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As President Donald Trump voiced growing frustration Wednesday with Iranian negotiators, accusing them of lying and cheating, the latest escalation has exposed an even more fundamental problem for Washington: whether the officials at the negotiating table have the power to deliver an agreement — or whether anyone in Tehran does.
«I don’t know if we’re going to have a deal. We may just do it without a deal,» Trump said at the NATO summit in Ankara. «These people, they lie and they cheat.»
But Trump’s frustration with Iran’s negotiators is only part of the problem. Since the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, it has become increasingly unclear who in Tehran has the authority to make — and enforce — an agreement.
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Tehran has deployed a new front on social media including an influence campaign to sway Americans and undermine President Donald Trump’s push for a nuclear deal. (Hamed Malekpour / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
Mojtaba Khamenei succeeded his father as supreme leader after the elder Khamenei was killed in the opening U.S.-Israeli attacks on Feb. 28. But Mojtaba has not appeared publicly since the attack, and U.S. assessments cited by Reuters have described authority as dispersed among senior Revolutionary Guard commanders and powerful civilian officials.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a former IRGC commander who led Iran’s negotiating delegation, has emerged as one of the country’s most powerful surviving political figures.
Banafsheh Zand, an Iranian-American journalist and editor of the Iran So Far Away Substack, said power inside the Islamic Republic has fractured since the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leaving the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as the country’s dominant force.
«The person who is negotiating with the U.S. is not necessarily someone who is endorsed by the others,» Zand told Fox News Digital.
She described Ghalibaf as one power center competing with figures including IRGC commander-in-chief Ahmad Vahidi, Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani and former Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Vahidi controls the IRGC’s overall military structure, while Qaani oversees its external operations and relationships with Iran-aligned armed groups across the region. Zarif, by contrast, remains closely identified with the more accommodationist political camp that previously championed negotiations and sanctions relief.
«The hardliners, in terms of their political presence, have also been pushed aside,» Zand said. «So really, it’s the IRGC. And within the IRGC, whoever signs the deal is not necessarily signing on behalf of everybody else. They’re signing on behalf of themselves.»
Her assessment reflects a central problem facing Washington: Iran’s negotiators, political institutions and military commanders may not share the same interpretation of what was agreed — or the same willingness to implement it.
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Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi were greeted by Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and Army Chief Field Marshal Gen. Asim Munir upon their arrival at Nur Khan airbase in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on April 11, 2026. (Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs/AP)
Yet Trump’s declaration does not necessarily mean diplomacy has been permanently abandoned.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that the clearest evidence would be the restoration of the U.S. blockade, the introduction of additional military forces or a new round of major economic sanctions.
Otherwise, he said, Trump may continue operating in the «gray zone» between negotiations and open war while keeping his options available.
The more difficult question is why Tehran would jeopardize sanctions relief and risk overwhelming American firepower when its military has already been severely degraded.
Ben Taleblu said Iran’s leaders appear to believe escalation is essential to the survival of the Islamic Republic.
«This is a regime that is weaker, but lethal, and less capable, but more confident,» he said. Iran’s leadership believes its adversaries have vulnerable economic and military interests throughout the Gulf, he added, while the regime itself is more willing to accept destruction.
People hold placards with an image of Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei with late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a gathering to support Mojtaba Khamenei, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 9, 2026. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) Via Reuters)
«Their survival and their military success and their political success runs through more, not less, escalation,» he said.
Lisa Daftari, foreign policy analyst and the editor-in-chief of The Foreign Desk, agrees the escalation is deliberate, aimed at turning regional instability into leverage.
«By targeting commercial shipping and Arab states, the regime is signaling that it can hold global energy flows and America’s regional partners hostage to extract leverage, distract from its domestic crisis, and test U.S. red lines,» Daftari told Fox News Digital.
She said Tehran is betting that Washington and its Arab partners will be unwilling to sustain another war and will ultimately back down first.
«The regime’s core weapon is time,» Daftari said. «By escalating in the Persian Gulf and attacking ships and Arab states, they are creating rolling crises that raise the cost of confronting them while they consolidate power at home.»
Daftari argued that the strategy reflects the Islamic Republic’s longstanding character rather than a temporary response to pressure.
