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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., accused fellow Democrats of putting party over country in their opposition to President Donald Trump’s strikes against the Iranian regime during an interview Saturday on Fox News.
He broke with members of his own party Wednesday as he defended the operation as necessary to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
“I don’t know why we can’t just be honest,” Fetterman told “Saturday in America.”
“The last two professional candidates for the Democratic Party all agreed that we can never allow Iran to acquire nuclear bombs, and that’s made that possible now. I think we can say, ‘Hey, that’s a great thing. That makes the world more safe, more secure and holds Iran accountable.'”
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., speaks to a reporter as he arrives at the U.S. Capitol for a vote on Dec. 3, 2025.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Fetterman’s criticism comes after 53 House Democrats voted against a resolution declaring Iran a state sponsor of terror. He argued his colleagues’ stance reflects a concerning shift within the party.
“That’s almost 25% of Democrats in the House that can’t just call Iran the world’s biggest terrorism underwriter,” Fetterman said.
Smoke rises over the city after the Israeli military launched a second wave of airstrikes on Iran in Tehran on Feb. 28, 2026.(Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Fetterman was the lone Senate Democrat to vote against a resolution seeking to limit Trump’s war powers on Wednesday, arguing that longstanding bipartisan beliefs have always opposed Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
“That’s where our party’s been heading now… I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t just identify that’s what Iran is,” he added.
“Virtually every Democrat that I’m aware of says we can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb, and they were a significant risk to America,” Fetterman said.
“I know why they [Democrats] don’t say that now, because I’m aware that it is very damaging as a Democrat to just happen to agree with the president on anything, but for me, that’s easy — country over party.”
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Video shows smoke rising from a Dubai tower after shrapnel damaged the residential building and set a car on fire. Authorities say the debris fell after a missile was successfully intercepted, with one death reported.
Stephanie Buttermore, a fitness influencer and doctor who researched ovarian cancer throughout her career, died at the age of 36, her fiancé and fellow fitness YouTuber Jeff Nippard, announced Friday.
Nippard’s team posted on Instagram and YouTube the “important announcement” that was made with “profound sorrow.”
The announcement described Buttermore’s death as “sudden.”
Jeff Nippard announced on social media that his fiancée, Stephanie Buttermore, had suddenly died at the age of 36.(@jeffnippard/Instagram)
“As many of you know, Stephanie meant the world to Jeff. She will be remembered for her warmth and compassion, her love for her family, and her PhD research on ovarian cancer,” the post read.
No details are currently available regarding her death, and Nippard’s team asked for privacy.
Buttermore and Nippard appeared in numerous YouTube videos together over their decade-long relationship. The two got engaged in 2022, and Nippard posted a photo of the two of them on Valentine’s Day.
Nippard’s Instagram and YouTube accounts shut off comments on posts announcing Buttermore’s death, but fans flooded the comments to show their support for Nippard, a former professional bodybuilder and powerlifter.
“Heaven gained an amazing angel. Someone who cared so deeply for others. Someone who cared so deeply for others. Praying for you Jeff and her family,” fellow influencer Buff Bunny posted on Nippard’s Valentine’s Day post.
Nippard posted this photo of himself and Buttermore on Valentine’s Day.(@jeffnippard/Instagram)
“I am so so sorry. I have followed Stephanie for years, what a beautiful soul. Praying for you and your loved ones,” another user wrote.
Buttermore posted content regarding nutrition and fitness, including videos about her own personal struggles with eating disorders and mental health. She gained more prominence during her self-dubbed “All In” challenge, where she would eat upward of 10,000 calories per day to promote healthy weight gain for women and body positivity. Nippard’s most recent video, posted last week, was about body dysmorphia.
Buttermore stopped posting on social media and YouTube in March 2024, citing improved mental health from being off social media.
Nippard and Buttermore got engaged in 2022 and were together for a decade.(@jeffnipppard/Instagram)
Buttermore garnered over 1 million YouTube subscribers, while Nippard, a Canadian drug-free powerlifting and bodybuilding champion who now posts science-based lifting information, has over 8 million.
President Zelenskyy calls for international response as Russian assault targets civilian and energy infrastructure.
