💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

We have new machinery to kill the drones—the computerized bullets, they call that.

Also lasers melt the drone; it’s a beautiful thing to see.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The people we dealt with yesterday were, frankly, very smart, very sharp, very good.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The Strait is critical for Japan — they get about 93% of their oil through it. South Korea gets roughly 45%. Yet these countries haven’t really helped us.

I ask them: are you going to help?

We have about 45,000 U.S. troops in Japan and about 50,000 in South Korea. We guard them and protect them.

But when we ask for a little help in return, they don’t help us.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump:

The only to thing left really is their water, which would be very devastating to hit.

I would hate to do it, but it's their water, their desalination plants, and their electric generating plants.

We could have them all down. And I mean, down like you couldn't have electricity for ten years because it takes you ten years to build those plants from scratch. You'd never probably be able to build them again.

I think we pretty much maxed out other than those few items. We still have some plants left.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Key sticking points in US–Iran talks:

Stopping uranium enrichment
Removing enriched uranium from Iran
Dismantling key nuclear facilities
Deciding how much Iranian money will be unfrozen
Reopening the Strait of Hormuz (ending fees)
A regional security deal, including ending support for groups

- Axios

#️⃣ 🇬🇧 The UK will not join the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran’s Ghalibaf:

If the United States wants to find a way out, the only path is to decide to earn the trust of the Iranian people.

You are indebted to the Iranian nation and still have much to do to make amends.

If you choose war, we will fight; if you come with logic, we will respond with logic.

We will not submit to any threats. If they test our will again, we will give them a greater lesson.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran’s Ghalibaf:

Threats have no effect on the Iranian nation. We have proven that this is not a slogan—the world has seen it with its own eyes.

We have shown that the enemy has reached a state of desperation. We have proven that we do not surrender under threats.

Over 47 years of the revolution, in military arenas, economic sanctions, political pressure, and more, the Iranian people have demonstrated this in practice.

💬 🇮🇷 Commander of the Iranian Navy:

Trump’s threats to impose a naval blockade on Iran are "ridiculous."

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Regional countries are urgently trying to bring the U.S. and Iran back to negotiations after talks in Islamabad ended without a deal, WSJ reports.

Despite firm rhetoric from both sides, the door to diplomacy remains open, with a possible second round of talks within days, while regional states are also working with Washington to extend the two-week ceasefire.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 IF TRUMP TAKES ACTION AGAINST THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, HE WILL LOSE THE BAB EL-MANDEB STRAIT — PRESS TV, CITING AN IRANIAN REPORT.

Around 5–6% of global seaborne oil shipments pass through this strait.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

Iran is in very bad shape. I think they’re very desperate.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: Why did you attack Pope Leo?

Trump: I don’t think he’s doing a very good job. He likes crime, I guess.

We don’t like a pope who says it’s ok to have a nuclear weapon. We don’t want a pope that says crime is ok. I am not a big fan of Pope Leo.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf had impressed the American team as a “refined and professional bargainer, and potential leader of a new Iran.”

#️⃣ 🇷🇺 Kremlin:

Russia’s proposal to accept Iran’s enriched uranium remains on the table, but it has not been taken up.

💬 🇮🇱 Netanyahu:

Since Iran violated the rules, Trump decided to impose a blockade, a naval siege, and we of course support this firm position.

💬 🇮🇱 Netanyahu:

We have alignment with the most powerful nation in the world, and together we have the capability to confront the gravest threats.

💬 🇮🇱 Netanyahu:

Israel is at the height of its power.

💬 🇮🇱 Netanyahu:

The ceasefire with Iran could end quickly.

#️⃣ 🇨🇳 China denies reports that it is sending or planning to send weapons to Iran:

We oppose groundless smears or malicious associations without any factual basis.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 More than 15 U.S. warships are enforcing the blockade on Iran.