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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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Texas AG Ken Paxton announces run for US Senate

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle Tuesday night that he will run for the U.S. Senate.
The announcement comes as Paxton no longer faces the cloud of a federal corruption investigation that loomed over him as he rose up the ranks in the Republican Party.
The announcement by Paxton, a close ally of President Donald Trump and a MAGA firebrand, comes two weeks after Republican Sen. John Cornyn officially launched his re-election campaign as he bids for a fifth six-year term serving Texas in the Senate.
«It’s time for a change in Texas,» Paxton told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, before acknowledging Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas’ other Republican senator. «It’s time that we have another great senator that will actually stand up and fight for Republican values, fight for the values of the people of Texas and also support Donald Trump in the areas that he’s focused on in a very significant way.»
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas, June 22, 2017. On Tuesday, Paxton announced that he will run for the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
On Sunday, Cornyn said he was looking forward to «the competition» amid rumors of Paxton’s candidacy.
«Ken Paxton is a fraud,» Cornyn’s campaign charged in a social media post after Paxton’s announcement. «He talks tough on crime and then lets crooked progressive Lina Hidalgo off the hook. He says his impeachment trial was a sham but he didn’t contest the facts in legal filings which will cost the state millions.»
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«He says he’s anti-woke but he funnels millions of taxpayer dollars to lawyers who celebrate DEI,» the post continued. «And Ken claims to be a man of faith but uses fake Uber accounts to meet his girlfriend and deceive his family.»
Cornyn’s campaign noted that the incumbent senator has voted with Trump more than 95% of current senators. Trump and Texas need a «battle-tested conservative» who knows how to protect his agenda in the Senate and won’t be outsmarted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, the campaign said.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. (Fox News Digital)
The announcement from Paxton puts the gears in motion for what may be an extremely expensive and bruising GOP primary battle, pitting the remaining establishment and business factions of the Republican Party versus the ascendant MAGA wing.
«It sets the table for the most expensive primary in Texas. It will be a brutal battle,» veteran Republican strategist Dave Carney told Fox News. Carney, the longtime top political adviser to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, noted that the announcement by Paxton also «opens up the attorney general’s race. There will probably be a very competitive primary for that and we’re going to have a lot of musical chairs down ballot.»
Matt Mackowiak, a veteran Republican strategist and communications consultant based in Texas and Washington, D.C., said «this is going to be the most expensive, nastiest, most aggressive, most personal U.S. Senate primary in Texas history.»
«You have two candidates who are going to raise significant funds, who are in significant positions, who do not like each and have not liked each other, whose teams do not like each other and the stakes could not be higher,» he emphasized.
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Paxton’s announcement was not a huge surprise, as he has long claimed Cornyn does not represent the conservative values of Texans and has accused the senator of not being an ally of Trump.
He has also regularly labeled Cornyn a «RINO,» a «Republican in name only» and an insult MAGA and «America First» Republicans have regularly used to criticize more mainstream or establishment members of the GOP.
Paxton, who has been Texas’ top prosecutor since 2015, has regularly criticized his GOP rival, pointing to Cornyn’s position on a border wall and opposing Trump during the 2016 election.
Cornyn also previously came under criticism from conservatives after he helped push a bipartisan gun control bill after the 2022 mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school that killed 19 students and two teachers.

Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton at his primary night celebration, on March 1, 2022, in McKinney, Texas. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Paxton, for a couple of years, had flirted with a primary challenge against the 73-year-old Cornyn, a former state senator, former Texas Supreme Court justice, and former state attorney general, who first won election to the U.S. Senate in 2002.
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«I can’t think of a single thing he’s accomplished for our state or even for the country,» Paxton said in a September 2023 interview on the Fox News Channel. «Somebody needs to step up and run against this guy,» adding, «everything’s on the table for me.»
Fast-forward to earlier this year, and Paxton, at a county GOP meeting in Texas, told supporters that one of the things «we need to do, and I might play a role in this, is replace John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate.»
And in a Fox News Digital interview in January, Paxton acknowledged that he was «looking potentially at the U.S. Senate.»

Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at an event outside the Texas Statehouse, on Feb. 28, 2022 in Austin. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Cornyn, during the early stages of the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race, had said he would prefer that the GOP take a new direction, which angered Trump. But the senator endorsed Trump in late January of last year, after the then-former president won both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, the first two contests in the Republican presidential nomination calendar.
Since Trump returned to the White House three months ago, Cornyn has been supportive of the president’s Cabinet nominees and agenda.
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And in the senator’s campaign launch video last month, the announcer highlighted that during Trump’s first term in office, «Texas Sen. John Cornyn had his back.»
As he gears up for what will most certainly be his roughest re-election of his decades-long career, Cornyn has the backing of the top Republican in the Senate, Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
And Republican sources confirm to Fox News that Thune, as well as National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Sen. Tim Scott, have personally asked Trump to back Cornyn.

Sen. John Cornyn speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
The president’s grip on the GOP is stronger than ever and any endorsement Trump may make in the emerging Republican Senate primary in Texas would be extremely influential.
Making Cornyn’s path to renomination even more difficult is a possible Senate bid by Rep. Wesley Hunt, who represents a Houston area district.
The third-term 43-year-old Texas Republican and rising MAGA star has made his case to the president’s political team, sources confirm to Fox News. Hunt’s argument is that he’s the only person who can win both a GOP primary and a general election, a source familiar with the discussions confirmed to Fox News.
An outside group supportive of Hunt is currently spending seven figures to run ads across the Lone Star State to increase the lawmaker’s name ID.
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GOP Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas headlines the opening of the first Trump campaign office in Pennsylvania, on June 4, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)
Some Republican operatives and strategists worry that a primary battle in Texas could cost up to $100 million, potentially diverting much-needed resources from other races.
While Paxton is very popular with the conservative base of the party, it’s not clear at this point what Trump will do regarding the race. And political strategists note that toppling Cornyn in a GOP primary will likely be a very expensive proposition, and it’s not clear if Paxton can raise the money needed for victory.
«This says two things. One, Paxton sees an opportunity. And two, him getting in this early shows he needs the maximum time possible to try to raise money,» Mackowiak said. He added that Paxton «has received some negative feedback on fundraising.»
Paxton grabbed national attention in 2020 for filing the unsuccessful Texas vs. Pennsylvania case in the Supreme Court that tried to overturn former President Joe Biden’s razor-thin win over Trump in the Keystone State, and for speaking at the Trump rally near the White House that immediately preceded the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by right-wing extremists aiming to disrupt congressional certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory.
During Biden’s four years in the White House, Paxton took the administration to court numerous times.
While Paxton, who’s in his third four-year term as Texas attorney general, has long been a legal warrior in the MAGA movement, he also has plenty of personal political baggage.
Paxton was indicted on securities fraud charges soon after taking office in 2015, and more recently came under investigation by the FBI over bribery and corruption allegations from former top staffers. And in 2022, he survived a bruising primary amid his many legal difficulties.
In 2023, Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives, but he was later acquitted of all charges by the state Senate.
The charges in the long-running federal corruption probe were dropped during the final weeks of the Biden administration.
The attorney general also faced an investigation by the Texas State Bar for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
While Paxton for years has denied any wrongdoing and has survived his legal fights, he would likely continue to face tough optics and plenty of incoming fire over his past predicaments during a Senate showdown.

Colin Allred, last year’s Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, speaks at a campaign rally in Houston on Oct. 25. (Reuters/Marco Bello)
The eventual winner of next year’s GOP primary will be considered the favorite in the general election against whomever the Democrats nominate.
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Former Rep. Colin Allred has said he’ll decide by this summer if he’ll mount a 2026 Senate campaign.
Allred, a former Baylor University football player and NFL linebacker who later represented Texas’ 32nd Congressional District (which includes parts of Dallas and surrounding suburbs), was last year’s Democratic challenger in the race against Cruz.
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Los aranceles de Donald Trump: Estados Unidos dice que la Argentina es uno de los países que negocia una rebaja o «reciprocidad» en el trato

