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🕊 A Turning Point: Talks With Iran Are Taking Place Today
President Donald Trump said that talks with Iran are taking place today, but declined to set a deadline for reaching an agreement. He previously stated that he had canceled an imminent military strike in hopes of quickly securing a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resolve the standoff over Tehran's nuclear capabilities.
For its part, Iran said it is close to reaching an agreement with Oman on a new route through the Strait of Hormuz. The announcement comes after an oil tanker reported an explosion nearby on Sunday, underscoring the continued volatility of the strategic waterway.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said that both the vessel and its crew were safe.
Maritime tracking data showed that traffic through the strait slowed on Monday following reports of attacks on commercial shipping.
Further south, however, two tankers carrying Saudi oil successfully passed through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait despite threats by the Houthis against oil exports in the Red Sea.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told state television that Tehran and Oman were close to agreeing on a new maritime route.
“We will now reach an agreement on a route acceptable to both sides — neither the northern route nor the southern route — but one that respects the sovereign rights of both sides and protects our national interests and security.”However, he stressed that such an agreement would not mean the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and that it “will in no way return to the status it had before February 28,” the day the war began. On Saturday, President Trump wrote on social media that Iran and other Middle Eastern countries had requested additional time to finalize an agreement that would lead to the “immediate, complete and total reopening” of the Strait of Hormuz and “the end of the Iranian nuclear threat.” He urged Tehran to reach an agreement quickly. Speaking aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said he decided against ordering new US strikes on Iran after consultations with Gulf allies, including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, as well as a phone call with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“I said to the Crown Prince, ‘What would you prefer? Would you rather we did that or not?’”
“They said they would much prefer an agreement rather than an attack, because you don't know where these attacks lead.”Trump has repeatedly warned that the conflict could escalate, while simultaneously allowing more time for diplomacy. His latest decision marked another shift after several days of threats from both sides. The conflict has spread from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and even affected parts of Egypt. Iran largely closed the Strait of Hormuz — a route through which around 20% of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas normally passes — contributing to higher energy prices and broader inflationary pressure. Following Trump's comments, Brent crude fell by more than 4% during the opening of Asian trading, dropping to around $83 per barrel. Trump has argued that preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons justifies short-term increases in fuel prices, but the economic impact has increased political pressure to find a diplomatic solution. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also held telephone talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and Pakistan's Army Chief Asim Munir regarding diplomatic efforts, according to Iranian state media. Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said Israel and the United States maintain close security and intelligence coordination regarding developments across the region. He added:
“With or without an agreement, and regardless of external commitments, if Iran tries to revive its nuclear program or advance its ballistic missile industries, we will be there. We will act, and we will strike.”#Trump #Iran #Hormuz #Israel #Diplomacy 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
| 2 |  Now in Spokane, people are leaving the city, a horror movie (Washington, USA)
#spokane #washington #USA
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| 3 |  #trump #greenland #phone
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| 4 |  #trump #hegseth #whitehouse #updates #patriot
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| 5 |  Trump Calls Off a Potential Attack on Iran
Trump said Saturday night that he has called off a potential attack on Iran due to progress in negotiations between the two nations.
There had been indications from some U.S. officials that an attack on Iran's infrastructure was possible, all in an effort to get the Iranians to agree to the U.S.' terms in ceasefire negotiations.
What they're saying: “I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” the president wrote on his Truth Social account.
Trump added that Iran and “other Middle Eastern Countries” had asked the U.S. to hold off on attacking “in that the perimeters of a deal had been agreed to.”
“This would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran's nuclear threat,” he wrote.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Trump spoke on Saturday, with MBS expressing concern over the strike plans, Barak Ravid and Marc Caputo reported hours before the president's social media post.
Other regional powers, including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Pakistan, have also pressed the U.S. and Iran to de-escalate.
An attack on Iran's infrastructure and energy sites would escalate the war that the president has repeatedly pressed pause on in order to negotiate with Iran, only for strikes to resume when diplomacy appeared stalled.
