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The Rest of the World Report | May 26, 2026 — Evening Edition
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KHAMENEI DECLARES A NEW MIDDLE EAST
While Iranian diplomats were sitting in Doha negotiating a peace framework on Tuesday, Iran’s Supreme Leader was on Telegram declaring that the war was already won.
Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, in a written message marking Eid Al-Adha, told the Islamic world that the United States would no longer have a safe haven in the Middle East. “The clock cannot be turned back,” he wrote, according to Bloomberg’s translation. “The nations and lands of the region will…
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