The enemy, in its new plan with a naval blockade, is seeking economic pressure and media propaganda to destroy the country's cohesion and force us to surrender.

Of course, we do not rule out the possibility of a military attack, especially terrorist attacks, but the part of the enemy's plan that relates to society is to weaken Iran from within.

The enemy is placing great hope on economic pressure, and it is clear that they have again been given false reports, based on which they have made wrong decisions, and these wrong decisions will cause hardship for everyone.

We must be careful because the enemy is closely monitoring us, so we should not provide information that the enemy could exploit.

We will remove teachers who teach "Palestinian ideology" from the Israeli education system.

We observe that in recent weeks, the number of air defense rings around Moscow has been increasing due to the large-scale relocation of air defense systems from Russian regions.

This indicates that the Russian leadership is not preparing for a ceasefire, about which so many statements have been made, and is more concerned about its parade in Moscow than about the rest of Russia.

At the same time, we note that this opens up additional opportunities for our "long-range sanctions." Our corresponding priorities will be determined.

An important step in relations with Hungary: today, the funds and valuables of Oschadbank, which were seized by Hungarian special services in March of this year, were returned.

At that time, the Hungarian side unlawfully detained Ukrainian cash collectors. We were able to return the people quickly, and now the funds and valuables are fully in Ukrainian territory.

I am grateful to Hungary for this constructive and civilized step.

This is a time of military conflict for America.

I call it a skirmish because that’s what it is. It’s a skirmish.

U.S. forces in the Gulf of Oman stopped an Iranian-flagged tanker attempting to violate the U.S. blockade on May 6.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces observed M/T Hasna as it transited international waters enroute to an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman.

American forces issued multiple warnings and informed the Iranian-flagged vessel it was in violation of the U.S. blockade.

After Hasna’s crew failed to comply with repeated warnings, U.S. forces disabled the tanker’s rudder by firing several rounds from the 20mm cannon gun of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet launched from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).

Hasna is no longer transiting to Iran.

We're dealing with people that want to make a deal very much, and we'll see whether or not they can make a deal that's satisfactory to us.

We have it very much under control.

I speak with President Trump almost on a daily basis. There is full coordination between us, with no surprises.

We share common goals, and the most important goal is to remove the enriched material from Iran, all the enriched material, and dismantle Iran's enrichment capabilities.

President Trump believes he can achieve this one way or another. But we are prepared for every scenario, and this is my directive also to the IDF and our security agencies.

Israel is stronger than ever, Iran and its proxies are weaker than ever.

The blockade is unbelievable. The Navy has been incredible. The job they did—it's like a wall of steel.

Nobody goes through. In particular, the Iranians are not getting anything through one way or the other, so they're out of business.

We'll see whether or not they are agreeing. And if they don't agree, they'll end up agreeing shortly thereafter — that's the way it is.

Pete Hegseth was standing on top of a table during the WHCA dinner.

Everyone else was under the damn table.