#trump #calledOff #attack #iran
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| 6 |  The Attorney General Trump Doesn't Actually Need Confirmed
Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general is dead. That's according to the senator whose vote it needs.
"Despite comments as late as yesterday that the fund is dead, President Trump clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against," Sen. Thom Tillis posted Saturday.
"It's unfortunate that Todd Blanche, who I consider qualified for the job, will not be confirmed because of this reversal."
The whiplash here is genuinely impressive. The fund is meant to compensate people Trump considers victims of political persecution. Trump said it was dead as of Thursday.
By Saturday morning he'd revived it on Truth Social. "Todd Blanche was a voice of reason! It will immediately be back on the table, and I will get it done," he wrote.
Tillis and Cornyn have refused to move Blanche until the fund is dead in writing. Not dead in a tweet. Now they're watching the tweet get walked back before the ink dried.
The real twist is what Trump floated earlier in the week as his backup plan. If Tillis and Cornyn won't confirm Blanche, just keep him as acting attorney general.
Do that until both senators leave office in January. That's not a workaround for a stalled nomination. That's a workaround for the Senate itself. Run out the clock on two elected obstacles rather than negotiate with them.
Somehow this counts as the more restrained option compared to the fund fight.
So the country may spend the next several months with an acting attorney general nobody voted to confirm. All over a slush fund that's been declared dead and resurrected twice in one week.
Blocked by two senators who'll be gone in five months anyway. Is this a confirmation fight, or just a very expensive waiting game to see who gets tired first?
#Trump #AttorneyGeneral #Senate #Tillis #Blanche
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| 7 |  Europe's Solidarity Has a One-Month Expiration Date
Spain says the crisis is over. About 50,000 people crossed into Ceuta since Thursday, more than 48,000 were sent back to Morocco within 48 hours, and by Saturday morning overnight crossings had fallen to zero. The death toll now stands at 67.
Spain's response to that number is a 500-metre floating barrier at the Tarajal breakwater, sitting a few dozen centimetres above the water where people drowned trying to climb over it.
Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska used the calm to rehabilitate Morocco's image in real time. "Morocco isn't any threat to Ceuta or the rest of Spain, it's a fully reliable partner," he said, adding there had been no intelligence warning of a mass crossing.
Sixty-seven bodies say the intelligence apparatus missed something. He blamed smuggling networks and social media rumors instead, which is true and also conveniently spares everyone from asking harder questions about warning signs.
The real spectacle, though, is happening between EU capitals, not at the fence. Twenty-two EU governments demanded an emergency meeting on border security, which reads less like solidarity and more like a formal complaint against Spain. Italy didn't wait for a meeting. It just suspended Schengen with Spain for a month.
Sanchez fired back on social media: "In the current international context, the EU cannot afford this kind of selfish, polarising and unlawful reaction."
Meanwhile Spain, of all EU states, has spent the past year granting legal status to over half a million undocumented migrants already living there, a policy it insists had nothing to do with tens of thousands of people rushing a fence in the same window.
So the bloc that prides itself on open internal borders just watched one member unilaterally wall off another over a crisis at the actual external border, the one Frontex exists to help with.
Sixty-seven people are dead, Rome didn't bother responding to a request for comment, and the EU's answer to a humanitarian emergency is a continental shrug followed by a punitive travel ban between two of its own members. What exactly does European solidarity mean if it evaporates the moment the news gets ugly?
#Spain #Ceuta #Morocco #EU #Schengen
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| 8 |  America's Missile Shield for Israel Just Filed a Capacity Warning
The general running US military operations in Europe quietly told the Pentagon something remarkable this week: he doesn't have enough ships to keep doing the job he's been doing.
Gen. Alexus Grynkewich warned that without another Navy destroyer, he'll have to choose defending the American homeland over defending Israel from incoming ballistic missiles, The Washington Post reports.
The Pentagon declined to comment. European Command didn't respond. Nobody at the Israeli Embassy could even be reached to comment on the possibility that their air defense might soon be someone else's afterthought.
