Iran's President Pezeshkian:

The United States cannot force the Iranian people to surrender through bullying, so it wants to make them surrender by depriving them of livelihoods and basic necessities.

If they are men of war, let them fight the military. What do they have against the people’s bread, livelihoods and infrastructure?

But the Iranian people will not surrender.

Anthropic says an Iran-linked group used Claude to help track U.S. Navy warships in the Middle East.

The group combined ship and aircraft transponder data, military photos and commercial satellite imagery to identify vessel locations and potential communications vulnerabilities.

Anthropic said it detected the activity, disrupted the operation and banned the associated accounts.

Source: WSJ

Zelensky:

Sometimes I don't understand why it's so difficult to make decisions quickly.

Because during a war, it's better to make a sometimes imperfect decision than to do nothing.

What are we waiting for? Why are we all only talking about sanctions when commenting on whether or not the United States Congress will support Senator Lindsey Graham's sanctions bill?

Of course, we need to pass, vote for, and support this law. In addition, strong decisions from the U.S. President's administration are crucial.

Personal decisions from President Trump are also very much needed. I sincerely hope for that.

Russia's Medvedev on Lithuania:

Lithuania, as I understand it, talked about opening the door for the possible placement of any weapon, including nuclear weapons.

If God forbid, something like this happens and we have to react to their actions, no one will step in for them.

The famous Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty will not be implemented. Everyone recognizes this because if it is implemented, it's a global catastrophe, planetary.

Lithuania will disappear from the map of the world.

BREAKING: Saudi Energy Ministry:

The East-West Pipeline was temporarily shut down after several attacks targeted the pipeline in the Riyadh and Medina regions on Thursday.

A UK military aircraft triggered Britain’s latest air traffic meltdown on Tuesday, September 8, after submitting “spurious” flight data into the NATS system.

The error sparked a wider system failure, grounding thousands of flights, causing delays of up to 10 hours and forcing some aircraft to divert abroad.

Ryanair’s operations chief called the incident “a complete clusterfuck,” while one insider said NATS chief Martin Rolfe is “toast” and that “this is the beginning of the end.”

Source: FT

Ted Cruz: Every voter can say, “You know what? If my Republican senator is reelected, I’m getting five grand.”

Dasha Burns: That sounds like buying votes a little bit.

Ted Cruz: It does, and the Democrats do it all the time.

Ted Cruz on Iran:

Anytime you have a military conflict in the Middle East, gas prices are going to be higher.

And Trump made a determination that the national security imperatives of stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon were significant enough that it was worth enduring some short-term economic cost.

I think that was a responsible decision that made America safer.

Ted Cruz on Trump:

For the last 10 years, I’ve agreed with virtually every foreign policy decision President Trump has made.

And it’s not accidental, because most of those decisions I have been energetically urging him to make.

Donald Trump is not an isolationist any way, shape, or form, which is part of why Tucker Carlson lost his mind.

Ted Cruz on Iraq:

The Iraq War was unequivocally a mistake. We went in there, it wasn’t defending U.S. national security.

We engaged in nation-building. We lost far too many of our sons and daughters in that war, and the mission became trying to turn a foreign country into a democratic utopia.

That is not the job of our military. The Iraq War was a mistake.

Ted Cruz on Iran:

The chances of Trump putting hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground like we did in Iraq, engaging in an occupation to try to turn Iran into a democratic utopia — the chances of that are zero.

Trump is not going to do so. He shouldn’t do so. I’m urging him not to, but I don’t have to fight that because he doesn’t want to do that.

Ted Cruz on Reagan:

In eight years, do you know the biggest country Reagan ever invaded? Grenada.

Reagan didn’t send our boys over to fight and get engaged in long ground wars. He didn’t invade countries.

What he did do was rebuild our military, bankrupt the Soviet Union, and win the Cold War without firing a shot.

That’s peace through strength. And that’s what Donald Trump is doing.

Dasha Burns: Do you think that policy and that idea, and your staunch support of Israel, is out of step with a lot of voters?

Ted Cruz: No. No. And in fact, I think it is overwhelmingly where Republican Party voters are.

Ted Cruz on Israel:

You can criticize the government of Israel and not be an anti-Semite.

But I’ll tell you what: 100% of anti-Semites are anti-Israel.

Trump:

The $5,000 Trump Dividend, given to all Adults in the United States due to the fact that our Country is taking in Trillions of Dollars of Economic Development, Investment, and Pure SUCCESS, is being criticized by “Dumocrats” who are hoping that it never happens — But it will!

When I say something, I mean it! The $5,000 Dividend will happen because the People of our Country deserve it. VOTE REPUBLICAN — MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

The CIA released previously secret intelligence briefs showing it repeatedly warned Presidents Clinton and Bush that Al Qaeda intended to attack the U.S. before 9/11.

The documents reveal striking clues, including a 1998 warning that Al Qaeda might fly an explosives-packed plane into an American city.

Iran's FM Spox. Esmail Baghaei:

Countries in the region must be held accountable for the damages and harms they have inflicted upon us.

We will not forget the past, and we have seriously raised our demands in every meeting, and we will continue to do so.

Iran's FM Spox. Esmail Baghaei:

What happened in Yemen is a sign that the patience of the Yemeni people has run out; it cannot be viewed unilaterally, and the unjust blockade of several years must not be ignored.

The United States has been the biggest interfering party and the cause of disruption in any dialogue and peaceful resolution process.

The United States, by accusing Iran, is seeking to destabilize the situation and create chaos among Islamic countries.

An Afghan permanent resident in Texas was deported after the Justice Department accused her of supporting ISIS-related terrorism.

Nazira Haji Zada, 47, chose to leave the U.S. rather than continue fighting the case in the rarely used Alien Terrorist Removal Court, created in 1996 for cases involving classified national-security evidence.

She was never criminally charged, but her son and son-in-law were convicted over an ISIS-inspired Election Day shooting plot in 2024.

Source: CBS News

Trump:

Nobody thought Thomas Massie could be beaten.

He lost by 19 points, got killed, so I am proud of that.

Trump:

Politics is amazing. You meet some of the most corrupt people in the world.