⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇪🇺 — US President Trump threatens trade retaliation over potential Canadian EU accession:

«Canada's in a terrible trade position. [...] If they do that, if I think it's an overall hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things. So if they do that, if Europe does that with a bad intention—if it's a good intention, that's fine—if it's a bad intention, we'll put very heavy tariffs on Europe.»

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⚡️🇺🇸 — US President Donald Trump on the Kennedy Center:

«Well, it's a very easy question to answer, because it's a mess. It's lost... the Kennedy Center for many years has lost tens of millions of dollars, even hundreds of millions of dollars. It's a loser financially. [...] They were losing hundreds of millions of dollars, and sometimes hundreds of millions—this is before I got involved.

So for the Trump administration, for me to get involved and to take that on long term and to carry it, or to raise money to carry it, I think the Trump administration should certainly have recognition. Because, frankly, if we don't do that, it's going to close. It'll end up being ripped down. It's in very, very bad shape, very dangerous shape. [...] It's been very badly maintained for 25 years.

I'd like to be able to save it, but it's going to take a lot of subsidy into the future. And for us as an administration to want to do that, I think the Trump administration should be recognized.»

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⚡️🇮🇷🇨🇳 — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi concludes China consultations, elevating Xi's peace principles as determinant of regional strategic balance:

«Successful consultations in China with our partners. Iran values strategic partnership we have built over time. Today's decisions will decide future strategic balance in the region, with immeasurable knock-on effects. 4 principles for peace outlined by President Xi are key.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷 — The US House of Representatives approved a broad bill authorizing economic sanctions and tariffs against Russia and extending existing sanctions on Iran, aimed at influencing Russia’s economy and its ability to fund the war in Ukraine. The bill, named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham who initiated and promoted it, passed 262-159.

➡️ Under the proposal, sanctions would target Russian officials, banks, and its “shadow fleet,” while President Donald Trump could impose 100% tariffs on the top five importers of Russian oil or gas. The legislation also extends sanctions on Iran’s energy and weapons sectors. The bill now goes to Trump for approval and signature.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇸🇦🇦🇪🇶🇦🇧🇭🇰🇼🇴🇲 — President Trump is expected to hold a meeting with Gulf leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next Tuesday to discuss next steps in the war with Iran, according to three sources with direct knowledge — Axios.

➡️ The meeting is expected to focus on U.S. ideas for a postwar strategy as Trump and his senior team work on a day-after plan expected to be finalized after the midterms. Trump will meet with leaders or foreign ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman; one source said the meeting could expand to include other Arab and Muslim leaders.

➡️ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also wants to meet Trump in New York, but no meeting has been scheduled, an Israeli source said.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — US President Donald Trump on Iran:

«And that war is going to end very soon. [...] They're getting decimated, and they want to make a deal so badly. [...] And they're not ready yet, I don't think, but we could have a deal anytime we want.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 — US President Trump articulates a doctrine of unilateral economic coercion and monetary dictate:

«And if we stopped trading with every country that we have a deficit with, which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do, would make at least $1.5 trillion a year. [...] The word 'deficit', you have to understand, is nothing more than a fancy word for loss. [...] They're only elite because we allow them to trade with us and we allow them to make far more money than they should be.

They're not elite. We're the ones that are elite. [...] And if I ended those deals, you would see a country that would make more money, and you'd see the elite countries go right down the tubes. We're carrying almost every country in the world, and that really cannot go on that much longer. [...] Why should we carry Canada? Why should we carry Mexico?—although we're very close to a deal with Mexico, a great deal. [...] Why should we carry so many countries in Europe? We're carrying the European nations with a $200 billion deficit.

All we have to do is say, 'You know what? We're not trading with you anymore. We don't need anything they have.' We have cars, we have lumber, we have food, we have everything.»

➡️ On domestic monetary policy:

«But lower the interest rates for the United States of America, and fast, because we can grow at a level that nobody's ever grown before.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 — US President Donald Trump attributes diesel price surges to Russia-Ukraine war:

«I ended eight wars. And the one that's the toughest is Russia, Ukraine. They hate each other. The two leaders hate each other so much [...] That's the war that's driving up the diesel prices, but it's all going to end very soon.»

➡️ On domestic economic indicators and projected industrial expansion:

«And you're going to end up having a country that nobody's ever seen before. Because again, we have more jobs being created now and more factories being built than any time in the history of our country. It's going to be a beautiful thing and it's going to be very soon.»