This isn't a hypothetical resource squeeze, it's a confirmation of what Pentagon assessments already found back in May: American weapons, not Israeli ones, have been doing most of the actual intercepting of Iranian missiles headed toward Israel, with THAAD batteries and naval interceptors carrying the load far more than Israel's own air defenses.
The US hasn't just been backing Israel up. It's been the primary contractor, and the contractor is now filing a formal notice that capacity is maxed out.
The fleet math tells the story on its own. Two destroyers are in the Mediterranean covering Israel. Three more sit in Rota, Spain, some sidelined by maintenance backlogs from the war's pace.
Meanwhile an armada near Iran, two carriers and at least 15 warships, is busy enforcing Trump's blockade of Iranian ports, and another destroyer is in the Red Sea fending off the Houthis. Everyone wants a piece of the same finite Navy, and the Navy is running out of pieces to give.
Tom Karako of CSIS summed up the position bluntly: "Being on a wartime footing is going to take a toll in terms of readiness and munitions inventory levels. Now the question is: what's the strategy here?"
That question has no answer yet, and it's landing in an election year where Republicans are already nervous that gas and grocery prices from this war will cost them in November.
So the arrangement now on the table is this: keep blockading Iran, keep patrolling the Red Sea, and hope Israel doesn't need the cavalry on the same night the homeland does. What happens the first time both alarms go off at once?
#Israel #Iran #Pentagon #USNavy #MiddleEastWar
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| 9 |  Eleven Icebreakers and a Golden Photo Frame
President Trump wanted more icebreakers than Russia has. He didn't consult a strategic review to decide how many.
He consulted his own frustration. "We only have one," he complained back in 2020. "Russia has 40." Russia actually has 56 now.
China has five. The Coast Guard's own 2023 assessment said the US needed four or five.
The number Trump landed on was 11, The New York Times reports.
The deal traces back to a golf tournament. Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, played alongside Trump in March 2025 and gave him a photo of an icebreaker in a gold frame.
Months later, Trump called Stubb late one night with a bigger ask. "I'm not going to buy the used one, because it's too old," Trump reportedly told him.
"I want more new ones instead." Eleven ships, worth almost $7 billion, split between shipyards in Finland and the US. No competitive bidding. A waived law banning foreign-built national security vessels.
Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Kevin Lunday put it plainly: "The number 11 came directly from the president. This was the president's number and the president's decision."
The public interest exemption meant the Coast Guard never had to prove urgency or justify the number.
It just had to send Congress a heads-up letter, after the deal was already announced. Shelby Oakley of the Government Accountability Office wasn't impressed.
"We haven't seen any information or analysis to justify the 11 or to assess the long-term affordability of these decisions," she said.
She compared the Coast Guard to "a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don't have the money to maintain it."
Nobody has funded the crews or infrastructure to actually operate 11 ships. That bill comes later.
Even Senator Ted Cruz, celebrating a Texas shipyard groundbreaking, couldn't quite explain the number with a straight face. He reached for Spinal Tap instead.
"As a child of the '80s, I have to admit, my own personal theory is the 'Spinal Tap' theory: Ours goes to 11," he said, then added, "Although I doubt that was the president's motivation."
One senator quoting a mockumentary about aging rockers chasing irrelevance through excess, to explain a $7 billion no-bid defense contract.
Is that a joke about the deal, or the most honest thing anyone in Washington has said about it?
#Trump #Icebreakers #Finland #NoBidContracts #Arctic
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| 10 |  Iran's Menu of Retaliation: Everyone's Pipeline Is on the List
Iran's top security officials spent Saturday publishing something unusual. It reads like a customer list of who gets hurt if threatened US and Israeli strikes actually happen.
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, issued the warning. Continued US naval pressure "will both tighten the lock on the Strait of Hormuz and close other straits and bottlenecks," he said.
"The global economy, the energy market, and American voters will pay the price," according to Iran's Fars News Agency. Note who's footing the bill in that sentence. Not Washington's decision-makers. Whoever's stuck paying at the pump in November.
