Marco Rubio on possible Iran deal:

Some progress has been made. Significant progress, although not final progress.

I don't want to uh downplay that, but I also want to caveat it by saying we still have some work to do.

Perhaps over the next few hours the world will get some good news at least with regards to the Straits and with regards to a process that can ultimately leave us where the President wants us to be.

The idea that somehow this President is going to agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting Iran in a stronger position when it comes to nuclear ambitions is absurd. That's just not going to happen.

(on the Strait of Hormuz) They don't own it. It's an international waterway.

What they are doing now is threatening to destroy commercial vessels using an international waterway.

If we allowed that to become normal, we would be setting a dangerous precedent that can be replicated in multiple places around the world.

Marco Rubio on racism against Indians:

Every country in the world has stupid people.

I'm sure there are stupid people here, there are stupid people in the United States that make dumb comments all the time.

NEW: Iranian source tells Tasnim News that disagreements over one or two clauses of a potential memorandum of understanding with the US remain unresolved, accusing Washington of "creating obstacles."

Iran has informed Pakistani mediators that if the US continues blocking progress, the agreement cannot be finalized.

Russia's MoD says it carried out a retaliatory strike on Ukrainian military and industrial targets using Oreshnik, Iskander, Kinzhal, and Zircon missiles.

Private text messages allegedly sent by Elon Musk to influencer Ashley St. Clair just before the 2024 US election have resurfaced online.

In one message, Musk wrote:

Tomorrow we unleash the anomaly in the matrix... this is not something on the chess board so they will be quite surprised 'lasers from space'... I have over 10,000 lasers in space right now.

WATCH: High-quality footage of Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles and Shahed-2 drones striking Kyiv, alongside Ukrainian air defense responses.

Marco Rubio:

We were able to go into Venezuela and remove highly enriched uranium.

The Iranian system has refused to even discuss it. That needs to change.

Marco Rubio:

Our country unfortunately faced a very serious migratory crisis a few years ago. Over 20 million people unlawfully entered the country.

We saw abuses of the green card system in many cases as well, and so we decided that we were going to reform it.

Anytime you reform a system, there's going to be some disruptions, some hiccups, some inconvenience. But we think in the long term we're going to have a system that's much more stable.

Indian professionals that seek to come to the United States are going to find themselves with a system that is more efficient, more effective, and better for both them and our country as well.

Armenia's PM Pashinyan:

Pleased to announce that following the Azerbaijani railway, the Turkish railway via Georgia, is now open for Armenian export & import.

This is a major develop for our country’s econ life. Express appreciation to our partners in Türkiye & Georgia for their constructive coop.

Tehran has not agreed to transfer its highly enriched uranium stockpile out of the country, and the nuclear issue is not part of the current preliminary agreement with the US.

Source: Reuters, citing Iranian official

NEW angle of Russian Oreshnik missile strike on Ukraine's Bila Tserkva.

The likely target was the local airfield.

NEW: Germany's Interior Ministry is considering a flat €8,000 return bonus for Syrian refugees who leave voluntarily, up from the current average of €1,000.

Over 900,000 Syrians live in Germany without German citizenship.

Source: Focus

Cyprus officially expressed interest in buying Indian drones and loitering munitions battle-tested during Operation Sindoor.

Cypriot officials specifically named the Nagastra-1 and Sky Striker loitering munitions as systems they want to acquire.

Iranian air defenses reportedly shot down an Israeli stealth reconnaissance drone over Hormozgan near Bandar Abbas.

Officials say it was detected and destroyed using a special undisclosed defense system, and the drone’s wreckage was later recovered in the Persian Gulf area.

Source: Mehr

A potential US-Iran deal would require Iran to forgo nuclear weapons and begin talks on giving up its highly enriched uranium stockpile while halting new enrichment.

Details on removing the stockpile and how long enrichment would pause would be negotiated later.

Source: CNN

Slovenia’s parliament has approved right-wing politician Janez Janša as prime minister for a fourth time.

Janša is a strong supporter of Israel and openly criticised the previous government’s 2024 decision to recognise a Palestinian state.

He is also politically close to figures such as Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán.

Trump:

Adios

Trump casually posts a fake Obama mugshot.