French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Sunday thatTehranmust make "major concessions" in an effort to avoid attacks by the United States.
"The United States has put itself in a position to launch a military operation against Iran," Barrot noted in an interview with Liberation. "At the same time, they have proposed negotiations to the regime, which must imperatively seize them, resolve to make major concessions and a radical change of posture," he added.
Furthermore, the French diplomat stressed that Iran should stop being a threat to regional stability and that the Iranian people "must regain their freedom."
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi expressed confidence that Tehran could reach an agreement with the United States on the nuclear program.
"Unfortunately, we have lost our trust [in] the US as a negotiating partner," Araghchi told CNN in an interview published on Sunday. "Let's not talk about impossible things and lose the opportunity to achieve a fair and equitable deal to ensure no nuclear weapons," the Iranian foreign minister disclosed, adding that the deal could potentially be achieved in "a short period."
Araghchi also noted that Tehran would anticipate the lifting of US sanctions against Iran and the right to continue with nuclear enrichment for peaceful purposes. He concluded that another war would be "a disaster for everybody."
The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to convert 23 e-commerce warehouses across the country, primarily in the eastern U.S., into a large-scale network of immigration detention centers aimed at expanding capacity to fulfill the mandate the American people gave President Trump to deport more than one million illegal aliens per year and restore national security. This comes after the Biden-Harris globalist regime collapsed borders and allowed a nation-killing invasion of ten million or more third-worlders.
Bloomberg reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement's rapid move to build out a network of warehouses is being fueled by $45 billion from the signature "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." This includes the most recent purchases of a warehouse in Hagerstown, Maryland, and another in Surprise, Arizona, totaling $172 million. A third in El Paso, Texas, will be one of the largest of its kind, with 8,500 beds.
The ICE detention system is only growing larger and larger, with ever-greater numbers of illegals who invaded the nation being deported. The current level of illegals held in detention is at a record of 73,000. To reach a million deportations per year, ICE must have 100,000 detention beds.
Emma Winger, deputy legal director at the American Immigration Council, told the outlet that the Trump administration must expand its deportation infrastructure to meet its goal of 1 million per year.
"To reach these kinds of numbers, they'd need to go out into the communities and find people who've been living their lives and been here a long time," Winger said. "They'd have to dramatically increase their presence in communities across the country."
Unhinged leftist Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen called Trump's deportation operations "one of the most obscene, one of the most inhumane, and one of the most illegal operations being carried out by this Trump administration at the Department of Homeland Security and ICE."
"We do not want an ICE facility here in the state of Maryland," Van Hollen told the outlet.
Why is that Van Hollen? Is it the fear that a future voting bloc of illegals will be deported from the Mid-Atlantic region?
However, what Van Hollen doesn't mention is that mass migration policies supported by his own party fuel smuggling networks run by cartels and aided by dark-money funded NGOs. These smuggling networks put migrants at risk of robbery, extortion, kidnapping, human trafficking, assault, and exploitation along the way. Thousands have died along the way, but rarely do you hear Democrats raising concern about US-bound smuggling networks, only Trump's deportation program is worse than literal 'Nazis'...
ICE expects to hold between 1,500 and 10,000 detainees in each of these 23 warehouses at a time.
The question that should be asked is why Democrats jeopardized national security by allowing the illegal alien invasion. The answer is political, with the goal of creating a new voting bloc and entrenching long-term one-party dominance under Democratic Party kings and queens.
Protesters were seen throwing water bottles, bottles, rocks, debris and other objects at federal and assisting law enforcement officers.
This weekend, what began as a protest in Los Angeles turned into violence.AFP via Getty Images
A dumpster was moved into the street and set on fire outside the federal facility.
The image was unmistakable: street chaos aimed directly at the seat of federal authority in the center of America’s second-largest city.
This is happening yesterday and today — not in some unstable foreign capital.
It is happening in Los Angeles, on streets where families work, live and commute.
Yes, many people gathered earlier to protest federal immigration enforcement. That is their constitutional right.
But a violent faction broke off and turned the streets into a confrontation zone where rioters attacked officers, threatened bystanders and destroyed property.
Federal officers were the first on the front line.
They were forced to defend a federal facility as the crowd grew more aggressive and more emboldened.
Local police later moved in to support federal law enforcement efforts to disperse the crowd and arrest the people committing acts of violence and mayhem.
Their role became one of reinforcement after the situation had already deteriorated into open confrontation.
Los Angeles’s sanctuary posture has been treated like a moral badge by its leaders.
But the moment violence erupts — assaults, vandalism, arson, obstruction — the argument is over. Those are crimes, not political statements.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli has drawn the line clearly: “Every American has the right to peacefully protest. What is not constitutionally protected is a right to engage in violence … or to impede federal agents … by assaulting … or obstructing their operations.”
That is not politics.
That is the law, stated plainly.
And yet this weekend is another reminder that Mayor Karen Bass governs by press release and platitude rather than firm, visible leadership.
Angelenos do not need carefully calibrated messaging when officers are under attack outside a federal facility.
They need leadership.
They need unmistakable condemnation of violence and immediate enforcement that deters the next wave before it forms.
Instead, we get the same pattern: public disorder first, official resolve later.
More reminders of her leadership failures during the unrest from last summer, when the city also struggled to project control.
Weak signals from leadership invite stronger waves of disorder.
When lawlessness appears to go unchecked, the most extreme actors take that as permission to escalate.
If City Hall will not enforce order early and clearly, then the federal government must protect its own people and property.