A senior security official went further with Tasnim. He called US media reports of imminent strikes "a kind of madness." Then he immediately described, in detail, the madness Iran has planned in response.
"We have prepared a comprehensive plan to respond that includes targeting the vital infrastructure of Israel and the US energy infrastructure in the region and we are ready for it," he said.
He cited Iran's performance in "the 40-day war" as proof of both "ability and will," APA reports.
Denouncing the premise while confirming the plan is a neat trick. It works exactly once before everyone just calls it a threat.
Then IRGC-linked Fars News did something new. It published an actual target list.
The list named Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field, the UAE's Ruwais refinery and Zakum field, Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG terminal, Kuwait's Burgan field, and Bahrain's Sitra refinery, Iran International reports. It also named Israel's Tamar and Leviathan gas fields. That's a first.
Israel hadn't appeared on Iran's target lists since the American strikes began five months ago. Every Gulf monarchy that has spent years hedging between Washington and Tehran just got told, in print, exactly what a miscalculation costs them. Israel just got added to a list it had managed to stay off of.
So the message lands everywhere at once. To Riyadh and Abu Dhabi: don't assume neutrality buys immunity. To Washington: don't assume this stays contained to Iranian soil.
To Israel: welcome to the list. Iran didn't have to fire a shot to make half the region recalculate its risk exposure this weekend. Who exactly gets to sit this one out?
#Iran #StraitOfHormuz #Israel #GulfStates #EnergySecurity
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| 11 |  Operation Rollout: Four Leaks, Zero Launch Orders
In the space of six hours Friday, four different outlets published four different versions of the same war that hasn't started yet. CBS reported the US and Israel are planning to bomb Iranian power plants and refineries, with strikes possible throughout the weekend, CBS News reports. The Wall Street Journal reported Trump ordered a broader offensive meant to force Tehran into submission, lasting several days, WSJ reports.
Axios reported the president is merely "seriously considering" energy strikes and hasn't given final orders, Axios reports. CNN, meanwhile, reported the scope and targets remain unclear and the whole thing could still be scrapped, while separately noting accelerated prep to hit Iran's nuclear sites, including the long-untouched Pickaxe Mountain facility. Four leaks, four militaries apparently fighting four different wars, and not one confirmed target.
The Pentagon's contribution to the clarity was a single sentence: "The Department of War is locked and loaded, ready to execute the President's directives at a moment's notice."
That's not a war plan, that's a vending machine waiting for someone to insert a coin. At Camp David, the Cabinet reportedly split over the plan, with some advisers pushing back even as the White House insisted the authorization had already been granted, just maybe not for energy targets specifically, which is a genuinely impressive way to authorize a war without agreeing on what it's a war against.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt filled the vacuum with certainty nobody asked for: "As President Trump said at his Cabinet meeting today, the United States will win, and Iran will not have a nuclear weapon under his watch."
She added that "President Trump is not going to stand by and allow this terrorist behavior to occur. Iran will continue to pay until they come to the table in, what President Trump deems, a meaningful way." Note the phrasing, victory is guaranteed, but the terms of victory are whatever the president decides to deem, whenever he decides to deem it.
Gulf states, for their part, are reportedly the ones now urging Washington to escalate rather than restrain, which tells you something about how the region's calculus has shifted after five months of this.
Four newsrooms, one Pentagon, one press secretary, and still nobody can say what's actually getting bombed, or when, or why. Is this a military campaign, or a leak-testing exercise with live ammunition on standby?
#Iran #Israel #Trump #Pentagon #MiddleEastWara
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It was the right-wing divide over Iran and Israel, Loomer said, that precipitated her change of heart on Ukraine.
Two of her biggest online nemeses, Carlson and the podcaster Candace Owens, have doubled down on their Russia-friendly stances as they criticized the Iran war and the U.S. alliance with Israel.
Owens’s visit to Putin’s marquee conference in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June, she said, added to her determination to go to Ukraine.
“I realized all these people had something in common and that’s that they all aggressively advocate for Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war,” Loomer said. “I started to think to myself, what else are they lying about?”
