Trump denies U.S. killed Minab school kids

Jeju Island, South Korea activists connecting the dots

• Washington Post: Under pressure from Trump, US Senate reverses course on Iran. The chamber rejected a resolution to force the president to end the war after he criticized Republicans for undermining his administration’s negotiations.

• Fox News: The Trump administration is seeking $672 million to help "eliminate Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon”. The funding would support the removal or disposal of Iran’s enriched uranium and other sensitive nuclear materials, as well as inspections and verification efforts by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The proposal is part of a larger $80 billion supplemental funding request tied to the recent Iran conflict. [Trump still trying to get his dirty hands on Iran's uranium.]

• Trump has the audacity to deny the murders of the Iranian schoolgirls at Minab school in Iran.

• Ukraine is currently winning the US-NATO proxy war against Russia claims Jeremy Lewin, US Deputy Secretary of State for Foreign Assistance during a Pinchuk Foundation event in Gdańsk, Poland. “At this point, we are in a position where Ukraine is winning the war,” Lewin said.  [We've been hearing that Ukraine was winning for a long time. If so why do they have to daily attempt to grab new recruits by force off the streets?] 

• NATO’s European hawks have spent years pushing a concocted "Russia threat" to justify massive rearmament, but in reality, their defense industry is quietly imploding. Defense stocks are tanking because investors are terrified an end to the Ukraine proxy war might expose that cash-strapped governments can't afford their own war rhetoric without a convenient bogeyman to sell, reports Bloomberg. Russia has repeatedly dismissed the imaginary “threat” narrative, insisting that it does not threaten NATO member states. It has also long expressed valid concern over unprecedented activity of the NATO alliance near its western borders.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Third Reich descendant and lowlife, once again begs for ceasefire. 

• Trump's so-called 'Board of Peace' is continuing to try to chisel away at any possibility of Palestinian statehood through a 15-point “roadmap” it first presented to Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions in April. Drop Site News obtained two documents from the latest round of negotiations between the Palestinians and Trump’s board. The first is the full text of the Palestinian negotiators’ proposed amendments to the board’s roadmap for addressing a range of issues, including the demand that Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and their allies submit to total disarmament. The revised document was delivered to the board on June 13. The second document is the response delivered to the Palestinian side last week by Nickolay Mladenov, the BoP’s “High Representative.” Taken together, the two versions of the roadmap offer detailed insights into the extent to which Trump’s board is trying to erode Palestinian insistence that any long term deal must include a clear path to statehood, that Gaza and the occupied West Bank be treated as a single Palestinian territory, and that the rights of the Palestinian people to resist Israeli occupation and annexation be preserved. “What we’re seeing is an attempt, in the shadow of a genocide, to dismantle the Palestinian resistance through all of these kinds of preconditions,” said Abdullah Al-Arian, an associate professor of history at Georgetown University in Qatar. “The interpretation of this agreement is in the hands of actors who are, for the most part, beholden to prioritizing Israel’s security.” https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/internal-proposals-palestine-hamas-gaza-trump-mladenov-israel-board-peace  

• In 2025, Britain spent £9.6 billion on its nuclear weapons programme, a 17% increase on the previous year.  The British government is driving nuclear dangers at a time when the risk of them being used in war has never been higher. Meanwhile, public services remain under pressure and millions continue to struggle with the cost of living. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is campaigning to expose the true costs of Britain's nuclear expansion and to make the case for investment in what really keeps us safe: health, education, climate action and public services.
• France is escalating measures against pro-Palestine student movements with arrests, fines, and legal prosecutions, coinciding with ongoing protests rejecting the war in Gaza. What is Macron afraid of?  Does he work for Israel?

• Preparations by the Iranian Red Crescent to assist earthquake victims in Venezuela: Following two devastating and deadly earthquakes with a magnitude of over 7 on the Richter scale in Venezuela, the head of the Red Crescent Society in Iran sent a message to the head of the Red Cross in that country, expressing his condolences to the families of the victims, and announced his full readiness to send specialized relief and treatment teams to the affected areas. At least 164 dead as powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela.
• Iranian Oil Minister: The only way to achieve stability in West Asia lies in dismantling American bases and allowing regional countries to take charge of their own security.

• Civil liberties defenders sounded the alarm Tuesday over the draconian prison sentences imposed on a group of activists falsely accused by the Trump administration of being members of a non-existent “North Texas Antifa Cell” — including a 30-year term for a man convicted of moving a box containing leftist literature. In what the US Department of Justice (DOJ) called “the first sentencing of defendants affiliated with Antifa following President Trump’s executive order designating the group as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in September 2025,” the defendants were sentenced in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth to between 30-100 years imprisonment for actions in connection with a July 4, 2025 protest at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, an ICE lockup run by prison profiteer LaSalle Corrections. https://www.commondreams.org/news/prairieland-ice-trial