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A Russian missile strike killed at least 10 people, including two children, after hitting a residential apartment block in Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv.
The attack brought down an entire entrance section of the five-storey building from the first floor to the fifth, trapping residents under the rubble, the Kyiv Post reported.
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Among the dead were a primary school teacher and her son, a second-grade student, as well as a 13-year-old girl and her mother, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. Sixteen others were wounded on Friday.
Emergency crews were still combing through debris on Saturday, with authorities warning survivors may still be trapped.
The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office said preliminary findings indicate Russia deployed the Izdeliye-30 cruise missile in the strike and has opened a war crimes investigation.
The strike on Kharkiv was part of a broader overnight assault, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying Russian forces launched 29 missiles and 480 drones, targeting energy facilities in Kyiv and other central regions, with damage reported across at least seven locations nationwide.
‘Savage strikes’
Air defence systems downed 19 missiles and 453 drones, Zelenskyy said.
“There must be a response from partners to these savage strikes against life,” Zelenskyy wrote on X, calling on the European Union to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences.
Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa said on X that it was “another massacre of children by Russians”.
The attack comes as US-brokered peace negotiations remain deadlocked.
Zelenskyy visited front-line positions near Druzhkivka on Friday, telling troops that battlefield strength would determine Ukraine’s hand at the negotiating table. The battlefield picture has shifted in Kyiv’s favour in recent weeks.
The Institute for the Study of War assessed that Ukrainian forces have recovered 244 square kilometres (94sq miles) in southern Ukraine since January, while Russian territorial gains in February hit a 20-month low.
The institute also noted Russian forces in the Kharkiv region appear to be regrouping ahead of a possible spring offensive, with fighting intensity having decreased in recent weeks.
Rory McIlroy’s green jacket defense appears to be a bit up in the air.
The reigning Masters winner was forced to withdraw from the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Saturday after suffering back spasms during his range session.
“While warming up in the gym this morning, I felt a small twinge in my back. As I started hitting balls on the range before the round, it worsened and developed into muscle spasms in my lower back,” McIlroy said.
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland watches his tee shot on the 14th hole during the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge on March 6, 2026, in Orlando, Florida.(Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR via Getty Images)
“Unfortunately, I’m not able to continue and have to withdraw. I was excited to compete this weekend. I wish the Arnold Palmer Invitational a great finish and look forward to being back next year.”
McIlroy finally took home the green jacket in his 17th try last year — it was his first major since 2014, and it made him the sixth golfer to complete the career slam. It was a weekend full of ups and downs, as he set the Masters record for the most “3s” carded, but he had plenty of dropped shots throughout.
Ultimately, he prevailed in a playoff against Justin Rose, who also fell to Sergio Garcia in a playoff eight years prior.
Rory McIlroy holds the Masters championship trophy during the final round of the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club.(Kyle Terada-Imagn Images)
The last time someone did not play in the Masters the year after winning it was 1954, when Ben Hogan sat out.
McIlroy finished tied for second in last month’s Genesis Invitational, won by Jacob Bridgeman, and tied for 14th at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a tournament he won last year.
Rory McIlroy watches his tee shot on the third hole during the second round of the RBC Canadian Open golf tournament.(Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images)
The Masters was McIlroy’s third and final victory of the season last year. He also won The Players and was part of the winning Ryder Cup team at Bethpage Black. It was the first time a road team won the Cup since the Europeans did so in 2014, and it was the first back-to-back Ryder Cup wins since Europe won three straight in 2010, 2012, and 2014.
Descendants of freedom fighters executed and beheaded in southern Africa by colonial British forces have called on the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Cambridge to help them find their ancestors’ looted skulls.
Zimbabwean descendants of the first chimurenga heroes, who led an uprising against British colonisers in the 1890s, have long believed the museum and university hold several of the skulls.
Eight of the descendants have now formally asked the institutions to collaborate in locating six of their ancestors’ remains. They have also offered to provide DNA samples to assist with the research.
The museum and university said in 2022 that they had not identified any remains in their collections as belonging to the colonial resistance fighters, prompting dismay and disbelief among their descendants and Zimbabwean officials.
