💬 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson said U.S. officials should refuse any orders from Trump that would involve mass attacks on Iranian civilians.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The White House denies considering the use of nuclear weapons in Iran.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇧🇭 U.S. issues shelter-in-place order for all Americans in Bahrain.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iran has cut off direct communication with the U.S. after Trump threatened to destroy Iran’s “whole civilization.”

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran has stopped cease-fire negotiations with the U.S., telling Pakistan it will no longer participate in talks.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

8 p.m. is happening. If we get to that point, there is going to be an attack like they have not seen.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

If negotiations move forward today and there is something concrete, the deadline could change.

💬 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson:

Where does this lead? …the use of weapons of mass destruction.

What we’re seeing is that we’ve exhausted conventional power. What’s left? Nuclear weapons.

You could have a global nuclear war. This is insane.

We are on a path to global depression and famine… that’s not panic, that’s math.

💬 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson on Trump's Iran threats:

Unless someone puts the brakes on right away, we’re heading somewhere we can’t even imagine.

If you work in the White House or the U.S. military, now is the time to say no.

Absolutely not. Say it directly to the president: no.

If given the order, I’m not carrying it out. I’ll do whatever I can legally to stop this.

This is not hysteria. This is 100% real.

There are pivot points where nothing is the same.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 State-run Tehran Times newspaper:

Diplomatic and indirect channels of talks with the US are not CLOSED.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House:

The Iranian regime has until 8 p.m. Washington time to seize the moment and reach an agreement.

💬 🇺🇸 White House:

Trump alone knows where things stand and what he will do.

💬 🇺🇸 U.S. official to Axios:

The last proposal we got wasn't really what we wanted, but it was a lot better than we expected.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran told mediators it still has a huge arsenal of weapons (≈15k missiles, 45k drones) and believes it’s winning, so it’s not backing down.

Mediators think those numbers are likely exaggerated, but Iran is staying hardline as U.S. and Israeli strikes continue.

- WSJ

#️⃣ 🇪🇸🇶🇦🇮🇷 Spain's Embassy in Qatar calls on citizens to have "water, food, and medicine on hand so that you can remain safely in your homes for several days if necessary" amid the Iran War.

#️⃣ 🇰🇼🇮🇷 Kuwait announced the closure of all "shops and commercial activities" from 12:00 AM until 6:00 AM on Wednesday.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 An Iranian official told Reuters that the exchange of messages with the U.S. via mediators is still ongoing.

💬 Pope Leo XIV sharply condemned threats against Iran, calling them “truly unacceptable,” after Trump warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight.”

The Pope framed the situation as not just a legal issue but “a moral question for the good of the world’s people,” and urged citizens to push their leaders toward peace, stressing that “people want peace.”

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump declined to provide any update on the status of ongoing negotiations with Iran in a brief phone interview with NBC News.

Trump sharply criticized Iran’s call for young people to line up as human shields around power plants.

"Totally illegal," he said. "They’re not allowed to do that."

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 NBC News asked what motivated President Trump to post his morning threat on Truth Social, where he said, "A whole civilization will die tonight," to which he responded, “You’ll have to figure that out.”