According to a report from NBC 6 South Florida, national security advocates and elected officials are sounding the alarm over Iran’s expanding military footprint in the Western Hemisphere, specifically the reported delivery of approximately 300 Iranian drones to Cuba.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited southern Lebanon on Tuesday, addressing Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops occupying the territory as part of a campaign against the Iranian proxy terrorist organization Hezbollah.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan recently said that Turkey “may be forced” to acquire nuclear weapons to counterbalance Israel and Iran to prevent them from dominating the Middle East. In an interview with CNN Türk, he described having a nuclear weapons capability as a “high-level strategic issue” that must be considered “within the broader, bigger picture” of regional geopolitics.

Fidan’s comments echo those by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has said it is unfair for nuclear-armed states “like the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom”—the five permanent members of the UN Security Council—to prevent Turkey from obtaining nuclear weapons. “Some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads, not [only] one or two,” he said. “But they tell us we cannot have them. This, I cannot accept.”

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When Iran launched ten ballistic missiles at Israel Sunday night, retaliating for an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah command center in Beirut, the Islamic Republic’s parliament spokesman posted a threat on X: “Watch the sky of the occupied territories tonight.” He was not wrong about the sky. But Iran may have chosen the worst possible night on the Hebrew calendar to press its war against the Jewish people. Sunday night was the 23rd of Sivan, the exact date, 2,383 years ago, on which the Persian Empire’s decree to annihilate the Jews was reversed, turned upside down, and transformed into the occasion for Jewish triumph over their enemies.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared Friday that a proposed agreement with the United States to extend the ceasefire and advance negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program “has never been closer.” Meanwhile, Pakistan’s prime minister said mediators have reached a final agreed-upon text and are working to finalize the next steps toward a deal.

A major new report from a two-year investigation documenting Hamas’s October 7 atrocities concluded that sexual violence during the terror group’s massacre and subsequent hostage captivity was “deliberate,” “systematic,” and “integral” to the attack, detailing what researchers described as recurring patterns of rape, sexual torture, mutilation, and abuse carried out across massacre sites, abduction routes, and throughout the prolonged captivity of hostages in Gaza.

Thousands of students across Germany skipped classes on Friday to protest a new military service law, warning it signals a broader political shift toward militarization.

Organized by the “School Strike Against Conscription Initiative,” demonstrations took place in nearly 130 cities—including Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, and Munich.

“We remember the historic May 8 and say clearly: never again war, never again fascism, never again conscription,” the group said in a statement, marking the 81st anniversary of the end of World War II.

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The United States on Friday announced a 45-day extension of a porous ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, even as the Iran-backed terror group continued to clash with IDF soldiers and launch missiles and drones into Israeli territory.

The announcement came after Israel and Lebanon wrapped up a third round of negotiations in Washington, which was described by State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott as “highly productive,” adding that the truce extension will “enable further progress.”

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Thursday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared the U.S. strikes against the Iranian regime to be an “unprecedented military defeat” for the Iranians.

He noted the amount of time it had taken Iran to build up its military, and the 39 days it took to “destroy it.”

“Do you think that these are people that get it?” host Jesse Watters asked. “Are they pragmatic? Can they do a deal? Are they capable of it? Or do you have a bunch of just suicidal fanatics in a bunker that might just want to go down swinging?

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President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran “agreed to everything” in negotiations with the United States following a news-packed morning that included the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.