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"White House UFC terror plot 'ringleader' is a Mexican illegal immigrant, DHS confirms Abraham Alvarez is a DACA immigrant who allegedly used the name 'Shepherd' while organizing plans for White House attack" foxnews.com/politics/white-h…
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Vance spent the last 2 days running around repeatedly claiming that the regime wouldn’t get sanction relief if they continued to sponsor terror proxies (despite that being nowhere in the MoU text). All while the regime publicly says they will use the money from the deal in the same exact way they’ve always used it.
Iran promises to help Hezbollah once assets are unfrozen, sanctions are lifted trib.al/Kq7x8GV
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Surrender document being signed at Versailles 1919 2026
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Trump arrives in Tehran

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The MOU has now officially been released To all those who said "wait till we see the text!" Well... now we see it And it's unequivocally the most disgracefully humiliating one sided capitulation imaginable
BREAKING: The US has released the full text of its 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran. Key terms include: 1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon 2. The US and Iran agree to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not interfere in each other's internal affairs 3. The US and Iran commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within 60 days, unless mutually extended 4. The US will begin removing its naval blockade immediately and fully end the blockade within 30 days 5. Iran will use its best efforts to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with no charge 6. The US and regional partners will develop a mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development 7. The US will work toward terminating all types of sanctions against Iran, including UN, IAEA, primary, and secondary sanctions 8. Iran reaffirms that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons and agrees to address its enriched material stockpile under IAEA supervision 9. Until a final deal is reached, Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, while the US will impose no new sanctions and deploy no additional forces 10. The US Treasury will issue waivers for Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, derivatives, and associated banking, insurance, and transportation services 11. The US will make frozen or restricted Iranian funds and assets fully available for use 12. The US and Iran will establish an executive mechanism to monitor implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal 13. After signing the MOU and implementing key ceasefire, blockade, shipping, oil waiver, and asset-release provisions, the US and Iran will begin final deal negotiations 14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution The memorandum will trigger a 60-day window to negotiate a final deal.
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I am someone who Voted for Trump 3 Times. Gave money to all his Campaigns. I believe he hasn't just betrayed myself and Israel today- he has also betrayed America.
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Other countries also have nukes. Shouldn't the Islamists in Iran who want us dead have them too?
🇺🇸🇮🇷 "I'm saying that if other countries have them, it's a little unfair for them not to have some" - President Trump on Iranian ballistic missiles.
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For decades, the Iranian regime has used Hezbollah to undermine Lebanon's sovereignty and advance its regional ambitions. The Lebanese people deserve to shape their own future - not one dictated by the Iranian regime. Israelis and Lebanese alike want peace, safety, prosperity, and a better future for their children.
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Greenland is now asking Trump to invade, hoping to secure a deal similar to the one Iran got.
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Welp, I think we're done here. Trump himself is now saying he buckled under the pressure of Hormuz. It's as bad as it could possibly be. He's saying aloud that Iran can have anything it wants because America can't afford the staring contest. If this is his own explanation in his own words, then the fact that the sanctions relief is front-loaded...suddenly becomes important. The fact that the inspections regime that will verify compliance will be negotiated by an American side that has already admitted defeat, that needs this more than the opponent needs it...is now significant. And the fact that the proxy system is now recognized as legitimate by the United States -- is suddenly exactly the disaster you feared it might be. And the fact that America has declared aloud that it's not actually capable of imposing its will even in the world's most vital energy chokepoints, causing its allies in the Gulf to already begin to seek a new accommodation with Iran -- makes all of this worse than Obama and worse than the JCPOA. Remember: the great unfixable flaw of the JCPOA that none of its boosters ever had a good answer for was that it merely kicked the can down the road. It solved nothing. Trump's deal, as of this moment, is not even close to accomplishing so much. "Iran never won a war and never lost a negotiation," Trump famously said of Obama's deal (as a reporter reminded him at today's press conference). Ironic