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Firefighters work in the aftermath of Iranian drone attacks, at a location given as Bahrain (Reuters)
«This regime was never designed to be reformed or softened,» she said. «What they are showing us now is exactly who they intend to remain: a hardline, revolutionary regime determined to stay in power.»
But determining how that strategy is translated into action is more complicated. Authority in Tehran appears divided, raising questions about who is directing the escalation and whether the officials negotiating with Washington can commit the broader security establishment.
That division is already visible in the dispute over the Strait of Hormuz.
A Middle Eastern source familiar with the issue told Fox News Digital that Tehran and Washington are operating from fundamentally different readings of Clause five of the memorandum. The publicly released text says Iran will use its «best efforts» to arrange safe commercial passage through the strait without charge for 60 days, while removing military and technical obstacles and conducting demining operations. It does not expressly state that foreign vessels must obtain Iran’s approval or use routes designated by Tehran.
According to the source, Iran interprets that language as giving it responsibility — and therefore authority — to coordinate shipping and determine the routes vessels use during the interim period. Washington’s interpretation is that Iran agreed to lift its maritime blockade and fully reopen the international waterway.
When the two sides have different interpretations of a single page, how do they intend to write a treaty, the source said.
Iran views control over passage through the Strait of Hormuz as one of its last major sources of leverage over the United States, Gulf governments and the global economy, the source said, «That is the heart of the matter.»
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The truck carrying the coffins of the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family makes its way through mourners during the funeral procession toward Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, July 6, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
Taken together, the experts’ assessments suggest Tehran is unlikely to face a simple choice between surrendering to Trump’s pressure and returning to negotiations. Ben Taleblu said the regime believes its survival depends on «more, not less, escalation,» while Daftari said it is deliberately «playing out the clock» by creating repeated regional crises. That raises the prospect that, even if Iranian officials return to the table, the IRGC could continue targeting commercial shipping, U.S. interests and American allies to preserve its leverage and strengthen its position inside Iran.
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Trump blasts Spain migrant surge as ‘catastrophe,’ warns US could face worse if Democrats regain power
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President Donald Trump said Friday during a Cabinet meeting that scenes of migrants flooding into Spain’s enclave of Ceuta from Morocco looked like a «catastrophe,» but that the U.S. could see worse in the future if Democrats regain power.
«You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people. And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected,» Trump said Friday at Camp David. «Except worse, much bigger, much easier to get into. Despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do. But if we didn’t have that, forget it. But we have the safest border in the world. If we’re not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.»
«And when I watched it, I said, boy, I said, ‘I’m going to say it because I knew you were going to be at Camp David.’ And I say, ‘That’s going to be a talking point for the midterms, because when you look at what happened to Spain, they don’t know what to do.’ And it’s happening again today,» the president continued. «They’re coming in by the tens of thousands. It’s just invading the country. And what that is weak law, bad management, but very liberal law. They passed a couple of laws and people read, you know, people are smart. They read from other countries, and they swam that 3-mile swim or however they got in.»
«But nobody’s seen anything like it. That will look good compared to what’s going to happen to the United States,» Trump also said. «The biggest thing, the worst thing that Biden did is allowing 25 million people into our country, because many of those people are criminals. They’re murderers,» Trump also said. «A lot of them are gone now. We got them out. But they allowed people to come into this country that you can’t allow to come into a country.»
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President Donald Trump, center, joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, listens during a Cabinet meeting, on Friday, July 31, 2026, at Camp David. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Trump made similar comments to Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich earlier Friday morning.
«It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,» Trump said.
«If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life,» he warned.
U.S. border security has remained a key plank of the president’s campaign and policy focus throughout his political career.
An English translation of a Friday Spanish-language post on X from Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, «The Government will guarantee the safety of the residents of Ceuta, intensifying the presence of the Security Forces and Corps on the city’s streets.» The post also included a video of him delivering remarks in Spanish.
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Map depicting Spain, Morocco, and Spain’s Cueta, which borders Morocco. (2026 EarthStar Geographics, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors)
Ceuta, which is located along the northwestern African coast and borders Morocco, is not attached to mainland Spain.
«Additionally, we will deploy a physical containment barrier in the sea to facilitate repatriation at the border, in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling. We will expedite the repatriation files of the migrants who arrived irregularly. And we will maintain cooperation with the Moroccan authorities to continue fighting against the mafias that traffic in human beings,» the prime minister’s post added.