El representante comercial de Estados Unidos, Jamieson Greer, aseguró este martes que el plan de imponer aranceles de manera agresiva sobre el resto del mundo «va en la dirección correcta» y que varios países, como Argentina o la India, han mostrado su disposición a buscar «reciprocidad» comercial con la primera economía mundial.
Greer explicó ante el Comité de Finanzas del Senado que la estrategia del Gobierno de Donald Trump «va en la dirección correcta», como prueba el hecho de que casi 50 países le hayan contactado personalmente para negociar el tema arancelario.
«Varios de estos países como Argentina, Vietnam, la India o Israel han sugerido que reducirán sus aranceles y barreras no arancelarias en línea con la política del presidente (Trump)», indicó a cuenta de los progresos en las negociaciones en este terreno, en un momento en que los mercados temen que la ofensiva del republicano depare una recesión global.
El pasado miércoles Trump presentó aranceles globales del 10% y unas tasas superiores para otras regiones y países como la Unión Europea (UE) o China, que ha respondido con aranceles recíprocos y ha dicho que peleará al respecto «hasta el final».
La semana pasada, apenas Trump anunció los aranceles, el canciller Gerardo Werthein se reunió con el secretario de Comercio Howard Lutnick y con el United States Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, que dirige la oficina encargada del tema arancelario.
“Gracias por el excelente encuentro y la cálida bienvenida a nuestro equipo”, tuiteó Werthein tras el encuentro. “Trabajando juntos, vamos a fortalecer y expandir el comercio entre nuestras dos grandes naciones”, agregó. Y luego dedicó otro tuit a su reunión con Greer: “Un gran placer trabajar con ustedes y su equipo”, escribió el canciller.
Milei celebró la rapidez del encuentro y replicó un posteo del hijo de Trump, Eric, que decía que «no querría ser el último país que trate de negociar un acuerdo comercial con Trump. El primero en negociar ganará, el último perderá absolutamente. He visto esta película mi vida entera». El presidente respondió: «¿Los grandes analistas entenderán los alcances de este posteo? Sabrán quién es uno de los primeros que se ha reunido con el Secretario de Comercio?…ANIMO».
No se conocen aun los detalles de las reuniones, pero el Gobierno busca que la “relación estratégica” bilateral y la buena sintonía entre el presidente Trump y Javier Milei logre alguna exención tarifaria que limite el impacto arancelario en los productos argentinos.
El senador demócrata Ron Wyden denunció ante el comité que el plan de la Administración ha dejado «la economía en el purgatorio» y la ha convertido en «objeto de burla» sin que el pueblo estadounidense haya recibido una «explicación comprensible» acerca de la meta última de la estrategia.
A su vez, el presidente del comité, el republicano Mike Crapo, expresó su deseo de que «el objetivo» de los aranceles sea llevar pronto mejores condiciones para el sector exportador estadounidense, subrayando la intranquilidad que el proceso está generando también en las filas del partido de Trump.
Greer señaló que la acometida arancelaria busca «lograr reciprocidad y reducir el enorme déficit comercial para relocalizar la producción en EE.UU.» y consideró que la guerra comercial es «el cambio más significativo en política comercial» desde que EE.UU. «permitió» a China entrar en la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC).
El representante comercial incidió en el golpe económico para la clase media estadounidense que, según él, ha supuesto el crecimiento de China como potencia exportadora, con destrucción de tejido industrial y puestos de trabajo que se han producido con el visto bueno de anteriores Gobiernos en Washington.
En ese sentido, destacó el hecho de que el Ejecutivo de Joe Biden (2021-2025) dejara un déficit comercial de 1,2 billones, «el más grande en la historia de la humanidad», la falta de acceso a semiconductores durante la pandemia o la pérdida de músculo de los astilleros estadounidenses, factores que han impedido al país «construir, hacer y crecer».
Otros representantes del Gobierno de Trump hablaron hoy con el aparente objetivo de tranquilizar a los mercados y asegurar que hay avances en las negociaciones para evitar que la guerra comercial empeore.
El principal asesor económico de Trump, Kevin Hassett, afirmó en la cadena Fox News que la Administración ha recibido una gran cantidad de solicitudes para que se eliminen los aranceles y reveló que los contactos con Japón y Corea del Sur, a los que definió como dos de los aliados y «socios comerciales más cercanos» de EE.UU., serán prioritarios.
Por otro lado, el secretario del Tesoro, Scott Bessent, que ha hablado de que hasta 70 estados están pidiendo negociar, indicó en la cadena CNBC que la decisión de Trump de abrirse a conversar obedece «al flujo masivo» de peticiones y no al desplome de los mercados, dando a entender que el presidente está muy seguro del éxito de su iniciativa.
Fuente: EFE, ANSA y Clarín
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El Tapón del Darién se ha vaciado tras las medidas de Trump contra la migración irregular

