💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Professor John Mearsheimer:

Iran holds almost all the cards. They are in a very powerful position.

By closing Hormuz, they can tank the global economy. The leverage is enormous.

They can destroy GCC countries as functioning societies. They can wreck those countries.

Trump can’t climb the escalation ladder. On every rung, Iran can beat him.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Professor John Mearsheimer on Iran:

There is no attractive exit option for Trump.

The only way out is to admit defeat.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan:

Isn’t introducing the death penalty only for Palestinian prisoners essentially apartheid? Isn’t it using the law as a tool of racist authoritarianism?

Is there, in essence, any real difference between Hitler’s monstrous policies against Jews and the decision taken by the Israeli parliament with such a sense of triumph?

Aren’t all these actions just another manifestation of denial, destruction, oppression, and political repression directed at the Palestinian people?

Undoubtedly, these actions amount to discrimination and racism. It would mean implementing a system even worse than the apartheid regime that was dismantled in South Africa in 1994.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 Trump privately doubts the Strait of Hormuz will fully reopen soon, despite publicly saying oil will flow again quickly.

- Reuters

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: You’re not going to let Iran toll the strait, are you?

Trump: We are not gonna let them do it. Nobody knows if they are doing that. If they are doing that, we will not let that happen.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The Strait of Hormuz will open up automatically… Otherwise, they make no money. We will open the strait anyway.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: What is your backup plan if there is no deal?

Trump: You don’t need a backup plan.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: What does a good deal look like for you?

Trump: No nuclear weapon, number one. I think it has already been regime change—we never had that as a criteria.

No nuclear weapon—that is 99% of it.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

We have other countries coming up to help with the Strait of Hormuz.

We will have that open fairly soon.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran’s Ghalibaf:

Unfortunately, our experience with negotiations with the Americans has always been accompanied by failure and breach of commitments.

Twice within less than a year, in the middle of negotiations-despite the goodwill of the Iranian side-they attacked us and committed numerous war crimes.

We have goodwill, but we do not have trust.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran’s Ghalibaf:

In the upcoming negotiations, if the American side is ready for a real agreement and to grant the rights of the Iranian nation, they will see readiness for an agreement on our side as well.

However, in the current conflict, we have shown them that if they intend to use negotiations as a futile show or a deceptive operation, we are prepared to secure our rights through faith in God and reliance on the capabilities of our nation.

💬 🇺🇸 Senator Graham on Iran:

If they say no now, that tells you how crazy they are.

💬 🇺🇸 Senator Graham on Trump's rhetoric:

If you’re talking to stone-cold homicidal maniacs, you need to speak the language they can understand.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The United States has agreed to release frozen Iranian assets.

Tehran views the release of its assets as a test of goodwill and a new indication toward reaching a lasting agreement.

- Reuters

😭 🇮🇷 The New York Times reports that Iran will not be able to fully reopen the strait, as the locations of minefields have been lost.

As a result, only a narrow corridor with confirmed safety has been left open.

Iran is ready to charge every vessel wishing to pass through the Strait of Hormuz via this safe corridor.

💡 🇮🇱🇱🇧 The first meeting to discuss a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel will take place on Tuesday at the U.S. State Department, the Lebanese administration said.

The parties intend to discuss declaring a truce and agree on a date to begin negotiations.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 White House official:

Reports regarding approval to release Iranian assets are false claims.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸 Iran has conveyed its red lines to Pakistani mediators ahead of potential talks with the U.S., outlining key conditions for any agreement, IRIB reports.

These include Iranian control and sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, receiving war reparations, securing the release of frozen assets, and achieving a comprehensive, lasting ceasefire across the entire region.

Tehran insists these demands must be met before any final deal.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

Iran is a failing nation.

😭 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Several U.S. Navy ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz today.

The move was not coordinated with Iran.