While the US-Israeli war against Iran continues, US President Donald Trump, speaking about the so-called negotiations with Iran, made a number of harsh statements regarding Iran, negotiations and allies during the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

He continued to insist that Washington is “conducting very meaningful negotiations with the right people in Tehran” and stressed that the conflict “will end soon”. According to him, Iran is trying to make a deal because “Iran has been destroyed”. According to Trump, the US has destroyed 90% of Iran’s capabilities, and Iran, according to him, is “begging for a deal.”

At the same time, he pointed out the high level of Iranian negotiators, noting that they are “very smart”. Speaking about military aid, the US president allowed the possibility of resource redistribution. Ammunition intended for Ukraine can be directed in other directions. Trump noted that the US is not dependent on the Strait of Hormuz, and emphasized that its opening would be possible in case of a “right deal” with Iran. 

On the Truth Social page, Trump wrote that he is postponing the strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure for another 10 days. “At the request of the Iranian government, I am postponing the phase of destruction of power plants by 10 days, until April 6, 2026,” the US president wrote.

The talks, according to Trump, are ongoing, and despite statements to the contrary, “they are going very well.”

Despite this, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has called on the entire civilian population of the region to stay away from areas adjacent to the locations of US forces. “The cowardly American-Zionist forces are trying to use civilian places and innocent people as human shields. We advise you to immediately leave the places where the American forces are stationed so that no harm is caused to you,” said the statement, which was published on the Sepah News website.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has announced that strikes against Iran will be intensified and expanded in response to Iran’s missile attacks on civilians.

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I warned the Iranian terrorist regime to stop the rocket attacks on the civilian population of Israel. Despite the warnings, the shelling continues, and therefore ISIL strikes against Iran will intensify and expand to include additional targets and areas that help the regime produce and use weapons against Israeli citizens. They will pay a heavy price for this war crime,” stated Israel Katz.

The war continues, although talks about negotiations do not stop, as well as complaints that the war is too costly for the United States.

The Wall Street Journal writes that the US armed forces suffered a total of 2.9 billion dollars in losses during the first three weeks of the armed conflict with Iran. According to the periodicals, the amount of damage done to American military equipment and replacement of damaged equipment is estimated from 1.4 to 2.9 billion dollars.  The WSJ notes that most of the damage was done by Iranian missiles and drones. Despite all this, according to the American mass media, the Pentagon is also considering a ground operation, for which higher costs are required.

Russian analyst Vladimir Yevseyev in a conversation with 168.am said that the situation goes beyond the logic of a quick war and enters the phase of prolonged, exhausting confrontation. According to his assessment, the initial calculations in Washington and Tel Aviv were based on breaking Iran’s military and nuclear potential through short-term and high-tech pressure, but this scenario did not materialize, Iran not only retained the ability to strike back, but also showed that it is ready to confront, using its main advantages – geopolitical position and energy leverage.

“And against this background, the tension around the Strait of Hormuz became a key factor in the war, because it is here that a significant part of the global oil supply is concentrated. Iran has shown that it can influence not only military, but also global economic processes, increasing its value at any negotiating table. This is the reason why, in the conditions of military pressure, Tehran is not in a hurry to make concessions. And the active talks about the negotiations, which are circulating especially from the American side, reflect political and informational tactics rather than real diplomatic progress. Iran continues to deny the fact of direct negotiations, accepting only mediated communication. This is important, which shows that the parties have not yet reached the level where a real compromise is possible. Their demands remain fundamentally incompatible.” said the analyst. He believes that a rather interesting balance of power is formed against this background.

According to the analyst, although the US continues to maintain its role, its political position has become more complicated: the war is complicated, expensive, long-term, problematic in terms of internal politics, and uncertain and unclear in terms of goals.

