[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] President Donald Trump got the birthday present he had been hoping for - good weather.
Despite several drops of rain falling as he and first lady Melania Trump arrived at Saturday's 250th anniversary for the U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.'s skies stayed clear enough for flyovers, parachute jumps and a grand fireworks display.
The president spoke for an uncharacteristically short eight minutes, but in doing so delivered a stern warning to America's enemies.
'There is no earthly force more powerful than the brave heart of the U.S. military or an Army Ranger paratrooper or Green Beret,' he told the crowd, sprawled far out onto the National Mall surrounding the Washington Monument.
There were fears ahead of Saturday's event, which coincided with Trump's 79th birthday, that the evening parade would have to be postponed or scrapped if there was lightning in the area.
The only lightning and thunder at the event was during country crooner Warren Zeiders' performance and when AC/DC's Thunderstruck played.
Ahead of the event there were also worries about protests.
While some of the 'No Kings' demonstrations around the country turned chaotic - including an incident with a man driving into a crowd - on the Mall there were only a smattering of critics - some quietly holding signs, others more loudly heckling the president's MAGA fans.
The president and first lady arrived at a viewing box where the Ellipse meets Constitution Avenue, with Melania sporting a cream pinstripe suit for the occasion.
After the Star-Spangled banner, when there was a break in the programming, members of the crowd loudly broked out into 'Happy Birthday' for Trump.
Trump has denied that the military parade is in his honor - though he's wanted to hold a Bastille Day-like parade since visting France in the opening months of his first term in 2017.
Directly before the president's entrance, Vice President J.D. Vance and Usha Vance arrived with their kids, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as other dignitaries waited onstage.
While June 14 marked Trump's birthday, the Army's birthday and Flag Day, Vance admitted to the crowd it was a special occasion for his family too.
'First of all, June the 14th is, of course, the birthday of the Army. It is, of course, the birthday of the president United States. And Happy Birthday, Mr. President,' Vance said.
'But I would get in trouble if I didn't mention that it's also my wedding anniversary. And so to my lovely wife I love you, honey. Happy anniversary, and thank you for everything you do for our country,' the VP added.
Trump's family members were also on hand - Donald Trump Jr., with girlfriend Bettina Anderson, Eric Trump with wife Lara, as well as Tiffany Trump - who gave birth last month to her first child.
Dana White, the Trump pal and Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO, scored a prime seat to the parade.
Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff, sat in the second row wearing a large pair of reflective sunglasses.
The parade showcased the history of the Army, with the earliest period uniforms going first.
That means the 1st Cavalry Division - including its mascot Doc Holliday, a two year old blue heeler - was near the beginning of the pack.
The flyovers started during the World War II era, as Jeeps rolled down Constitution Avenue as well as M4 Sherman tanks.
M1 Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Stryker vehicles later rolled down the parade route.
Parachutists from the Golden Knights jumped onto the Ellipse, while more modern aircraft including Chinook helicopters flew over the Washington Monument in a group.
While the president is used to packed crowds for his rallies, the attendance for Saturday’s parade wasn’t overwhelming.
Attendees had plenty of space on the National Mall to spread out.
The VIP bleachers located across from the press section were barely full.
Lines did stretch dozens of people deep for the food trucks that had been allowed on the National Mall.
There were handfuls of protesters, but most sat quietly while holding their signs.
One demonstrator, 72-year-old Mike from Washington, D.C., who declined to give his last name, held up a sign that read: 'Celebrate and respect our brave military personnel. Condemn and reject our cowardly draft-dodging authoritarian president.'
His female companion, who declined to be identified, held up a sign that read ‘Freedom not Fascism.'
Ahead of the fireworks a protester yelled out 'Trump is a traitor.'
Those surrounding the individual fired back with a 'USA' chant.
Similar to Trump's former campaign rallies, reports emerged from attendees of a two tiered system of treatment.
As VIPs filled in to a section with plenty of available seating, lines around the block were made up of general admission attendees, many of who were not permitted to entry the parade space as check point after check point shut down.
During the final segment of the parade, which showcased the future of military technologies, the ARL Robot Dogs took center stage.
Both child and adult attendees of the parade decried the dogs as 'scary', while X user @funkygalonline wrote 'Black mirror changed me forever on these. Not a fan.'