Around 60,000 migrants had ventured from Morocco to Ceuta over the past 24 hours, Cueta President Juan Jesús Vivas said on Friday.
At least 41 migrants lost their lives.
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Spain’s interior ministry issued its own figures not long after Vivas spoke, estimating that some 50,000 individuals came from Morocco since Thursday, adding that half had already gone back to Morocco.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Rúben Amorim admitió errores en el Manchester United y explicó cómo esa etapa marcó su carrera: “Aprendí mucho”
Rúben Amorim reconoció haber cometido “muchos errores” durante su etapa al frente del Manchester United y aseguró haber “aprendido mucho” de aquella experiencia en Old Trafford. El técnico portugués, actualmente al mando del AC Milan, realizó estas declaraciones ante la prensa durante la gira de pretemporada del club rossoneri en Australia, según recogió Sports Illustrated.
El paso de Amorim por el United fue uno de los períodos más turbulentos en la historia reciente del club inglés. Llegó al banco de Old Trafford avalado por dos títulos de la Primeira Liga con el Sporting CP de Lisboa y con la etiqueta de uno de los entrenadores más prometedores del continente.
El United desembolsó hasta 11 millones de libras esterlinas (unos 14,6 millones de dólares) para liberarlo de su contrato con el club portugués. Sin embargo, apenas 14 meses después, el propio club abonó otros 15,9 millones de libras (21,2 millones de dólares) para finiquitar al técnico y a su cuerpo técnico.
El sistema táctico de Amorim, basado en una defensa de tres centrales, nunca encontró el encaje necesario en la Premier League. El United cedía demasiado control del juego a sus rivales y quedaba expuesto a la variabilidad del fútbol inglés. La última vez que un entrenador había logrado consolidar ese esquema en la élite inglesa fue Antonio Conte, cuando ganó la liga con el Chelsea hace una década.
A los problemas sobre el campo se sumó un deterioro progresivo de la relación entre Amorim y la cúpula directiva del club, entre ellos el director deportivo Jason Wilcox. La ruptura se hizo pública de forma explícita tras el empate 1-1 ante el Leeds United en lo que resultó ser su último partido al frente del equipo, cuando el técnico arremetió públicamente contra los responsables del club. En enero de 2026, le rescindieron su contrato.
La llegada de Michael Carrick como su sucesor no hizo sino amplificar el contraste: el rendimiento del equipo bajo las órdenes del excentrocampista inglés contribuyó a agudizar la percepción negativa del legado portugués en Old Trafford.
Desde su nueva etapa en el Milan, Amorim no eludió las preguntas sobre su paso por Manchester. “Lo primero es que ya no importa”, declaró el técnico en rueda de prensa, en declaraciones recogidas por Sports Illustrated. “Esa es la sensación. Hay una historia, luego algo sucede, el contexto cambia y te centras en el siguiente reto”.
No obstante, fue más allá y asumió su cuota de responsabilidad. “Aprendí mucho”, afirmó Amorim. “Sería difícil señalar una sola cosa, pero lo que sé con claridad es que cometí muchos errores. Cuando haces ese tipo de reflexión y entiendes que no era solo culpa de ellos, sino también culpa mía, creo que puedes ser mejor entrenador y mejor persona”, agregó.
El AC Milan le designó como sucesor de Massimiliano Allegri el 15 de junio de 2026, con el encargo de devolverle al club su nivel histórico en la Serie A. Los rossoneri, campeones del Scudetto en la temporada 2021-22, acumulaban dos ejercicios consecutivos por debajo de las expectativas: un octavo y un quinto puesto en las últimas dos temporadas.
El balance del portugués en Old Trafford refleja la magnitud de sus dificultades. Amorim registró los peores índices de cualquier entrenador en la historia del club en tres categorías de la Premier League, de acuerdo con los datos brindados por Sports Illustrated:
- Partidos dirigidos: 63
- Victorias: 25
- Empates: 15
- Derrotas: 23
- Porcentaje de victorias: 39,7% — el más bajo de cualquier entrenador del United en la Premier League (32% en el torneo doméstico)
- Goles encajados por partido: 1,53 — el peor registro en la historia del club
- Porcentaje de porterías a cero: 15% — el más bajo en la historia del club
- Diferencia de goles: +8
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