In letters sent to the institutions this month, the descendants said questions over the skulls’ provenance could only be resolved by establishing a taskforce of experts from Zimbabwe and the UK to examine the contested remains and archives in the countries.
“This is not only about the past,” the letters state. “It is about whether institutions today are willing to confront colonial violence honestly and repair its enduring harms. Until the remains of our ancestors are accounted for and returned, the suffering continues.”
One of letter’s signatories is a descendant of Chief Chingaira Makoni, who opposed British settlers seizing land for farming and mining in what is now Manicaland province in north-eastern Zimbabwe. After engaging the forces of Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa Company at the battles of Gwindingwi in 1896, Makoni was captured, executed by firing squad and beheaded. His skull is believed to be among those of the chimurenga heroes later taken to England.
His descendant and the current Chief Makoni, Cogen Simbayi Gwasira, said: “We are very aggrieved as the descendants of those ancestors for the dehumanisation that took place during that period. We feel that the British, and especially the museums in England, should be honest and return those things that they took.
“If those remains are not part of us, the notion of subjugation remains in our minds. Because we feel if we are united with our ancestors, then that chapter of colonialism is closed.”
The call comes after a freedom of information investigation by the Guardian revealed that UK universities, museums and councils hold at least 11,856 items of human remains from Africa. The University of Cambridge holds most with at least 6,223 items, and the Natural History Museum has the second largest collection with at least 3,375.
The museum’s trustees made a formal decision in November 2022 to repatriate all Zimbabwean human remains, but in a letter sent in support of the descendants last week to the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, the all-party parliamentary group for Afrikan reparations said “no discernible progress has been made in the three years since that decision”.
Dr Rudo Sithole, a former executive director of the International Council of African Museums, said Zimbabwean experts did not believe the museum or the University of Cambridge had conducted enough research to determine whether the skulls they held from the country include those of the first chimurenga heroes.
“Because people long believed that all the chimurenga heroes’ remains were in the UK, we are now very worried that not even a single one has been acknowledged to be there,” she said.
Gwasira said his people were still suffering as a result of the colonial theft of his ancestor’s remains. He said that in the Zimbabwean Shona tradition, ancestral spirits known as vadzimu were the spiritual conduit for prayers to Mwari, or God.
“Some of our very important ancestors who held the traditional responsibility for taking our grievances to the Lord were killed, murdered, their heads were taken,” he said. “We are suffering because until those ancestors return to us then we have no access to the Lord.”
A statue of Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana in Harare, more widely known as Mbuya Nehanda, who was hanged in 1898 for leading an anti–colonial rebellion. Photograph: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP
Other leaders of the more than 20 first chimurenga included the spirit mediums Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi, who were hanged from a tree in 1898.
Sithole, also a former director of the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, said the UK lagged behind other European countries, such as France and Germany, which had funded research into the provenance of human remains taken from their former African colonies.
A spokesperson for the Natural History Museum in London said it was committed to repatriating the 11 individuals from Zimbabwe in its collections, and was awaiting confirmation from the Zimbabwean government as to their desired next steps.
“After extensive research we found no evidence to suggest that the remains are those of named individuals or are associated with particular historical episodes,” they said. “There are no other known or suspected ancestral remains from Zimbabwe held at the museum.”
A University of Cambridge spokesperson said: “The vice has written to the families and descendants to acknowledge their profound grief and the enduring uncertainty they have expressed.”
They added that the vice-chancellor had assured the descendants that the Duckworth Collection, which holds the university’s largest collection of human remains, did not hold those of any of the first chimurenga heroes.
The DCMS declined to comment.
A 2024 report said Cambridge’s governing council had approved a claim to repatriate the remains of the only Zimbabwean individual identified in its African collections. It added that the university was awaiting a response from the Zimbabwe government.
A woman who lived as a man for six years said she returned to her “true identity” after what she described as a powerful encounter with God.
In an essay published Friday in Christianity Today, Kyla Gillespie wrote that she struggled with gender dysphoria beginning in early childhood.
