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Alliance in best interests of Australia, UK and US, say lawmakers, after Trump administration announced 30-day review of pactAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Aukus pact is vital to “deter Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific region”, Republican and Democrat lawmakers in the US have told the Pentagon, urging the US to recommit to the nuclear submarine deal with Australia and the UK.The Trump administration announced this month it would undertake a 30-day review of the Aukus agreement – the deal struck in 2021 that would see US nuclear submarines sold to Australia, and new-design nuclear-powered Aukus submarines built in the UK and Australia.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

One foreign policy expert is warning President Donald Trump that he should "find an off-ramp" in his conflict with Iran. National security analyst Joe Cirincione, who serves as the vice chair of the board of directors of the Center for International Policy, told MSNBC on Monday afternoon that Iran appears to be taking steps forward to publicly ramp up its effort to build nuclear weapons. MSNBC host Katy Tur cited reports that the Iranian parliament agreed to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, which seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy."Well, that could be seen as a step towards their withdrawal from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. They are a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," Cirincione explained. "It bans them from having nuclear weapons. This is the kind of step they would take if they were, in fact, intending to move towards the construction of a nuclear bomb."Tur asked if that was the case, what advice he would give the United States. "Find an off ramp quickly, as the IAEA director general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, told the U.N. Security Council over the weekend, it looks like Iran has," Cirincione urged. "In fact," he added, they "moved some of their highly enriched uranium gas out of the facilities that we're in. We know from satellite imagery, we could see trucks moving into some of these facilities before the airstrikes, apparently moving some of this gas. We don't know where it is. The IAEA doesn't know where it is. We've seen no indication from the administration that they know where it is. And this is the danger. While these strikes have certainly conducted damage to the facilities, as you were just discussing, it doesn't appear that we got the 400 kg of 60% enriched uranium."He noted that it could be "fed back into centrifuges" at other sites, which are unknown to the intelligence community. They could convert it to the core of a bomb within five days and "build 10 bombs" within two weeks. "They may have already done it."See his clip in the video below or at the link here. - YouTube youtu.be

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Punchbowl News on Monday that she won't be supporting congressional authorization for President Donald Trump's war against Iran. Following U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, debate ignited in Congress's halls over the president’s authority to engage in military action without lawmakers' explicit approval. A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced War Powers Resolutions aiming to limit Trump’s ability to further strike Iran without their authorization. While Greene has publicly opposed further U.S. military involvement in the country, she told Punchbowl News she does not support the effort to limit Trump's authority over potential new strikes.Greene revealed she hadn't yet spoken to Trump over the matter, but she indicated her opposition in an X post Monday morning. "I spent millions of my own money and TRAVELED THE ENTIRE COUNTRY campaigning for President Trump and his MAGA agenda and his promises," she wrote. "And Trump’s MAGA agenda included these key promises: NO MORE FOREIGN WARS. NO MORE REGIME CHANGE. WORLD PEACE. And THIS is what the people voted for. Only 6 months in and we are back into foreign wars, regime change, and world war 3. It feels like a complete bait and switch to please the neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts, and neocon tv personalities that MAGA hates and who were NEVER TRUMPERS!"She also noted that Trump claimed "complete success," only to find out that the nuclear facilities were only "partially damaged" and "we don't know where their enriched uranium is."Greene also told Punchbowl that there's a big difference between her and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who also attacked Trump's bombing of Iran. Massie, she said, is not MAGA brand, while her opposition is a result of her MAGA loyalty.Greene also said she wants to completely cut off aid to Israel. Greene told Steve Bannon's "War Room" that no one slept better after Trump bombed Iran. She commented that the U.S. is now being threatened about "sleeper cells" on American soil, and that Americans living abroad are being told to shelter in place out of fear of retaliation. Read the full report here.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday evening that a ceasefire between Israel and Iran would begin shortly."CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE!" Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. "It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED! Officially, Iran will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 12th Hour, Israel will start the CEASEFIRE and, upon the 24th Hour, an Official END to THE 12 DAY WAR will be saluted by the World.""During each CEASEFIRE, the other side will remain PEACEFUL and RESPECTFUL," Trump wrote. "On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, 'THE 12 DAY WAR.' This is a War that could have gone on for years, and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn’t, and never will!""God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and GOD BLESS THE WORLD!" Trump concluded.This comes after Trump ordered a series of strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon slammed President Donald Trump's administration for failing to prove Iranian nuclear sites had been destroyed after a U.S. bombing campaign."I don't think people are sleeping better," Bannon said on Monday, following the weekend strike. "But I was very upset yesterday morning when we at least didn't have, you know, give me a Norman Schwarzkopf, give me a, at least a grainy gun cannon photo of exactly what the freaking, you know, what happened."The MAGA host pointed to a press conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."He started off... by saying, hey, I've got all the assets that are involved, including Space Command, NRO," Bannon continued. "As you know, we can pick out a license plate on an Audi in downtown Tehran. Why do I have no grainy photographs, and at least take the initiative that we're taking the initiative? This happened, understanding a bomb damage assessment is 30 days away.""Why didn't they give us an assessment?" former CIA officer Sam Fattis replied. "Honestly, I don't think they have any idea what we just blew up at Fordow."Watch the video below from Real America's Voice.

