💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan on the Iran War:

Of course, we are absolutely not in favor of war in these regions. We are for peace.

But Israel is the principal instigator of this war; it is the principal actor in this war.

Israel continuously encouraged war and was always in favor of the option of war.

And because it stood on the side of war, other countries paid extremely heavy prices.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The 60-day negotiation window under the US-Iran Islamabad peace deal has expired with no final agreement reached.

Iran says there has been "absolutely no progress" on returning to the framework.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea.

These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful.

Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises!

While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. VOTERS SAY THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION HAS WORSENED SINCE TRUMP RETURNED TO OFFICE — FT.

Meanwhile, 64% of those surveyed believe the U.S. economy is heading in the wrong direction.

💬 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping on Taiwan:

China's development will bring about prosperity for all through the common progress of all its regions and the Chinese nation, on the basis of completing the reunification of the motherland.

#️⃣ 🇺🇦 Ukraine's population has dropped 45% since independence — from 52 million to around 29 million living on Kyiv-controlled territory.

Nearly 7 million are refugees abroad, and the number wanting to return has fallen below 50% for the first time.

The country loses an estimated 100,000-150,000 people monthly to long-term emigration — far more than battlefield casualties.

Birth rates have hit a record low of 0.9 children per woman, with deaths nearly three times higher than births.

As one demographer put it:

There will never be 52 million of us again. We need to plan around 30 million.

💬 🇨🇳 China's Foreign Ministry to Japan:

Only by facing up to and learning lessons from history can one avoid repeating past mistakes.

We once again urge those running the Japanese government to heed the just call from home and abroad, deeply reflect on its war crimes, make a clean break with militarism, and stop going further down the wrong path.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

💥 ASTRONOMERS HAVE DISCOVERED A "BLACK HOLE STAR" — A POSSIBLE NEW TYPE OF COSMIC OBJECT.

The object, known as MoM-BH-1*, is roughly the size of our Solar System and shines 100 billion times brighter than ordinary stars.

At its center is believed to be a black hole with the mass of around 100,000 Suns, surrounded by a massive hydrogen cocoon.

The object was discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope and could help explain the mysterious "little red dots" observed in the early Universe.

#️⃣ 🇨🇳 CHINA HAS CREATED A ROBOT THAT OUTPERFORMS THE WORLD'S TOP ATHLETES IN JUMPING AND RUNNING.

The Unitree Superman can reportedly jump more than 2 meters from a standing position, surpassing the human record of 1.90 meters.

It can also reach 45 km/h, slightly faster than Usain Bolt's recorded top speed of around 44.7 km/h.

The humanoid robot is set to compete in the Robot Olympics in Beijing this weekend.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 Trump to Fox News:

If Oman gets in the way, we will bomb the shit out of them.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump to Fox News:

What we have used (munitions) so far is peanuts.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump to Fox News:

Iran should raise the white flag of surrender.

They’re good poker players, but they’re dying.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 A senior Iranian official told Reuters Iran will not tolerate the U.S. naval blockade indefinitely and will communicate its deadline to Washington and regional countries through mediators.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 A senior Iranian official tells Reuters that Tehran is shifting from a defensive to a "fully offensive" policy, giving the US "a few weeks" to implement the peace deal:

All Iranian entities will be prepared to escalate tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and the region if diplomacy fails.

Iran will not wait for the U.S. to continue the naval blockade indefinitely.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran seized a UAE-owned tanker near Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz.

- Fars

#️⃣ 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chinese President Xi Jinping will fly into the US on September 23, hold one day of White House meetings with Trump on September 24, and leave September 25.

Xi will skip the UN General Assembly entirely.

It will be his first US state visit in 11 years.

The agenda is expected to cover trade, Taiwan, AI, and the Iran/Hormuz situation.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump blasts South Korea:

I called the president of South Korea. I said, “Would you help with Iran? If you would like, we don’t need help.” He said, “No thanks.”

I said, “What do you mean? We have 39,000 soldiers over there guarding you from Kim Jong Un, and you are not going to help us with Iran? That’s strange.”

Then why are we involved with helping you? Protecting South Korea is costing us billions of dollars.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran:

I like the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory.

We have total control over the Strait.

💬 🇺🇸 Jared Kushner on Iran:

Right now, the Iranians are not showing any interest in doing something that makes sense for us.