The evening ended with a grand fireworks display over the National Mall, which was timed to a number of patriotic songs.
[Breitbart] Illegal immigration is fuelling the ballooning black market economy in Britain, which now stands at over a quarter of a trillion pounds sterling per year, a report has found.
According to an upcoming report from the independent National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) organisation, the number of people involved in the black market economy has grown by 80 per cent since 2016. The report found that as many as one in ten adults in Britain are connected to the underground economy.
The Sun on Sunday newspaper reported that NatCen claimed that this has resulted in the black market expanding to a staggering £260 billion industry, enabling delinquent businesses to avoid around £2.2 billion in tax every year. The social research organisation specifically pointed to the illegal migrant crisis in recent years as a top contributor to the burgeoning black market.
Previously, French prosecutor Pascal Marconville claimed that people smuggling networks operating on both sides of the English Channel often trade passage to impoverished illegals in exchange for them signing up to work in the underground economy in Britain, such as in cannabis farms, laundrettes, or restaurants to pay the debt incurred for gaining access to their small boat network.
Illegal migration has also been tied to the fast fashion industry, with thousands of modern slaves working in sweatshops in multicultural cities like Leicester, according to a 2020 report from the Centre for Social Justice.
Though British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer campaigned in last year’s general election on a pledge to “smash” the people smuggling gangs behind the illegal boat migrant crisis, the number of illegals successfully reaching UK shores from the beaches of France have continued to grow, hitting a record high for this time of year of over 16,000 since January.
The report comes as the governing left-wing Labour Party has come under criticism after Treasury minister Darren Jones claimed that the majority of illegal migrants crossing the Channel are “children, babies and women”. This was contradicted by the government’s own figures, which found that last year over seven in ten illegal boat migrants were males, or 26,999 out of all 36,816 illicit arrivals.
Commenting on the report, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told The Sun on Sunday: “The British people are being taken for fools again. We already know that our borders are in chaos. But, thanks to successive Labour and Tory governments, those arriving then go on to work illegally on the £260 billion black market economy.”
“And all the while we pay for their accommodation. Nearly 40,000 boat migrants have arrived since Labour came to power — and numbers are up 40 per cent on this time last year. How many of these already work on the black market without paying tax? Labour has long championed the mantra of British jobs for British workers. But brickies and builders are being undercut by illegal labour.
Britain is in social and economic decline. The social contract is stretched to its limits. People that pay their taxes and play by the rules increasingly feel shafted.Yes, these migrants may be victims of exploitation — but they are also part of the criminal economy. Unscrupulous bosses are laughing all the way to the bank while British workers get priced out again.”
Mr Farage said that the only means of solving the crisis would be to immediately deport anyone who enters the country illegally and to leave the deportation-blocking European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its associated court in Strasbourg, which Britain is still a member of despite Brexit as it is technically a separate institution from the EU.
The Reform boss remarked: “Keir Starmer’s soft touch is laughable. He promised to smash the gangs — but all he has smashed are illegal immigration records.”
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[REGNUM] Israel's attack on Iranian nuclear and military facilities on the night of June 12-13 came as a shock to many countries in the Middle East.
It cannot be said that it was unexpected, since Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia had asked Donald Trump the day before not to use force against Iran, since a retaliatory strike could hit American bases on their territory.
Did they mean it, or was that merely face-saving posturing?
But the escalation that began, which was very difficult to control, especially given Trump’s own compliments to the Israeli army (IDF), seriously frayed the nerves of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, his colleagues in the GCC and one of Israel’s main antagonists in the region, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The poor darlings, all of whom — except, in the medium term, Turkey — are considerably safer now than they were before. Turkey needs to hope that President Trump will protect them from Israel’s ire, given how awful they’ve been in that direction, but after seeing how Iran was not protected, perhaps ought not be as smugly sanguine as they were…
The first official reaction from Ankara began to come closer to midday on June 13. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan accused Israel of violating international law, destabilizing the region and provoking the US-Iran talks.
Because America needs to be white knighted like that…
Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz announced that Turkey "strongly condemns the Netanyahu administration's aggression," which has no legitimate justification and is aimed at undermining regional stability.
Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş said Israel's actions were plunging "the region and the world into flames."
