Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will not allow Iran to commit a second Holocaust in an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6374323669112">interview with Fox News</a>.
Netanyahu said he decided to attack Iran because the regime posed an “existential threat” to the Jewish state because of its enrichment of uranium and rush to increase its ballistic missile arsenal.
“We had to act,” Netanyahu said. “We did act, to save ourselves, but also to not only to protect ourselves but to protect the world from this incendiary regime. We can’t have the world’s most dangerous regime have the world’s most dangerous weapons.”
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Since the launch of Israel’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-israel-strikes-iran?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Daily+Wire&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=LIVE+UPDATES%3A+Netanyahu+Says+Tehran+Will+%E2%80%98Pay+A+Very+Heavy+Price%E2%80%99+As+More+Missiles+Strike+Israel">Operation Rising Lion</a>,” aimed at destroying Iranian weapons and nuclear capabilities, Iran has fired 270 missiles at Israel—22 of which have struck targets—according to the Israeli government. Thirteen people have been killed, including three children. Another 380 have been injured: 9 are in serious condition, 30 are in moderate condition, and 351 sustained minor injuries.
Netanyahu said that the intelligence obtained by Israel made it “absolutely clear” that Iran was planning to weaponize its uranium in order to obtain a nuclear weapon in less than a year. He added that according to intelligence, the regime had enough enriched uranium for nine bombs and was planning on sharing weapons with its proxies such as the Houthis in Yemen.
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“Once they go that route, it’s too late,” Netanyahu said. “We will have a second Holocaust—a nuclear Holocaust. We already had one in the previous century. The Jewish state is not going to have the Holocaust on the Jewish people. Never again is now, and we have to act now.”
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Israeli Prime Minister announced live on-air with Fox News that Israel killed Iran&#8217;s chief intelligence officer in Tehran &#8220;moments ago.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/eTz5cUgk2c">pic.twitter.com/eTz5cUgk2c</a>
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In addition to eliminating some of the top commanders in the Iranian military’s leadership, Netanyahu announced that Israel killed Iran&#8217;s chief intelligence officer in Tehran &#8220;moments ago” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-strikes-tel-aviv-multiple-times-israel-expected-to-retaliate-on-iranian-infrastructure?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Iran+Strikes+Tel+Aviv+Multiple+Times%2C+Israel+Expected+To+Retaliate+On+Iranian+Infrastructure">in addition to</a> several of the other high-ranking military leaders and nuclear scientists in its air strikes over the last few days.
Netanyahu said that his attacks on Iran have been “fully coordinated” with President Donald Trump.
“I think that for the security of Israel, America, and the world, we must make sure that they don’t have these weapons and the means to deliver them, and they are working on both,” Netanayhu said.
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“Special Report” anchor Bret Baier pointed out that several of Iranian nuclear sites are deep underground and difficult to destroy without U.S. 30,000lbs bunker buster bombs. Netanyahu responded by pointing out some of the other facilities it has destroyed, and said that he runs the “innovation nation” that still has a few tricks up its sleeve — and declined to answer whether he’s asked the U.S. for the weapons.
Netanyahu said he gave the Iranians a chance to make a nuclear deal with Trump, but it became clear to both him and the United States that Iran was not serious.
“They basically strung everyone along and it was clear to us that the talks were going nowhere,” Netnayahu said.
Netanyahu said that the Israeli Defense Forces has decimated Iranian air defenses which has opened up “free highway to Tehran.” He added that no Israeli fighter jet has been shot down.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog, on Thursday found that Iran had breached its non-proliferation obligations. It is the first time in almost two decades that the IAEA has taken that stance. The <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/west-plans-push-iaea-board-find-iran-breach-duties-diplomats-say-2025-05-30/">last time</a> the IAEA adopted that position was in September 2005, when clandestine nuclear activities in Iran were discovered.
The IAEA’s declaration means that the report will more likely be considered by the U.N. Security Council. The resolution declaring Iran in violation, which was submitted by the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, was approved by 19 countries with 11 abstentions. Only Russia, China, and Burkina Faso voted against the resolution, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran-breach-non-proliferation-duties-diplomats-say-2025-06-12/">Reuters</a>.
“The Board of Governors&#8230; finds that Iran&#8217;s many failures to uphold its obligations since 2019 to provide the Agency with full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities at multiple undeclared locations in Iran &#8230; constitutes non-compliance with its obligations under its Safeguards Agreement with the Agency,” the resolution stated.
