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We are joined now by Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Dr. Michael Leiter. Good morning and welcome back to the program.

DR. MICHAEL LEITER: Good morning, Margaret, good to be with you.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Israel and the US have been lockstep in this war to date. You heard the vice president sort of leave the door open to diplomacy, but President Trump also said this morning, the US is locked and loaded for an appropriate moment. Is it your understanding that Israel and the US will hold fire until the end of this two week ceasefire?

MICHAEL LEITER: We have to remember that the President has been relentless in pursuing an end to this crisis through talks. That’s the talks preceded the June war, talks preceded epic fury, the talks are going on now, and I think that if we can conclude this crisis with Iran, with this regime, this tyrannical regime, that’s pursuing nuclear weapons without going back into kinetic activity, it would probably be best for everyone. The president continues to pursue that. But right now they saw face to face, the vice president sat opposite this fellow, Qalibaf, who is directly responsible for the murder of his own people just in January, this past January, and just saw how obdurate and obstinate they are in pursuit of nuclear weapons.

MARGARET BRENNAN: When you said the talks are still going on, are there – is there any level of US-Iran contact at this point?

MICHAEL LEITER: Well, you know, the President gave the issue two weeks, and we’re just into the end of the first week, so there is another week left for the potential for continued talks. We, we know the Iranians. We know this regime. We don’t think they’re going anywhere, but it’s important to give it a chance.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Vance said, we need to see Iran give affirmative commitment to not seek a nuclear weapon, or the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon. Is your understanding that the US position is zero enrichment or are they still leaving the door open that Iran could have a civil-civilian nuclear program for medical purposes?

MICHAEL LEITER: Civilian nuclear program doesn’t entail enrichment. There are 57 countries with a civilian nuclear program that don’t have enrichment.

MARGARET BRENNAN: — But they want a little bit, you know that.

MICHAEL LEITER: No, no, if they have a little bit then they can have a lot to move from 60% which they had, to 90%. Look, you don’t build these production plants deep underground if you’re doing it for medical purposes, you have nothing to hide. These people lie. We shouldn’t be surprised when people who murder their own also lie. This has been their pursuit. They’ve been chanting for 47 years, death to America, death to Israel.

The skeletal remains of at least 11 people were found in hidden graves in western Mexico, local authorities said Thursday.

The graves were found in a rural lot in Ixtlahuacan, a suburb of Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco, the local prosecutor’s office said.

Meanwhile, another 12 bags containing human remains were found at a construction site in nearby Tlajomulco, said Blanca Trujillo, the deputy prosecutor for missing persons, during a press conference.

She said the total number of victims from both sites is still unknown, adding that in both cases, the remains appear to be from a long time ago, without specifying a timeframe.

The discovery of the grave site adds to dozens of similar cases in Jalisco, the state hardest hit by the crisis of missing persons affecting Mexico and where one of the country’s most violent and powerful drug cartels operates.

According to official figures, Mexico has more than 130,000 missing persons, most of them in the last two decades amid drug-related violence.

Jalisco has more than 15,900 cases of missing persons, a toll that experts attribute to the activities of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, official data shows.

The cartel has been accused of using fake job advertisements to lure new members and of torturing and killing recruits who resist.

One of the largest mass graves in Mexico was reported in 2017 when more than 250 skulls were found in what appeared to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz.

Most recently, in October 2025, as many as 48 bags containing human remains were found in a vacant lot in Zapopan, a vast outlying municipality in the Guadalajara metropolitan area.

Guadalajara, the state’s capital city, is one of the three Mexican cities hosting 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup matches this summer.

The Mexican federal government announced the deployment of nearly 100,000 troops to guarantee security in all three host cities, which also include Monterrey and Mexico City. Mexico is hosting the soccer tournament with the U.S. and Canada.

In February, Mexican military forces killed Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and one of the United States’ most-wanted drug lords, leading to an outbreak of violence. After the incident, FIFA reaffirmed its confidence as a host city.

Iran is accusing Israel of violating the conditional ceasefire announced by President Trump by continuing its war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran also accused the U.S. of violating multiple clauses of the deal framework.
Iranian media outlets said Tehran was suspending tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and was considering pulling out of the deal with Washington over Israel’s actions in Lebanon. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump was aware of reports saying the strait had been closed, but said the reports “are false.”
Energy and stock markets embraced the ceasefire news Wednesday, with oil still trading well above pre-war levels but dropping below $100 a barrel. Stock markets in Asia and Europe soared and U.S. futures were up significantly. But oil rose again Thursday to above $97 a barrel and Asian stocks were trading lower due to skepticism that the ceasefire would hold.

