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دونالد ترامب (76)
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ماركو روبيو (28)
نعيم قاسم (27)
نواف سلام (27)
ترامب (25)
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آيزنكوت (19)
جبران باسيل (19)
محسن رضائي (19)
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Do you want to see the shock and the problems? As I said before. Let them hit San Diego or Los Angeles and you will see bad things happen. It will lead the country to collapse. We will not allow that to happen. We protect our cities and our country and we will not allow them.
Making a deal is not the option I want, but they are already ready to give us anything so that we stop, and they will certainly never get a nuclear weapon.
Renewing the war before the elections in Israel may delay it.
The desperate attempts and malicious strikes against the pillars of the regime and security in society did not deter the internal security forces from performing their duties
The focus of the American-Zionist enemy and its insistence on directing strikes at various levels of the internal security forces revealed the importance of the institution
The killing of officer Elyav Haim Tzfalmus from the Seventh Brigade during a military operation in southern Lebanon
The killing of officer Eliav Haim Tzefalmos from the Seventh Brigade during a military operation in southern Lebanon
The Druze in Sweida do not want to be part of the state established by the Sharaa regime; they look to Israel.
It will not launch an attack on Iran before the midterm elections scheduled for November 3
Productive talks with Iran
Iran will not possess a nuclear weapon
Despite the very bad situation Iran is experiencing, economically and militarily, and despite the blockade remaining in full force and effect, we will not launch any attack on Iran at any time before the midterm elections
We are currently holding fruitful discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran
On the Israeli side, Benjamin Netanyahu faces the parliamentary elections, which may ring alarm bells and push him to engage in a new confrontation to postpone them, in order to escape the pressures of losing power and the multiplicity of regional conflict fronts.
The continuation of the siege and pressure strategy, while keeping the possibility of war alive.
The sharp separation between war and siege is inaccurate; the current phase is in a gray area where parties seek gains through negotiation and dual pressure.
The Treasury Department is working to deprive the authoritarian regime in Tehran of the funds it uses to wage war in the region, and we will continue to expose those who enable the regime to sell oil.
The need to manage the space of diplomacy and the battlefield on Iran's part, as the country's future is being determined today. Correct action will strengthen our country's power in the region and in the future, while a mistake will undoubtedly lead to great regret.
The strategy of siege and pressure, while keeping the possibility of war alive.
The sharp separation between war and siege is inaccurate; the current phase lies in a gray zone in which the parties seek gains through negotiation and dual pressure.
Renewing the war before the elections in Israel may delay it.
We are having fruitful talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran. I would like to make clear to everyone that although Iran is suffering from an extremely bad situation, economically and militarily, and the blockade will remain in full force and effect, with oil flowing in record quantities through the Strait of Hormuz (22 million barrels last night alone, without a single barrel coming from or going to Iran!), we will not launch any attack on Iran before the midterm elections scheduled in the United States on November 3.
No aid has reached Hezbollah directly from Iran
There is no Palestinian people, this is a lie. There is no Palestinian state. The entire purpose of this idea is to destroy the state of Israel. It is time to wake up. We must be clear and say the truth out loud, first to ourselves and then to the world: no negotiations over the home.
Come, let us sign a surplus-votes agreement and declare together that we are two parties that will enter only a Zionist government. Together we will be a blocking bloc against non-Zionist governments and against coalitions with ultra-Orthodox or Arab parties. Get out of the prevailing perception and help us decide the battle on the battlefield.
Yesterday we marked three years since the heaviest disaster we have known since the state's founding. The war we have fought since then was also the hardest, and it changed all of us. After everything we have been through, politics cannot continue as if nothing happened.
the biggest blow so far
a major deterioration in the security situation
The negotiation process is still ongoing
is in full force and effect