“A central issue is Iran&#8217;s failure to provide the IAEA with credible explanations of how uranium traces detected at undeclared sites in Iran came to be there despite the agency having investigated the issue for years,” Reuters added. In February, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-stock-near-bomb-grade-uranium-grows-sharply-iaea-report-shows-2025-02-26/">noted</a>, “The stock of uranium refined to up to 60% in the form of uranium hexafluoride grew by 92.5 kg in the past quarter to 274.8 kg, one of two confidential IAEA reports said. That is enough in principle, if enriched further, for six nuclear bombs, according to an IAEA yardstick.”
On June 2, President Donald Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114616038217949758">posted</a> on Truth Social, &#8220;The AUTOPEN should have stopped Iran a long time ago from &#8216;enriching.&#8217; Under our potential Agreement — WE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM!&#8221;
On June 4, in a televised speech, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei <a href="https://www.iranintl.com/en/202506044672">taunted</a> the United States and the Trump administration over its demand that Iran stop enriching uranium, declaring, “The first word of the U.S. is that Iran should not have a nuclear industry and should rely on the United States. Our response to the U.S. nonsense is clear: they cannot do a damn thing in this matter.”
“The rude and arrogant leaders of America repeatedly demand that we should not have a nuclear program. Who are you to decide whether Iran should have an enrichment?” Khamenei jeered. “Why are you interfering? Whether Iran enriches uranium or not — what does it have to do with you? Who are you?”

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A new and alarming report from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations&#8217; nuclear watchdog, reveals that Iran has increased its storage of enriched uranium to almost weapons-grade levels.
“As of May 17, Iran has amassed 408.6 kilograms (900.8 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%,” the Associated Press <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/iran-increases-stock-of-near-weapons-grade-uranium-un-nuclear-agency-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> after seeing the confidential report. “That’s an increase of 133.8 kilograms (294.9 pounds) — or almost 50% — since the IAEA’s last report in February. The 60% enriched material is a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. A report in February put this stockpile level at 274.8 kilograms (605.8 pounds).”
The report warned that Iran is now “the only non-nuclear-weapon state to produce such material,” a “serious concern.”
In late January, IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-iran-politics-government-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-6acdb64d36fcbe05b3ee725d8a585d96" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> of Iran, “One thing is true: They have amassed enough nuclear material for several nuclear weapons, not one at this point.”
The IAEA, which hesitates to openly condemn Iran, also stated Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA had “been less than satisfactory” regarding uranium traces found by inspectors at several locations in Iran: Turquzabad, Varamin, and Marivan. Iran has never acknowledged those sites as nuclear sites.
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The IAEA concluded that evidence found at those sites “led the agency to conclude that these three locations, and other possible related locations, were part of an undeclared structured nuclear program carried out by Iran until the early 2000s and that some activities used undeclared nuclear material.”
Iran has been lying about its nuclear program for years. In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/after-alarming-iaea-report-netanyahu-urges-world-to-act-now-to-stop-iran/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that Iran had a clandestine nuclear warehouse at Turquzabad. Iran denied the charge, but the next year, IAEA inspectors detected the presence of uranium there.
Saturday, in a rare statement on the Jewish Sabbath, Netanyahu responded to the new report, saying, “Iran is totally determined to complete its nuclear program.” He added that the new report “strongly reinforces what Israel has been saying for years — the purpose of Iran’s nuclear program is not peaceful. &#8230; The international community must act now to stop Iran.”
“The level of uranium enrichment Iran has reached exists only in countries actively pursuing nuclear weapons and has no civilian justification whatsoever,” he pointed out.
“Analysts point to what happened with North Korea, which had reached a 1994 deal with the U.S. to abandon its nuclear weapons program,” AP <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-iran-politics-government-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-6acdb64d36fcbe05b3ee725d8a585d96" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in January. “The deal fell apart in 2002. By 2005 and wary of U.S. intentions after its invasion of Iraq, Pyongyang announced it had built nuclear weapons. Today, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/seoul-south-korea-north-joint-chiefs-of-staff-government-and-politics-88877108b80a1be9cc9a47156c3f77fa" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-gtm-enhancement-style="LinkEnhancementA">North Korea has ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads that are capable of reaching the U.S.</a>”

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On Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister bluntly stated that whether the despotic regime in Iran makes a nuclear deal with the United States or not, Iran will continue enriching uranium.
Seyed Abbas Araghchi <a href="https://x.com/araghchi/status/1924143188341653975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1924143188341653975%7Ctwgr%5Edc42ba01d925128c26ebf7241cb4cb02c171b908%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fworld%2Firan-foreign-minister-vows-nuclear-enrichment-continue-with-without-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a>, “Special Interest groups; malign actors which set the agendas of at least previous Administrations,” should be ignored before adding, “we are ready for a serious conversation to achieve a solution that will forever ensure that outcome. Enrichment in Iran, however, will continue with or without a deal.”
