IRAN WAR NEWS

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 MORE THAN HALF OF U.S. VOTERS SAY THEIR FINANCIAL SITUATION HAS WORSENED SINCE TRUMP RETURNED TO OFFICE — FT. Meanwhile, 64% of those surveyed believe the U.S. economy is heading in the wrong direction.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump: Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful. Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The 60-day negotiation window under the US-Iran Islamabad peace deal has expired with no final agreement reached. Iran says there has been "absolutely no progress" on returning to the framework.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan on the Iran War: Of course, we are absolutely not in favor of war in these regions. We are for peace. But Israel is the principal instigator of this war; it is the principal actor in this war. Israel continuously encouraged war and was always in favor of the option of war. And because it stood on the side of war, other countries paid extremely heavy prices.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan: We cannot leave Gaza alone. Everything that falls on our shoulders as a duty toward Gaza, we have done until today and will continue to do. Hamas is showing all the sincere solidarity it can. But there is no such positive approach from Israel's side. They continue their attacks on Lebanon and Gaza with their aggressive approach. I see that Trump is disturbed by these developments. We are directing all kinds of warnings on this matter and will continue to do so.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan on a possible war with Israel: We are not talking about war, we are talking about peace. But if someone is going to attack Türkiye for war and not peace, Türkiye will not hesitate to fight that war and will not run from it. I say this with complete clarity and frankness.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran's Ghalibaf: I say with all my heart that we truly won this war, both militarily and politically. This does not mean that we destroyed the U.S. military. What I mean is that the United States and Israel attacked us with nine specific, declared objectives, but failed to achieve any of those nine objectives at any level. This was the greatest absolute defeat for the United States and the Zionist regime. In the diplomatic sphere as well, the agreement is a source of pride and a victory on the diplomatic battlefield.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump: Thank you, George, for some of your brilliant ideas on this great Military Complex/Ballroom!

💬 🇺🇸 Trump: I found out Karoline Leavitt likes her children more than she likes Trump, I’m very concerned about that.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 The U.S. is pulling its last aircraft carrier out of Asia, as the USS George Washington leaves the Pacific to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid the ongoing Iran war. The move will temporarily leave the western Pacific without a U.S. carrier.

#️⃣ 🇮🇱 Netanyahu’s new election propaganda brings Mojtaba Khamenei, Zohran Mamdani, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Naim Qassem together: “They want Netanyahu to lose. Don’t let them win.”

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 CENTCOM releases a map depicting Gaza and the West Bank as Israeli territory.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 Journalists traveling with Trump from Türkiye to Britain were kept unaware that he secretly switched planes because of a perceived Iranian threat. The journalists said they felt deceived and potentially endangered, arguing that although they accept risks when covering the president, they had not consented to being unknowingly used in a security operation. Some questioned whether the White House had adequately considered their safety and said the episode undermined their trust in the administration. - WaPo

#️⃣ 🇶🇦 Qatar has denied claims it detained three Iranian pilots, after Tehran called for their release. A foreign ministry spokesperson described the claims as “misleading” amid ongoing diplomatic efforts.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump: Despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture, there are many where we’re smiling, Kim Jong Un and I get along GREAT!

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran sent a formal complaint to the Red Cross that Qatar is holding three Iranian pilots whose Su-24s were shot down at the start of the war. Six months later, Qatar still won't allow any contact with them. Iran cited Geneva Convention articles requiring POWs be allowed to notify their families and file complaints.

💬 🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson quoted Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov to criticize U.S. foreign policy: The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 The U.S. is pressuring Apple not to use Chinese memory chips, even as an AI-driven memory shortage pushes prices higher.