I know that America greatly appreciates all the efforts being made in Afghanistan and acknowledges the fact that many casualties were there, not only Americans, but also from allies and NATO partners.

As President Trump has said, "We're watching Iran very closely."

And President Trump is a President of action.

But in the end, what we agreed on is, I think, two work streams going forward:

One work stream is for NATO collectively to take more responsibility for the defense of the Arctic. So one work stream will be to see how best collectively we can prevent the Russians and the Chinese from getting more access to the Arctic region, becoming also more of a military adversary there.

The second work stream is that what was agreed upon a week before I met with the President on Wednesday was the meeting in Washington with Denmark and Greenland.

They agreed to continue their discussions in this trilateral setting. Now it is up to the Danes, Greenland, and the U.S. to do that. I will not be involved in that work stream.

Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota.

It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength. I told Governor Walz that I would have Tom Homan call him, and that what we are looking for are any and all Criminals that they have in their possession.

The Governor, very respectfully, understood that, and I will be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Homan was going to Minnesota, and so am I!

We have had such tremendous SUCCESS in Washington, D.C., Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana, and virtually every other place that we have “touched” and, even in Minnesota, Crime is way down, but both Governor Walz and I want to make it better!

Washington has transferred defense systems to the Middle East to protect its allies and facilities from Iranian counterattacks.

Some equipment has arrived in the region, and more is expected to arrive within a week or two.

The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran do not only monitor enemy movements at the action stage but also closely observe the formation and early signs of any threat against the country's national security, and based on field assessments, appropriate decisions will be made at the right time.

The idea of carrying out an operation called "quick and clean limited" against Iran stems from incorrect assessments and an incomplete understanding of the defensive and offensive capabilities of the Islamic Republic.

Any scenario designed based on surprise or controlling the scope of conflict will get out of the designers' control at the very early stages.

The presence of U.S. aircraft carriers and military equipment in the region has been exaggerated.

The maritime environment surrounding Iran is a known native environment and is fully under the surveillance of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic.

The concentration and accumulation of extra-regional forces and equipment in such an environment will not be a deterrent factor but will increase vulnerability and turn them into accessible targets.

Iran has shaped military equations in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman in such a way that no invading force can consider the security of its forces and bases guaranteed.

Past experiences have shown that attempts to influence internal affairs or strike the political structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, whether through political and economic pressure or military threats and psychological operations, have always failed, and this wrong path will not yield results for its designers in the future either.

Iran will not initiate any war but will not allow any threat against the country's national security, even in the early stages of formation, to reach the action stage.

Full responsibility for any unintended consequences lies directly with the parties who, either through provocative and interventionist presence or through direct and indirect support and backing, endanger the stability of the entire region.

I think Europe has shown strength and unity in these past weeks. I am grateful, but I also have to say that this is the only way forward.

We have to build a much stronger Europe. We need to become more self-sufficient, more competitive, and more independent.

I think, or I hope, that all Europeans can now see that it was a huge mistake to be dependent on Russian fossil fuels.

We should never have done that, and now we have to make sure that we will have no dependencies on other countries outside Europe, not only on energy, on everything.

I find the news we've been getting from the U.S. in recent days truly worrying. And it's clearly always the same region or city that's affected.

I assume the American authorities are now thoroughly investigating whether it was necessary to use fire, whether there was actually a threat to the officers involved.

In any case, I have to say, this level of violence in the U.S. is, frankly, alarming.

If Mossad had not yet informed you, I can inform you that my knees are trembling.

I knew that speaking here would feel like a speech delivery exam, having to deliver it in front of one of the top five speakers in the world, at least in my own chart, Prime Minister Netanyahu.

I’ll do my best, dear Bibi, to survive your judgment, fully aware that I am merely the second speaker worldwide after Trump, whom you simply cannot avoid listening to.

During the Holocaust, when the Nazi envoy demanded lists of Jews and their gold, our representatives replied, "You can have the gold, not the Jews."

The gold was theirs to take; the Jews were ours to protect.

That is not legend; that is Albania.

They failed to recognize that the jailer of Gaza is Hamas, no one else but Hamas.

Until Hamas is fully dismantled, its two million prisoners will never be truly free, and no peace can endure.

I wish that a few of the tunnels of terror Hamas built—where the hostages taken on the 7th of October were killed, raped, tortured, and reduced to 21st-century human replicas of the prisoners in Nazi Germany extermination camps—will be preserved as part of the Gaza reconstruction plan and later as defining testimony in favor of lasting peace between the two future states.

Nobody in the White House, including Trump, wants to see people getting hurt or killed in America's streets.

This includes Renee Good, Alex Pretti, the brave men and women of federal law enforcement, and the many Americans who have been victimized at the hands of illegal alien criminals.

Let's be clear about the circumstances which led to that moment on Saturday.

This tragedy occurred as a result of a deliberate and hostile resistance by Democrat leaders in Minnesota.

For weeks, Governor Walz and Mayor Jacob Fry and other elected Democrats were spreading lies about federal law enforcement officers who are risking their lives daily to remove the worst criminal illegal aliens from our streets, murderers, rapists, human traffickers, and gang members.

Hamas worked very hard to get the body back. They were working with Israel on it. You can imagine how hard it was.

Nobody believed we would bring back all the hostages. It was a great moment.

Now we have to disarm Hamas like they promised.

Albania understands Israel as Israel understands Albania.

Small states are tested daily on their very existence — on what I call the safeguarding of life itself.

Existence comes before anything else.

History has shown that if we do not extinguish the human evil in time, the evil will go and spread.

In the end, it will threaten all nations and all continents

What is the next stage? The next stage is not a rebuilding. The next stage is the dismantling of Hamas and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.