In January 2024, the Arms Control Association <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2024-02/news/iran-accelerates-highly-enriched-uranium-production" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that Iran had accelerated its production of uranium enriched to near-weapons grade levels, pointing out that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had estimated Iran was producing approximately nine kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent uranium-235 per month. “Accelerating the production of uranium enriched to 60 percent U-235 is concerning because the material can be quickly enriched to weapons-grade levels or 90 percent,” the Arms Control Association reported.
“Once you&#8217;re at 60, you&#8217;re 90% of the way there. You are, in essence, a threshold nuclear weapons state, which is what Iran basically has become,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/iran-foreign-minister-vows-nuclear-enrichment-continue-with-without-deal?intcmp=tw_fnc&amp;taid=682aa729f8868200012f443a&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> said</a> on Thursday.
Uranium enrichment involves increasing the concentration of the Uranium-235 (U-235) isotope in uranium, from its normal 0.7% to 3.5% for use in nuclear reactors or going further, over 20%, at which point it can be used for nuclear weapons.
“Because Iran has reduced its cooperation with the Agency, the IAEA is no longer able to precisely verify Iran&#8217;s stockpile of enriched uranium at any one time,” Iran Watch<a href="https://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/articles-reports/irans-nuclear-timetable-weapon-potential" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> noted</a> in late March of this year in a comprehensive article about Iran’s nuclear weapons program, adding, “Iran’s nuclear program has reached the point at which Iran might be able to enrich enough uranium for five fission weapons within about one week and enough for eight weapons in less than two weeks.”
The danger of Iran further enriching uranium was explicated thus: “Iran&#8217;s centrifuges have not produced uranium usually defined as weapon-grade, which is uranium enriched to 90% or higher in the isotope U-235. All of Iran’s production has been at lower grades. Thus, the lower-grade uranium would have to be enriched further to reach at least 90%.”
In April 2024, Iran <a href="https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/as-iran-threatens-israel-the-danger-of-tehrans-long-vaunted-missile-program-remains-in-question/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a reported 30 cruise and 120 ballistic missiles targeting Israel; the U.S. Director of National Intelligence stated, “Iran has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the region and continues to emphasize improving the accuracy, lethality and reliability of these systems.”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei verbally attacked President Donald Trump in front of a crowd chanting “death to America” in recent comments; Khamenei accused Trump of “lying.”
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During his Middle East trip, President Donald Trump says he might be close to making a deal with Iran on nuclear weapons, the Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship, and football coaching legend Nick Saban has been tapped to bring order to big-money college sports.
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<h2>U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal</h2>
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Topline: President Trump says the United States is close to a nuclear deal with Iran.
After months of tense negotiations, President Trump says America is on the verge of signing a historic nuclear deal with Iran. Iran has been working for decades to build nuclear weapons. Iranian leaders refer to America as “the great Satan,” and its government spends billions of dollars annually sponsoring terror groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
Over the last four years, President Joe Biden attempted to revive the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran, waiving sanctions as a show of goodwill, but the Iranians refused to meet for formal negotiations, and no agreement was ever reached. But now, after four rounds of formal talks between the White House and Iran, President Trump says they’re ready to cut a deal.
The general idea is that Iran will agree to never produce nuclear weapons in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions — and peace. A top adviser to the country’s Supreme Leader told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iran-enriched-uranium-nuclear-deal-trump-rcna206833">NBC</a> they would commit to never making nuclear weapons, hand over their existing stockpiles of enriched uranium, only enrich uranium to low levels consistent with civilian use, and allow third-party inspectors to supervise the entire process. In exchange, they want the United States to lift all economic sanctions, which have hobbled the country’s economy for years. President Trump has said he also wants to see them cut funding to the terror groups they support — it remains to be seen if that part will be included in the final deal.
Critics say there’s no way to ensure Iran will hand over its existing nuclear materials and allow inspectors to see the full scope of their operation. Fifty-two GOP Senators and 178 GOP House members signed a letter to President Trump saying the &#8220;scope and breadth of Iran&#8217;s nuclear buildout have made it impossible to verify any new deal that allows Iran to continue enriching uranium.&#8221; Many Republicans want a deal, but not one that allows Iran to enrich any uranium, even low levels for civilian use.
