Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel spoke to Kristen Welker of NBC News:

WELKER: Are you afraid for yourself, for your family? Or are you prepared to, as you say, make the ultimate sacrifice if you are attacked?

DIAZ-CANEL: I have no fear. I am willing to give my life for the revolution. Of course, I wouldn’t like that to be the attitude of the U.S. government. I think the American people is a sensitive people. And they wouldn’t allow or they wouldn’t see with good eyes that their government, the country would invade a very small island that does not pose any concern in terms of national security for the United States.

Washington Post: “The Trump administration intends to request the release of Americans detained in Iran as part of upcoming negotiations aimed at ending the U.S.-Israeli war there.”

“Iran warned they won’t attend crucial peace talks with the U.S. in Pakistan tomorrow if the ceasefire doesn’t expand to Lebanon,” Politico reports.

CBS News: “The U.S. is convening hastily arranged diplomatic talks next week in Washington, D.C., in an effort to craft a ceasefire in Lebanon, where Israeli troops have been pounding Iranian-backed Hezbollah targets with airstrikes and also killing Lebanese civilians.”

“There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!”

— President Trump, on Truth Social.

Bloomberg: “Benjamin Netanyahu, by many accounts, helped push Donald Trump and the US into war.”

“Now he may be a major obstacle to the president’s effort to get out of it.”

“Long aligned by politics and personality, Trump and Bibi have different motivations on Iran. Trump appears ready to exit a fight that has damaged him politically and shaken the world economy, while Netanyahu faces sharp criticism at home for stopping too soon.”