“Israel continues to maintain the most rigid line and is interested in the extension, because it understands that it is not possible to quickly achieve the set goals. And Iran, contrary to many predictions, managed to organize the resistance well, strengthening its positions. All this shows that it is too early to talk about the end of the war. It would be appropriate to say that the conflict is changing its form. We notice that the intensity of open military clashes is changing, but the tension remains. In the future, we may witness similar trends. The most realistic scenario is the scenario of de-escalation without a final agreement, that is, the parties will try to reduce the intensity of military strikes, but will not abandon their positions. At the current stage, the side that is able to impose its agenda on the political and economic levels, rather than winning on the military field, is in the most advantageous position. And with this logic, Iran has currently managed to disappoint many and resist, becoming the dictator of conditions. However, this is not the final result, the war continues, negotiations continue between many different players. Let’s not forget that there is talk of a ground operation, it can also be unpredictable, although many people think that the USA has no chance in this matter. predicted the analyst.

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Our nation needs unity and hope. This was announced by Samvel Karapetyan.

“It is sad how someone temporarily standing at the head of the country sows fear and division in order to maintain power.

He will lose in June because people are tired of divisions and the atmosphere of fear.

I promise you that as Prime Minister, I will unite the country and make it strong with a strong economy and strong peace.

The promise is that with me, as the Prime Minister, the coming September and every month after that will be peaceful. We will do more. we will lower taxes for businesses, create new jobs for people and improve the quality of life. We will have stronger diplomacy and a stronger defense that will guarantee peace with deeds, not words.

As for achieving lasting peace:

1. The outgoing government of the country promised peace, but brought three wars in which it lost. Why should anyone trust them after so many failures?

2. The country’s outgoing leadership is dividing our nation and waging a war of words against its people. If they bring conflict within the country, why should anyone trust them to keep Armenia safe?

3. Armenia has a temporary peace today. It is temporary because it is a weak peace without several guarantors, with weak borders and weak defenses.

As Prime Minister, I will ensure a strong and lasting peace. That peace will be based on strong diplomacy, multiple security guarantors, a strong defense with strong borders and 10,000 drones, protected skies and a modernized, professionally equipped army.

A strong peace also depends on a strong economy, with new factories, 300,000 new jobs and new opportunities for business and agriculture. In today’s world, a strong economy strengthens diplomacy and defense.

The outgoing leadership of the country is trying to convince you that this is impossible and that the only way to peace is weakness and submission to the demands of our adversaries. They are trying to assure us that if we give up our Armenian symbols, our legitimate interests, then we will have peace. This is a big lie.

Our national hero Garegin Nzhdeh used to say: “To be a coward, to remain a coward, and at the same time to dream of an independent homeland, isn’t it funny?” Isn’t it funny to be a sheep and complain about the wolf? Become a sheep, do not be surprised by the coming of the wolf. Peace and independence belong to the brave, because the brave walk in the way of God.’ Armenians keep these words in their hearts. It is sad to see that the government acts contrary to these words of Garegin Nzhdeh. They lost the peace three times and still do not want to learn from their mistakes.

I call on all Armenians not to be afraid. Don’t let the same people who have already proven themselves incapable of defending Armenia threaten you with war again.

I promise you one thing. together we will build a lasting and strong peace with an open front,” he said.

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On March 26, during a briefing with journalists after the government session, Nikol Pashinyan, referring to the estimate that in 2023 Azerbaijan carried out ethnic cleansing. mention is. 

“We can say ethnic cleansing, but I consider this word harmful, because we can say ethnic cleansing and get a mirror of ethnic cleansing, then genocide, mirror genocide, everything mirrored, it means to enter the path of conflict. That’s not my concern. And I, as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, say that I completely refuse, so to speak, the agenda of restoration of historical justice, we must go after the just reality.”

Then he in the same “tone” continued.

“It is enough to feed our people with information about the new genocide. And, in general, the race of these genocides should be stopped. In our region, everyone accuses everyone else of genocides. With talk about genocides, by the way, it’s hard to say which one happened after, we get talk about genocides, with talk about return, we get talk about return.”

In this context, first, let us remind that in 2023 March 16 government session Pashinyan announced at the time.