Hystarical much? Given how carefully Israel has targetted her hits, even Iran in general is not plunged into flames — exactly as was observed in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria.
The head of the Turkish presidential administration's communications department, Fahrettin Altun, said the strikes on Iran showed "how dangerous the genocidal Netanyahu administration has become for the region and world peace."
Speaking via social media that evening, Erdogan summarized the positions of his comrades, repeating the theses about Israel’s intention to disrupt the negotiations between Iran and the United States, violating international law and destabilizing the region, but adding emotional assessments.
The attacks, he said, demonstrate "the Israeli mentality of breaking all rules" and that the international community needs to stop "Israeli banditry."
You going to bell the Israeli cat, perhaps? No? Then we know what to think about you.
The Turkish president's words, bordering on insult, are in fact resonating with millions of Muslims, and especially Arabs, who have been watching the extermination of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza for almost two years.
Either in their heart of hearts they don’t believe what they say, or they are cowards, all. Either is acceptable.
Israel uses force not only in Palestine, but also in neighboring Lebanon and Syria. After the change of power in Syria to the pro-Turkish Ahmed al-Sharaa, Ankara has another point of conflict with Netanyahu.
The IDF has been shelling Turkish military base construction sites in Syria. In May, Turkey and Israel, brokered by Trump, launched de-escalation talks in Baku, but the prospects for normalization have become even more dim after Israel’s attack on Iran.
Israel has had normalization with Turkey. Several times, as Erdogan’s mood and calculations wax and wane. It no longer seems a goal worth striving for, given how quickly President Erdogan turns negative.
At the same time, Erdogan has no sympathy for Iran or its “axis of resistance,” to put it mildly. Turkey has been butting heads with pro-Iranian Bashar al-Assad in Syria for many years. In December 2024, Ankara effectively drove the Iranians out of Damascus.
Against this background, Europe has another argument to stop isolating Ankara and move towards rapprochement with it. For the EU and Britain, Turkey has become a window of access to Syria - the first visits of European foreign ministers were organized by the Turkish side.
When Trump began to question America’s participation in ensuring European security and gradually “withdrew” from support for Ukraine, Turkey’s importance for the Old World increased to the skies.
However, they will still not be able to become allies: there are too many contradictions.
Europe is trying to split the Turkic world - Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan disowned Northern Cyprus at the EU summit. Erdogan's activity in the Mediterranean with attempts to divide maritime borders with Libya and Syria worries Cyprus, Greece, France and other EU members.
The Iranian issue, although not the main point of divergence between Turkey and the EU, does not add sugar to the tea of the Turkish-European partnership.
While Erdogan accused Netanyahu of banditry, European countries quickly changed their tune. If yesterday they threatened to impose sanctions on Israel for its new operation "Gideon's Chariots", now Germany, France and Great Britain are talking about its "right to self-defense".
Erdogan did not quarrel with the Europeans because of their hypocrisy. Firstly, because investments, trade and defense projects with Europe are important and necessary for him. And secondly, despite all the hatred for the "murderer Netanyahu", Iran is not the topic for which it is worth taking such a principled position.
As in the previous year, when Iran and Israel also exchanged blows and sabotage, Turkey is again formally on Iran’s side. Erdogan needs to show solidarity with the Islamic world and its protector in the face of Israeli expansion. Last summer, he even proposed creating an “Islamic army” in response to the killings in Gaza and attacks on Lebanon.
It is worth remembering that Iran and Turkey have historically been competitors in the region. In the first half of the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire waged grueling wars with the Safavid Empire for control over eastern Anatolia, Kurdistan, and the South Caucasus. And at the present stage of history, Türkiye and Iran are still competing for influence in the Middle East and the South Caucasus.
Iran was very unhappy with the plans to create the "Zangezur Corridor" between Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan and Turkey. Erdogan took over one of Iran's proxies, Syria, and is forcing competition on Iran in Shiite Iraq, implementing the "Development Road" project there, connecting Istanbul with the Persian Gulf.
Despite the objective competition, the situational interests of Turkey and Iran in relation to Israel coincide. Both Erdogan and Ayatollah Khamenei want to stop the war in Gaza and oppose further Israeli expansion in Lebanon and Syria.
