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Only US and China can retrieve enriched uranium from Iran's 'obliterated' nuclear sites, Trump says

Covered by: Greg Norman-Diamond, Emma Bussey and Morgan Phillips / FoxNews  

President Trump said Thursday that only the U.S. and China can retrieve enriched uranium from Iran’s buried nuclear sites, adding that the facilities were so badly damaged by strikes that recovering anything would be difficult.

“We attacked their nuclear sites and they were obliterated,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.

“It turned out that, you know, CNN was wrong. They said, ‘Well, maybe they weren’t hit that hard.’ They were hit so hard, nobody knows if you could even get it out,” he added.

Trump went on to argue that only the U.S. and China have the equipment capable of reaching it.

“But the only ones that have the capability of getting it out are us and China,” Trump said.

“We’re the only ones with that kind of equipment that’s powerful enough to go down that deep into a mountain, but that mountain crushed it.”

“That mountain literally collapsed on top of it.” Read more, and get updates here.

Zelensky calls for face-to-face negotiations to end war in public letter to Putin

Associated Press / NEW YORK POST 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called for face-to-face negotiations in a public letter addressed directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The letter, the first public message Zelensky has written directly to Putin since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, was a sweeping critique of the Russian leader’s 26 years in power.

Zelensky acknowledged shifting US priorities, saying it would be wrong to simply wait for the Trump administration to return its attention to ending the Ukraine war while it remains heavily focused on the Iran war.

“I am proposing a meeting,” Zelensky wrote.

 US President Donald Trump said it “would be great” if Putin and Zelensky met. “They should get it done,” Trump said.

Asked what concessions he had urged Putin to make to end the war, Trump declined to provide details but said both sides would need to compromise.

“They’re going to both make compromises,” he said. “I suggested those compromises.”

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This is a letter from a US army major (retired) who knows well the situation in Iran, his name is Major Ed Coet. 

  

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP

SUBJECT: PLEASE PAY ATTENTION PRESIDENT TRUMP!!

 

Dear Mr President,

 

We 100% MAGA patriots and longtime “Pro-Trump” supporters are more than just a little bit miffed visa-vie your current Iran policy. We are NOT upset about your attacking Iran so let’s be clear about that. You did the right thing. History will show you did the needed thing as well. We supported and continue to support your attack on Iran for all the reasons that you gave. You saved us and the world from a potential nuclear holocaust. For that we should all be forever grateful. What is upsetting us is your persistent never ending misleading us on the war after the first few weeks since the initial attack. So much so that we have to now wonder if you are deliberately lying to us and if so, why? 

 

First you told us that the war would be over in a few weeks, and we believed you. Then you told us it would be over in a few more weeks, then in another month, and we believed you. Then it was a few more weeks and again we believed you. Then you negotiated an extremely fragile “ceasefire” and then you extended that cease fire twice to achieve deals that you convinced us were about to be achieved but never were. All the while each ceasefire was repeatedly violated by Iran.

From Acting to Permanent: Trump Picks His Next Attorney General 

Bob Hoge / RedState

 

After President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi in April, the speculation over who would replace her began in earnest. Would it be Trump’s former personal lawyer and confidante, Alina Habba? Or maybe the president’s hard-charging Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller? Some thought it might be Matt Whitaker, who was acting AG from 2018 to 2019 in Trump’s first administration after Jeff Sessions resigned at the president’s request.

 

On Wednesday evening, the president put all the speculation to rest: he’s picked the man already serving in the role, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. 

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted the above video where Trump revealed the news and said he will start the formal process immediately:

Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff, posted a video Wednesday night of Trump announcing Blanche’s nomination as he spoke in the Rose Garden. Read more, see Xs and videos here.

US secures Israel-Lebanon ceasefire as House votes to curb Trump war powers

The U.S. secured a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon as the House voted to curb President Trump’s war powers, setting up a major foreign policy and congressional showdown over the scope of presidential authority.

Eric Mack / FOX News  

Trump administration is hopeful for progress toward ending the wider U.S.-Israeli war with Iran after securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Tehran has made a ceasefire in Lebanon a condition for any peace deal with Washington and has suggested it could intervene directly in support of Hezbollah if Israel continues or escalates attacks there.

"We could go another 2 or 3 weeks and just wipe everybody out: I'd rather not do that, very easy to do," Trump said at an Oval Office news conference Wednesday.

"They want to do it. But if we can get something done in writing which will accomplish the same thing without killing everybody, I'd like to do that. Most of my people, I think, would like to do that – some people wouldn't, but most of them would."

That remark came before House lawmakers voted 215-208 to withdraw troops from using military force against Iran absent congressional authorization. Read more, and see video here.