Trump said to assure Netanyahu he will thwart Iran nuke program as Israel fears ‘very bad’ deal

Trump said to assure Netanyahu he will thwart Iran nuke program as Israel fears ‘very bad’ deal

Nava Freiberg

Israel deeply concerned over plan that gives Iran time, money, falls short of key security needs, with regime’s nuclear activities only up for discussion later, no commitment to export uranium stockpile, terror proxies intact

US President Donald Trump sought to reassure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call that a final agreement with Iran will fully dismantle Tehran’s nuclear program, a senior Israeli official said in a statement on Sunday, as details emerged of a deal being cobbled together with Iran that appeared to leave central Israeli and American demands unmet and prompted profound concerns in Jerusalem.

According to multiple reports, confirmed by Israeli officials, the initial deal will focus on extending an existing ceasefire for another 60-days and opening the choked Strait of Hormuz to vital shipping, with the key issue of Iran’s nuclear activities relegated to discussions during that period, and no requirement for Iran to export its stockpile of highly enriched uranium. In addition, the plan is said to include a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, but does not include disarming the Iran-backed group.

Trump “clarified that he will stand firm in the negotiations on his longstanding demand for the dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear program and the removal of all enriched uranium from Iranian territory, and that he will not sign a final agreement without these conditions being met,” the unnamed senior official said.

The call took place on Saturday night.

Washington was keeping Jerusalem updated on the negotiations “over a memorandum of understanding to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and enter negotiations toward a final agreement on the points that remain in dispute,” the statement read, adding that Netanyahu thanked Trump for his “exceptional commitment to Israel’s security.”

Trump had declared on Saturday afternoon that the US and Iran were finalizing a deal to end the war, saying that the Memorandum of Understanding “has been largely negotiated” and would be announced shortly. The New York Times reported that the US has almost completely excluded Israel from the negotiations.

For his part, Netanyahu told Trump that Israel will retain its freedom of action against “all threats in all arenas,” the official said. “The prime minister emphasized that Israel will preserve its freedom of action against threats in all arenas, including Lebanon, and President Trump reiterated his support for this principle,” the official said.

The phone call came after last week, the two leaders were said to have held a tense conversation about how best to proceed with Iran. Netanyahu was said to have favored renewing strikes while Trump wanted to give more time for diplomacy.

Netanyahu will hold a limited security cabinet meeting Sunday evening to discuss the emerging US-Iran deal, an aide to one of the attending ministers confirmed to The Times of Israel.

There has been no public statement from Netanyahu or other senior ministers amid the growing reports of a nearing deal.

However, the Maariv outlet cited an unnamed member of the security cabinet as saying in a private conversation that if the reported terms of the deal are accurate, then it was “very bad.”

According to the outlet, Israeli officials are most worried that the subject of Iran’s nuclear program has been pushed down below reaching a ceasefire and opening the Strait of Hormuz.

Closure of the strait, which Iran blockaded as a war tactic and which usually carries a fifth of the world’s oil supply, rattled global economies, putting pressure on the US to resolve the issue.

The source told Maariv that the concern is that the deal gives Iran “time, money and regional quiet, without a real dismantling of its nuclear and terror capabilities.”

According to Axios, the memorandum of understanding that is expected to be signed by the US and Iran and ushers in a 60-day ceasefire extension, contains a clause that would end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The report said Israel will be permitted to strike Hezbollah if the terror group instigates or carries out attacks.

A senior Iranian source told Reuters on Sunday that Tehran has not agreed to hand over its highly enriched uranium stockpile under the preliminary agreement, though both Axios and The New York Times cited officials as saying that was part of the deal, which also envisions the US lifting some sanctions on Iran, enabling it to trade in oil, thereby removing what had been a key pressure tactic by Washington to push Iran into a nuclear deal.

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Iran’s Pezeshkian says Tehran ready to assure world it’s not seeking nuclear weapons

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran is ready to assure the world that it is not seeking nuclear weapons, as a preliminary deal between Iran and the US begins to emerge.

“We are not seeking unrest in the region,” he tells IRNA, claiming instead that “the one seeking to destabilize the region” is Israel.

Iran, which is avowed to destroy Israel, has a stockpile of more than 400 kilograms of uranium that has been enriched to a point that it is a short technical step from weapons-grade. Israeli officials have said it is sufficient for 11 nuclear bombs if enriched further.

Tehran has long claimed that it is not seeking nuclear weapons, despite the fact that it has enriched uranium to a level that the UN atomic agency says has no civilian use.