“Our assessment remains the same: the military-political leadership of Azerbaijan sees preparations for ethnic cleansing and genocide against the people of Nagorno-Karabakh. This protocol is largely present in the decision of the International Court of Justice of February 22, where it was clearly stated that the closure of the Lachin Corridor could bring irreversible humanitarian consequences for the people of Nagorno-Karabakh. In this sense, I consider it important and urgent that Armenia takes measures in the direction of launching international mechanisms for the prevention of genocides. We are talking, in particular, about the mechanisms provided for in the UN framework. I have given relevant instructions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about this.”

And if we consider that on March 26, 2026, Pashinyan was hinting about having intelligence and non-intelligence data, we can assume that what he voiced before the actions of Baku to depopulate Artsakh was not just an assessment, but a clear information and warning.

And in 2023 on September 21, when Azerbaijan had already started the attack against Artsakh, Pashinyan with a message applied to the people, where he first mentioned.

«I saw that there are reports that Azerbaijani troops are in Stepanakert, etc., and so on. There is no such thing: Of course, there are certain communication difficulties and complications, as far as I have heard from our colleagues in Nagorno-Karabakh, there are also certain problems on the roads leading to Martakert and Martuni, but in general the situation is stable.”

This is despite the fact that on September 19, as we mentioned, Azerbaijan launched a large-scale attack against Artsakh, and in 2020. On September 21, gunshots were already heard in the neighborhoods near Stepanakert, the evacuation of women and children had begun. Anyway, in his said message, Pashinyan continued.

“In my speeches of the previous period, I constantly accused Azerbaijan of trying to subject Nagorno Karabakh to ethnic cleansing. In other words, we have been making this accusation against Azerbaijan for a long time. And now I, when I analyze the situation, I get the impression that there are forces who want to carry out the plan to subject Nagorno Karabakh to ethnic cleansing so that Azerbaijan, so to speak, has no reason to be blamed. In other words, let me say: look, Armenia, the Republic of Armenia, the people of Armenia, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh themselves decided that no Armenians should stay in Nagorno-Karabakh, they decided and left.” he declared.

Let’s put it on the record, now it is Pashinyan himself who is clearing the crime of ethnic cleansing from Azerbaijan.

Already in 2020 of the government of September 28 during the session, when the picture, in practice, was already clear, Pashinyan said.

“The analysis shows that there will be no more Armenians left in Nagorno-Karabakh in the coming days. This is a direct act of ethnic cleansing and depatriation. Statements by various international players condemning the ethnic cleansing taking place in Nagorno-Karabakh are important, but if not followed by concrete actions, these statements will be seen as mere moral statistics for history. so that in the future, different countries will have the opportunity to formally dissociate themselves from this crime, saying, well, we have condemned it. If declarations of condemnation are not followed by adequate political and legal decisions, condemnations become acts of acquiescence.”

Despite the above-mentioned assessments, Pashinyan already calls the people of Artsakh “fugitives” when after some time he did not consider their return to Artsakh realistic, of course, in this case he considered this topic closed in general.

Now Pashinyan is backtracking, in fact, also from his previous assessments that Azerbaijan carried out ethnic cleansing in Artsakh in 2023. Moreover, he considers, in fact, that Aliyev has grounds for a similar accusation of “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” against Armenia.  The fact that Baku and Aliyev blame Armenia for the “Khojalu Genocide”, the “ethnic cleansing” of Azerbaijanis who lived in Armenia, is not a secret, nor is it news, but when the Armenian leadership gives such “legitimate” grounds and rights, it is something completely different.

By the way, until yesterday Pashinyan was banning “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” rhetoric in RA, Baku had organized More than seven dozen international tourists from 37 countries visited the memorial complex dedicated to the memory of “Khojalu Genocide victims”, which was opened a month ago, and this without any conditions. And now, when Nikol Pashinyan hints that he still needs to understand the genocides that happened after that, he does not give Aliyev a “victory ticket”, and besides, regarding the events of Khojalu in particular, Aliyev ignores the obvious. the facts and puts the responsibility on the Armenian side.