<h2>SCOTUS Hears Arguments On Birthright Citizenship, National Injunctions</h2>
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Topline: The Supreme Court hears oral arguments challenging birthright citizenship.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a case challenging President Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship. The pivotal case calls into question whether the lower courts have the power to block executive branch actions.
The case hinges on three lower courts issuing nationwide injunctions blocking Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. Trump’s EO interprets the 14th Amendment to deny automatic citizenship to children who are born in the U.S. if their mother was unlawfully in the country and if the father isn’t a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. That order is currently on hold while the Supreme Court considers it.
“ Since January 20th, district courts have now issued 40 universal injunctions against the federal government, including 35 from the same five judicial districts,” U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer <a href="https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1923020348624187655">told</a> the court. “This is a bipartisan problem that has now spanned the last five presidential administrations. Universal injunctions exceed the judicial power granted in Article 3, which exists only to address the injury to the complaining party.”
The liberal justices appeared to disagree with the Trump administration’s arguments – they believe Trump’s order is at odds with many years of Supreme Court precedent.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-5398025/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship">said</a> that the Trump administration seemed to turn the justice system into “a kind of catch me if you can regime … where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people&#8217;s rights … I don&#8217;t understand how that is remotely consistent with the rule of law.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Justice Sonia Sotomayor <a href="https://x.com/BehizyTweets/status/1923031636301709591">argued</a> that the Trump administration was violating precedent and the “plain meaning of the 14th Amendment.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Meanwhile, Justice Elena Kagan pointed out that <a href="https://x.com/Tyler2ONeil/status/1923038011966562374">many</a> lower courts are ruling against Trump’s executive order. &#8220;This is not a hypothetical. This is happening. Every court ruled against you.&#8221;</li>
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Most of the conservative justices also seemed skeptical of the Trump administration’s stance, but Justice Clarence Thomas pointed out that the United States “survived until the 1960s” without nationwide injunctions.
<h2>Trump Drafts Nick Saban To Save College Sports</h2>
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Topline: Trump drafts college football coaching legend Nick Saban to bring some order to big-dollar collegiate athletics.
President Trump plans to create a commission to study “ailing issues” in college athletics, with the possibility of signing an executive order. Collegiate sports have been experiencing a bit of turmoil the last few years, with the schools adjusting to a new climate now that student-athletes have name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights and are on the road to receiving direct compensation from their respective universities.
The president announced that he was creating a commission to “deeply examine the unwieldy landscape of college sports, including the frequency of player movement in the <a href="https://www.on3.com/transfer-portal/">transfer portal</a>, the unregulated booster compensation paid to athletes, the debate of college athlete employment, the application of Title IX with regards to revenue sharing and, even, conference membership makeup and conference television contracts.”
Trump has named Nick Saban, who won seven national titles as a college football coach, as co-chair of the commission, with the other co-chair being Cody Campbell – the chairman of Texas Tech’s Board of Regents and NIL collective founder. Many people believe Saban is the best person to lead this initiative, given the on-field success, but there have also been accusations of hypocrisy given how much money Saban himself made from college athletics.
Hanging over all of this is the pending settlement of House vs. NCAA, a class-action, antitrust lawsuit that would allow collegiate athletes to participate in revenue sharing from TV rights deals once a settlement is complete. That settlement is expected within the coming weeks, or even days. The plaintiffs&#8217; attorney, Steve Berman, blasted Saban and Trump’s discussions, accusing them of “meddling.”
“College athletes are spearheading historic changes and benefitting massively from NIL deals,” Berman said. “They don’t need this unmerited interference from a coach only seeking to protect the system that made him tens of millions.”

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On Sunday, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/read-full-transcript-president-donald-trump-interviewed-meet-press-mod-rcna203514" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speaking</a> on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” President Trump reiterated his perspective that he will only settle for the total dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program.
NBC News’ Kristin Welker asked, “Your administration has had conversations with Iran. Is the goal of these talks limiting Iran’s nuclear program or total dismantlement?”
“Total dismantlement,” Trump said bluntly.
“That’s all you’ll accept?” Welker persisted.
“Yeah, that’s all I’d accept,” Trump replied. “Now, there’s a new theory going out there that Iran would be allowed to have civilian — meaning to make electricity and to — but I say, you know, they have so much oil, what do they need it for? But you know, I’ve seen it with other states, where they’re looking to do something and they have a lot of oil. Iran has tremendous energy. You know I put sanctions, if you know that, I put pretty strong sanctions on two days ago, on the oil.”
 “It’s interesting what you’re saying, though,” Welker pressed. “Because Secretary Rubio has said that he would accept, or the idea is that there is an openness to accepting a peaceful, civil nuclear program.”