Pezeshkian also says that Tehran’s negotiating team “will not compromise the country’s honor and pride in any way.”

The slow American retreat from Europe has already begun

The slow American retreat from Europe has already begun

By Sergey Poletaev

2025 can be seen as the year in which the united anti-Russian coalition fell apart. In essence, there are now three distinct players acting against Russia (Ukraine, Europe, the US), and each has its own interests. Analyst Sergey Poletaev has prepared a series of articles in which he analyses the position of each player, their goals and interests in the conflict, and suggests how Russia might respond. 

Today we focus on the United States. Read the first part about Ukraine here.

Resignation from the role of leader

Since the Trump team’s rise to power, US politics has undergone a profound, one is even tempted to say historic, shift: The US is moving away from its role as the ‘leader of the free world’ and seeking to focus on its own interests.

While in the first half of 2025, it seemed that this was merely a whim of Trump’s, and that the US could not be diverted from its course of maintaining its hegemony, by the end of the year, it had become clear that the Trump administration was seeking to reset relations with all global players. We will not be discussing today the extent to which Trump has been successful; what matters to us is his motivation.

The reasons for such a radical shift in policy are clear: For decades, both left-liberal (Democratic) and neo-conservative (Republican) administrations refused to acknowledge reality and behaved as if it were still 1991, the world was celebrating the ‘end of history’, and all nations were looking with hope towards the City on the Hill, reverently acknowledging the leadership and authority of the US.

This policy reached its peak, and inevitable collapse, following the start of Russia’s military operation in 2022. The attempt to isolate Moscow effectively divided the world into two camps: Those which, whether out of conviction or under duress, stood up for the ‘rules-based order’, and those which effectively refused to abide by those rules. The latter turned out to be in the majority, and something had to be done about it.

Trump proposed a solution: America will no longer impose its rules on anyone, nor will it pretend to act on behalf of all humanity (often forgetting about itself). The US has its own interests and sufficient strength to defend them.

Thus, from being a key front in the struggle for world order, support for Ukraine has turned into a millstone around Washington’s neck. They cannot abandon it (too much has been invested, and opposition is too strong even among Trump’s closest allies, let alone the rest of the American establishment), but there is no point in dragging it along any further.

In effect, the US has offloaded the conflict onto Europe and let things take their course. This doesn’t mean that Trump wants Kiev to lose – it’s in his interests to preserve the current regime in Kiev, but he isn’t prepared to go to the mat for Ukraine, nor is he prepared to pour billions and political capital into the bottomless Ukrainian pit as his predecessor did.

The Beijing Triangle

In principle, Trump would prefer to freeze the Ukraine conflict and gain the opportunity to restore some of the relationship with Moscow. Like several of his predecessors, Trump understands that America’s main foreign policy rival is China, not Russia. However, Trump is the first to have attempted to do something about this, to have tried to at least somewhat slow down China’s expansion, which until last year seemed unstoppable.

First and foremost, the US is seeking to restore order in the New World by pushing China out of the region. The most notable step in this regard was the coup in Caracas, orchestrated with the involvement of the Pentagon, and the subsequent restoration of American control over Venezuelan oil exports. This has been a visible success.

Next on the agenda was a ‘remake’ of the Venezuelan scenario in Iran. As in Venezuela, China is the main buyer of Iranian hydrocarbons, and bringing Iranian oil exports under control would deal a second blow to Beijing.

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Payback With Fury: Russia Hammers Ukraine With Oreshnik, Iskander and Kinzhal Missiles

Payback With Fury: Russia Hammers Ukraine With Oreshnik, Iskander and Kinzhal Missiles

Sputnik

The Russian army unleashed a massive retaliatory strike with Oreshnik ballistic missiles, against military command facilities, airbases, and defense industry enterprises of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

"In response to Ukraine's terrorist attacks against civilian facilities on Russian soil, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a massive strike using Oreshnik ballistic missiles, Iskander aeroballistic missiles, Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles, Zircon cruise missiles, air-, sea-, and ground-launched cruise missiles, hitting unmanned aerial vehicles, military command facilities, airbases, and Ukraine’s arms factories," the ministry's report stated.

The objectives of the strike have been achieved, and all designated targets have been hit, the Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized.

Ukraine lost over 265 soldiers in combat against Russia's Vostok battlegroup, over 175 Ukrainian soldiers were eliminated by Russia's Sever battlegroup, over 305 by the Tsentr battlegroup

Up to 180 Ukraine's servicemen were neutralized by the Zapad battlegroup, up to 90 by the Yug battlegroup, and over 50 by the Dnepr battlegroup

Over 50 Reporters Head to Site of Brutal Ukrainian Attack on Starobelsk College Dormitory

Twenty-one students died and dozens more were injured as a result of the Ukrainian drone attack on a high school building and a dormitory in Starobelsk, the Lugansk People's Republic, on Friday night. 