Pashinyan knows, doesn’t he, that Aliyev blamed Armenia? A memorial was built not only for the “Ganja events” related to the 44-day war that took place during his reign, but also for the victims of the “Ganja events”.: And although today, in the context of the first Artsakh war and the 2020 war, the former military-political leadership of Artsakh was convicted in Baku, but during the trial, in the context of the “Ganja events”, they were given The name of the former military leadership of RA, specific military personnel. Pashinyan, who was in Artsakh in those days, is he sure that after closing the topic of “genocide”, Aliyev will not return to this topic regarding Armenia, because, as we mentioned, the former leaders of Artsakh were convicted in Baku, or is he going to say that he is not aware and blame the military?:

Against the background of Pashinyan’s statements mentioned above, we could not ignore the fact that Vilen Gabrielyan, Pashinyan’s teammate and candidate to become a deputy again, “Gardman-Shirvan-Nakhijevan” Pan-Armenian union is the leader who regularly spoke in 1988-1991. in the Azerbaijan SSR and in 1992 About state-sponsored genocidal actions in the Republic of Azerbaijan (Armenian pogroms in Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, forced deportation of Armenians from Northern Karabakh accompanied by pogroms) and noted that they were not subjected to any legal investigation. In addition to this, from time to time he responded to various statements from Baku, referred to the destruction of the Armenian historical and cultural heritage in the occupied Artsakh.

It should be noted here that the organization was quite active in previous years, in 2026. seem to have become passive. We should also ask Vilen Gabrielyan a question here. when their political leader questions the initiator of the Azerbaijani massacres and genocidal actions, doesn’t he have questions related to this, whose family moved from Baku to Armenia, doesn’t it turn out that the Armenians in Baku “did something”, that massacres started, that there was forced displacement, ethnic cleansing? Moreover, Gabrielyan always spoke from the right of return of forcibly displaced people, now Pashinyan considers that issue closed, neutralizes that right, how does he imagine his activity in this field? Maybe here, so to speak, “podvokh”, especially when Vilen Gabrielyan was not against the return of Azerbaijanis to Armenia on various occasions. By the way, the Azerbaijani “Hakkinaz” was published in 2024 had noticed in one of his articles that The creation of the “Gardman-Shirvan-Nakhijevan” union was a “symmetric” response to the creation of the “West Azerbaijan” community, that is, an attempt was made to balance the civil struggle for the right of return. Of course, there is logic here, the problem is that Pashinyan closed the topic of the right of return for the Armenian side, which Aliyev did not do.

About a month ago, 168.am published an article entitled “Aliyev’s dangerous and cunning proposal to Pashinyan”. And next are the next NA elections, after which it is not excluded that Pashinyan, who has put aside the subject of the return of Azerbaijanis, will practically return to it if he receives the next legitimacy…

Metaxe Hakobyan, deputy of Artsakh NA “Justice” faction In recent days, he has been having even more intense meetings with our compatriots who were forcibly displaced from Artsakh, who, according to him, after being targeted by Pashinyan and his teammates, feel another deep insult and a feeling of betrayal.

“These authorities are doing everything, for reasons unknown to us, so that the people of Artsakh are filled with hatred towards themselves. Unfortunately, these manifestations exist. During our conversations, we state that, for better or worse, they cannot be in power forever, we must fight back, we must maintain our dignity, but never stoop to their level and not give in to their provocations, and in any case, any manifestation of hatred is unacceptable for all parties.

There is also depression, great disappointment, brokenness to such an extent that there are fewer and fewer people thinking for the better.” 168TV “Review” he said during the program, stressing that “the authorities are trying to eliminate the people of Artsakh from the field in every way”.