“Well that’s what people — I didn’t say anything contradictory,” Trump answered. “I said that people are talking about that. And this is something that’s really pretty new in the dialogue. And I’d have to be, you know, my inclination is to say, ‘What do you need that for? You have a lot of oil.’”
“So you want total dismantlement, bottom line?” Welker asked.
“I think that I would be open to hearing it, you know? Civilian energy, it’s called,” Trump answered. “But you know, civilian energy often leads to military wars. And we don’t wanna have them have a nuclear weapon. It’s a very simple deal. I want Iran to be really successful, really great, really fantastic. The only thing they can’t have is a nuclear weapon. If they want to be successful, that’s okay. I want them to be so successful. And you know, the Iranian people are incredible. I just don’t want them to have a nuclear weapon because the world will be destroyed.”
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The Supreme Court hands President Donald Trump two wins – one on deportation and another on downsizing the government. The stock market sees another turbulent day, leading to China increasing its reciprocal tariffs on U.S. imports to 84%. And, Trump is set for nuclear negotiations with Iran but warns that the regime might be in jeopardy if talks go south.
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<h2>Supreme Court Clears The Way For Deportations &amp; DOGE</h2>
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Topline: The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport alleged illegal alien gang members under a 1798 law. 
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that President Trump may use the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected gang members –  but the court also said those potential deportees have a right to due process. The decision had both sides of the case claiming victory.
“Today is a bad day to be a terrorist in the United States of America,&#8221; Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said on Monday. “Today, the Supreme Court came out with a decision that reaffirmed that President Trump was correct in using his authority on using the Alien Enemies Act to deport terrorists out of this country. Thank you President Trump for your leadership in making America safe again.”
However: The justices unanimously agreed that in each case, the alien has a right to have his deportation order reviewed by a judge. 
The case was brought by a group of Venezuelan nationals. They filed suit in the D.C. District Court and the case fell to Judge James Boasberg – who has frequently ruled against the administration. Boasberg put a freeze on not only the deportations. The Supreme Court said the lawsuit should have been filed in Texas, where the deportees were being held.
The illegal immigration case was related to a lower court judge’s deadline for the administration to return a mistakenly deported Salvadoran national to the United States. Kilmer Abrego Garcia, 29, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador – he had previously said he would face violence if deported back to his home. A judge had given the Trump administration until midnight on Monday to get him back to the United States. The administration said that timeline was impractical, and the Supreme Court agreed.
In other news: The Supreme Court knocked down a lower court order that blocked Trump from cutting 16,000 probationary workers from the federal government
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<h2>The Trade War Continues: Allies Seek Detente, Rivals Escalate</h2>
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Topline: One week after Liberation Day, President Trump says he is gearing up for formal tariff negotiations with trade partners, offering optimism for consumers and markets as China raises its reciprocal tariffs on U.S. goods to 84%. 
On Tuesday, the president announced major developments on a trade deal with South Korea, America’s sixth-largest trading partner. Writing on Truth Social, Trump said he’d just finished a “great call” with acting President Han Duck-soo, <a href="https://x.com/annmarie/status/1909597238260625410">adding,</a> “We have the confines and probability of a great DEAL for both countries. Their top TEAM is on a plane heading to the U.S., and things are looking good.” 
According to the South Korean government, they’re willing to import more American products, particularly natural gas, in exchange for reduced tariffs. Likewise, the president said <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-spoke-ishiba-set-tough-141853292.html">Japan</a>, our fourth-largest trade partner, is sending a negotiating team to Washington to meet directly with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
In the coming days, the Trump administration will host representatives from Vietnam, our tenth-largest trading partner. And on April 17, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will visit the White House to negotiate on behalf of the European Union. All told, the White House says nearly 70 countries have expressed a desire to negotiate.
“To countries around the world, bring us your best offers and [President Trump] will listen,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1909660284568109505">told</a> reporters on Tuesday. “Deals will only be made if they benefit American workers and address our nation’s crippling trade deficits. America does not need other countries as much as other countries need us and President Trump knows this.”
However: Beijing appears to be digging its heels in for a drawn-out trade war. On Wednesday, China, America’s largest trading partner, said it would increase its reciprocal tariffs on U.S. imports to 84%. This was after China had doubled down, saying it would “never accept such treatment” before slapping additional 34% tariffs on U.S. imports. China accused the White House of economic “blackmail,” and Trump responded with a 50% tariff on top of those already in place — starting at midnight on April 9, when the Chinese began facing 104% tariffs on all goods coming to America. It’s not exactly breaking news that the U.S. imports a lot of stuff from China — the expected price increases on those goods are clearly spooking investors.
