U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

There's been billions of dollars spent to influence particularly young American minds on social media through TikTok and Instagram and Twitter.

They've spent billions of dollars financing Middle East Studies series in various universities and brainwashing kids.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

When you say, or Mamdani says, that Benjamin Netanyahu is guilty of genocide, that Israel committed genocide, on its face, that is a stupid thing to say.

Why? Because when you commit genocide, you try to erase an entire people.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

Chuck Schumer is a coward. He is a coward for not calling this out.

And if he doesn't, then I hope that nobody ever calls him a Jewish leader again.

I'm not even Jewish, and I think I'm probably a much more effective Jewish leader than somebody who will not say what Mamdani is.

And that is an anti-Semite. You just can't go any other way with this.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

It is the Jewish foundation upon which Christianity is built. People can argue all they want to.

Jesus was Jewish. The early church—they were all Jews. Everything about the New Testament is built upon the Old Testament.

So as Christian believers, we owe the foundation of our faith to the Jewish faith.

Without the Jews, there would be no Christianity.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

So here's the way I look at it. It is the Jewish people upon which Christianity is built. It is the Judeo-Christian foundation upon which Western civilization was built.

If there was no Western civilization, the idea of the sanctity of the individual—where did that come from? From the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Where did that get into motion in government? Was it from ancient Rome? No. Was it from ancient Greece? No. Was it from the Ottoman Empire? No.

If there had not been an Israel, there would never have been an America.

INTERESTING: Iranian sources claim Iran destroyed a U.S. HIMARS system in northern Kuwait.

Webcam footage shows a massive fire near the reported launch area.

Not confirmed yet.

WATCH: Indian students free detained protesters.

NEW: The US Army placed its first new order for PAC-2 GEM-T Patriot missiles in over 30 years.

PAC-2s are older and less capable than PAC-3s, but stockpiles are so depleted (the US fired an estimated 1,060–1,430 Patriots against Iran) that the Army needs everything it can get.

Global demand from Ukraine, Israel, and the Gulf is straining supply, and deliveries take years.

Trump is seeking $67.1B in supplemental funding to replenish munitions.

Dozens of USAF cargo planes (C-17s and other heavy-lift) flying from European bases to the Middle East today.

It's a full-scale "airbridge" reactivated after the June ceasefire with Iran collapsed in early July.

Trump:

The Oval Office is a great place to negotiate.

Everyone is discombobulated when they walk in.

Iran rejected a temporary US ceasefire proposal from Trump, delivered to Tehran by Iraqi PM Ali al-Zaidi after his White House visit.

Al-Zaidi met with Pezeshkian, Araghchi, and Ghalibaf.

Tehran refused because the offer left control of the Strait of Hormuz unresolved.

Araghchi called the US approach “illogical, greedy and controlling.”

Source: NYT

Trump:

From now on, damages to ships, cargo, or related property will be paid from Iranian money the US holds and controls.

Damages may be substantial, but this is fair and equitable.

The Pentagon lowered its reported U.S. troop death toll from the Iran war from 18 to 14, then gave conflicting explanations for the change.

Three military officials said four troops killed after Trump declared a cease-fire (three in Jordan, one in Iraq) were removed because their deaths occurred after the cease-fire announcement.

Pentagon spokesman Joel Valdez instead blamed the change on temporary website data issues.

Source: NYT

US strikes on Iran continued for a 13th straight night, hitting reported missile sites in Yazd, weapons depots in Ahvaz, and multiple locations across southern and western Iran.

In response, Iran launched several missiles this morning toward Jordan, Bahrain, and the Erbil region of Iraqi Kurdistan.

The US has introduced new tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 major trading partners, including the UK, EU, China, Canada, Japan, and India, covering 99.4% of US imports.

Trump praises Laura Loomer's interview with Zelensky.

Ukraine's Navy has, for the first time, been certified by NATO to command multinational mine countermeasure forces after passing the Alliance's NEL-2 operational evaluation during the Sea Breeze 2026 exercise.

The certification confirms Ukraine can lead NATO-standard mine-clearing operations and coordinate multinational naval units, marking a major milestone in its military integration with the Alliance.

Source: RBC-Ukraine

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

Seizing another nation's assets to pay for unrelated future claims is an incendiary precedent.

Those who celebrate or profit from such funds should remember: once governments normalize confiscation, no one's assets are safe. Ensuing chaos will not be pretty or peaceful.