Hace poco más de un año, el pequeño puerto fluvial panameño de Lajas Blancas estaba lleno de personas que intentaban llegar a Estados Unidos. Ahora, el improvisado campamento de migrantes se ha convertido en un pueblo fantasma.
Más de mil migrantes al día cruzaban el aterrador Tapón del Darién, un corredor selvático y accidentado entre Colombia y Panamá. En 2023, la migración a través de las zanjas del paso batió récords con más de 500.000 personas que realizaron la extenuante travesía, según el gobierno de Panamá, con la esperanza de una vida mejor.
Durante varios días, las personas se encaminaban en condiciones vulnerables a través de los pasos de la selva tropical y luego se embarcaban en estrechos botes de madera para cruzar los ríos. A la mayoría los dejaban en Lajas Blancas, donde se hacinaban en campamentos de migrantes llenos de familias y abordaban autobuses para cruzar Panamá y continuar su viaje hacia el norte.
En los pocos meses desde que el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, asumió el cargo, con su postura dura sobre la migración, su gobierno efectivamente cortó el acceso al asilo a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. Y aunque la migración disminuyó drásticamente durante el último año del gobierno de Biden, se redujo a un goteo, y en Lajas Blancas se cuentan apenas unas diez personas a la semana.
El cambio ha dejado a algunos varados, desencadenando un “flujo inverso” de migrantes venezolanos que, sin otras opciones, viajaron en bote a lo largo de la costa caribeña de Panamá en un intento por regresar a casa.

“Para todos los efectos prácticos, la frontera con Darién está cerrada, eliminado el problema que teníamos en Lajas Blancas”, dijo el mes pasado José Raúl Mulino, presidente de Panamá.
Después de meses de que el gobierno de Panamá bloqueara a los periodistas para que no visitaran el puerto y otros puntos clave a lo largo de la antigua ruta migratoria, las autoridades otorgaron a The Associated Press acceso a la zona estrictamente controlada. Poco después de llegar, agentes de inmigración pararon a los periodistas y les retiraron los permisos, alegando vagamente motivos de seguridad.
Aun así, los reporteros de AP vieron las grandes carpas que una vez albergaron a migrantes vacías y los botes que llegaban al lado del río eran pocos y distantes entre sí. Las tiendas improvisadas que vendían comida, agua y otros productos a los migrantes están vacías.
En el Tapón del Darién, organizaciones como la Cruz Roja y UNICEF, que brindaban ayuda a los migrantes, han cerrado sus puertas. La policía fronteriza de Panamá ahora controla estrictamente el acceso al puerto y las autoridades han adoptado desde hace tiempo un discurso disuasorio para que la gente no migre.
Un puñado de migrantes de Venezuela, Angola y Nigeria permanecen en el campamento de Lajas Blancas y duermen en el suelo polvoriento, custodiados por la policía.

Entre ellos estaba la venezolana Hermanie Blanco, de 33 años, quien llegó a Panamá días después de que Trump asumiera el cargo.
Tras huir de la crisis económica y la agitación política en su país de origen, en algún momento tuvo la esperanza de solicitar asilo en Estados Unidos, pero tras cruzar el Tapón del Darién decidió que intentaría buscar refugio en Panamá, afirmando que lleva meses varada en el asentamiento, casi abandonado, a la espera de una respuesta.
“Médicos Sin Fronteras, la Cruz Roja. Ya no viene nadie aqui”, dijo. “Se quedó así, solo”.
Un letrero en el corazón de Lajas Blancas sirve de recordatorio, y reza en español, inglés, creole y árabe: “Darién no es una ruta, es una jungla”.
Panamá y otros países de América Latina se han apresurado a cumplir con las demandas del gobierno de Trump para frenar la migración hacia el norte.
Estados Unidos reconoció recientemente los esfuerzos de Panamá para reducir la migración a través de la región del Darién, y un portavoz del Departamento de Estado afirmó que ha disminuido en un 98%.
(Con información de AP)
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