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<h2>Trump Announces “Top Level” Talks With Iran</h2>
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Topline: On Monday, President Trump announced that his administration will have “top-level” direct talks with Iran.
During a meeting in the Oval Office with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump announced that he would be open to negotiations with Iran on Saturday. If these talks do not go well, Trump said that the Iranian regime will be in “great danger.”
“It’s not a complicated formula,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/KassyAkiva/status/1909339143026663769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1909339143026663769%7Ctwgr%5E7d8fe0700f7a5f78c5fbe98930a68e6e11b7c20f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-says-iran-will-be-in-great-danger-if-saturdays-nuclear-talks-fail">said</a>. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, that’s all there is. Right now we have countries that have nuclear power that shouldn’t have it but I’m sure we will be able to negotiate out of that too as part of this later and down the line. But Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren’t successful, I actually think it will be a very bad day for Iran.”
President Trump said the talks would be high-level and direct but declined to say where they would occur. However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi later said the talks would take place in Oman and be indirect. In a post on <a href="https://x.com/araghchi/status/1909381747709546786">X</a>, Araqchi wrote, “It is as much an opportunity as it is a test. The ball is in America’s court.” Iranian state-run media gave some more <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx25e5rd2v9o">purported details</a> – they reported that the talks would be between Araqchi and U.S. Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff, with Oman’s foreign minister Badr al-Busaidi as a mediator.
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Iran and the United States will meet in Oman on Saturday for indirect high-level talks.
It is as much an opportunity as it is a test. The ball is in America&#39;s court.
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Remember: Trump was an outspoken critic of former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with the Iranian regime, calling it “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into” and withdrew from it in 2018. Throughout his entire first term, Trump waged a “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran in hopes of curbing both its nuclear program and its support of terror around the world. Under President Joe Biden, Iran’s various proxy groups in the Middle East ramped up their aggression: in Yemen, the Houthis began attacking shipping vessels in the Red Sea, and in Gaza, Hamas launched the October 7 terror attacks, killing roughly 1,200 people in Israel. 
Trump is pursuing a deal now because Iran is reportedly <a href="https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/the-iran-threat-geiger-counter-extreme-danger-grows">weeks away</a> from producing a nuclear weapon. The Trump administration has taken<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-shares-footage-of-military-strike-on-houthis-they-will-never-sink-our-ships-again"> extensive military action</a> against the Houthis, which could be construed as a show of force against their Iranian backers, and American military assets have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irans-military-commanders-locked-and-loaded-for-preemptive-strike-on-u-s-bombers-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surged</a> to the region in preparation for a possible strike.

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Satellite images have emerged showing a massive staging of B-2 Spirit heavy stealth bombers in the Indian Ocean that have been moved within range of being able to bomb the Houthis in Yemen and nuclear facilities in Iran.
The bombers arrived at the Diego Garcia base this week after taking off from their base in Missouri.
Images showed at least three B-2 bombers on the tarmac alongside multiple C-17A Globemaster III cargo planes, which would be used to transport munitions and other equipment to support a strategic bombing campaign.
However, there may be an additional four B-2 bombers at the base that cannot be seen by satellite because they could be in the four hardened aircraft shelters at the base.
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A U.S. official told Axios that the deployment of B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean is &quot;not disconnected&quot; from President Trump&#39;s two-month deadline for Iran, signaling this is preparation of a military contingency plan should diplomatic efforts fail. <a href="https://t.co/ksZfLwS5Gg">pic.twitter.com/ksZfLwS5Gg</a>
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A fourth B-2 bomber was en route to the base earlier this week when it was forced to make an emergency landing in Hawaii and there were reports that additional B-2 bombers were preparing to take off from Missouri en route to the base.
Seven B-2 bombers represents more than one-third of America&#8217;s fleet of the bombers, all of which are based out of Missouri.
John Hannah, who served as a national security adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney, told The Wall Street Journal that the amassing of the bombers was an &#8220;unprecedented concentration&#8221; of firepower.
“This unprecedented concentration of overwhelming U.S. firepower in close proximity to the region is intended to signal to the Houthis that…unless they stand down immediately, things are about to get much, much worse for them,” he said.
Rebeccah Heinrichs, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative, agreed.
&#8220;Iran is vulnerable and outmatched. It’s not even close,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire. &#8220;If the president of the United States is serious about ensuring Iran never gets a nuclear weapon on his watch, there will not be a better time for him to guarantee that.&#8221;
President Donald Trump and his national security team have made it abundantly clear to Iran that they will not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon and that they have less than two months to enter a nuclear agreement or else the United States military will remove their program for them.
