Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

After 45 years, we have not lost territory. We are the first government in Iran's history since the Qajar period, indeed since Nader Shah, that has not lost territory.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

Look at what Mao did for China. The Chinese had always been one of the world's largest economies, but they suffered a hundred years of humiliation.

What did Mao do? He ended that hundred years of humiliation.

How? He believed in himself enough to sit across from America and negotiate with America.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

We look at Azerbaijan with a threat-oriented mindset. We look at Armenia that way, although a little less. Tajikistan, Turkmenistan — we see all of them as threats. We see everything as a threat.

We see the hijab as a defensive trench. How does a social issue become a military issue? Because we see it as a threat.

To get out of this problem, we have to change our mindset. We must transform our threat-oriented approach into an opportunity-oriented one.

NEW: Joint Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani-Egyptian statement condemns ongoing Houthi militia attacks on Saudi Arabia, calls them a “dangerous escalation,” supports the Kingdom’s countermeasures, holds the Houthis responsible and demands they stop immediately.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif:

If we see Saudi Arabia as a threat, Saudi Arabia becomes a threat to us.

If Saudi Arabia sees us as a threat, we become a threat to Saudi Arabia.

And because we have grown accustomed to this hostility-based mindset, we keep recreating our past.

We keep reconstructing the past, from Imam Hussein to the present day.

The person who began reciting those poems against Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers should understand that the day after tomorrow, the Supreme Leader may be sitting beside Saudi Arabia's defense minister.

This situation keeps recreating itself.

BIG: US now threatens to block arms to Ukraine over its strikes on Russian refineries.

Washington has been lobbying both European capitals and Kyiv to stop the attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, using weapons supplies as leverage.

Source: FT

Q: If you could do it all over, what would you do differently?

Hillary Clinton: I would have not just won the popular vote, but the Electoral College.

A Russian strike hit a supermarket in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, killing three people.

Steve Bannon:

There's no doubt I am right-wing. I'm not conservative. I'm a right-winger and proud of it.

I think it means that you're both populist and nationalistic.

Steve Bannon on Hasan Piker:

You just can't demonize one guy like Hasan Piker.

I think Hasan Piker is demonized by Fox for a whole host of geopolitical and geostrategic reasons.

Iran’s IRGC Navy said a second supertanker struck a naval mine in the Strait of Hormuz, causing an explosion and engine-room fire.

IRGC Navy:

All ships in the Strait of Hormuz area that turn off their navigation and identification systems will be identified as hostile and dealt with severely and decisively.

Steve Bannon:

I'm the leader of trying to get President Trump to run for a third term.

It appears that he's not interested or it just won't happen.

Steve Bannon on Democrats winning the House:

I think you'll see Bobby Kennedy impeached. I think you'll see Pete Hegseth impeached. I think you'll see subpoenas flying every day.

They will look to destroy President Trump, and we'll be bogged down for two years.

Steve Bannon:

The core belief of the MAGA movement is President Trump won in 2020. We won in 2022. We won in 2024.

Besides the election that was stolen by the illegitimate Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi beat us. Nancy Pelosi beat us in a midterm election in 2018.

Steve Bannon:

If you want to drive policy and win, just flood it with actions. Flood it with executive orders. Flood it with a dynamic, driving executive, and they'll never be able to handle it.

First of all, they won't know how to cover it. We saw that in the first six to nine months of 2025. It was overwhelming to the media.

Why? Because we had years in the wilderness to put together Project 2025 and build cadres of people that could go into the administration.

Those 3,000 people that hit the deck plates running on day one, which we never filled in the first term.

Steve Bannon:

You just gave me credit for destroying the media, so I'll take that.

I think it's definitely helped the country. You know why? Because we got Donald Trump as president.

Otherwise, we would have had Chris Christie or the Bushes. If we had Bush as president, the country would be gone. Or worse, we would have lost to Hillary Clinton.

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said King Fahd International Airport in Dammam was targeted in an attack on Sunday evening, October 11.

During a speech at the European Parliament, Greek MEP Emmanouil Fragkos casually calls Turks “barbaric Mongols who ravaged whatever civilization they found.”

According to a White House official cited by Axios, Trump expects Zelensky to abide by his proposed energy ceasefire, which would initially halt Ukrainian and Russian attacks on oil refineries.

However, Russia has not agreed to the proposal, and Zelensky said Trump's announcement of a ceasefire was news to him.

The White House official said a halt to refinery attacks could pave the way for a broader agreement covering power plants and electricity grids.

Source: Axios