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Bessent on Iran: It is now time for world leaders to make the decision between America and Iran.
BIG: Bessent on China and Iran: We want to make clear here today that no one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions. That if they facilitate transactions and are part of the ecosystem that turns Iranian oil into money, into repression, they will be targeted.

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Gaza death toll rises to 8 Israeli air strikes have killed at least eight Palestinians, including two children, since dawn on Monday, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, citing medical sources. Israeli forces have targeted areas in central and southern Gaza, destroying houses, mosques and at least one water desalination facility.
Bessent on Iran: To the ordinary soldiers supporting this regime: as more and more of your paychecks stop or are supposedly just delayed, ask whether your commanders are leaving your country to triumph or to ruin, and recall that the Berlin Wall fell when ordinary soldiers decided not to shoot at their own people. And to those who enabled Tehran: do not discount the cost of testing Washington's resolve.

Fuad Hussein welcomed the Russian delegation, stressing the importance of ties between Iraq and Russia
Bessent on Iran: Any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the U.S. dollar system.
Bessent on Iran: Trump is making phone calls to world leaders with specific requests to cease their interactions with the Iranian regime.
Bessent on Iran: Beginning today, we will tighten the noose and block every potential source of revenue that funds the IRGC and the Iranian regime. We are enforcing a zero-leakage approach.

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Bessent on Iran: Iran has two paths: complete global isolation or a path back to normalcy.

BREAKING Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the new U.S. economic campaign targeting Iran has been dubbed “Operation Economic Outcast.”
Bessent on Iran: Under Trump, America is no longer managing the Iranian threat. We are ending it.

Bessent: “U.S. will enforce a ‘zero leakage’ approach to Iran sanctions.” “Trump is making phone calls to world leaders to cut economic ties with Iran.” “It is no longer acceptable to operate in the grey spaces of this conflict.”
BREAKING: Bessent: We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe. Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.
NOW: Bessent: Today, the U.S. Treasury has begun Operation Economic Outcast, an unprecented campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Treasury Secretary Bessent: We are launching an economic onslaught on Iran around the globe

According to Leonid Slutsky, Europe keeps turning a blind eye to Zelensky’s crimes and "continues using Ukraine as a foothold for a proxy war against Russia"

Mette Frederiksen who was attending meeting in Kyiv advises high-profile women to embrace self-acceptance Sick of getting unsolicited beauty tips on social media, even while she’s in a war zone, Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen rebuffed a male cosmetic surgeon’s offer to “fix” her and advised women in similar situations to embrace self-acceptance. Frederiksen, a Social Democrat and Denmark’s second female prime minister, posted on Instagram that she had just returned from a trip to Ukrain
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas has proposed adopting additional European sanctions against Russia as early as this Fall.

Trump reposted Syrian FM al-Shaibani thanking the U.S. for removing Syria from the state sponsors of terrorism list. Al-Shaibani: Syria has closed a "dark chapter" with the lifting of the 1979 classification, crediting Trump, Rubio and Ambassador Tom Barrack. https://t.co/YjwK8gTiqo
Iran's Ghalibaf: Americans know nobody believes their bluster. America is not in an economic position to further restrict its relations with other countries. Iran's trade partners have told us, both through media and direct messages, that they don't take these statements seriously at all.

US forces have struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people accused of trafficking drugs, the US military said on Monday, in the first attack announced in about two months. The death toll in the nearly year-long US campaign of bombing boats allegedly trafficking drugs now exceeds 210 after more than 60 strikes off Latin America’s Caribbean coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Forces “executed a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operating along established

Bessent: Iran's currency crashed through 2 million rials to the dollar. Central Bank Governor Hemmati admitted the simultaneous drop in oil revenues, tax income, and social security contributions "has affected every part of Iran's economy." 3 million, here we come.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said countries were given "defined timelines" to halt business with Iran or face US sanctions.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said countries were given "defined timelines" to halt business with Iran or face US sanctions.
Strikes on oil refineries and logistics warehouses in Russia increase the percentage of Russians who want the war to end.

Trump reposted Syria's Foreign Minister al-Shaibani thanking the US for removing Syria from the state sponsors of terrorism list.

Israel launches strikes across southern Lebanon The Israeli army launched a new wave of attacks on Monday, targeting the outskirts of the villages of Ainatha and Haddatha in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported. The agency added that an Israeli drone additionally “exploded while flying over an excavator that was working to remove the rubble of a destroyed building”. No reports on casualties have been released yet.
EU countries should use frozen Russian assets to pay for the damage inflicted on Ukraine while also cutting off the sources of revenue that finance Russia’s war machine.

As well as pledging military help and diplomatic backing, the prime minister could be useful in dealing with the US Since moving into Downing Street in July, Andy Burnham – a foreign policy neophyte – has expressed strong support for Ukraine. But on Monday he saw the bitter human cost of the war up close for the first time, visiting Kyiv during his first international trip as prime minister. The occasion was the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave awards to the f

Iranian and Pakistani top officials meet in Tehran Pakistan’s military chief Asim Munir met with Iran’s chief negotiator and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in Tehran on Monday, according to Iran’s Mehr News Agency. The two discussed US violations of its commitments to implement the Pakistani-mediated memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed with Iran in June. According to Mehr, Ghalibaf told Munir that “the US, by breaching its commitments, prevented the establishment of stability

Oil prices eased after strong gains last week while stock markets mostly faltered on Monday as investors awaited details of a US plan to impose massive economic pressure on Iran to end the Middle East war. Wednesday's earnings report from chip giant Nvidia and Thursday's opening of the annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole were also adding to caution on stock markets. In New York, the Dow was trading higher at late-morning trading, but the wider S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasd

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Finish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has issued a stark warning after looking at intelligence reports that there is a high chance of Russian military sabotage in Finland and beyond.

More than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since the October 2025 ceasefire agreement.

Netanyahu: Iran tried to assassinate one of my sons.

Trump: Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years. Their ridiculously high tariffs on our Farmers and farm products has made life impossible for these great American Patriots, and has long created a 60 Billion Dollar Deficit between our two Countries. Not sustainable, and NOT ANYMORE. On January First, 2027, Tariffs on all Cars, Trucks, both large and small, Automotive Parts, and Steel, will be increased to 50%. Build in the U.S. and there are ZERO TARIFFS. Canada will be

SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of South Korea and the U...