Top Trump senior adviser Dan Scavino posted a video on X this week showing B-2 bombers flying after news surfaced that they were being deployed to the base.
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The B-2 bomber is the only aircraft in the world capable of carrying the the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), a 30,000-pound bunker buster that is designed to penetrate 200-feet of rock and concrete underground before it detonates a 6,000-pound high explosive warhead. The MOP is the most powerful non-nuclear bunker buster bomb ever built.
The munition could be critical to operations in Yemen where the Houthis have deep, underground munition sites.
In Iran, some of the Islamic regime&#8217;s nuclear facilities are located under the side of a mountain — thus ensuring that the MOP would be needed to destroy them.

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National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said over the weekend that the Trump administration is demanding a &#8220;full dismantlement&#8221; of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program or else the Islamic regime will face &#8220;consequences.&#8221;
Waltz made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan while talking about what the administration is seeking from Iran.
&#8220;Full dismantlement,&#8221; Waltz said. &#8220;Iran has to give up its program in a way that the entire world can see. As President Trump has said, this is coming to a head. All options are on the table.&#8221;
&#8220;And it is time for Iran to walk away completely from its desire to have a nuclear weapon,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And they will not and cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapons program — that&#8217;s enrichment, that is weaponization, and that is its strategic missile program.&#8221;
Waltz said that allowing Iran to have those programs was &#8220;completely unacceptable to our national security&#8221; given the regime&#8217;s overwhelming support for terrorism against the West and Israel.
&#8220;The president has all options on the table, but we want to be clear, this isn&#8217;t some kind of tit for tat that we had under the Obama administration or Biden,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This is the full program. Give it up or there will be consequences.&#8221;
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As the Trump administration threatens Iran with consequences if it doesn&#39;t give up its nuclear weapons program, White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz says there’s still a chance for diplomacy, telling <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a>, “the president has all options on the table.”
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Iran has dramatically increased its stockpile of enriched uranium in recent months following President Donald Trump&#8217;s election victory, according to a confidential report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The Islamic regime has increased its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium — which is near the weapons-grade threshold of 90% — from 182 kilograms in late October to 275 kilograms as of early February, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-has-enough-highly-enriched-uranium-for-six-nuclear-weapons-07e6a0bd">reported</a>.
The surge in production of enriched uranium represents a 51%+ increase in just a little over three months.
Iran can further enrich that uranium to the 90% threshold needed to create a nuclear weapon in just a matter of days if it seeks to break out and build a nuclear weapon. With the amount of nuclear material the regime has, it could build at least six nuclear weapons.
Andrea Stricker, Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program Deputy Director and Research Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), told The Daily Wire that the Trump administration should &#8220;seek a resolution penalizing Iran&#8217;s nuclear advances and continued violations of its safeguards obligations at next week&#8217;s IAEA Board of Governors meeting.&#8221;
&#8220;Such a resolution must provide a deadline for Tehran&#8217;s compliance and note that the United States and its allies will refer Iran&#8217;s case to the UN Security Council for the re-imposition of suspended UN sanctions, or &#8216;snapback,&#8217; prior to the October expiration of the snapback mechanism and sunset of all prior UN Iran resolutions,&#8221; Stricker said.
Stricker added: &#8220;If the Trump administration chooses to negotiate with the regime in Tehran, any deal that does not dismantle and disarm Iran&#8217;s enrichment, weaponization, and missile-delivery programs will not be worth the paper it is written on.&#8221;
The Telegraph <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-on-high-alert-over-potential-strike-by-u-s-israel-on-nuclear-sites">reported</a> on Tuesday that multiple high-level government sources confirmed to the publication that Iran has changed the preparedness level for its defense systems in response to fears that an attack is imminent.
The Islamic regime, which is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, is increasing its defenses around the nuclear facilities, including the deployment of anti-aircraft launchers.
“They [Iranian authorities] are just waiting for the attack and are anticipating it every night and everything has been on high alert – even in sites that no one knows about,” one source told The Telegraph. “Work to fortify nuclear sites has been ongoing for years but it has intensified over the past year, particularly since Israel launched the first attack.”
Trump’s victory in November has only “further intensified the activities,” the source added.
The Iranian official who spoke to The Telegraph said there are serious fears in the country now that the United States could join Israel’s likely forthcoming strike, thus making it much larger and putting “the Islamic Republic’s existence in danger.”