President Donald Trump does not need the Insurrection Act to strengthen federal protection of federal facilities; existing federal authority already provides tools to safeguard federal property and the people on it.
Los Angeles should not be a battleground between mobs and officers.
It should be a city where the rule of law is not negotiable and public safety is not filtered through political caution.
If Mayor Bass will not draw the bright line between protest and riot, Washington may have to draw it for her.
Jon Fleischman, a longtime strategist in California politics, writes at SoDoesItMatter.com.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday he believes he has the Republican votes to end a partial government shutdown by at least Tuesday.
"I'm confident that we'll do it at least by Tuesday. We have a logistical challenge of getting everyone in town," he said, as transport problems persist following a snowstorm that affected travel in the southeastern U.S.
Shahid Butt, a 60-year-old Muslim activist with a conviction for conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen, is now gunning for a seat on Birmingham City Council.
Yes, really.
Convicted in 1999 and sentenced to five years in a Yemeni prison, Butt was found guilty of forming an armed gang to target the consulate, an Anglican church, and a Swiss-owned hotel.
Butt claims the charges were bogus, insisting he was forced to confess and that they weren’t terrorism-related. Yet reports link him to an armed Islamist jihadi group that kidnapped 16 Westerners in 1998. In the early 1990s, he headed to Bosnia as an “aid worker” before joining a foreign fighters brigade in the Bosnian army. Back in Birmingham during the 1980s, he racked up trouble with a notorious gang and even served prison time for violence.
Now, as a pro-Gaza independent candidate in the Sparkhill ward—where around 80% of residents are Muslim—Butt is openly urging the city’s Muslim youth to “work out at the gym and learn to fight” in preparation for potential attacks. He calls for Muslims to “stand together and hold their ground” against “disbelievers” of other faiths.
Victims of Islamist attacks aren’t buying the redemption story. Groups representing terror survivors slammed the candidacy as making “a mockery of our political system,” according to The Telegraph.
One source told the paper: “Allowing someone with this history to run for office undermines everything we stand for in fighting extremism.”
GB News host Patrick Christys tore into the development, asking: “Are you mental?!” in a blistering monologue. He highlighted Butt’s past, from the Yemen plots to his calls for Muslims to arm up against non-believers.
This isn’t an isolated case of the UK rolling out the red carpet for radicals. Just last month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer personally celebrated the release and return of British-Egyptian extremist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has a track record of praising Osama bin Laden, denying the Holocaust, and calling for violence against Jews and police. Starmer called it a “top priority” for his government.
Meanwhile, ordinary Brits face the full force of the law for far less. Take Lucy Connolly, who served time for a heated tweet about immigration after the Southport attacks and now faces re-imprisonment for sharing a satirical joke about Starmer.
The contrast couldn’t be starker: extremists with bomb plots and hate-filled rhetoric get platforms and welcomes, while native Brits get jail cells for memes and jokes.
Birmingham’s council elections in May could mark another win for sectarian politics, fueled by unchecked migration and a government more interested in appeasing radicals than protecting its own citizens.
As communal tensions rise, with anti-Israel protests turning violent and Jewish groups raising alarms, allowing figures like Butt to run exposes the rot in Britain’s system.
Left-wing unrest in Minneapolis and elsewhere across the country - whether protests or riots over the past few weeks or over the last decade targeting President Trump and the America First agenda - is being framed as acolor revolution operation fueled by dark-money-funded NGOs, and that narrative is now reaching a wider audience.
Democrats are uneasy that this framing is gaining traction after the left-wing revolution was most recently discussed on The Joe Rogan Experience, where host Joe Rogan and guest Andrew Wilson, a conservative podcaster, discussed it.
Rogan discussed how, shortly after Nick Shirley’s investigation into alleged large-scale Somali-linked daycare and autism fraud, there was an immediate “narrative shift” that appeared to coincide with what he described as a coordinated pressure campaign on the ground against federal agents - something Rogan characterized as a “color revolution.”
"For people that don't, it's a coordinated effort to cause chaos, and this is a very coordinated thing," Rogan said.
He continued, "The idea that this is an organic protest, these riots are organic, is nonsense. It's probably nonsense because now they have access to the Signal chats."
From the beginning, we have framed much of the left-wing pressure campaigns as far from organic, pointing instead to dark-money-funded NGOs supporting activist groups on the ground opposing federal deportation operations. It was not until “Signal Gate,” however, that the nation could see how heavily coordinated these efforts allegedly were...
Now these left-wing NGOs are seeking spring protests, as they have riled up young people to carry out their anti-ICE agenda.
The chaos in Minneapolis is part of the left-wing's protest industrial complex that moves from one high-profile news event to another - from George Floyd protests to pro-Palestinian demonstrations - mobilizing activists with aims at revolution.
There is good news: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down with journalist Christopher Rufo earlier this month to discuss plans to investigate dark-money-funded NGOs sowing chaos nationwide.
EXCLUSIVE: Treasury @SecScottBessent tells me that the Trump Administration will launch investigations into left-wing nonprofits that serve as a front for violent protests and criminal obstruction of ICE operations. It’s time to stop left-wing terrorism in America. pic.twitter.com/roorsk4XLA
As warmer weather approaches, the protest industrial complex will be operating at full steam. Rogan’s characterization of the chaos in Minneapolis as resembling a color revolution presents optically displeasing headlines for Democrats, as that framing increasingly circulates to wider and wider audiences.