“I can remember, at 3 or 4 years old, being abused by an elderly family member,” Gillespie wrote. “Through my mom’s quick response, it never happened again. But my difficulties were not over. I began to feel confused about my gender.’”
Closeup of a transgender pride flag.(Getty Images )
She recalled another moment around the time she started elementary school.
“Once, I was sitting by the ice rink where my hockey team practiced,” Gillespie said. “I was no more than 5 years old. My parents had just been informed that I would no longer be allowed to change in the general locker room with the boys. As the only girl on the team, I would need to change in the girls’ washroom. My little mind couldn’t take it in.”
Gillespie said her confusion deepened after her parents divorced and both remarried, leading her to split time between households. She described feeling rejected by her stepmother.
“By age 16 or 17, it was becoming evident that I was no longer welcome in my dad’s home with his new wife and children,” Gillespie wrote. “My stepmom didn’t want me to be part of their tight-knit unit, and I began to tiptoe around what was once my carefree home. I happily shared a room with my new stepsister, but from one weekend to another my personal belongings began to disappear.”
Kyla Gillespie was surgically transitioned from female to male by the age of 31, and eventually detransitioned. (iStock)
Gillespie wrote that she poured herself into hockey, eventually joining a professional team, and later struggled with alcohol use, gambling and failed same-sex relationships. She said she eventually enrolled in a Christian recovery center to address her addiction.
“I got sober there, but my battles with same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria continued,” Gillespie wrote. “To try to win the war raging inside of me, I decided to transition from female to male. Two years later, after hormone therapy, surgeries, and sweeping lifestyle changes, I could finally pass unnoticed in the world as a man.”
Gillespie lived as “Brycen” for six years, but, according to her essay, her perspective began to shift after she met a couple at a church service, Jess and her husband, BJ. Gillespie wrote that months later, Jess offered her a place to stay if she chose to detransition, which she initially declined.
Kyla Gillespie said a transformative encounter with God and faith brought her back to her true identity. (iStock)
“One night I was overwhelmed in the darkness, sobbing in bed,” Gillespie wrote. “Needing to know God’s mind, I climbed out and crumpled to the floor, crying for relief, for clarity. Not a half-hearted cry like the ones I had made so many times before without being willing to change or surrender, but a deep soul-cry from a place of abandon—a cry for him to rescue me.”
“After six years of living as Brycen, I cried out, ‘What do you want from me?’” she continued. “There on my bedroom floor, I heard God speak into my heart so clearly that I will never forget it: ‘Return to me, Kyla.’”
Kyla Gillespie also wrote a book, “TransFormed,” about her gender confusion, transition from female to male by the age of 31, and detransition. (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
Gillespie is now the founder of Renewed & Transformed, a ministry that focuses on Christian teachings related to faith, sexuality and identity. She is also the author of “TransFormed,” a book about her gender confusion and being surgically transitioned from female to male by the age of 31, and journey of detransition.
In the esay, Gillespie wrote that she ultimately accepted Jess and BJ’s offer to stay with them during her detransition. She said that while the struggle is ongoing, she will “never look back.”
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Dehradun’s famous moto-blogger and ‘Bigg Boss-17’ fame Anurag Doval (UK07 Rider) tried to commit suicide on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway on Saturday night. Anurag carried out this dreadful step by going live on his Instagram page. During the live video itself, he increased the speed of his car to 150 km/hr in front of Hawa Hawai restaurant and rammed the car straight into the divider saying ‘this is my last journey’.
Horrible scene seen in live video
Anurag was live on Instagram just before the accident. In the video, he looked very emotional and mentally broken. He said he couldn’t bear it anymore. During the live, he suddenly increased the speed of the car and within no time the car went out of control and collided with the divider. Thousands of people were watching this scene live, after which there was a stir on social media.
Hospitalized, condition critical
Police and passers-by reached the spot immediately after the accident and admitted Anurag to Subharti Hospital in Meerut in a bleeding condition. After first aid, his acquaintances and family members have taken him to Delhi for better treatment. According to doctors, his condition still remains critical.
Family dispute and ‘intercaste marriage’ became the reason?
Anurag was suffering from deep mental stress and family problems for the last several days. He had also recently shared an almost 2-hour long video, in which he held his parents and brother ‘Kalam’ responsible for his condition.
