Peace talks between the United States and Iran ended Sunday after the two sides negotiated for 21 straight hours and could not reach a deal. Vice President J.D. Vance, who led the American negotiating team, said afterwards that the lack of a deal “is bad news for Iran much more so than the United States.”
Vance and his team, including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met with Iran in Islamabad, under the auspices of the Pakistani government. Iran blamed the failure on American “double standards,” while Vance said the two sides could not agree on terms. He did not spell out the specific terms causing a rift, but presumably, the impasse involves whether Iran will surrender its supply of enriched uranium. Here’s more from Forbes Breaking News.
Want to understand the political assassination of Charlie Kirk? You can’t begin in Orem, the Utah city where Kirk was killed. You have to go south to the city of Blanding, alongside Utah’s southern border with Arizona.
That’s the word from citizen journalist George Webb, who explains why he has centered so much of his investigation around Kirk’s killing to the metadata that he says tells the whole story. Much of this metadata, he adds, involves enriched uranium — produced at the White Mesa Mill in Blanding.
The White Mesa Mill is the only location in the United States allowed to process uranium ore and radioactive waste to fabricate HALEU. That’s shorthand for high-assay low-enriched uranium.
Here, Webb explains why the story of Kirk’s assassination can’t be told without taking a deep-dive into the Department of Energy and its guidelines involving the handling, and foreign export, of HALEU.
A former member of the French Foreign Legion, Taylor Cavenaugh, explains why that would be the likely pool of talent from which the French government would draw to put together foreign assassination teams.
For starters, the French Foreign Legion is primarily composed of foreigners recruited by France. Thus, if an assassination team gets discovered or compromised while carrying out an action, the French government can plausibly deny any involvement whatsoever in the dirty deed.
These foreigners must surrender their passports upon joining the legion. They are issued new passports by the French government, and even given fake names with fabricated stories of origin. The few actual French members of the legion are never identified as being French. Instead, their new passports might cite their origins as Canada, or some other nation that boasts a French-speaking community.
Candace Owens has charged that French President Emmanuel Macron is behind an assassination plot on her life and also orchestrated the political hit on Charlie Kirk. Cavenaugh and Valhalla VFT host Nate Cornacchio explore the possible legitimacy of Owens’ claims.
They also take a quick look at a second French fighting force that Owens singled out for discussion — the National Gendamarie Intervention Group. Cavenaugh shares his first-hand experiences with both fighting teams.
