The President of the United States has openly described the unlawful seizure of Iranian vessels as “piracy,” brazenly boasting that “we act like pirates.”

This was no verbal slip. It was a direct and damning admission of the criminal nature of their actions against international maritime navigation.

The international community, UN Member States, and the UN Secretary-General must firmly reject any normalization of such blatant violations of international law.

Life taught me that responsibility is a trust… and the official whose sole concern is his personal success is not trustworthy…

The official who does not strive for the success of the rest of the officials in the homeland is not trustworthy… selfishness in success in public work… is a betrayal of the trust… because the homeland is indivisible…

Responsibility is to carry the burden of the homeland... the entire homeland… so as not to be a burden upon it...

It's a possibility that could happen.

We are doing very well with regard to just about everything, but doing very well with regard to Iran.

Again, they want to make a deal — they're decimated.

They told me about the concept of the deal.

They're going to give me the exact wording now.

I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can’t imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years.

Well, I wouldn't have to. I didn't say that.

I said that if we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild. But we're not leaving right now.

We're going to do it so nobody has to go back in two years or five years.

The Trump administration was slow to grasp how serious the rift between the UAE and Saudi Arabia had become — and chose not to get involved as it deepened, U.S. and regional sources told Axios.