Isa Soares

Thinking of Paraskeviya tonight, who is seeing Mariupol’s #Azovstal steel plant being battered and decimated by Russian forces, while her daughter is still inside. Her story of love and loss—with ⁦@MaddieAraujo⁩ & Alessandro Gentile. #Mariupol cnn.com/videos/world/2…

I resigned as U.S. Ambassador Ukraine when Trump kept siding with Putin over our democratic partner. Now, my successor is doing the same. I knew I had to speak out and run for office because siding with dictators is just not who we are.

I never thought I would say this but the blue flak jackets that are meant to protect journalists reporting war are now putting targets on our backs pressgazette.co.uk/news/christina…

“We didn’t have a problem with the Strait of Hormuz; that was created by the war that the U.S. Trump administration launched. So they have created a problem, and it is their main responsibility to sort out the problem that they created”— tells me @carlbildt

We must build trust to secure a permanent ceasefire. Spain fully supports the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Lebanon must be included in this ceasefire. My interview with @IsaCNN on @CNN.

Legend

“What is going on in 🇱🇧 is a real shame in the conscience of humanity. We cannot accept that in S Lebanon, we are heading to a new Gaza, same political and military strategy…Lebanon’s territorial integrity must be guaranteed. Hezbollah must be disarmed & not be a threat Israel.”

Thanks @IsaCNN for hosting me tonight to comment #Iran negotiations

۱- رئیس جمهور آمریکا در یک ساعت هفت ادعا مطرح کرد که هر هفت ادعا کذب است. ۲- با این دروغگویی‌ها در جنگ پیروز نشدند و حتما در مذاکره هم راه به جایی نخواهند برد. ۳- با ادامهٔ محاصره، تنگهٔ هرمز باز نخواهد ماند.

Exclusive: Iran offers proposal allowing ships to exit Oman side of Hormuz free of attack, source says - reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Arab Barghouti, the son of prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti, tells me he was “shocked and appalled” to hear from his father’s Israeli lawyer that he has been mistreated and assaulted three times in the past month by Israeli prison guards.

Former Italian PM @matteorenzi calls President Trump’s attack on the Pope “absolutely crazy”… Says that Pope Leo is the hero of the American dream, while “Trump is an American nightmare.”

I doubt Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?

From 2020... h/t @ColinPClarke

It took the Obama administration nearly two years to negotiate just a nuclear agreement with Iran. There’s no chance the Trump administration gets a more comprehensive deal—including Hormuz, nukes, missiles, and proxies—in two weeks. With @OutFrontCNN

There is no military objective that justifies the wholesale destruction of a society's infrastructure or the deliberate infliction of suffering on civilian populations.

Donald Trump has told the FT he wants to 'take the oil in Iran' and could seize the export hub of Kharg Island. How did the US president's conversation go down on Sunday night with the FT's US national editor? Edward Luce explains it all. ft.trib.al/PT5ZrdU

🚨Secretary of State Marco Rubio told G7 foreign ministers today that the war with Iran will continue for another 2-4 weeks, and stressed that the U.S. is determined to achieve all of its objectives, three sources with direct knowledge told me

SCOOP: Someone made nearly $1m from dozens of remarkably accurate and well-timed bets about Iran, according to a new analysis of Polymarket data shared with CNN. They have 93% "win rate" for Iran bets over $10k since 2024, raising insider trading concerns cnn.com/2026/03/24/pol…

“We are manufacturing a whole new generation of terrorists in the Middle East,” former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel tells me, saying the Trump administration's conduct of its war in Iran appears to him unprecedented.

Asked why he didn't coordinate with allies before going to war with Iran, Trump says, "We didn't tell anyone about it. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"