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⚡️🇺🇸 — US President Trump on fuel costs as a strategic trade-off and projected price trajectory:

«But, uh, I have to say, you have a little higher, you have a higher gas... it's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that. It's a little more. It's even if it was... frankly, even if it was a lot more. But that's going to come tumbling down. That's going to be like a rocket ship in reverse.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪🇮🇷 — US President Donald Trump claims military success and resource extraction in Venezuela, forecasts Iran's strategic degradation:

«We took out Venezuela in 48 minutes...And now we have all our big oil companies going there and we're working along with the government of Venezuela very well. The relationship is extraordinary. We're taking out millions and millions of barrels of oil. [...] When they say 'to the victor belong the spoils,' that's one of the greatest cases anyone's ever seen in history. We paid back the cost of our war many times over.»

«And you watch what's going to happen to Iran. [...] we have the strait open [...] and they've been decimated. Their navy is gone...»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — US President Trump details the scale of Iranian military degradation and blockade enforcement:

«...But when you look at it is, well, we have the Strait open, we have all this thing, and they've been decimated. Their navy's gone, their air force is gone. Think of it: their navy, 159 ships, every one of them is at the bottom of the sea. Every one of them. Our military, so we put on a blockade, the likes of which... not one ship, in all the months that it's been, not one ship going to Iran has gotten through that blockade. Not one.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 — US President Trump announces record Venezuelan oil acquisition and proposes tariff-funded citizen dividend:

«And with our new and powerful relationship with Venezuela, we just made the largest oil deal in history. And I think the largest deal in history. We got 65 billion barrels of beautiful—well, 500 years' worth of oil. 65 billion, think of it, billion barrels of oil. We got it for... what? An attack. We got it for an attack.»

➡️ On domestic electoral pledge and tariff policy:

«And remember, if the Republicans win the House and Senate, I will issue what we will all call from now on the Trump dividend. To every adult in America, will get $5,000, and you'll get it. Because we're taking in so much money. And we can do it, and the Democrats can't say that because they don't do the tariffs. Tariffs have made us rich.

[...] So tariff is my fifth favorite word. But we took in billions and billions and billions of dollars in tariffs. So we can make a pledge, but they can't. Because if they get in, this country will go into a massive depression.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇵🇸 — The US State Department announced it will extend visa sanctions against senior Palestinian Authority and PLO officials after determining they continue to fall short of their commitments to Washington. The State Department alleged the PA and PLO are advancing steps against Israel at the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice in The Hague, seeking unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, and continuing payments to "terrorists" and "terror glorification." It said the existing exemption for members of the permanent Palestinian observer mission to the UN will remain in effect.

➡️ Separately, a source familiar with the details confirmed to AFP that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will not be allowed to enter the United States to attend next week's UN General Assembly for the second consecutive year, following a report last month on the US intention. The State Department's official announcement did not mention Abbas by name, who is expected to address the assembly virtually.

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⚡️🇸🇦🇾🇪 — Two regional officials said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia is running low on missile interceptors and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt to deploy air-defense support to help defend against missiles and drones fired by Houthis and other Iran-backed groups — AP.

➡️ One official said the outreach was initiated because Saudi Arabia’s main ally and arms supplier, the United States, has seen its own interceptor stockpile dwindle over a six-month war with Iran. The same official said Saudi Arabia is in a “very difficult position,” having to protect military bases, vital government installations, and oil facilities across the kingdom. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

➡️ A second official said Saudi Arabia is also seeking to rally international allies for a collective response against the Houthis, but that “the decision now is to give diplomacy a chance,” with Oman and Egypt leading de-escalation efforts in Yemen. A Turkish government official, speaking anonymously, said Turkey was engaged in talks with Iran and the United Arab Emirates to lower tensions, without providing further details.

➡️ The Houthi attacks are the first test of the new defense pact among Saudi Arabia, NATO member Turkey and nuclear power Pakistan. However, Turkish and Pakistani officials told The Associated Press they have not received a Saudi request for support in response to the Houthi escalation, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Last night, as a result of a large-scale strike using precision land, sea, air and drone weapons, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the Ukrainian metallurgical and electronics industry enterprises, the military-industrial complex, energy and transport infrastructure facilities in Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and the Odessa region, as well as naval vessels deployed on behalf of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, — Russian Ministry of Defense.

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⚡️🇮🇷🇵🇰🇹🇷 — Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi held separate phone calls with Pakistan’s army commander Field Marshal Asim Munir and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. The calls covered the latest regional developments and issues of mutual interest — Tasnim.

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⚡️🇺🇦🇷🇺 — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

I thank our warriors, who make Russia feel the war every day. Last night, in a joint operation by the Security Service of Ukraine, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, and the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Yaroslavl oil refinery was hit. The Security Service also carried out a precise strike on a military airfield in Rostov – the damage to an An-12, two An-26s, and three helicopters has been confirmed. There have also been good results in the Black Sea. Every day, we respond to aggression. Russia must choose peace.