Turkey is not happy with the breakdown of the “nuclear negotiations” because Ankara is interested in lifting sanctions against Iran.
Under the Obama administration, Turkey's Halkbank was indicted in the U.S. for circumventing these restrictions in the Zarrab affair, a scheme that involved several members of Erdogan's cabinet.
Tehran and Ankara, despite all their problems, manage to keep competition within reasonable limits. That is why Erdogan unilaterally expressed condolences to the “friendly and brotherly people of Iran,” ignoring the losses on the Israeli side.
International crises involving Muslim countries are always an opportunity to strengthen relations with the Islamic world, in which Türkiye is extremely interested.
Erdogan's first call was to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, whose rhetoric toward Israel has hardened, and the King of Jordan. Calls were also made to two other allied states that are extremely sensitive to relations with Israel.
The Turkish president tried to convince Syrian leader Al-Sharaa not to get involved in the confrontation between Iran and Israel, since such a situation would require Turkey to declare war on Israel, and in fact, on the US and NATO.
Consultations were also held with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who is allied with Israel, and it was important for Erdogan to hear from Baku that it would not provide its territory for an attack on Iran. After all, in that case, Tehran could strike Azerbaijan, which would force Turkey to act within the framework of the "Shushin Declaration."
In the context of the Iranian-Israeli standoff, another point has been identified from the point of view of Turkey's interests. The fact is that Russia and the United States are working to put an end to the conflict. After a conversation with Vladimir Putin, the American leader announced that they both believe that the war must end.
On the same day, June 14, Erdogan called Trump and said that Ankara was ready to make every effort to prevent uncontrolled escalation. On June 15, Fidan discussed de-escalation with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.
Erdogan, judging by Trump's compliments, Turkey's mediation in the dialogue between Al-Sharaa and the head of the White House and the Istanbul talks with Marco Rubio, enjoys the US President's great respect. Russia still counts on the "Istanbul format" of negotiations with Ukraine and appreciates Erdogan's efforts to resolve the conflict.
Inspired by relative successes in Ukraine and support from the Kremlin and the White House, Erdogan may try on the role of peacemaker in the Iran-Israel conflict.
Unlike Eastern Europe, where Ankara manages to maintain “equally close” contacts with Kiev and Moscow, in the Middle East conflict, Erdogan’s candidacy as a mediator will clearly not be approved by Israel. However, Türkiye can become a mediator between the US and Iran.
In October 2024, before Iran launched strikes on Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders, the Turkish Foreign Ministry, at the request of the State Department, tried to dissuade Tehran from attacking, calling on the US and Iran to make reasonable decisions.
Ankara may make a new attempt at mediation, but its success will depend on Trump's ability to stop new Israeli attacks.
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[REGNUM] Iran and Israel continue to exchange intense strikes. Against this backdrop, the operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which official Tel Aviv recently called “existential,” has temporarily faded into the background.
Israel threw all its forces against the Iranians, completely forgetting about its other project - an "alternative government" of the enclave headed by a loyalist Bedouin. Which, given the busy schedule of its "senior comrades", was left alone with Hamas.
ROBIN HOODS IN ISRAELI STYLE
The first news of “enclave loyalists” came at the end of November 2024, when a number of major Western media outlets (including, for example, The Washington Post) reported on attempts by the Israeli army to influence the flow of humanitarian aid through Gaza.
Allegedly, the main supply lines were laid through so-called red zones, where armed groups of unknown affiliation operated, emptying vans and appropriating humanitarian aid.
The Israelis turned a blind eye to what was happening, attributing the operations to the activities of “local militias.”
And not forgetting to emphasize that the latter acted on the principle of "rob the loot" and attacked only those trucks that had already allegedly been appropriated by Hamas. However, they kept silent about who exactly was leading the raids.
Towards the middle of 2025, the “pro-Israeli militias” acquired a face. Yasser Abu Shabab, a member of the influential Bedouin clan Tarabin, came to the fore.
Shabab's men, using his connections in the criminal world and support from the Israeli command, quickly took over the small gangs operating in the enclave and created the "Gaza Governance Committee." It positions itself as a future alternative to the Hamas government and proclaims its goal to be the "peaceful rebirth" of the enclave.
