Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is calling on President Trump to “strike and destroy” the nuclear facilities in Iran ahead of a third round of talks later this week. 

“You’re never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities,” Fetterman said Wednesday in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon.

Fetterman’s comments come as the Trump administration’s two-month timeline to reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program nears an end.

Trump has expressed confidence ahead of a third round of talks to be held later this week, but it’s unclear if the two countries can find common ground about eliminating Iran’s nuclear program, among other priorities.

Fetterman dismissed foreign policy experts who say the U.S. striking Iran would lead to a regional war.

He sharply criticized Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy group, as a group that “couldn’t fight” and slammed the Palestinian militant group Hamas as a “bunch of tunnel rats with junkie rockets in the back of a Toyota truck.”

Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.

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The words “spring break” tend to conjure images of wild college trips, wet t-shirt contests, and phosphorescent drinks in sweating plastic cups. For parents of younger children, however, the week off is more often an opportunity to sit down, keep half an eye on the kids to make sure they don’t accidentally destroy themselves, and maybe read an Oprah’s Book Club selection or two.

Judging by Ivanka Trump’s Instagram photo dump on Tuesday, the latter was the vibe of her recent family vacation with husband Jared Kushner and kids Arabella, 14, Joseph, 11, and Theodore, 9, to Costa Rica. Of the 18 photos and videos included in her carousel, just one slide does not feature the beach and/or a horse: a picture of her reading list.

And, boy, is it interesting to read into her picks.

In the post’s caption, in which she gushes about how “grateful” she is for the trip (the word “doesn’t begin to cover it,” she insists), Trump describes “logging off and tuning in. Grounding in nature’s rhythm. Feeling the sacred in the silence, in the laughter of my children, in the breath of the trees.”

Ivanka also, in her own words, “read until the sun dipped low.” Three favorites are arrayed on a bedspread: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, The Women by Kristin Hannah, and The Tell by Amy Griffin. The books have a few things in common: They’re all written by female authors, and feature main characters that could fall under the “strong female lead” umbrella. They are all distinguished members of the New York Times bestseller club. The two fictional entries, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and The Women, both had their film rights snapped up in big-deal movie contracts before the books even hit shelves.

President Trump and his top aides demanded on Wednesday that Ukraine accede to an American-designed proposal that would essentially grant Russia all the territory it has gained in the war, while offering Kyiv only vague security assurances.

The American plan, which would also explicitly block Ukraine from ever joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was rejected by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, whose long-running dispute with Mr. Trump broke into the open two months ago in the Oval Office. The proposal also appears to call for the United States to recognize Russia’s 2014 takeover of Crimea, a region of Ukraine.

“There is nothing to talk about,” Mr. Zelensky said. “This violated our Constitution. This is our territory, the territory of Ukraine.”

Mr. Trump shot back on social media that the Ukrainian president was being “inflammatory” and said he would only “prolong the ‘killing field.’”

Mr. Trump suggested the proposal was on the verge of acceptance by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. “I think we have a deal with Russia,” he told reporters at the White House. The problem, he suggested, was Mr. Zelensky.

“I thought it might be easier to deal with Zelensky,” he said. “So far it’s harder.”

Vice President JD Vance struck a similar theme while traveling in India.