Loomer, who has nearly two million followers on X, has said her work is funded by donors whom she declines to identify.
She said in a May interview that she was finalizing her “pitch deck” for her meetings with donors. She said on X that the cost of her trip to Ukraine was “supplemented by private Americans who were worried about my safety.”
An American reached out to her in late May, according to Loomer, offering the opportunity to travel to Ukraine. The individual, whom Loomer declined to identify, worked in the nonprofit sector and had led numerous trips to Ukraine for people interested in learning more about the conflict.
His group, the Ukraine Freedom Project, ran a “Putin is a loser” online advertising campaign highlighting Russia’s battlefield human losses, the crippling of much of its Black Sea Fleet and the country’s struggling economy.
“Nobody wants to be associated with a fool or a loser,” he said. “Trump likes winners, he likes to be associated with winners and Ukraine is the winner right now.”
A month and a half later, Loomer was in Ukraine, rebutting the anti-Ukraine narrative she had once amplified.
She met with Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, one of the country’s leading Jewish religious figures, whose son was killed fighting Russian forces. “The rabbi told me his dead Jewish son didn’t fight alongside Nazis,” Loomer, who is Jewish, wrote on social media.
“Trump needs a language with which he can sell Ukraine to the American people,” said Lindsley, who has been living in Ukraine since the start of the war and has been advocating for more U.S. support. “And Laura Loomer is giving him that.”
#loomer #trump #zelensky #ukraine #russia
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| 13 | Laura Loomer: “Zelensky Is a Self Hating Nazi Jew.”
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Loomer sat down for about 40 minutes last week with Zelensky, conducted the first interview with Ukraine’s new acting defense minister.
“They view me as an extension of the Trump administration, even though I don’t work for the Trump administration,” Loomer said in an interview.
Pro-Ukraine groups have long highlighted churches destroyed in Russian airstrikes and the persecution of some Christians in Russia.
They have organized trips to Ukraine for conservative activists, pastors and influencers. They once took out a billboard with a Bible verse across from Speaker Mike Johnson’s Louisiana church.
But they have struggled to make inroads with Trump, his closest aides and key right-wing voices. Witkoff, Trump’s friend and special envoy, kept traveling to Russia for meetings with Putin but not to Ukraine.
“Ultimately, the president is the only person who matters,” said Melinda Haring, a senior adviser at the pro-Ukrainian nonprofit Razom for Ukraine, where she directs outreach to the Trump administration.
While many MAGA figures have shown “personal support and sympathy” for Ukraine’s cause, Ms. Haring said, they “can’t do anything about it because Trump hasn’t changed his mind.”
That is why Haring and other Ukraine supporters are now hoping that Ms. Loomer’s visit represents a turning point. Loomer said she called Trump twice from Ukraine. On social media, she said she “fell for Russian propaganda” when she once called Zelensky “a self hating Nazi Jew.”
There are some signs Trump may be giving more heed to Ukraine’s arguments as Russia’s invasion nears the four-and-a-half-year mark, but little to signal a decisive change in course.
The president said in early July that he would allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air-defense systems, then told The Financial Times this week he was “not sure” he would do it. He has maintained his sympathetic approach to Putin.
Loomer, who first rose to prominence in right-wing circles with her anti-Muslim and homophobic invective, proved her personal influence with Trump last year when she apparently persuaded the president to fire six of his national security aides. This year, she has aligned herself with Trump further by defending his decision to attack Iran.
#loomer #trump #zelensky #ukraine #russia
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| 14 |  🔤🔤🔤🔤2️⃣
The ISF would operate between NCAG and Israeli-controlled areas of the territory, while internal security would be the responsibility of the NCAG and its police force.
There was no confirmation from the Israeli government by Friday afternoon that it accepted the agreement. The far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, dismissed it as “unacceptable”.
“The assassinations in Gaza must continue, the encouragement of immigration must happen, Israel must win,” Ben-Gvir said on the Telegram messaging platform.
Hours after Trump announced the Hamas agreement, Israel carried out an airstrike on Gaza, wounding several people. Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the October ceasefire.