More than 50 foreign journalists have headed to the scene of the attack carried out by the Ukrainian military on a college dormitory in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.

“Today, media representatives from 19 countries have arrived in the Lugansk People’s Republic: Austria, Brazil, Britain, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, the UAE, Pakistan, the United States, Turkiye, Finland, and France.

"Tokyo prohibited its journalists from taking part in the trip. The BBC officially declined. CNN is on vacation”, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said.

On the night of May 22, Ukraine attacked an academic building and dormitory at the Starobelsk Professional College, which is part of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University. There were 86 students and an employee in the building at the time.

Escobar: The Russia-China Spaceship Rushes Towards Planet Multipolar

Escobar: The Russia-China Spaceship Rushes Towards Planet Multipolar

Pepe Escobar,

The Russia-China strategic partnership, the leaders in the process of Eurasia integration, the leaders of multipolar bodies BRICS and the SCO, have formally endorsed and boosted the drive towards multipolarity and a new system of international relations via a strategic joint declaration signed, sealed and delivered during President Putin’s visit to China this Wednesday.

This is one for the History books – in several more ways than one. I was privileged to follow the proceedings in Beijing during the whole day at the Aurora College, a top Shanghai private school and university, among a fabulous congregation of teachers and students.

So we had plenty of time to discuss the implications of how the Top Two Eurasia powers – and global powers – are establishing the lineaments of a new geopolitical future for most of mankind. The exceptions will be exceptionalist recalcitrants and vassals addicted to commit serial political suicide.

We all remember President Xi’s visit to Russia in 2023, when leaving the Kremlin, side by side with Putin, he voiced what he was already polishing for some time, in a very concise way: “Right now there are changes we have not seen in 100 years.” And then Xi and Putin agreed that now, “we are the ones driving these changes together”.

The practical result is the sharply focused Beijing joint statement, penned by unmistakable “civilizations with ancient history.”

Let’s go through some of the highlights.

The declaration minces no words and no concepts when it comes to offering a serious alternative to the current – dwindling – unilateral historic moment.

Polycentrism: “The attempts of a number of states to single-handedly manage global affairs, impose their interests on the entire world, and limit the sovereign development of other countries in the spirit of the colonial era have failed.” Russia-China will focus on establishing a “long-term state of polycentrism.”

The ”law of the jungle”: “Basic universally recognized norms of international law and international relations are regularly violated (…) there is a danger of fragmentation within the international community and a return to the ‘law of the jungle’.”

A new security architecture: “It is necessary to pay due attention to the rational concerns of all countries in the field of security, to focus on cooperation on security issues, to reject bloc confrontation and zero-sum game strategies, to oppose the expansion of military alliances, hybrid wars, and proxy wars, and to promote the creation of an updated, balanced, effective, and sustainable global and regional security architecture (…) It is unacceptable to force sovereign states to abandon their neutrality.”

This is exactly what Moscow proposed to Washington and NATO in December 2021: indivisibility of security. The non-response response precipitated the SMO in Ukraine two months later, as it became obvious to Moscow that NATO’s plan was a blitzkrieg in Donbass.

Hegemony: “Hegemony in the world is unacceptable and should be prohibited. No state or group of states should control international affairs, determine the fate of other countries, or monopolize opportunities for development.”

Global governance: that’s President Xi’s cherished concept, fully delienated in the SCO summit last year in Tianjin: “In global governance, which is an important tool for streamlining the system of international relations, it is necessary to adhere to the principles of sovereign equality, the rule of international law, multilateralism, human-centeredness, and results-oriented approach.”

The United Nations: it’s necessary to “strengthen the role of multilateralism as the primary tool for addressing the multifaceted and complex global challenges, and to prevent the weakening of the United Nations.” That should lead to “the reform of the United Nations”. Yet everyone knows that will definitely not happen under the current administration in the White House.

Point 4 of the declaration: global civilizational and value diversity. That may be the crux of the matter – inexorably burying any Exceptionalist pretensions: “The spiritual and moral system of any civilization cannot be considered exceptional or superior to others. All countries should advocate a view of civilizations based on equality, mutual exchange of experience, and dialogue, and should strengthen mutual respect, understanding, trust, and exchanges between different nationalities and civilizations, promote mutual understanding and friendship among the peoples of all countries, and protect the diversity of cultures and civilizations.”

