💬 🇺🇸 White House:

The insinuation by anyone in this room that Iran somehow has the moral high ground over the United States is insulting, considering the atrocities they have committed against our people and our military over the past five decades.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: I am Iranian, and I have been speaking with people there during the blackout. One of my family members said goodbye to me yesterday. What message should we be sending to Iranians?

Leavitt: The president’s and my main priority is to make sure that clear messages are sent to the American people.

We hope that Iran will be a country of prosperity.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: Can you tell me that the United States is still considering withdrawing from NATO? Is that still a possibility?

Leavitt: It’s something the president has discussed, and I think it’s something he will be discussing in a couple of hours with Secretary General Rutte. You may hear more directly from him.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

The Iran–U.S. ceasefire terms are clear: the U.S. must choose — ceasefire or continued war via Israel. It cannot have both.

The world sees the massacres in Lebanon.

The ball is in the U.S. court, and the world is watching whether it will act on its commitments.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 U.S. officials say no American strikes have hit Iran since the ceasefire began, and any current attacks are not by the U.S. military.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them, that is ultimately their choice.

We think that would be dumb, but it’s their choice.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance on the Strait of Hormuz:

We’ve already seen an increase in traffic today; hopefully, we’ll see an increase in traffic tomorrow. We actually think that we are seeing signs that the straits are starting to reopen.

I think you guys have probably seen oil prices have come down. So, I think the oil markets, the gas markets, are seeing the same thing.

But the president’s been very clear: the deal is a ceasefire, a negotiation. That’s what we give, and what they give is that the straits are going to be reopened.

If we don’t see that happening, the president is not going to abide by our terms if the Iranians are not abiding by their terms.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

The Israelis have actually offered to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful.

That's not because that is part of the ceasefire. I think that's the Israelis trying to set us up for success.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

Trump has talked about sanctions relief. He has also talked about economic partnerships and things like that.

But that’s not going to happen unless the Iranians make a firm commitment to stop anything close to the development of a nuclear weapon.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: Is the threat to wipe Iranian civilization off the map still on the table? Is it fair to keep 90 million Iranians under that threat for the actions of their leaders?

JD Vance: The leadership is really to blame for the condition of the country of Iran.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance on Ghalibaf:

I actually wonder how good he is at understanding English, because there are things that he said that frankly did not make sense in the context of the negotiations we had.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance on Lebanon:

I think the situation with Lebanon is a “reasonable misunderstanding.”

Neither we nor the Israelis said that Lebanon was going to be part of the ceasefire.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

Ghalibaf talked about an attack that had allegedly happened on Iran and how that was a violation of the ceasefire.

Ceasefires are always messy. An hour after the president announced the ceasefire, the Iranians launched a bunch of missiles. Then the Israelis responded, then some of the Gulf Arab states responded.

This is the nature of a ceasefire. No ceasefire ever goes without a little bit of choppiness.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

The first 10-point proposal was something that was submitted, and we frankly think it was probably written by ChatGPT.

It immediately went into the garbage and was rejected.

There was a second 10-point proposal that was much more reasonable.

It was based on some back-and-forth between us and the Pakistanis. That is the proposal the president was referencing, and it’s true as of yesterday.

And then, frankly, I’ve seen a third 10-point proposal that’s even more maximalist than the first one that’s been floating around various social media channels.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 Trump administration considering pulling U.S. troops from NATO allies that refused to support the Iran campaign and redeploying them to countries that backed U.S. efforts.

US may close at least one military base, possibly in Spain or Germany.

💬 🇩🇰🇺🇸🇮🇷 Danish FM Lars Løkke Rasmussen on Iran:

There is no doubt the world is in a better place today than it was yesterday [as Trump didn't go through with his deadline].

The big question is if the world is in a better place than it was 40 days ago... I'm more than doubtful.

🥺 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Oil executives pressure Trump administration to reject any deal allowing Iran to charge tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, Politico reports.

"We didn't have to do that before…I thought we won the war."

💬 🇺🇸 NATO's Rutte:

I really admire Trump's leadership.

💬 🇺🇸 Senator Graham on Iran:

It’s in their DNA to want to acquire a nuclear weapon.

💬 🇺🇸 Senator Graham on Iran:

If you control Kharg Island, you control the Iranian economy.

It is a good place to start if you have to go back to this.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: When Trump threatened to kill the entire Iranian civilization, did that bother you as a diplomat?

Mark Rutte: I'm not commenting on everything. What I want you to know is I support Trump...