💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth on NATO:

You don't have much of an alliance if you have countries that are not willing to stand with you when you need them.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth on Iran:

The talks are very real, they are ongoing, they are active, and they are gaining strength.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

The war criminals in Israel are now openly and unashamedly bombing pharmaceutical companies.

Their intentions are clear.

What they've gotten wrong is that they're not dealing with defenseless Palestinian civilians. Our Powerful Armed Forces will severely punish aggressors.

💨 🇮🇱 Israel bombs a building in Dahiya, Beirut.

😮‍💨 🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia’s ambassador to Iran said that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is in Iran but has not been appearing in public.

💡 The IRGC states that it will respond to any assassination by targeting a U.S.-linked company.

The statement advises employees to leave these workplaces and calls on nearby residents within a 1 km radius to move to safer areas.

Companies listed include Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Nvidia, JPMorgan Chase, Tesla, General Electric, Boeing and others.

The statement indicates this would take effect from 8:00 PM Tehran time on April 1.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on The Strait of Hormuz:

I think it’ll automatically open, but my attitude is, I’ve obliterated the country.

They have no strength left, and let the countries that are using the strait, let them go and open it.

- New York Post

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran:

We’re not going to be there too much longer.

We’re obliterating the s–t out of them right now, it’s a total obliteration.

- New York Post

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 The Pentagon is considering deploying an anti-drone laser system at Fort McNair in Washington, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live, after reports of drone activity nearby.

- NYT

💬 🇺🇸 Jim Cramer:
How can oil be up and the war be over.. Can't have both...

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇺🇦 A Ukrainian officer was killed in Dubai as a result of an Iranian missile strike on a hotel.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump declined to say whether victory could be declared without eliminating Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, which experts say would be difficult and risky.

“I don’t even think about it. I just know that, you know, that’s so deeply buried it’s gonna be very hard for anybody,” he told CBS News, adding that the strikes during the 12-Day War had led to the “obliteration” of nuclear sites and that “it’s pretty safe.”

He concluded, “We’ll make a determination.”

💬 🇮🇷🇺🇸 IRAN’S PRESIDENT PEZESHKIAN: We are ready to end the war, but we want guarantees.

#️⃣ 🇦🇪🇮🇷 IF THE UAE CONTINUES TO PARTICIPATE IN U.S. AIR AND MISSILE STRIKES, HOST INTELLIGENCE FORCES, AND ASSIST ISRAEL, IRAN WILL STRIKE THE PORT OF FUJAIRAH AND A KEY OIL PIPELINE USED TO TRANSPORT OIL OUTSIDE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ — FARS NEWS.

💬 🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf:

I just read about Sarah and others in the U.S. skipping meals because gas prices keep climbing.

Sad, but this is what happens when your leaders put others ahead of hard-working and ordinary Americans.

It's not America First anymore… it's Israel First.

💬 🇺🇸 Senator Graham to Trump:

Wind down the war and wind up efforts for an historic peace deal.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

Iran has not responded to any of the 15 U.S. proposals and has not submitted any proposals or conditions of its own.