🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit “pay dirt” when Barack Hussein Obama became President. He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life. Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter. Every Bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out — It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck. They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our “Leader,” but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden! For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer!" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called “Representatives.” I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP“- President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told 60 Minutes that he has told the Trump administration that he plans to end American military aid to Israel and wishes for the process to begin now.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - Iran's response, as per Tasnim News:

- Immediate end to the war on all fronts, with strong guarantees against future attacks on Iran,
- Lifting of all sanctions on Iran, including Iran's oil exports market,
- Ending the US naval blockade,
- Release of all frozen assets belonging to Iran,
- Iran's right to 'manage' the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan's parliament approved extra defense spending of $25 billion ⁠on Friday, which reportedly fell short of U.S. expectations, with a U.S. official telling Reuters, “It was disappointing in that there was some stuff left on the cutting room floor that we believe still needs to be funded.”

🇺🇸⚡️- Six dead bodies were found in a train cargo carriage in Laredo, Texas.

The police have yet to comment on the circumstances of the deaths, but there have been several instances in the past of illegal migrants using train carriages for smuggling in to the United States, and dying during transit.

🇬🇧⚡️- GB News is reporting that PM Starmer is preparing to resign this week.

🇮🇱 - Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu says that antisemitism is partly because of jealousy and envy.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Reporter: "How do you envision the highly enriched Uranian will be removed from Iran?"

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: "You go in and you take it out"

Reporter: "with what? special forces from Israel? special forces from the United States? working in tandem under international supervision? how?"

Netanyahu: "I'm not going to talk about military means, what President trump has said to me, 'i want to go in there'. he said is publicly, i think he's right. he's very committed to this."

🇬🇧⚡️- Coincidentally today was the 16th anniversary of former PM Gordon Brown resigning triggering the election that would begin 14 years of Conservative rule.

Gordon Brown was also just appointed by PM Starmer as special envoy on global finance.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Reporter: "Is the war with Iran over? and if it isn't, who will decide when it is?"

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: "I think it accomplished a great deal, but its not over because there's still nuclear material, enriched Uranian that has to be taken out of Iran. There is still enrichment sites that need to be dismantled, there is still proxies that Iran supports, ballistic missile they still want to produce. Now we've degraded a lot of it, but all that is still there and there's work to be done."

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - "USS John Finn (DDG 113) sails behind USS Milius (DDG 69), USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE-7), and USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Arabian Sea.

Over 20 U.S. warships are enforcing the blockade against Iran. CENTCOM forces have redirected 61 commercial vessels and disabled 4 to ensure compliance." - U.S. Central Command

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF announces the death of a reservist due to a Hezbollah drone attack in northern Israel yesterday.