🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "When [US attack on Iran] was done, I said what's the purpose of talking, it's been knocked out, and knocked out completely. But they've requested a meeting and I'm going to go to a meeting and if we can put something down on paper, that would be fine, that'd be good. I think they've gained a lot of respect for us, I think they've gained a lot of respect for Israel also." - President Donald Trump

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- US Envoy Witkoff says meeting will be “in the next week or so.”

🇺🇸⚡️- "[Zohran Mamdani] is a communist. He's not a socialist he's a communist, and he's said some really bad things about Jewish people, and he's said some really bad things about a lot of people," President Donald Trump

🇺🇸⚡️- "He's going to behave. He will behave. He better behave, otherwise he's gonna have big problems," - President Donald Trump on Zohran Mamdani

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "From just after 2000, they have been thinking and practicing to go into that area. They've been looking to going in but they've never had a president that would allow them to do it." - President Donald Trump on the US strikes against Iran

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- "We're going to have to send some more weapons [to Ukraine] we have to, they have to be able to defend themselves,"- President Donald Trump

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️- “At the request of a lot of countries in the surrounding area of the Middle East, including Israel, we took the sanctions off Syria. I met the new leader, I was very impressed by him,” - President Donald Trump

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- “I would love to be able to - at the right time - take the sanctions off [Iran] and give them a chance to rebuild. I’d like to see Iran build itself back up in a peaceful manner, not going around saying death to America, death to Israel, as they were doing. They were the bully of the Middle East, and now they’re not the bully anymore.” - President Donald Trump

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- “We were in the middle of talks with the US and the Americans assured us that Israel would not attack us without their permission. But they suddenly attacked us and torpedoed our diplomacy.” - Iranian President Pezeshkian

🇨🇳🇮🇳🇹🇷⚡- China and India opposed Turkey's membership into BRICS, the Middle East Eye reports.

🇾🇪⚡- For the third day in a row a carrier has been attacked by Ansarullah in the Red Sea.

ETERNITY-C, a Liberian-flagged cargo vessel was struck by USVs and UAVs.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡- UAE-based Emirates Airlines cancels all flights to Iran until July 15, citing heightened tensions within the region.

🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- Iran has allegedly received the long-range HQ‑9B surface-to-air missile batteries for its air defenses, according to the Middle East Eye.

Report remains unconfirmed.

🇩🇪🇨🇳🇾🇪⚡- BREAKING: A Chinese frigate laser-targeted a German military aircraft in the Red Sea.

The German aircraft was involved in the EU's military operation against Ansarullah's attacks on merchant vessels in the Red Sea, known as Operation Aspides.

The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Chinese Ambassador.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran's so-called Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has blasted Tucker Carlson over his interview with Iran's Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian.

"Pezeshkian portrayed the regime as peaceful, as if the world has been asleep the last 46 years.

No, the world is wide awake to the regime's terrorism, nuclear threat, and barbaric treatment of the Iranian people. No one is fooled by the regime's lies any longer. The end of the Islamic Republic is within reach," - Pahlavi.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi yesterday in Abu Dhabi, according to Syrian outlet al-Joumhuriya.

This marks a significant step in the ongoing restoration of Syria-Israel relations.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Saudi outlet al-Arabiya says Hezbollah has raised its level of alertness over fears of an Israeli attack against the group.

🇦🇲⚡- Chaos in Armenia's Parliament after ruling party Civil Contract stripped opposition MP Artur Sargsyan of parliamentary immunity.

🏳️🇺🇳⚡- BREAKING: International Criminal Court issues arrears warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, and Chief of Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The US has requested, through mediators, to continue the nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry is considering accepting the proposal for talks, and to begin a new round of negotiations in an effort to lift sanctions and determine the level of enrichment," - Mehr News, Iranian outlet.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister confirms the Mehr News report, and says Tehran has received messages from the U.S. in recent days expressing interest in resuming negotiations.

However, the Deputy Foreign Minister adds trust must be rebuilt before talks can resume.