President Donald Trump seemed to realize Monday that a repercussion of his bombing of Iran could be higher fuel prices in the United States. Writing on Truth Social Monday, days after he ordered the bombing of nuclear sites in Iran, Trump wrote in all capital letters, "EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I’M WATCHING! YOU’RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON’T DO IT!"It isn't the first time Trump has sent a direct order to major corporations in the U.S. When Trump's tariffs meant higher prices at discount retailer Walmart, Trump told the company to "eat" any overages on costs. He followed Monday's post with another post demanding: "To The Department of Energy: DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! And I mean NOW!!!"The Department of Energy isn't in charge of drilling. Instead, oil and gas companies are, and it typically takes about six to eight months for a company to ramp up oil production from a new well, Investopedia reported last year. Trump's trade war has also altered the supply chain and increased costs for mechanical equipment and parts made overseas.

With the dust settling in Iran after Donald Trump ordered an attack on the country's underground nuclear facilities, MSNBC military analyst retired Gen. Mark Hertling was asked Monday what the U.S. should expect in the way of retaliation."What are you looking at this morning in terms of the military component of this, how the operation went ... what are the things that you're worried about, including that uranium, that we don't know where it is?" asked "Morning Joe" contributor Katty Kay.After praising the professionalism of the service members who carried out the surprise attack, Hertling said, "What will the Iranians do? What is the next thing we will do in terms of our counteractions? Those are all the things that the military considers and should be part of the planning."'What I'm very concerned about is it doesn't seem like this has been a long-term plan by the administration," he quickly added. "Everyone is suggesting it's a one-and-done, that we didn't mean to start a war, this was not a war against Iran. It most definitely is by international law, because you're attacking another country with 125 aircraft and a bunch of Tomahawk missiles from submarines — that seems like an attack to me, and it seems like the start of a war""They [Iran] have many options," he elaborated. "There are some that say Iran depends on missiles, militias and terrorists, but they also have more in their kit bag, such as asymmetric attacks with cyber. That's my biggest concern, with sleeper cells, that's also a big concern with what they might do in the gulf to the 40,000 U.S. troops positioned in various locations around the gulf.""What might they do with economic issues?" he suggested. "Turning ships around from the oil refineries? All of those things are options that Iran has. Not all of them are good options, but they can play them and I'm not sure that the U.S. government has talked about the what ifs. And what I mean by that is, in the planning cycle, you always say, what? What if this happens? What if they do this?"You can watch below or at the link. - YouTube youtu.be

Emerson Colindres reflects on ‘traumatizing’ ordeal after Ice sent him to Honduras despite having no criminal recordThe Ohio high school graduate and soccer standout who was recently deported from the US to Honduras despite having no arrest record has described being “handcuffed like we’re some big criminals” for the entirety of his deportation flight.“To me, it was kind of more traumatizing because I haven’t been to my birth country in years,” Emerson Colindres, 19, who was brought from Honduras to the US by his family at age eight, said to the Cincinnati news station WCPO in an interview over the weekend. Continue reading...