Tom O'Connor

"Mind your own business! Find solutions to the terrible traffic issues here," Israel's consul general told Newsweek of Mamdani.

FPV drones allow Hezbollah "to keep up both military and psychological pressure despite its reduced capabilities," an expert said.

An IDF captain warned fiber-optic drones mark "the first time that Hezbollah actually stood a chance against Israeli soldiers."

"Iran must be recognized in the world as a normal and powerful actor," a Tehran-based security analyst told Newsweek.

"Unfortunately, today we are not too close to the end of the conflict," a Russian analyst told Newsweek, a year after the summit.

With President Donald Trump ordering the U.S. Navy's only actively deployed aircraft carrier in the Asia-Pacific to aid operations in the Middle

President Donald Trump said that the United States is not in talks with Iran after the two nations' memorandum of understanding expired with little signs of progress in ending the six-month war.

Trump's Middle East balancing act "increases the chances of confrontations" among allies, a former U.S. official told Newsweek.

"From Tehran’s perspective, American unpredictability has become unreliability," one expert told Newsweek.

An Iranian expert told Newsweek "if the economic situation becomes truly critical," the answer may be "major" military escalation.