that the Iranians would win a negotiation most spectacularly against a man who styles himself the greatest negotiator to ever grace the White House. So what does it all mean? It means that in the coming years, nuclear programs will sprout like mushrooms after the rain throughout the Middle East. It means that many nations will now build out new and larger ballistic missile arsenals. It means that the state system will give way before the march of the region's transnational ideological axes. Minorities will again be trampled, new wars will be fought by stronger states to dominate the power vacuums within weaker ones. You're thinking of Israel in Lebanon -- but that's just a specific campaign against a specific enemy. Think Turkey, which right now occupies a region of Syria vastly larger than Israel's presence in Lebanon. Think heightened Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen and a new influx of money and guns to the different sides in Libya. It means, in other words, that we will have a few more wars to fight, a few more technologies to invent to deal with this new age of cheap missiles and drones -- and also of supersonic Chinese missiles bearing nuclear warheads that Iran will eventually, inevitably, be capable of deploying against us. And it didn't have to be this bad. (And maybe, when he's heard all the criticism, it won't be.) He could have left something, anything, to concede later. He could have kept the Iranians a little bit in the dark, just a smidgen, as to just how defeated America feels. Israel's position in all this is simple, and more or less unchanged from last week. America gave us more than we had a right to ask for. But we may be going it alone from here out. Dust off the nukes. Maybe test one somewhere far away from anywhere. Quadruple the interceptor production lines, double the size of the Mossad and the Air Force. And no, don't let Hezbollah breathe, not for a second. It's the 1960s again. And Israel will have to defeat a couple more enemies before it can once again eke out a few decades of peace.
🚨WATCH: Trump repeats his admission that he had “no choice” but to cave to the Iranian blackmail
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This is northern Israel right now. Hezbollah terrorists launching rockets and suicide drones. According to President Trump, that's not enough of a reason for Israel to defend itself and strike Hezbollah terrorists in Beirut...

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The whiplash is insane. In early March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the country the PURPOSE of the operation was to destroy Iran’s ballistic missile capability. Now President Trump is saying the Islamic Republic should be allowed to have missiles because other countries have them too? Absolutely incoherent.
🚨WATCH: In another stunning statement, Trump just normalized Iran having a ballistic missile program: “In other words, they must have missiles to some degree, because others have them. When others have them, you need to have them too. There are people who say: 'It is forbidden to give them even one missile'. I have such people around me - I like some of them, but I don't think they are particularly smart. They say: 'We must not allow them to hold any missiles'. So I asked: What exactly are you proposing? That we allow Saudi Arabia to hold missiles, but not Iran? And they answered: 'Yes, sir'. It simply doesn't work that way. And missiles are not the real problem. Missiles can hit a specific target, but they do not destroy the world."
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President Trump deserves great credit for making a decision for the first time in modern history to unleash the armed forces of the United States against Iran last year and this year… But I do have very real concerns about the MOU now that we see what’s In it and also what’s Not In It. This MOU with Iran does smack of the kind of appeasement that our administration rejected in the Obama-Iran nuclear deal and also when Joe Biden attempted to return to the politics of appeasement during his administration. I would urge the President to take a step back, continue the blockade and pursue a negotiated settlement that commits Iran to dismantling their nuclear program, dismantling this missile program, ends support for terrorist proxies and opens the strait. Failing that, we should let our Armed Forces finish the job on our terms.
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Reagan is rolling over in his grave. Iran’s nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage it in the future. Now, Iran gets to build brand-new infrastructure under this deal. Before the war, the strait was open, Iran was being crushed by sanctions, and 13 service members were still alive. Now, 13 Americans are dead, families have paid billions at the pump, sanctions will be lifted, and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.
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On this day, June 16, 1942: As Rommel’s Afrika Korps raced toward Egypt & British Mandate Palestine, the Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini broadcast on Nazi Radio Zeesen from Berlin: “There will be no compromise in Palestine … the Jews have no right to the land.” An SS Einsatzkommando death squad waited in Athens to follow Rommel and bring the Holocaust to the Yishuv’s ~500,000 Jews. Arab sympathy for the Germans ran high. This was never about Zionism. It was about eliminating the Jews — with the Mufti all-in on the Final Solution reaching the Land of Israel.
