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Iran signals ‘mass sacrifice’ in ‘high stakes’ Saddam-era warning amid Trump deal talks

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President Masoud Pezeshkian invoked one of Iran’s strongest wartime symbols on May 24, signaling Tehran’s resolve to hold its ground against the U.S. and Israel across the region, a counterterrorism expert said.
The Iranian leader’s remarks came at a key moment in diplomacy, as President Donald Trump said a deal with Tehran to end the war is «largely negotiated» and warned the U.S. would either sign «a great and meaningful» agreement or walk away entirely.
While Iran signaled broad agreement with Washington on some points, it said a final deal is not imminent and that negotiations over the remaining details are still underway.
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks with Fox News Channel’s Martha MacCallum during an interview in New York City on Sept. 25, 2025. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
In an X post marking the anniversary of the 1982 recapture of Khorramshahr from Iraqi forces during the Iran-Iraq War, Pezeshkian said, «Khorramshahr today is Iran, the Persian Gulf, and the Strait of Hormuz,» adding that «resistance, self-sacrifice, and repelling aggression are rooted in the culture of this land.»
Analysts claimed Pezeshkian was deliberately invoking one of the deepest ideological touchstones of the Islamic Republic — the battle that came to symbolize national resistance, civilian sacrifice and defiance against invasion.
«This is the Iran-Iraq War reference, and the timing is the point,» said Dr. Omar Mohammed, director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
May 24 marks the anniversary of the 1982 liberation of Khorramshahr, the southwestern city Saddam Hussein captured early in the war and Iranian forces retook after months of brutal urban combat.
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An Iranian flag is placed amid rubble next to a destroyed residential building near Ferdowsi Square in Tehran on March 3, 2026. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
«This is one of the Islamic Republic’s foundational mythological moments — civilian resistance, mass sacrifice, repelling an ‘aggressor army.’ Roughly what the Great Patriotic War is to Russia. The rhetorical move is the extension,» Mohammed told Fox News Digital.
«He’s mapping the 1980-82 defensive-war frame onto the current confrontation: Iran attacked by an aggressor, ordinary citizens (‘battle-untested but brave’) expected to stand and fight, with ‘resistance, sacrifice, repelling aggression’ cast as the cultural default mode.»
Some of the phrasing, Mohammed said, also evokes volunteer and Basij fighters versus a professional invading army. The analyst noted that Pezeshkian’s «Hormuz line» comment reflects a standard Iranian escalation tactic.
IRAN TO HOLD LIVE-FIRE DRILLS IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ WITH US ARMADA IN MIDDLE EAST

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and President Donald Trump stand together in an official setting. (Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
«Invoking the strait inside a wartime-mobilization frame — even rhetorically — is a deliberate signal, not throat-clearing,» he added.
«The Khorramshahr frame is the deepest register the regime has. It’s what they reach for to signal existential war, not a managed crisis.»
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Mohammed explained that Pezeshkian’s X post is framing the current confrontation from the presidential account to send a «high-stakes message.»
«It’s also a tell on internal posture: Khorramshahr, in short, means ‘we are being invaded and we will not negotiate,’» he added.
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Los líderes del G7 celebran una sesión especial junto a Zelensky para abordar la guerra en Ucrania y aumentar la presión sobre Rusia

Los líderes del Grupo de los Siete (G7) celebrarán este martes una sesión especial sobre la guerra en Ucrania junto al presidente ucraniano, Volodimir Zelensky, en una cumbre marcada por los intentos de reactivar los esfuerzos diplomáticos para poner fin a más de cuatro años de conflicto con Rusia.
La reunión tiene lugar en la ciudad francesa de Evian y contará con la participación del presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, quien manifestó cierto optimismo sobre la posibilidad de impulsar avances en las negociaciones entre Kiev y Moscú.
Al llegar a la cumbre, Trump se refirió a las conversaciones que mantuvo recientemente con Zelensky y con el líder ruso, Vladimir Putin. “Quizás podamos hacer algo”, afirmó el mandatario estadounidense. También sostuvo que “ambos están abiertos a ello” y agregó: “Tuve dos muy buenas conversaciones ayer”.
Las declaraciones se produjeron en un contexto de renovada actividad diplomática y después de una nueva ola de ataques rusos contra territorio ucraniano. Según informó Zelensky, los bombardeos dejaron al menos 11 muertos y provocaron un incendio en una histórica catedral de Kiev.
Ante esa situación, el presidente ucraniano reclamó una respuesta más firme de las principales economías occidentales. Zelensky pidió una reacción “decisiva y sustancial” por parte de los líderes del G7 frente a la reciente ofensiva rusa.

Uno de los principales temas de debate será la continuidad del respaldo militar, financiero y político a Ucrania. Los gobiernos europeos presentes en la cumbre buscan convencer a Trump de la necesidad de mantener la presión sobre Moscú y de impulsar cualquier negociación de paz bajo condiciones aceptables para Kiev.
En paralelo, Zelensky reveló que propuso una reunión directa con Putin durante la cumbre del G7. Sin embargo, aseguró que Rusia rechazó nuevamente la iniciativa. “Moscú ha demostrado una vez más que no está preparada para hablar de esto”, señaló el mandatario ucraniano.
Más tarde, Zelensky dio a conocer una nueva propuesta discutida con Trump. Según explicó en un mensaje difundido en la red social X, planteó la posibilidad de organizar una reunión con Putin en Estados Unidos. “Ayer discutimos con el presidente Trump que una reunión de este tipo podría organizarse en Estados Unidos, en un formato en el que a Putin le resultaría mucho más difícil rechazarla”, expresó.
El presidente ucraniano añadió que espera una respuesta de Moscú y advirtió sobre la necesidad de incrementar la presión internacional si el Kremlin descarta nuevamente el encuentro. “Veremos qué resulta de esto. Si Rusia también rechaza esta oportunidad, será necesaria una presión adicional”, afirmó.
De acuerdo con una fuente de la presidencia ucraniana citada ante un grupo reducido de periodistas, la propuesta fue transmitida tiempo atrás mediante distintos canales diplomáticos, intermediarios y organismos de inteligencia. “No se dio ninguna respuesta clara”, indicó la fuente.