According to him, the authorities know very well that the people of Artsakh will not elect them. “The people of Artsakh can never support these authorities, and on the contrary, the people of Artsakh will be involved in all those national forces that try to remove these authorities. In other words, this aid will be exclusively for the national forces. Therefore, they will first try to show in our society that in any way the Artsakh citizen is not in the interests of Armenia with his behavior and the Artsakh citizen has no intention of helping them to build that peace. And they should present in every possible way that the people of Artsakh have a revenge against Armenia, which is not true.”

Referring to the well-known metro incident, he mentioned that Pashinyan found himself in a trap of his own making.

“He thought it was a good situation, he found a person from Artsakh, whom he could tell as if it was in reality, but he was wrong, because in front of him was the woman whose father had deliberately sacrificed his life, and her three children had grown up without a father, but they had not lost the dignity that came from the father’s genes as a result of the mother’s education. I have been saying a lot in recent days that what happened in the subway, Armine’s position, the response, can be considered as a collective response of the people of Artsakh to Nikol.

Today, the people of Artsakh found themselves in this situation because Nikol ran away, his entourage ran away, the people of Artsakh were left alone against several states.”

Details in the 168TV video

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Edgar Ghazaryan and Davit Sargsyan of the “Erku front” podcast in the next edition, they discuss the threat of a new war by the head of the regime to the public, blackmailing Azerbaijan with the alleged September aggression in the event of a change of power, they also remind what disasters and destructions, wars and defeats this regime has brought to our country in the past six years.

Details in the video

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Nikol Pashinyan and his teammates are announcing from the NA rostrum, the corridors of the parliament and all possible platforms that if “KP does not become the government in the parliamentary elections of June 7, then there will be a war.” Nikol Pashinyan even recently mentioned when that war could happen: “After the elections, in September.”

Gas technologist Armen Badalyan in other words, Nikol Pashinyan presents his statement as a campaign of pride, because the strategy of the CP election campaign is “peace”, naturally, all this is put into circulation by Pashinyan himself and his teammates.

“Nikol Pashinyan declares that he has brought peace, so can’t he now stand up and declare that people, choose whomever you want, there will always be peace in the country?” On the eve of the elections, Nikol Pashinyan should advance the line of “black” and “white”, but not in the context of “formers”, but in the context of peace or war. Nikol Pashinyan identifies himself with peace and others with war, this is his strategy.” of 168.am Armen Badalyan said in a conversation with

According to the political technologist, this thesis put forward by Nikol Pashinyan can influence a part of the vacillating electorate, the electorate, which at the moment is still not well-orientated as to whom it will vote for.

“Nikol Pashinyan deliberately mentions that the war may start in September, let’s not forget that the 44-day catastrophic war of 2020 started in September itself. This will have a certain effect on the fluctuating electorate,” added Armen Badalyan.

According to his observation, the war Pashinyan said cannot happen not because he signed the peace agreement in Washington on August 8, nor because there are EU observers standing at the border, who “come and go through the mountains and valleys with binoculars”, but because today the war against Armenia is not in the interest of Armenia’s neighbor Iran.

“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran is stationed in the south of Armenia, in Iran. It is not in their interest for Azerbaijan to attack Armenia. After 2020, it has become more convinced of this and is doing everything to maintain peace here.

From the rank-and-file ambassador to the highest-ranking official in Iran, they have repeatedly said that the territorial integrity of Armenia is a “red line” for them. As long as Iran resists the Israel-United States tandem, there will be peace in Armenia, regardless of whether Pashinyan remains the head of the country or not. If Iran’s resistance is broken, then we also have a serious question to think about,” stressed Armen Badalyan.

At the same time, the mineral technologist said that today it is not in Russia’s interest for the so-called “corridor” in Syunik to come under the control of the Turkish world. If Iran loses and Russia is busy with Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Turkey will take this “corridor” without taking into account whether Pashinyan is the leader of Armenia or not.

“Peace doesn’t happen on paper, it doesn’t happen with a paper guarantee, but it happens with strength and troops. Therefore, the threat of war has nothing to do with reality in general, it has to do only with the upcoming elections,” emphasized Armen Badalyan.

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