I have called this process for quite a while “The Eurasia Century”. That is what this fateful May 20, 2026 in Beijing, within the scope of an official visit by President Putin to China, was celebrating.

The breath, scope and ambition of the joint statement clearly overshadows other aspects of Putin’s Beijing journey, although they are quite relevant by themselves.

Starting with the sealing of the new “indispensable nation”. Exit the Exceptionalists; enter China. The old order is being evicted – in real time. And yes, this is the most consequential shift in Great Power alignment since the end of the Cold War – complete with the Empire of Chaos that sanctioned Russia to death targeting its “isolation” and economic collapse inexorably out-maneuvered by the Russia-China strategic partnership.

The 25-year Treaty of Good Neighborliness between Russia and China was massively upgraded – featuring strategic energy corridors (the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline), very close military coordination and a shared civilizational/ideological framework.

Of course there will be no substantial leaks on what Xi and Putin discussed during their two-hour-long, informal tea time. The proxy war in Ukraine and the illegal war on Iran had to be on the menu, including Putin arguably briefing Xi on Russia’s possible next moves in an increasingly direct, toxic confrontation with NATO, and both evaluating the technicalities of the Russia-China support for Iran.

So in a nutshell the New Silk Roads/BRI and its derivations such as the Northern Sea Route/Arctic Silk Road remain alive and kicking; and the de-dollarization of the global economy – a reflection of the Russia-China trade balance, now advancing exclusively on yuan and rubles – is more than alive and kicking.

The Great Unravel And Algorithmic Tyranny

The Great Unravel: A blueprint for survival in the age of algorithmic tyranny

Belle Carter

There's a moment every generation faces when the ground shifts beneath their feet. For our grandparents, it was the Great Depression. For our parents, it was the transition from manufacturing to information. For us—for you—it's the collision of economic collapse, artificial intelligence and a globalist agenda that sees human beings as obsolete bugs to be debugged from the system.

"The Great Unravel: Surviving the Workforce Collapse and AI Revolution" isn't a dry academic text. It's a survival manual written in blood and fire and it understands something the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge: the economic crash we're seeing right now isn't a glitch. It's a feature.

The freightways never lie

You want to know what's really happening to the economy? Don't watch CNBC. Don't read the Wall Street Journal. Look at the trucks.

The Cass Freight Index has been flashing red for months. Tonnage is falling. Spot freight rates are cratering. Yellow Corp, one of America's largest trucking companies, went bankrupt while the mainstream media yawned. FedEx and UPS are bleeding jobs and they're calling it "cost-cutting."

This is the nervous system of the real economy and it's screaming. While Wall Street parties on printed money, the physical movement of goods—the actual economy—is seizing up. The book makes this devastatingly clear: the stock market is a fantasy. The freight data is reality. And the two are about to violently reconnect.

The myth of the safe job

Here's where it gets personal. Remember when you were told to get a degree, climb the corporate ladder and you'd be set for life? That was a lie. And the book exposes it with surgical precision.

Tech giants like Meta, Google and Microsoft aren't just firing people—they're systematically eliminating entire job categories. Software engineers, project managers, mid-level executives—the very people who thought they'd outrun automation are now standing directly in its path. The book calls this the "concierge economy": a world where a handful of humans make high-level decisions and every layer of execution gets handed to algorithms.

The same companies that begged for lockdowns are now using AI to replace the workers they claimed to protect. Microsoft ditched its DEI team as "not business critical." That's corporate code for "you're all replaceable."

And then there are the ghost jobs—fake postings companies put up to look like they're hiring while they feed your resume into the very AI systems replacing you. The job market isn't just tight. It's a mirage.

The unbreakable rule that saves you

But here's what the globalists don't want you to know: AI can be clever, but it can never be inspired. It can mimic, but it cannot feel. It can calculate, but it cannot love.

The book's most powerful chapter, "The Unbreakable Rule of AI," should be memorized by every parent, every worker, every human being. AI works by spotting patterns in data. It predicts the next most likely word, pixel or note. It has no inner life. It doesn't wake up with a wild idea or feel the sting of injustice.

Your creativity, your ability to connect seemingly unrelated ideas, your moral intuition—these are not bugs in the machine. They are gifts. And they are exactly what the globalists cannot control.

This is why decentralized technology like Brighteon.AI, trained on truth rather than corporate censorship, was created. We don't reject the tool; we reject the master. Use AI as a research assistant, but never let it write your soul.

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