Hamas said it agreed to the roadmap on condition that disarmament was carried out at the same time as Israeli withdrawal.
“We will not take any action regarding disarmament prior to Israel’s withdrawal from the strip,” Ghazi Hamad, a member of the Hamas negotiating team, told Al Jazeera.
By agreeing to Mladenov’s roadmap, Hamas has increased the pressure on Israel to fulfil the commitments it made in the October ceasefire.
A US official who briefed the press on Thursday night acknowledged that Israel was “very sceptical that Hamas will disarm” but added that Trump would be “very, very disappointed” if Israel did not meet its obligations under the agreement.
It is unclear how long the agreement would take to implement. The 13 members of the NCAG have so far been barred by Israel from entering Gaza, the special training of Palestinian police has yet to start, and troops from the countries volunteering to support the ISF, such as Morocco and Kosovo, have yet to arrive.
Hamas had previously said it was ready to disarm but had insisted it would not agree to any new deal before Israel had fulfilled Hamas’s obligations under the first phase of the ceasefire: stopping the bombing and pulling back to the agreed demarcation line.
“Hamas is eager to get rid of the governing burden of Gaza, having to pay the salaries of 35,000 employees. They see this as a burden,” Shehada added. Hamas leaders had hoped Iran would make the Gaza ceasefire a condition for its June memorandum of understanding with the US, but this did not happen.
“There is disappointment with Iran, as Gaza was not mentioned explicitly,” Shehada said. “The other reason is the fear that Israel would relaunch the war back to its full might.”
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| 15 | Trump Declares Breakthrough In Negotiations Over the Disarmament of Hamas
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Trump has declared a breakthrough in negotiations over the disarmament of Hamas in Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli forces, issues that have so far stalled the implementation of last October’s ceasefire, but Israel has yet to respond officially to the plan and government officials have voiced scepticism over the deal.
Announcing the agreement in a social media post on Thursday night, Trump said it involved the “complete disarmament” of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza and was “a monumental step toward ending the fighting”.
Israel has pointed to Hamas’s failure to disarm as justification for its continued strikes and refusal to allow any reconstruction in Gaza, and for Israeli forces’ steady edging forward from the demarcation line agreed in October.
After months of negotiations in Cairo, the Board of Peace (BoP), set up by Trump last year, managed on Thursday to secure Hamas’s agreement to a “roadmap” for phased disarmament, in parallel with Israeli withdrawal, and alongside a transfer of power in Gaza from Hamas to a Palestinian interim administration of technocrats, supported by specially trained Palestinian police and an international stabilisation force (ISF).
The 14-point plan, posted by the BoP on X on Friday, urges Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian factions to halt all military operations, and calls for an international verification committee (IVC) to be set up.
It outlines a 14-day period after all parties have accepted the roadmap, with a timetable and implementation mechanisms to be worked out.
Control of Gaza would then be handed to a National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, a panel of Palestinian professionals and experts set up by the BoP in January who have been waiting in Cairo since then to take over.
The NCAG would take over all administrative functions, backed by the new police force and the ISF. That would enable a “process to decommission and store heavy weapons, military production sites, depots of weapons, and tunnels”.
The disarming of Hamas and other groups would be “gradual, sequential and time-bound” and would be “linked to an Israeli withdrawal, in phases, from the areas under its control in Gaza”.
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| 16 |  Trump Refused To Give Ukraine 300 “Patriot” Missiles
Zelensky asked Trump to influence Muskʼs decision to allow the use of Starlink to control drones during attacks on Russia.
The new proposal would allow the United States not to transfer missiles to Ukraine for Patriot air defense systems, the publication writes. As the media notes, Zelensky previously asked the United States for 300 missiles, but Trump refused.
Until now, Musk has allowed Ukrainians to use Starlink only on their own territory, including Crimea and other regions occupied by Russia.
Ukraine wants to use Starlink to direct drone attacks on small and mobile ballistic missile launchers used by Russia to attack Ukraine.
