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Russia calls Trump threats to bomb Iran ‘illegal and unacceptable’
Russia is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s threats to bomb Iran, calling them «illegal and unacceptable.»
Trump in recent days has increased his threats against Iran and warned that there could be direct conflict if the Islamic Republic doesn’t stop arming the Houthi terrorist group or halt its nuclear program. Russia, meanwhile, said Thursday that it’s committed to finding solutions to Iran’s nuclear program that respects its rights to peaceful nuclear energy, according to Reuters.
«The use of military force by Iran’s opponents in the context of the settlement is illegal and unacceptable,» Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova was quoted by the news agency as saying.
«Threats from outside to bomb Iran’s nuclear infrastructure facilities will inevitably lead to an irreversible global catastrophe. These threats are simply unacceptable,» she reportedly added.
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova and President Donald Trump (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service/Handout/Anadolu Agency | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Rebekah Koffler, a former DIA intelligence officer specializing in Russia’s war-fighting strategy and Putin’s thinking, told Fox News Digital Thursday that «Russia’s statement is consistent with the diplomatic posture that it’s trying to project of being Iran’s strategic partner.
«In reality, Russia and Iran are not natural allies. They share a very turbulent history and there’s plenty of distrust in the relationship. The Russians don’t trust Iranians to have a fully operational militarized nuclear capability,» she continued. «But they would never admit it in public. At one point, during the Obama administration, Moscow was siding with Washington in terms of economic sanctions on Iran and complied with Washington’s request not to sell S-300s air defense missiles to Tehran.
«Putin is angling to serve as a broker between the Trump administration and the Iranian government on the nuclear issue,» she also said.
Trump’s overtures via a letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to jump-start talks on dismantling Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program, were met with rejection on Sunday.
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Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during a meeting with officials in Tehran on March 31, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
Trump told NBC the day before, «If they don’t make a deal, there will be bombing.»
«But there’s a chance that if they don’t make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago,» he added.
Secondary «tariffs,» or sanctions, would mean slapping financial penalties on any country that does business with Iran.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday, «We don’t avoid talks; it’s the breach of promises that has caused issues for us so far,» according to the Associated Press. He added, «They must prove that they can build trust.»
Gathering to discuss the Iranian nuclear issue are, from left, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, Chinese Foreign Minister Wag Yi and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazeem Gharibabadi on March 14, 2025, in Beijing. (Getty Images)
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Iran is enriching uranium to 60%, just shy of the 90% weapons-grade. Experts say it could have a nuclear weapon within weeks if it were to take the final steps to building one. Fox News Digital reported in late March that Iran’s regime has enriched enough uranium to manufacture six nuclear weapons, according to a U.N. atomic agency report.
Fox News’ Benjamin Weinthal, Caitlin McFall and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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Donald Trump recibe a Giorgia Meloni y dice que confía en llegar a un acuerdo con Europa por los aranceles, pero que «no tiene apuro»
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, señala a la jefa de gobierno de Italia, al recibirla en la Casa Blanca. Foto: EFE Giorgia Meloni, un «puente» entre Europa y EE.UU.
Giorgia Meloni, la líder europea más cercana ideológicamente a Donald Trump. Foto: AP Las metas de la visita de la líder italiana
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More Dems work to join Sen. Van Hollen in El Salvador to push for alleged gang member’s return to US
Several more congressional Democrats have made statements or issued requests to leadership to travel to El Salvador in hopes of bringing imprisoned deportee and accused MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to Maryland.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., remained in the Central American country as of Thursday morning, after Salvadoran Vice President Felix Ulloa rejected his entreaties to contact or free the alleged gang member on Wednesday.
A representative for Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., confirmed to Fox News Digital on Thursday that the freshman lawmaker would be taking a trip to El Salvador to essentially aid Van Hollen’s efforts.
«Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be home in Maryland right now,» Ansari said in a separate statement. «His illegal abduction and the subsequent complete dismissal of the Supreme Court ruling is deeply disturbing. Our rights shouldn’t be revoked to propagate Trump’s authoritarian agenda. This is a constitutional crisis.»
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From left, Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. Robert Garcia and Rep. Yassamin Ansari (Getty Images)
«He’s already said that he’s ready and willing to illegally deport ‘home-growns’ and American citizens. If this can happen to Mr. Garcia, it can happen to any of us. My parents fled an authoritarian regime in Iran where people ‘disappeared’ – I refuse to sit back and watch it happen here, too. That’s why I plan to join my colleagues in traveling to El Salvador to visit Mr. Garcia and make sure Trump’s war on our Constitution and due process stops here.»
