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Trump Refuses to Unfreeze Iranian Assets Before a Deal, Leaving Both Sides Demanding the Same Concession First

New Delhi, June 8 -- The two sides negotiating an end to the US-Israel war with Iran agree on almost nothing. But on one question - who must give first - they are, improbably, mirror images of each ot... Read More


Israel Strikes Iran Despite Trump's Direct Call for Restraint, Betting a Peace Deal Is Already Dead

New Delhi, June 8 -- The phone call happened before the bombs fell. that if Israel struck back at Iran, the retaliatory cycle that has defined Middle Eastern conflict for decades would simply resume.... Read More


Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf Warns US Bases Are Legitimate Targets After Dahiyeh Strike

New Delhi, June 8 -- The warning came not from a general or an IRGC commander but from the man who chairs Iran's parliament. Hours after Israeli aircraft struck the Dahiyeh district of southern Beirut... Read More


Grossi: Attacking Any Nuclear Facility, Anywhere Is a Red Line That Cannot Be Crossed

India, June 8 -- The director general of the world's nuclear watchdog opened the IAEA Board of Governors meeting Monday with a blunt declaration that he said was directed at every combatant in every a... Read More


Trump Tells NBC He Wants a More 'Surgical' Hezbollah Strike, Breaking With Netanyahu in Public

New Delhi, June 7 -- The word he chose was surgical. Not ceasefire, not restraint, not even the softer diplomatic formulations his own State Department has been using for weeks. On Sunday morning, wit... Read More


Trump Says US Forces Will Stay in the Middle East Until Iran Is 'Completed'

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- He called it a "completion." Not a deal, not a ceasefire, not a withdrawal. Three months into the most sustained American military engagement in the Middle East since Iraq, Presi... Read More


Trump Says US Will Take Iran's Uranium Whether or Not a Deal Is Reached

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The question was simple enough: what happens to Iran's uranium stockpile if negotiations collapse? Donald Trump's answer, delivered to NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, stripped th... Read More


Trump Says US-Iran Deal Is Within Reach but Nuclear Terms Still Divide the Two Sides

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The optimism was unmistakable. President Donald Trump, speaking in a pre-recorded interview aired Sunday on NBC News' Meet the Press, declared that the United States and Iran wer... Read More


Iran Parliament Confirms $2 Million Per Vessel From Hormuz Fees - and Shipping Firms Face a Sanctions Trap

New Delhi, June 7 -- The number surfaced not from a government ministry or an IRGC press briefing, but from a budget committee. Mohsen Zanganeh, a member of the Iranian parliament's Planning and Budge... Read More


IDF Strikes Dahiyeh Again as Netanyahu Vows No Sanctuary for Hezbollah Command Centers

That sequence, June 7 -- The smoke had not finished rising from the last round of strikes on Dahiyeh when the next order came down. On Sunday afternoon, Israeli forces hit what the Israeli military de... Read More