During his visit to the United States this week, Zelensky asked to meet with Musk to discuss the plan, but the billionaire declined the invitation.
Trump said during his meeting with Zelensky that he would consider this request and talk to Musk, but made no promises.
Meanwhile, sources close to former Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov told reporters that a few weeks before his dismissal, the minister was in talks with Musk and other contacts in the United States to get permission to use Starlink for drone strikes on Russia.
According to the sources, Musk assured Fedorov that it would be possible “if Trump says to do it”. The talks broke down, he added, after a government reshuffle.
During talks with Trump, Zelensky suggested that if Musk did not allow Starlink to be used to strike Russia, the Pentagon could give Ukraine access to the Starshield network for the same purpose, two officials said.
However, one of them added that Starshield would not work so well for Ukraine.
“It’s more expensive, more complex, and harder to integrate into our systems. We figured out how to launch drones on Starlink a long time ago. We’ll have no problem sending them across the border. But Starshield is a slightly different system. We’ll need to figure out how to integrate it,” the official said.
Thus, Starlink remains the cheapest and most reliable guidance system available for Ukrainian long-range drones.
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On Monday the political bureau of the Nation’s Union party warned that ignoring the protests over the wave of executions could have “devastating consequences”, and urged academics and religious scholars to intervene to end this state violence.
Similarly a “we do not want war” statement signed by 268 political activists this month said they believed the overwhelming majority opposed war, and this should be tested in a public vote.
Another letter from 1,000 activists linked with the former president Mohammad Khatami warned “the contemporary experience of Iran is that war has no winners. Those who advocate negotiations should not be slandered.”
What unites these initiatives is a fear that diplomats are losing, and Iran is being edged into a forever war that can be portrayed as an Iranian-Arab war, a war that would be to Israel’s advantage.
Yet opposition to the whole principle of negotiation with America – fuelled by Trump’s own erratic behaviour – is being voiced by hardliners, in street rallies and more recently on unofficial billboards.
The sway of the hardliners lies less in their strength in parliament – many were elected on low turnouts and anyway have been deposed from key committees in parliament – but in the belief that a network of deep-state support exists in the military and in the office of the supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.
The absence of Khamenei from public view makes it harder to resolve the controversy about whether the family sees any purpose in negotiations with America.
The crisis between the government and the broadcaster is now out in the open after interventions by Pezeshkian and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the chief negotiator, were censored.
The government in a statement complained: “Censorship of the president’s speech, unilateral destruction of the government’s performance, and efforts to destroy the memorandum of understanding that was formed to get the country through the crisis and protect national interests are no longer media criticism; they are a stand against national cohesion, empathy, and unity.
“The question is clear: is the Iranian broadcasting system with the people, government, and interests of Iran or with those who benefit from division, tension, and polarisation?
The national media should be the voice of Iranian unity, not a platform for destroying the government and disrupting national understanding.”
There are calls for a complete overhaul of the organisation’s accountability when a new head is appointed this September. At one level the politics of the national broadcaster should not matter, since surveys suggest less than 12% of the country watch it.
The toll of the war on the economy has spread everywhere from the internet to tourism. All 400 hotels on Kish Island in the strait of Hormuz – the site of US bombing on Thursday – have shut. As many as 30,000 Iranians visited medical centres during the two wars in 2025 and 2026.
Civilian facilities such as the Bushehr meteorological centre have been almost destroyed and the Bushehr airport has become unusable.
The Chabahar maritime watchtower has been completely destroyed; 12 bridges and two tunnel openings have been damaged. This will take decades to repair.
#iran #economy #trump #hormuz #khamenei
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| 18 | Iran Is In No Hurry to Negotiate, Trump Chalked the Delay Up To Personal Animosity
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Iran, in the middle of an escalating five-month war with the US, continues to stumble from one internal crisis to another – whether it is over public executions, the rising cost of living, the alleged bias of the state broadcaster or even the post-midnight destruction of pavements outside liberal-leaning Tehran cafes.
Very little that happens in Iran, cultural or political, momentous or trivial, does so uncontested.
