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Top US and Iranian officials flew across the Middle East on Tuesday to drum up support for the two countries in a 60-day standoff. ceasefire plan. But conflicting accounts of some of the treaty’s most contentious points could complicate efforts to persuade regional partners to back down. dedication for long-term peace, even as Washington and Tehran try to negotiate a final agreement.
Welcome back to Global Overview, where we cover how to Persian Gulf the opinion of United States-Iran temporary peace agreement, extreme heat wave Western Europeand 10 years afterBrexit.
Eliminate Fear
Top US and Iranian officials flew across the Middle East on Tuesday to drum up support for the two countries in a 60-day standoff. ceasefire plan. But conflicting accounts of some of the treaty’s most contentious points could complicate efforts to persuade regional partners to back down. dedication for long-term peace, even as Washington and Tehran try to negotiate a final agreement.
Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Tuesday that Tehran has no plans to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to access the country’s most sensitive nuclear sites, including those hit by US and Israeli airstrikes in June 2025. However, a few hours later, US President Donald Trump. he wrote on the Social Truth that “Iran has fully and fully agreed to the most advanced Nuclear inspections into the future (Infinity!!!).” Trump told reporters that if Iran’s claims about inspections were true, then he would “cancel the meetings right now.”
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi similarly told a Japanese broadcaster NHK Tuesday that the review would begin, though he did not give a start date or specify how the agency would access the damaged sites.
The conflicting claims are expected to heighten regional concerns that the accord between the US and Iran signed last week does not fully curb Tehran’s nuclear and military capabilities. Although Qatar and Oman appear to support the deal, several Gulf powers—namely, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain—are reportedly concerned that the deal has failed to limit Iran’s weapons and allow Tehran more money that could be used to invest in its military forces.
That’s why US Secretary of State Marco Rubio it started a two-day trip on Tuesday to the three countries. Landing in Abu Dhabi, Rubio emphasized that Iran will not be allowed to impose tariffs for passage through the Strait of Hormuz; he confirmed that the peace accord also requires Iran’s proxy groups, such as Hezbollah, to cease their attacks on Israel; and insisted that Washington is dedication for the security of the Gulf allies. The UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain all have large US military bases and all suffered Iranian attacks during the months-long conflict.
Trump also tried to ease critics’ concerns on Tuesday, writing on Social Truth that the United States would control all Iranian disbursements. “Money and/or Sanctions issued by the United States Treasury go into escrow, controlled by the United States, and will be used for the purchase of food and medical supplies, only from the United States,” the president of the United States. he wrote. Iranian officials disputed those claims, however.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian traveled to Pakistan on Tuesday to meet with the country’s leadership. Islamabad was the main mediator in the US-Iran talks, and in a a rare show of solidarityPakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told Pezeshkian that he will travel to Tehran next week to pay his respects to Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah. Ali Khameneiwho was killed in an Israeli airstrike at the beginning of the war.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Iran’s leading negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf traveled to Oman on Tuesday to discuss the future of the Strait of Hormuz. In their meeting, the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations he announced that it had a plan (together with Oman and in close cooperation with Iran and other coastal states) to help hundreds of commercial ships trapped in the Persian Gulf pass through the strategic waterway. Iran had it previously suggested that Oman can help levy duties on commercial ships, motivate Trump then threatened to “bomb (Oman).”
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Keeping a temperature record. Large parts of Western Europe provided warning this week for extreme heat waves. The worst is forecast for France, Spain and parts of the UK, although Germany, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland have also issued extreme heat alerts. Meteorologists, though, are hopeful that relief will come soon, with temperatures in some areas expected to drop on Wednesday and Thursday.
According to the 2025 report of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, Europe is the fastest warming continentand in recent years, it has been recorded tens of thousands of heat-related deaths each year. Experts have pointed to climate change caused by climate change as the reason for the rise in temperature. Air conditioning it is also rare in Europe. Unlike the United States, where about 90 percent of homes have air conditioning, about 20 percent of homes in Europe do.
That includes in Francewhich recorded the nation’s hottest day on record on Tuesday: 111.74 degrees Fahrenheit. With 54 French departments under red alert (and the number is expected to increase to 58 on Wednesday), some residents have resorted to swimming in illegal or dangerous waters to escape the heat, resulting in the deaths of at least 40, mostly young people. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu summoned emergency meeting on Tuesday to address the recent spate of drownings.
A decade after Brexit. Tuesday was marked 10th anniversary Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. Backers of the “yes” vote at the time wanted to give London greater control over its immigration and trade policies as well as funding for the UK’s health service. Yet the biggest legacy of the post-Brexit era seems to be political instability, and the Prime Minister. Keir Starmer resigns Monday paving the way for a seventh leader to try to take over Downing Street in just 10 years.
That person could be Andy Burnham, the newest Labor MP. Burnham won a special by-elections in the northern England constituency of Makerfield last week, making him eligible to succeed Starmer immediately after he finally resigned. On Tuesday, Burnham met with fellow Labor politicians discuss next steps for running for party leadership; nominations will open on July 9, and if there are no other candidates, then Burnham could become prime minister by July 17.
“Whoever eventually takes over will need to show more imagination and courage than Starmer” if Labor is to prevent Downing Street from returning to right-wing rule, John Kampfner. he argued in Foreign Policy last month. Local elections in May witnessed a radical right wing British reform party get a big win.
Targeting children. Israeli forces have deliberately targeted and killed Palestinian children in Gaza and the occupied West Bank in recent years. UN investigations available on Tuesday. According to the new report, Israeli soldiers have killed at least 20,179 children and injured more than 44,100 others since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas against Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. These measures, experts he arguedamounts to acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
Of the total deaths recorded in the first two years of the war, children were nearly 30 percent. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israeli attacks deliberately targeted densely populated residential areas and important infrastructure for children, such as health centers, orphanages and schools. Also examined evidence of Israeli authorities using torture, brutality and humiliation against young people, including sexual and gender-based violence.
Israeli delegation in Geneva be damned the report, accusing the commission of ignoring “brutal tactics by Hamas,” including the militant group’s use of human shields. Israel “constantly strives to reduce harm to children even in conflict situations,” the message added.
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Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi has dominated this year World Cup and plenty of jaw-dropping bravado. After scoring a hat trick (scoring three goals in one game) against Algeria last Tuesday, the 39-year-old is just one goal away from breaking the all-time men’s World Cup goalscoring record. Monday, Messi reached that goal with not one but two successful shots against Austria, surpassing the record of 16 goals of the German athlete Miroslav Klose. As Dani Rojas, the FP World Brief writer’s favorite player would say, “Fútbol is life!”