Por su parte, Putin mantiene su negativa a reunirse con Zelensky sin avances previos en las negociaciones. A comienzos de este mes, el mandatario ruso sostuvo que no veía “ningún sentido” en celebrar un encuentro cara a cara hasta que exista un acuerdo de paz preparado.
Mientras tanto, el Reino Unido anunció nuevas medidas de apoyo a Ucrania. El primer ministro británico, Keir Starmer, informó que su gobierno suministrará uranio enriquecido para garantizar el funcionamiento de las centrales nucleares ucranianas y aplicará nuevas sanciones contra Rusia.
Starmer condenó los recientes ataques rusos y los calificó como “ataques bárbaros”. Según una declaración difundida por su oficina, el Reino Unido está “intensificando nuestras medidas al cortar los ingresos que alimentan la guerra de Putin y apoyar a Ucrania durante los inviernos que se avecinan”.
La cumbre del G7 también abordará otros asuntos internacionales. Tras la sesión dedicada a Ucrania, los líderes celebrarán un encuentro centrado en Irán y la situación en Medio Oriente. Participarán el presidente de Egipto, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, el emir de Qatar y el presidente de Emiratos Árabes Unidos.
Los aliados occidentales prevén consultar a Trump sobre el reciente acuerdo alcanzado con Irán para poner fin a la guerra en Medio Oriente. El mandatario estadounidense aseguró que ese entendimiento permitirá la reapertura total del estrecho de Ormuz a partir del viernes.

Durante los tres días de la cumbre, Francia busca ampliar el alcance político del G7 mediante la participación de dirigentes invitados de distintas regiones. Entre ellos figuran el presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, y el primer ministro de India, Narendra Modi.
(Con información de AFP)
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FBI raids Soros-backed voter group’s headquarters in reported fraud probe

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Federal investigators raided a Soros-funded voter mobilization group on Thursday as part of a reported ongoing fraud investigation.
FBI agents raided the headquarters of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) on June 11 and deployed across the state to question members of the organization, sometimes bearing subpoenas or demanding to seize electronic devices, MS Now reported. A day later, multiple sources familiar with the events told CBS News that the operations were part of a fraud-related investigation.
The raid marks the latest flashpoint in the Trump administration’s expanded use of federal law enforcement to scrutinize alleged voter fraud and election-related misconduct, a push cheered by conservatives who have long argued such cases were under-enforced and condemned by Democrats and voting rights groups who say the effort risks turning the FBI into a political weapon against liberal voter registration operations.
OOC is a nonprofit organization that works closely with the Democratic Party in Ohio on voter mobilization and registration efforts. It is especially active in ballot referendums, tapping its vast donor network that includes the Soros family’s philanthropies, to do so.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a news conference about the Trump administration’s fraud crackdown as he’s flanked by federal and state officials in Ohio on Thursday, June 4, 2026. (WBNS via NNS)
The Department of Justice has declined to comment on the specifics of the purported investigation.
«Search warrants are authorized by a judge and anything said by any organization or others in the media is unfounded speculation, as the target of any investigation is not privy to the search warrant affidavit until after indictment,» a DOJ official told Fox News Digital.

A voter fills out a mail-in ballot at the Board of Elections office in the Allegheny County Office Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 3, 2022. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
The group previously spent $250,000 in 2023 to oppose a GOP-led effort to block the right to an abortion from being enshrined in Ohio’s constitution and spent a further $300,000 against a Republican redistricting effort a year later.
OOC finances these expenditures by tapping a deep network of top-level liberal donors.
Recent tax documents show that the organization had over $10 million in revenue during 2024. OOC’s considerable financial resources are provided by a variety of high-profile Democratic-aligned donor organizations, including the Soros family’s philanthropies, New Venture Fund and the Tides Foundation as well as unions such as the American Federation of Teachers and the Service Employees International Union.
The Soros family’s Foundation to Promote Open Society gave OOC roughly $1.9 million between 2019 and 2020. In 2021, Open Society Action Fund gave an additional $1 million to OOC’s sister organization, the Ohio Organizing Campaign, followed by another $1 million donation in 2023.
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OOC has characterized the federal scrutiny as an example of the Trump administration politicizing the justice system.
«How can they distract and intimidate civil rights leaders and voters and community leaders who are helping people get registered to vote, and create a national spectacle about it?» Prentiss Haney, an OOC board member authorized to discuss the matter on behalf of the group, told MS Now. «That is the only reason why they would choose to do that, do it now, in the middle of a contested political election in the state. There’s no other reason. They have no evidence of that.»
OOC previously came under fire in 2017 when a paid canvasser working with the group pleaded guilty over his involvement in a fraudulent voter registration operation. Republicans, however, have yet to produce conclusive evidence of widespread voter fraud in recent election cycles.
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The Ohio State Capitol building stands in Columbus, Ohio. (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group)
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OOC did not respond to a request for comment when reached by Fox News Digital on Monday.
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