According to various sources, between 300 and 500 fighters are fighting under the Shabab, distributed among the “red zones” from East Rafah to Karem Abu Salem. At the same time, the “committee’s” base, from which the main raids are carried out, is located in close proximity to the Israeli outposts in the Philadelphia Corridor, near the border city of Rafah.
SUITCASE WITHOUT HANDLE
Despite the ambitions of Israel's plan to establish an "alternative administration" in Gaza, it quickly stalled.
First of all, the criminal past of the leader of the "Gaza Governance Committee" played a role. Shabab, who had previously been involved in robberies and drug smuggling, did not really fit into the image of a fighter for civil liberties created by the Israeli media.
In addition, he was suspected of having ties to the terrorist underground, including because the ranks of the “committee” include former participants in radical campaigns in Syria and Iraq, and the information work is carried out by people from the banned media outlet “Al-Furqan”.
Because of this, the sudden revelation by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the authorities' support for the "committee" was met with extreme coldness by his Knesset colleagues.
The Prime Minister was quickly reminded of the sad experience of the United States, when support for the “gray militias” in Iraq in the early 2000s resulted in the emergence of new radical movements in the Middle East.
And some deputies, such as Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Our Home), even tried to provoke an image scandal (similar to the fading Qatargate). However, so far without result.
With the start of Israel's Operation Lion Force against Iran, the fighters of the Gaza Control Committee were essentially left to their own devices. Their opponents did not miss the chance to take advantage of this.
Hamas counterintelligence raids resulted in the arrest of several dozen members of the "committee," including a couple of mid-level commanders. Another fifty or so loyalists were killed in clashes in various parts of the enclave.
At the same time, the Palestinians have not yet managed to catch Shabab himself - he almost never leaves the “citadel” near the Philadelphia Corridor and commands the fighters remotely.
INTERNAL SQUABBLES
Although the committee's representatives are currently trying to avoid clashes with Hamas units and prefer to mainly hunt humanitarian caravans, their activity is causing increasing irritation among the current leadership of the enclave.
Moreover, the emergence of alternative centers of power in Gaza – even if they are more of a decorative nature – provokes squabbles between Palestinian factions.
One of the first to make a mark was the head of the Palestinian National Authority, Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. Although he did not see the committee as a real force, he called its appearance in Gaza "a harbinger of the fall of Hamas" and advocated the immediate demilitarization of the movement.
Representatives of other competing forces later tried to put forward a similar idea.
However, such attacks do not yet correspond too closely to reality. Units of pro-Israeli militias still retain relative combat capability, but they are unlikely to be able to hold out for long without the direct participation of the Israeli army in the event of large-scale clashes.
Moreover, Israel itself is not in a hurry to pump resources into the Shabab forces, fearing the loss of strict control over its units. Especially in the context of the war with Iran that has begun.
Recruiting new fighters within the enclave also proved difficult, as the committee's overly obvious connections with Israeli military structures played a cruel joke.
Hamas, meanwhile, has set its sights on getting even with Tel Aviv for its attempts to undermine its position in Gaza from within. The movement was among the first to join the strikes on Israeli territory as part of Iran's Operation True Promise 3, while other proxy forces, such as Lebanon's Hezbollah, have so far adopted a wait-and-see attitude.
Hamas has enough resources to play simultaneously on two “boards” – both against the Israelis and their proxies.
Therefore, it is not worth excluding the possibility that the committee will soon go into a completely defensive mode, so as not to lose any remaining influence.
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#1
"See? Tucker Carlson and Pat Buchanan have been right all along. Iran only intends the death of USA, and of Israel. So, we do not need to worry about anything. "
#3
and Saddam Hussein has no intention to develop Kuwait.
And Japan has no intention to defeat the US.
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Well, this Iranian prez-guy must know his audience.
He must know how effective such utterances are with influencers like cnn nbc washpost etc.
#4
Given the real Iranian leadership's lies, Nuke enrichment violations, and openly spoken contrary intended actions by them. Maybe the Iranian President should just admit he's a figure-head w/o any power.
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[REGNUM] On June 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin called his American counterpart Donald Trump. Formally, to congratulate the White House occupant on his birthday and American Flag Day.
“Both leaders expressed satisfaction with the personal relations that have developed, which allow them to communicate frankly and in a businesslike manner, to seek solutions to current issues on the bilateral and international agenda, no matter how complex these issues may be,” said Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, describing the essence and reasons for the congratulations.
