people numbering about 26,000–32,000 in Ukraine, mostly in southern Odesa Oblast — as an indigenous people of Ukraine.

The bill, initiated by five Servant of the People MPs led by Ruslan Horbenko, would expand the current list (Crimean Tatars, Karaites, Krymchaks) and grant the Gagauz enhanced cultural, linguistic, and educational rights, including Gagauz-language schooling.

The move follows FM Andrii Sybiha's October 2025 backing of the step, calling the Gagauz "an important bridge" between Ukraine and the Turkic world.

Macron is now having his morning jog in Nairobi, Kenya.

EU's Kaja Kallas:

If we give the right to Russia to appoint negotiator on our behalf, you know, that would not be very wise.

I think Gerhard Schröder has been the high-level lobbyist for Russian state-owned companies, so it's clear why Putin wants him to be the person — so that actually, you know, he would be sitting on both sides of the table.

EU's Kaja Kallas:

Our adversaries are not sleeping. So clearly they want to increase the influence in Europe.

We unfortunately already see this in sports organizations, where, you know, Russians are let to compete like nothing has happened.

EU's Kaja Kallas:

We saw that this ceasefire that Putin wanted was only very cynical — to protect his parade, whereas they were actually attacking civilians in Ukraine.

Ukraine kept to the ceasefire, like previously offered ceasefires, unconditionally. Russia didn't really stand up to this.

Iran's FM Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei:

Iran has proven to be a responsible power in the region, and at the same time, we are not bullies — rather, we are anti-bullies. Just look at our conduct.

Were we the ones who launched a military campaign against America thousands of miles away? Were we the ones who killed 170 innocent people in a single day? Are we the ones bullying Cuba, Venezuela, and other countries in the Western Hemisphere? Were we the ones who, during a diplomatic process, committed such a great crime — twice?

Is attacking a country, destroying its infrastructure, and assassinating the leader and citizens of a country an example of responsible behavior?

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir warned the Knesset on Sunday that the military urgently needs thousands more soldiers after nearly three years of multi-front war.

"I deal with multi-front war and defeating the enemy. To keep doing that, the IDF needs more soldiers immediately," he said.

"The army will fall apart if everyone serves only on their own terms," Zamir said.

Source: ynet

Iran's FM Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei:

We did not demand any concessions from America; rather, we called for an end to the war and a halt to the piracy at sea against Iranian ships.

Our proposals to America were generous and responsible.

Iran's FM Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei:

Our demands are legitimate: halting the war, lifting the blockade, ending maritime piracy, and releasing Iran's assets that have been unjustly frozen in banks under American pressure.

Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz and establishing security in the region and in Lebanon were among Iran's other demands — a generous and legitimate proposal for regional security.

Unfortunately, America continues to push its one-sided viewpoint.

Checkmate in Iran

Robert Kagan — a prominent American neoconservative — argues in The Atlantic that the U.S. is heading toward total defeat in its war with Iran, with consequences that "can neither be repaired nor ignored."

Despite 37 days of devastating U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed much of Iran's leadership and crippled its military, Tehran made no concessions, and Trump halted attacks after Iran's March 18 retaliation on Qatar's Ras Laffan gas plant caused damage that will take years to repair.

Kagan says Iran will keep control of the Strait of Hormuz — gaining global leverage over energy supplies, dictating terms to Gulf states, and emerging stronger alongside allies China and Russia.

He warns the war has exposed America as a "paper tiger," depleted weapons stocks, and accelerated a "post-American world," potentially encouraging Xi Jinping on Taiwan and Putin in Europe.