Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s top diplomat, said last week that Tehran will not negotiate with the U.S. while the Trump administration tries to threaten it into submission, stating that he has not interacted with Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy, nor has Iran “requested talks.”
Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president, has taken steps to prepare his country for another war with the U.S., and President Donald Trump says Tehran must agree to his terms, or face the might of American forces steaming into the region.
Israel and the United States are working out a new 10-year security deal as Tel Aviv’s current “memorandum of understanding,” which provides Israel with $3.8 billion a year, nears its end in 2028.
The Trump administration has issued a letter of intent to provide a $1.3-billion loan and $277 million in financing to USA Rare Earth, an Oklahoma company that mines rare earth minerals and uses them to produce high-tech magnets for the aerospace, defense, electric vehicle, and electronics industries.
President Donald Trump said in an interview last week that if Iran makes good on its threat to assassinate him, the U.S. will blow up the entire country.
Oxfam released a report last week that showed billionaire wealth increased by over 16 percent last year to a record $18.3 trillion combined, all while just about half of the population on earth lives in poverty.
The Republican-controlled House rejected a war powers resolution that would have put limits on President Donald Trump’s use of the military in Venezuela, which one Democrat called “shameful.”
An internal memo issued in May authorized ICE agents to burst into the homes of Americans without ever obtaining a judicial warrant, which legal experts say is the latest example of how the Trump administration is making up its own laws along the way.
The Trump administration is actively looking for officials in Havana to help it remove the ruling Communist government, which has been badly weakened by sanctions and is close to collapse.
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, told reporters last week that he wanted to have constructive talks with the Trump administration, but identified “territorial integrity” as a “red line” in these discussions.