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Iran’s envoy deletes post on delegation’s arrival in Pakistan for talks with U.S.
Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan deleted a social media post saying an Iranian delegation would arrive in Islamabad on Thursday night, a move an embassy official later told AFP had been sent prematurely.

Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam said in a social media post Thursday morning that an Iranian delegation would arrive “tonight in Islamabad for serious talks based on 10 points proposed by Iran.” The post was deleted shortly after.

An official at the Iranian embassy in Islamabad told AFP the post was removed “because of some issues,” declining to say whether the delegation was still expected Thursday. When asked further, the official said: “Timing — we were not supposed to send it.”

The deletion raises fresh uncertainty over the arrival schedule, although both the United States and Iran have confirmed their participation in peace talks, brokered by Pakistan in its capital, Islamabad.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif invited both delegations “to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.”

The White House has said Vice President Vance would lead U.S. negotiations over the Middle East war in Islamabad “this weekend.”

A 9-year-old boy was rescued this week after living locked in his father’s utility van in eastern France since 2024, according to the local prosecutor. The child has been hospitalized, and his father was detained.

Police were alerted by a neighbor to “sounds of a child” coming from a van on Monday in the village of Hagenbach near the borders of Switzerland and Germany, according to a statement from Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz provided Saturday.

After forcing the van open, they found a child “lying in a fetal position, naked, covered by a blanket on top of a mound of trash and near excrement,” the statement said. The child was malnourished and could no longer walk, because he had been in a seated position for so long, the statement said.

The boy’s father, 43, told investigators he put the child in the truck in November 2024 “to protect him,” because his partner, 37, wanted to send the boy to a psychiatric hospital, the prosecutor said. The boy was 7 at the time.

The prosecutor said there was no medical record indicating the boy had any psychiatric problems before he disappeared, and the boy had good grades in school.

The boy told investigators he had “big difficulties” with his father’s partner, and thought his father “had no choice” but to lock him up, according to the prosecutor. He said he hadn’t showered since 2024.

The boy told police his dad brought him food twice a day and left him water, CBS News partner BBC News reported, citing Le Parisien newspaper.

He said he had to urinate in plastic bottles and defecate in bin bags, the outlet added, and the last time he had a shower was late 2024.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is set to lose the national election, with opposition leader Peter Magyar set to win a large majority in parliament. It is a bombshell result in an election seen as one of Europe’s most consequential this year.

Orbán, the longest-serving leader in the European Union and a longtime ally of President Trump, conceded defeat Sunday night after what he called a “painful” election result, ending 16 years in power.

“I congratulated the victorious party,″ Orbán told supporters in Budapest. “We are going to serve the Hungarian nation and our homeland from opposition as well.”

In a Facebook post on Sunday, Magyar said that Orbán conceded to him in a phone call. “Prime Minister Viktor Orbán just congratulated me on the phone on our victory,” Magyar wrote.

With 77% of the vote counted, Magyar’s party had more than 53% support to 38% for Orbán’s governing Fidesz party.

Addressing his supporters earlier Sunday evening, Magyar said that up to 6 million Hungarians had voted in Sunday’s election, in a country that has little more than 9 million people.

With the Parliament building as the backdrop, large crowds waving the Hungarian flag gathered at the Tisza’s election results party near the Danube River and celebrated Magyar’s projected win.

“We are celebrating because this is a moment that will go down in history, in Hungarian history, that this regime, this system has been broken … I think this is a celebration of democracy,” a Budapest resident in the crowd told CBS News.

Independent watchdogs and European Union officials have accused Orbán’s government of launching a sustained assault on the country’s democratic institutions and rule of law since. In the 16 years since he took office in 2010, the country has descended to the rank of the most corrupt country in the European Union, according to the U.K.-based anti-corruption group Transparency International.

At a polling station in Budapest on Sunday, CBS News spoke to a handful of voters, all of whom said they were voting for Magyar and his center-right Tisza party.

“Orban is very anti-EU and pro-Russia, and I think that aligning yourself with, in my opinion, a war criminal, is not good for the country of Hungary,” said a 21-year-old who only identified himself as Daniel.

Casting his ballot in Budapest on Sunday, Marcell Mehringer, 21, told the Associated Press he was voting “primarily so that Hungary will finally be a so-called European country, and so that young people, and really everyone, will do their fundamental civic duty to unite this nation a bit and to break down these boundaries borne of hatred.”