Reps. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., and Robert Garcia, D-Calif., also wrote to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., requesting a former CODEL (congressional delegation) authorization to visit Tecoluca, El Salvador, where the infamous El Salvadoran mega prison «Terrorism Confinement Center» (CECOT) is located.
«Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national legally living and working in Maryland, was subject to a 2019 withholding order from an immigration judge prohibiting his removal to El Salvador,» Frost and Garcia wrote.
«A Congressional delegation would allow Committee Members to conduct a welfare check on Mr. Abrego Garcia, as well as others held at CECOT.»
Additionally, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., is reportedly planning to travel to CECOT, according to reports from Politico and Axios. His office did not respond to a Fox News Digital inquiry.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Comer’s office for comment, and whether other lawmakers had contacted him seeking CODEL authorization.
«Squad» member Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., also wrote to House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., demanding her own CODEL to El Salvador, «given that the Administration’s use of CECOT for illegal and unconstitutional deportations is rife with ‘administrative errors.’»
While not party to the letter to Comer, Ansari tweeted Monday that «we need answers now» from either government.
She said she is ready to join Van Hollen – and Frost and Garcia if they go – to «demand» the man’s release.
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Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., also suggested to Axios that travel to El Salvador may be necessary.
«We have to do similar kinds of things for the others who are victims of this dystopian attack on our Constitutional rights. This president is dangerous and we can’t let this go,» she said.
Meanwhile, at least two Republicans have also traveled to CECOT, albeit for different reasons.
Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., tweeted a photo from the prison, saying he just finished a tour and that many inmates were «extremely violent» recent U.S.-deportees.
«I leave now even more determined to support President Trump’s efforts to secure our homeland,» Moore said.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., appeared to comment on Van Hollen’s trip in his own post from the prison, writing:
«It is unconscionable that Democrats in Congress are urging the release of more foreign criminals back into our country.»
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Homeland Security released new documents this week that it says definitively prove Abrego Garcia, who is imprisoned at CECOT after his deportation from the U.S., is a member of the notorious MS-13 gang, which his lawyers deny.
Abrego Garcia also allegedly has a record of being a «violent» repeat wife beater, according to records filed in a Prince George’s County, Maryland, district court by his wife.
Fox News Digital reached out to Booker, Frost, Balint, Ramirez and Garcia for further comment.
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President Donald Trump is the greatest challenge Canada is facing, Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a Wednesday night electoral debate with conservative challenger Pierre Poilievre.
«This election [is about] the question of who will succeed, and who will face up to Trump,» Carney said in French, according to a Reuters translation.
His comments came in retort to Poilievre, who moments prior, had accused him of being too similar to Justin Trudeau, who stepped down from the top job earlier this year following a rapid decline in approval ratings.
Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Canada, on March 27, 2025. (David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«We are in a crisis. The most serious crisis of our lives,» Carney reportedly added. «We have to react with strength, which will allow us to succeed with Trump.»
Carney, who was voted into the role by the governing Liberal Party last month in a landslide win, is believed to be the favored candidate to win the prime minister’s seat in a nationwide election later this month, though recent polling suggests polling margins could be narrowing.
Just prior to Trudeau’s exit, the Liberal Party was expected to take a nosedive in the federal election against Poiliervre’s Conservative Party – but Trump appears to have changed all that.
Immense concern over a trade war with the U.S. and Trump’s threats to annex Canada as the 51st state have rallied support once again for the Liberal Party under Carney.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on April 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Reports suggest that Carney is now viewed as the candidate more equipped to take on the tough negotiations that Canada will face to ease the steep tariffs Trump implemented this year.
Poilievre has also reportedly faced a drop in support for his Canada First message, which some reports suggest may be too similar a message to Trump’s America First agenda.
The conservative candidate has also reportedly faced criticism within his own party for not responding fast enough to the threat posed by the U.S. president.
Some reporting has suggested the race to be Canada’s next prime minister could be narrowing between Poilievre and Carney.
Canadians concerned by cost-of-living tend to back Poilievere, according to a Politico report, while voters concerned with the economy and relations with the U.S. tend to back Carney.
Canada Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre holds a news conference in Ottawa, on Dec. 1, 2024. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Poilievere has been in the political sphere since 2004, when he entered Canada’s Parliament.
Carney’s background is in running first the Bank of Canada in 2008 and then the Bank of England in 2013 – prompting some to believe he may be best suited to take on the financial crisis looming over Canada amid Trump’s tariff war.
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