The main reasons for the dispute…
Opposition to intercaste marriage: Anurag alleged that his ‘intercaste marriage’ with his wife Ritika Chauhan was never accepted by his family. Six days before the wedding, her parents abandoned her and she was forced to apologize by touching their feet in front of her relatives.
Leaving the wife: Anurag revealed in the video that his wife Ritika, who is pregnant, has also left him. He said that his own people tortured him mentally.
Accusation against brother: He has made serious allegations against his brother ‘Kalam’ of grabbing property and threatening to ‘expose’ him on social media.
Anurag’s last words: Mom, dad, Kalam and Shreya are responsible for my death. I even gave up my love for my mother’s happiness, but all I got was torture. I can’t fight anymore.
Police are currently investigating this entire matter and along with CCTV footage, Anurag’s statements and videos are also being examined.
US government reviews of the war in Iran show that the Trump administration may be ill-equipped for a regime-change war, according to reports.
The Washington Post reported on Saturday morning that a classified intelligence review found that the war in Iran is unlikely to oust the Iranian establishment, despite the Trump administration’s desire to continue its attacks.
At the same time, Democrats are warning that the airstrikes on Iran are diminishing US stockpiles of certain weapons, a point of concern that came up during a closed-door briefing earlier this week between Trump administration officials and members of Congress.
Despite ongoing negotiations, the US and Israel began bombing Iran last week, during a campaign that assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian leaders. Iran has engaged in retaliatory strikes, targeting Israel, US installations in the region and several Middle Eastern countries hosting US bases.
Since the strikes began, the Trump administration has claimed that Iran has attempted to negotiate a ceasefire, despite multiplereports showing the contrary.
For years, Iran hawks in the US have pushed for a regime-change war, warning that Iran’s nuclear program has been close to producing a nuclear weapon. Since last April, Iran and the US have engaged in negotiations surrounding Iran’s nuclear program. Iran has repeatedly said that the nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes.
Israel and the US bombed Iranian nuclear sites last June, leading to a significant escalation of tensions between the countries. Negotiations continued, but, despite them, the US and Israel launched large-scale attacks on Iran this past week.
The US and Israel have now been bombarding Iran for a week, striking government buildings and military installations. They have also hit civilian buildings, hospitals and schools. On the first day of the bombing campaign, 168 young girls were killed in a direct strike on their school. The Associated Press later reported that the deadly strike likely came from the US.
Trump spoke on Saturday at the Shield of the Americas summit, a gathering of rightwing leaders in the western hemisphere in Florida, just hours after Iran’s president apologized to neighboring countries for missile strikes.
“We’re doing very well in Iran, you see the result,” Trump said. “And it’s been amazing. We’ve knocked out 42 navy ships, some of them very large, in three days. That was the end of the navy. We’ve knocked out the air force. We knocked out their communications and all telecommunications is gone.”
“They’re bad people, they’re just bad people,” he added. “Eight months ago, they would have had a nuclear weapon. And they’re crazy, and they would have used it, so we did the world a favor.”
However, US intelligence points to a different potential outcome, despite a prolonged and aggressive war.
As the Post reported, a classified report by the National Intelligence Council shows that a bombing campaign may not oust Iran’s military and clerical establishment. The report, completed in mid-February, outlined two potential actions by the US. In both cases, the outcome would remain the same: Iran’s government would follow protocols for a successor of the country’s supreme leader.
After Khamenei was assassinated last week, the Iranian government quickly named an interim leadership council, made up of the Iranian president and other top officials. The council is in charge of choosing the country’s next supreme leader.
Intelligence officials said it was “unlikely” that Iran’s opposition would take control of the country.
With increasing worries around US stockpiles of weapons, some Democratic senators are concerned that, with the quick use of missiles and advanced weapons, other countries that rely on US military assistance, like Ukraine and others, may not be able to effectively protect themselves.
In an interview with Time Magazine, the Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal said he was “deeply concerned about Ukraine”, adding that US military “resources and supplies are limited, and I think we will be hard pressed, at some point, to tell Ukraine what is coming”.