It is no coincidence that on June 12, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio congratulated Russians on Russia Day – it is hard to remember the last time something like this happened.
However, the main topic of the negotiations was not Trump's personal holiday. And not Ukraine - it was, of course, touched upon, but only in passing. Putin told the American president about the implementation of the agreements and the readiness to continue the dialogue with Kiev - however, until the Kiev regime itself is ready for a serious diplomatic process, it will continue to stall.
The main topic was not even the upcoming next round of Russian-American negotiations on normalizing relations, which, according to the Russian Ambassador to the United States Alexander Darchiev, should take place in the near future in Moscow.
Yes, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are gradually bringing Russian-American relations back from the bottom they hit under Joseph Biden, but this is a long and complex process that does not tolerate haste or publicity.
"It was more important to talk about Iran, a country he knows well," Donald Trump himself said. About Iran - and the consequences of what Israel is doing now.
"Vladimir Putin, having condemned Israel's military operation against Iran, expressed serious concern about the possible escalation of the conflict, which would have unpredictable consequences for the entire situation in the Middle East region," said Yuri Ushakov. And, of course, throughout the world.
And these consequences are obvious.
First, the breakdown of the American-Iranian negotiating process, which had been going on for five rounds, albeit not very well, with Oman as the mediator. Trump himself said that the parties' positions were getting closer - and Israel launched its strikes just before the next round of negotiations scheduled for June 15. After which the Iranians accused the United States of supporting or even facilitating the Israeli strikes and put the talks on hold.
Yes, Israel believes it has won a victory – the negotiations could have led to the US agreeing to Iran having a nuclear program. A limited one, under strict IAEA control – but its own, sovereign nuclear program.
For Israel, its presence was absolutely unacceptable, since, according to Tel Aviv’s logic, its development would inevitably reach the level of creating an atomic bomb, which would pose an existential threat to the Jewish state.
However, such a breakdown of the negotiation process, a demonstrative disregard for the norms of international law (and any country that is a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons has the right to nuclear weapons) could lead to the realization of Israeli fears.
Iran realizes that diplomacy does not work without a nuclear baton on its belt, after which it may well move at an accelerated pace to build a bomb.
And - this is the second consequence of the Israeli strikes - it is not only he who can realize this fact. A number of developing countries will clearly see the difference between North Korea (which no one touches because it has a nuclear bomb) and Iran, which is bombed only because of some suspicions. Moreover, they are bombed with impunity - the so-called world community, represented by the Western media, turns a blind eye to this.
After which they themselves will decide to create a nuclear bomb - the only absolute instrument for protecting their sovereignty.
And finally, thirdly, Israel's war against Iran is leading to a huge number of casualties and destruction. Both in Iran and in Israel. The main beneficiaries of this war will be radicals and Islamic terrorists (for whom Tel Aviv and Tehran - as well as, by the way, Moscow) are the main enemies.
That is why Russia immediately after Israel struck Iran began calling for a peaceful resolution of all contradictions. And not just calling, but also facilitating the transition from bombing to negotiations.
From the very first day of the escalation between Israel and Iran, Vladimir Putin has been looking for opportunities for dialogue and overcoming differences, in particular, holding talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Using his enormous authority in the Middle East (Russia is one of the few countries that maintains at least working relations with all players there), Putin is putting forward various initiatives to overcome differences.
Thus, even during the American-Iranian negotiations, Moscow proposed storing enriched Iranian uranium on its territory (which Tehran now refuses to eliminate, because it fears that the US will then withdraw from the deal and the uranium will no longer exist).
From this point of view, Vladimir Putin's call to Donald Trump became a kind of continuation of his conversations with Tehran and Tel Aviv. Everyone understands that, firstly, Donald Trump has great influence on Israel (which cannot fight without American help), and, secondly, that the US has its own interests in this conflict. Which any real mediator must also take into account. The one who wants to resolve the conflict, and not to use it for PR.
Von der Leyen tells PM ‘without any question’ Iran shouldn’t have nuclear weapons, notes ‘same type of Iranian drones, ballistic missiles are indiscriminately hitting cities in Ukraine, Israel’
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