But there is now a growing threat of a long diplomatic deadlock, forged by mutual distrust in which neither side believes the other will stick to any agreement.
That impasse has occurred as the war broadens, drawing in Yemen, Iraq and now Egypt. In Iran, at least, the advocates of escalation are winning. As a result, a convergence of Iran’s conflicts, internal and external, becomes more likely.
Parts of the Trump administration and the Iranian opposition – including Reza Pahlavi, the son of the former deposed Shah – have never abandoned the belief that the Iranian government is on the brink of collapse.
What is true is that the picture of cohesive if brittle society presented by the millions attending the funeral of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei earlier this month revealed only one side of the public mood.
At a recent meeting of the supreme judicial council he argued: “Iran is engaged in a full-scale war. Today’s war is not just a war of missiles; the enemy has come to the conclusion that it cannot force the Iranian nation to surrender through military attacks. The most important battlefield today is the economy and livelihood of the people.
If economic pressures cause social discontent to form and this discontent spreads, the enormous social capital that the people have created in support of the system will be lost.”
Golshan Fathi, a Tehran human rights activist, recently wrote on her social media page: “The same sick cycle repeats (…) morning (…) the call to prayer, news of an execution (…) noon with power cuts, afternoon the water stops (…) dusk, the anxiety of war and renewed attacks on cities, and at midnight, the earth trembles.
Dissent in the form of political protest also exists, whether it is those inside jails or citizens in the squares of Isfahan protesting against the current wave of intimidatory public executions.
#iran #economy #trump #hormuz #khamenei
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| 19 |  🚀 Russian Ballistic Missile Reportedly Destroys Drone Factory in Kyiv
A drone manufacturing facility in Kyiv was destroyed in a Russian ballistic missile strike on Friday. According to reports, the factory was owned by Terminal Autonomy, a U.S.-registered company incorporated in Delaware, marking what has been described as the first reported strike on a U.S.-owned company during the conflict.
Terminal Autonomy develops AI-assisted deep-strike drones equipped with guidance systems designed to remain operational despite electronic jamming. The company says its loitering munitions and precision weapons are already being used on the front line.
The company and Ukraine's Ministry of Defense did not comment on the reports.
Former U.S. intelligence official Anthony Vinci said ownership of a manufacturing facility is unlikely to influence Russian targeting decisions if the site is considered to have military significance.
The strike comes amid continued debate over expanding defense production in Ukraine. Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States would authorize licensed production of Patriot air-defense missiles in Ukraine. Vinci suggested that facilities manufacturing U.S.-designed military systems could also become potential targets.
According to reports, no casualties were recorded in the attack.
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| 20 |  The Patriot Passport: Now With 250,000 Limited Editions
The State Department announced that a commemorative passport featuring Trump leaning over the Resolute Desk will finally go national on August 8, after 250,000 copies were previously rationed out of a single office in Washington, Forbes reports.
It won't replace the standard passport, it's optional, it's scarce, and it's numbered like a trading card. Nothing says national unity like a limited-edition government document with a face on it.
Some travelers weren't thrilled to discover the president might end up in their carry-on by default.
A tip circulating on Reddit advised applicants at the Washington Passport Agency to specifically request the large-format 52-page book if they wanted to dodge the commemorative design, a workaround that exists only because enough people assumed the presidential edition would simply become the new normal.
It says something that the State Department needed users to crowdsource an opt-out.
This is not, notably, a one-off. Trump's portrait already went up on National Parks passes earlier this year, administration officials have floated putting his face and signature on a new $250 bill, and his name was slapped onto the Kennedy Center signage before a federal judge ordered it removed for lacking congressional approval.
The passport is just the latest entry in a slow-motion rebrand of federal paperwork into merchandise, one office, one bill denomination, one building at a time.
None of this requires anyone's vote or a line in a budget bill, just a printing order and a signature the office already has on file.
If the presidency can restyle a passport, a park pass, and eventually maybe a $250 bill without asking anyone, what exactly is left that still needs an act of Congress?
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