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⚡️🇮🇳🇺🇸🇷🇺 — India Warns New U.S. Tariffs Over Russian Oil Could Strain Bilateral Ties and Threaten Energy Security, — ALARABIYA english.

​➡️ India's foreign ministry warned Washington that newly proposed legislative measures authorizing severe tariffs on purchasers of Russian oil could adversely impact bilateral relations, following the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of a sweeping sanctions and tariff bill. The legislation, which awaits President Donald Trump's signature, empowers the administration to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent on nations like India and China to curtail their reliance on Russian energy supplies. In response, New Delhi emphasized that it had repeatedly communicated the negative implications of such actions to U.S. interlocutors, stating its firm commitment to safeguarding national economic interests and securing diverse, affordable energy supplies for its population.

​➡️ As the world's third-biggest oil importer, India relies heavily on discounted Russian crude to sustain its economy, with domestic refiners warning that cutting off these shipments amid ongoing Middle Eastern conflicts would drive up fuel costs and severely impact refining margins. Analysts note that the tariff threat risks complicating stalled bilateral trade negotiations, which Indian Trade Minister Piyush Goyal is expected to address during upcoming discussions with United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at the G20 trade ministerial meeting.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — T-80BVM tank crews from the Sever Group destroyed a camouflaged trench, a drone control point, and Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the direction of Kharkiv, — Russian Ministry of Defense.

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⚡️🇹🇷🇺🇸🇮🇷 — Turkey Approves Liquidation of Golden Global Funds Following U.S. Sanctions Over Iran Links, — ALARABIYA english.

​➡️ Turkey’s Capital Markets Board approved the liquidation of six investment funds managed by Golden Global Portfoy, including short-term lease certificates, gold and money market participation funds, and three venture capital funds. The regulatory action follows the U.S. Treasury Department's decision earlier this month to impose sanctions on Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi and two subsidiaries as part of the Trump administration's campaign to ramp up economic pressure on Iran.

​➡️ Concurrently, the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund seized control of a 99.98 percent stake in Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi held by its three primary shareholders, placing the institution under state-appointed management. This swift intervention by Turkish financial authorities underscores the broader fallout and tightening compliance measures surrounding entities targeted by Washington's secondary sanctions network.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇸🇦🇨🇳 — U.S. intelligence officers have flagged possible Chinese espionage in internal reports tied to a pending $24 billion sale of dozens of advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, American officials said. Analysts assessed Beijing could obtain F-35 technology either by spying inside the kingdom or through its military and security partnership with Riyadh — NYT.

➡️ A Defense Intelligence Agency report drafted months ago documented Chinese military access to Saudi bases and Saudi reliance on Chinese technology in telecommunications infrastructure, while questioning whether Washington and Riyadh could keep F-35 sites secure. A more recent DIA assessment sharpened those concerns, including technical ones; the agency had issued a broader report in fall 2025 on comparable risks during administration deliberations over possible sales.

➡️ The latest Pentagon intelligence report recommended that only Saudi and American officers and contractors access F-35 technology sites, with particular emphasis on shielding the jet’s advanced radar and surveillance systems. It further asked whether Riyadh would curb contacts with Chinese military and intelligence personnel and affiliated entities, and whether it would strip Huawei and ZTE equipment from telecommunications, router infrastructure and defense installations.

➡️ Saudi Arabia also procures ballistic missiles from China, with Chinese military personnel assisting the kingdom in learning to build them, establish production facilities and refine missile operations. The State Department forwarded the proposed package of 48 jets and a spare engine to two congressional committees in June for informal approval; some lawmakers and aides have since pressed the administration over the intelligence findings.

➡️ A 2020 precedent shapes the current review: U.S. intelligence agencies lodged similar concerns during Trump’s first term after he agreed to sell F-35s to the UAE as part of a deal in which the Emirates would normalize relations with Israel. Lockheed Martin builds the jets, which take years to produce, and the Biden administration reviewed the sale well before production and delivery. Agencies raised the same issues because the UAE was deepening military, intelligence and technology ties with China; U.S. officials ultimately ended the sales process.

➡️ Israeli officials have voiced comparable concerns, as they did when Trump proposed such sales to the Emirates. Israel remains the only Middle Eastern operator of F-35s, and since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, U.S. policymakers have sought to preserve its “qualitative military edge” in the region, as mandated by Congress. Previous administrations ran a highly classified, monthslong review to determine whether proposed weapons sales to Arab nations would violate that requirement.

➡️ The Trump administration has continued to advance large arms sales to Israel despite calls across the American political spectrum to end or severely decrease military support. In several instances, Secretary of State Marco Rubio bypassed congressional approval to expedite weapons shipments to Israel, citing an emergency in the region. Should congressional leaders withhold approval for the F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia, Rubio could take the same route.

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