Iran foreign minister Araghchi said Iran is prepared to negotiate and also ready to respond to any aggression, even if that would lead to a devastating war.

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov told the UN General Assembly in New York that Western efforts to contain Russia have destroyed the European security architecture and are obstructing a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict, undermining prospects for negotiations. He warned Western hopes for a strategic defeat of Russia risked leading the conflict’s instigators into a strategic dead end. Lavrov urged the UN to act to reverse the situation in the Middle East and said restoring trust between Arab states and Iran is a prerequisite for stabilizing the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. He described the attack that killed Iran’s former supreme leader Khamenei and other Iranian military-political leaders as an unacceptable act of force, and also called for the immediate release of Venezuelan president Maduro and his wife, the lifting of Cuba’s naval blockade, and economic measures to improve Cuba’s humanitarian conditions.

US President Trump said real median household income has reached a record high and the poverty rate has fallen to its lowest on record. He said US goods exports are expected to hit a new high in 2026 and that trillions of dollars of new investment are flowing into the US.