💬 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷 President Trump:

We have a very good relationship with China. Xi would like to see this (Iran war) ended also.

He certainly wants it ended. Everyone does; I want to see it ended too.

But we can't give a nuclear weapon to a group of people that have caused nothing but havoc for 47 years.

💬 🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

Year after year, I have stood here. I pledged on Holocaust Remembrance Day that we would not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons.

And as Prime Minister of Israel, I promised: there won't be another Holocaust.

This year, we have fulfilled this promise in practice.

💬 🇮🇱🇪🇺 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

We are defending Europe. A Europe that has forgotten so many things since the Holocaust.

It can learn many things from us, especially the most important thing, the sharp distinction between good and evil, which must, at the moment of truth, go to war for the sake of good, for the sake of life.

Europe, which swore after the World War to defend the good, is today tainted by a deep moral weakness.

Europe is losing control of its identity, its values, and its commitment to safeguard civilization from barbarism. But Israel does not forget this eternal commitment.

💬 Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem:

They say to us: "If you hadn't confronted Israel, we wouldn't have paid these losses."

If we hadn't confronted, we would have paid more and lost everything.

Do you think that Israel is leaving us? It's the one that is attacking.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Vice President JD Vance:

What Iran has done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As President Trump showed, two can play at that game.

President Trump wants the Iranian people to thrive and succeed.

💬 🇺🇸 Vice President JD Vance on Trump's AI-generated picture depicting himself as Jesus Christ:

I think Trump was posting a joke, and, of course, he took it down because he recognized that a lot of people weren’t understanding his humor in that case.

I think Trump likes to mix it up on social media, and I actually think that is one of the good things about this president is that he's not filtered.

He doesn't send everything through a communications professional.

💬 🇺🇸 Senator Graham on Iran:

Their reason for living is to die. They want to die a martyr’s death.

They want to bring back the missing Mahdi—the 12th Imam—who will come back and save the world, in their view, through chaos.

#️⃣ Saudi Arabia is pushing the U.S. to end its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and resume talks, fearing escalation with Iran.

Officials warn Iran could retaliate by disrupting the Bab al-Mandeb, a key route for oil exports.

😭 🇨🇳 A U.S.-sanctioned Chinese tanker passed through the Strait of Hormuz despite the U.S. blockade, according to shipping data.

The vessel, Rich Starry, carrying about 250,000 barrels of methanol, is the first known tanker to exit the Gulf since the blockade began.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. and Iranian negotiation teams will return to Islamabad for peace talks later this week.

- Reuters

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Pope Leo:

He doesn’t understand and shouldn’t talk about war, because he has no idea what’s happening.

He doesn’t understand that in Iran they killed 42,000 protesters last month.

💬 🇮🇱 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:

The United States and Israel have defined the removal of enriched material from Iran as a precondition for ending the campaign.

#️⃣ Magazine Cover Showing Real Settler Sparks “Anti-Semitism” Claim

L’Espresso's magazine cover showing a real Israeli settler confronting a Palestinian has sparked a diplomatic row after Israel’s ambassador labeled it “antisemitic,” igniting backlash over whether documenting reality is now being reframed as bias.

😭 🇺🇸 The U.S. said no vessels left Iranian ports during the first day of its blockade, with six merchant ships turning back after U.S. warnings.

Over 10,000 personnel and multiple warships are involved, but no direct enforcement actions have occurred.

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has continued, with over 20 vessels passing.

- WSJ

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

I recognize that a lot of young voters don’t love the policy we have in the Middle East.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

Trump says to Iran: “If you commit to not having a nuclear weapon, we are going to make Iran economically thrive.”

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

The person who is effectively running Iran sat across from the Vice President of the U.S.—that had never happened.

I think those people wanted to make a deal… you never know, though.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump says he doesn’t plan to extend the ceasefire with Iran, calling it unnecessary, and hinted at “an amazing two days ahead.”

- ABC News

💬 🇺🇸 Trump to ABC News:

If I weren’t president, the world would be torn to pieces.

💬 🇺🇸 JD Vance:

Stopping funding the Ukraine war is one of the things I’m proudest of we’ve done in this administration.