This Day (May 6) in 1943, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem wrote the Bulgarian Foreign Minister demanding Jewish children be sent to Poland — not British Mandate Palestine — so they could be murdered. While living as Hitler’s honored guest in Berlin, Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini — the highest religious authority among Palestinian Arabs — sent a chilling letter to the Bulgarian Foreign Minister. Bulgaria was preparing to allow 4,000 Jewish children and 500 Jewish adults to emigrate to safety in British Mandate Palestine. The Mufti was furious. He immediately intervened with his confidants Himmler and von Ribbentrop to cancel the plan and insisted the Jews — including the children — be sent to Poland instead, where they would be under “strict control.” The Mufti knew exactly what “strict control” in Poland meant in 1943. He had personally toured Nazi concentration camps as a VIP guest of the SS and was impressed by the efficiency at which they killed Jews. The Mufti had already spent years in Berlin broadcasting Nazi radio propaganda calling for the extermination of Jews across the Arab world. He actively recruited Muslims for Waffen-SS units. He lobbied Hitler directly to ensure no Jews would escape to British Mandate Palestine. On November 28, 1941, Hitler had assured him: “Germany is determined… to call on the European nations one by one to solve the Jewish problem and, at the proper moment, to address the same appeal to non-European peoples.” The Mufti took that promise seriously and worked tirelessly to make sure it was fulfilled. Even after the war, the Nazi-Arab alliance against Jews continued. Arab states (especially Egypt and Syria) recruited former Nazi war criminals and rocket scientists to build missile programs to target Israel and modernize anti-Israel propaganda with Nazi antisemitic imagery and tactics, giving these Nazis the opportunity to continue the Holocaust, but now against the Jewish state. The Mufti’s letter on May 6, 1943, is a stark reminder that the goal was never “borders” for two states. The goal was the elimination of Jews. That same eliminationist ideology has never gone away. It has simply found new flowery language and new champions for the "cause."
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BREAKING: Finland lifts ban on nuclear weapons 🇫🇮 Finnish Parliament officially approved a bill that lifts the country's ban on nuclear weapons. The new law allows the import, transport, supply, and possession of nuclear weapons within Finnish territory when explicitly required for national defense. The Finnish government has emphasized that it has no plans to permanently host or station nuclear weapons on its territory. NATO has also stated it has no plans to deploy nuclear assets there.
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This is completely unacceptable! It's even worse than the Obama accord. It's also the same as what was leaked and denied by the administration. @POTUS @realDonaldTrump You are looking to surrender the free world to Islamic terrorists.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House released full text of the MoU The points summarised are as follows: 1. The U.S. and Iran, and their allies in the current war, by signing this MoU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. 2. The U.S. and Iran will respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs. 3. The U.S. and Iran commit to achieving a final deal in a maximum of 60 days, extendable with mutual consent. 4. The U.S. will immediately begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. During this period, the traffic will be in proportion to the number of pre-war traffic being restored by Iran. The U.S. further undertakes to remove its military forces from the proximity of Iran within 30 days after the final deal. 5. Iran will make arrangements for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles and demining, within 30 days. Iran will conduct a dialogue with Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf littoral states in line with international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz. 6. The U.S. undertakes with its regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of Iran, as part of the final deal after 60 days. All required licenses, waivers, and permissions will be granted. 7. The U.S. will terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the UNSC resolutions, IAEA Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral US sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed-upon schedule as part of the final deal. 8. Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpile enriched materials, pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven, with at a minimum a downblending on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to Iran's nuclear needs. 9. Pending the final deal, the U.S. and Iran agree to maintain the status quo. Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the U.S. will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region. 10. The U.S. undertakes that immediately upon the signing of this MoU, waivers will be issued for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc. 11. The U.S. undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MoU. The U.S. and Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during the negotiations. 12. A monitoring mechanism will be established to supervise the implementation of this MoU and the subsequent deal. 13. After signing this MoU and subject to the beginning of the implementation of paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11, and the continuing implementation of these measures, the U.S. and Iran will start negotiations regarding the final deal. 14. The final deal will be endorsed by a UNSC Resolution.
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