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that analysis from both the Biden and Trump administrations has concluded that Israel is likely to carry out a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities this year as it looks to take maximal advantage of Iran’s weakened state.
Officials familiar with the report said that it indicated Israel believes President Donald Trump is far more likely to support its decision to take out the nuclear sites than former President Joe Biden.
The United States military believes that it would need to supply specific munitions for the strike, given that one of the facilities is buried under a mountain and the United States is the only country in the world that has powerful enough bunker-buster bombs to reach it.

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reportedly destroyed a top-secret nuclear weapons research facility late last month where Iran was actively conducting research for its illicit and undeclared nuclear weapons program.
Israel hit the facility in Parchin during retaliatory strikes against the Islamic regime after it launched more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israel early last month.
Multiple U.S. and Israeli officials <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/11/15/iran-israel-destroyed-active-nuclear-weapons-research-facility">told</a> Axios that the strike against the facility &#8220;significantly damaged Iran&#8217;s effort over the past year to resume nuclear weapons research,&#8221; the report said.
The site where the nuclear weapons research was happening was the Taleghan 2 facility in the Parchin military complex, the report said.
The strike destroyed advanced equipment that is needed to design sophisticated explosive materials that are required to detonate a nuclear device.
Satellite imagery shows that the facility, which was a previously declared nuclear weapons facility decades ago, was completely destroyed in the strike.
U.S. and Israeli officials said that Iran was trying to conceal its nuclear weapons research at the facility by presenting it as research for civilian purposes.
The report said only a small number of officials in Iran&#8217;s Islamic government knew about what was going on at the facility.
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A U.S. official told Axios that the strike was &#8220;a not so subtle message that the Israelis have significant insight into the Iranian system even when it comes to things that were kept top secret and known to a very small group of people in the Iranian government.&#8221;
Andrea Stricker, deputy director of the Nonproliferation and Biodefense Program and a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said in an interview this week that she does not expect Iran to retaliate against Israel for destroying the facility because that would be an acknowledgment that it was conducting illicit nuclear weapons research.
&#8220;Israel stayed under [President Biden&#8217;s] red line of not targeting the major nuclear sites because in order to protest, Iran would have had to admit that it was violating its nuclear non-proliferation treaty obligation not to work on nuclear weapons,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Israel really did the world a service here by creating a potential bottle neck in the program.&#8221;

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> encouraged Israel on Friday to hit Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities as it prepares to retaliate after Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles into the country at the start of the month.
Trump made the remarks during a Q&amp;A session with voters in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Trump has been touring the southeastern United States in recent days to survey the damage from Hurricane Helene and talk with voters about what they need to recover.
“I listened to Biden yesterday … they asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran? And he goes, ‘As long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.'&#8221; Trump said. “That’s the thing you want to hit, right?”
“I think he’s got that one wrong. Isn’t that the one you’re supposed to hit?” Trump continued. “It’s the biggest risk we have, nuclear weapons.”
He said that Israel should focus on hitting Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities first and worrying about other potential targets later.
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“Hit the nuclear first and worry about the rest later.” Trump is reckless, stupid, and unfit. Here’s how he thinks Israel should hit back at Iran. (Video: RSBN) <a href="https://t.co/Jxd19n2pmP">pic.twitter.com/Jxd19n2pmP</a>
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1842530427237519462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
Israeli officials have been insistent that Iran will pay a heavy price for its attack. They even reportedly warned Iran prior to their attack that if any of the missiles hit Israel that Israel would target their oil or nuclear facilities.
The breakout time for Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon is only a couple of weeks given the current stockpile of enriched uranium they have.
Some have suggested that the real time is much longer, at minimum several months, because they argue that Iran still has a lot of work to do in terms of producing a weapon that will work. This argument assumes that Iran has been telling the truth to the world that it does not have a clandestine nuclear weapons program that has been working to solve this problem.
While Democrats seek to deflect blame from the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s disastrous foreign policy as the reason for Iran&#8217;s increased aggression in recent years, evidence points directly at the administration.
Data <a href="https://fddvisuals.github.io/fdd-visuals-one-stop-shop-iran/images/fdd-infographic-total-stockpiles-2024Aug.png.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compiled</a> by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies shows that Trump exiting the Iran nuclear deal did not trigger Iran&#8217;s build up of enriched uranium.
Iran only decided to start enriching uranium in violation of the agreement after Biden was elected to office.
The administration has relaxed sanctions enforcement against the Islamic regime, allowing it to earn tens of billions of dollars in oil revenue that it has used to fund terrorism throughout the region.

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