Another expert who spoke with the AP said the concern was not about the conflict in Iran, but rather potential military escalations in the future.
“I’m not particularly worried about us actually running out during this conflict,” said Ryan Brobst, a scholar focused on US defense strategy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, in an interview with the AP. “It’s about deterring China and Russia the day after this conflict is over.”
Weapons manufacturers have already agreed to increase their production. On Friday, Lockheed Martin said it agreed to “quadruple critical munitions production”.
PALM BEACH, FLA – British opposition leader Nigel Farage is taking aim at his country’s prime minister for not supporting the U.S. in its military strikes against Iran.
“I think not to support America when it asks for support is a pretty extraordinary thing to have done.,” Farage, the leader of the right-wing Reform UK party, said in an exclusive interview Saturday with Fox News Digital.
President Donald Trump has blasted Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer for initially blocking the U.S. from using British military bases, specifically Diego Garcia — a strategic base located on an Indian Ocean island — for strikes against Iran during Operation Epic Fury. Starmer later permitted the use of the bases for “defensive strikes” after Trump’s complaints.
Starmer hasn’t spoken to Trump since they connected on a call last weekend, after the U.S. and Israel launched their strikes on Iran. The British prime minister has made clear his country would not be joining the U.S. in attacking Iran, emphasizing he didn’t believe in “regime change from the skies.”
Britain’s PM Starmer speaks during a press conference, in London.(Thomas Krych/Pool via REUTERS)
Trump, taking a jab at Starmer, said earlier this week, “This is not Winston Churchill we are dealing with.”
Farage criticized Starmer for not changing his stance, “even now, despite the fact that we’ve got an RAF base in Cyprus that’s been under attack, we’ve got allies of ours in the Gulf that are under attack.”
“I think there’s been less than wholehearted support has come for the Americans in this endeavor. And I think the British Prime Minister on the world stage, he’s upset the Americans,” Farage said. “He’s upset the Cypriots. He’s upset the Gulf states. And he’s pretty friendless at the moment.”
Farage, who seven years ago founded the populist Brexit Party, which later transformed into the Reform UK party, was interviewed ahead of an appearance at an annual economic conference in Florida hosted by the Club for Growth, an influential and politically potent political group that pushes for fiscal responsibility.
Starmer has been feeling Trump’s wrath not only for their differences over the attack on Iran, but also over the British deal to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, the Indian Ocean archipelago where Diego Garcia is located, to Mauritius. Starmer has argued his lease-back deal is the only way to secure the British-U.S. military base on Diego Garcia.
Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from the UK in 1966.(reuters)
Farage, who has been vocal in his opposition to the deal, told Fox News Digital that “outside of America itself,” Diego Garcia “is the most important base you’ve got in the whole world. Now it’s there as part of British sovereignty. We have a treaty between us that goes back to 1966 and Keir Starmer is on the verge of giving away the sovereignty of the Chagos islands and Diego Garcia to Mauritius.”
“If Trump initially had problems with the Brits over using the base, just think what it will be like with the heavily Chinese-influenced Mauritians. They already have said they believe that America should not have struck Iran, that it was against international law, then are calling for a ceasefire,” Farage said.
Farage, who said his opposition to the deal was a key factor in his weekend trip to the U.S., said, “I would just urge the president, this administration, stay firm. Tell the British government you will not accept giving away of sovereignty to Mauritius, and let’s ensure a future for Diego Garcia. I think it’s really important.”
Farage, who’s hoping to become Britain’s next prime minister, argued that Starmer’s relationship with Trump is beyond repair.
President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pose for a photo, at a world leaders’ summit on ending the war in Gaza, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/Pool(REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/Pool)
“I think the personal relationship between Keir Starmer and Donald Trump has gone. I mean, Trump can be forgiving, but, you know, that would take a long time. So I think that breakdown is there,” he said.
But as for the longstanding bonds between the two countries, known as the ‘special relationship,’ Farage was more optimistic.
“The special relationship went through bad times in the past. We had a massive fallout 70 years ago over Suez, but we got back together again. I’m convinced it can, and it will, be mended,” he predicted.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.”
