• Khamenei tables conditions to resume cooperation with US.
• Says US must completely abandon support for Israel for talks.
• Iran’s FM says ready for talks only on nuclear programme.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Tehran would only consider cooperation with the United States if it changed its policy in the region, including supporting Israel.

“If they completely abandon support for the Zionist regime, withdraw their military bases from here [the region], and refrain from interfering in this region, then it [cooperation] can be considered,” said Khamenei.

“The arrogant nature of the United States accepts nothing other than submission.”

In mid-June, Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran, triggering a war which saw the US join briefly with strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

The 12-day war with Israel, which prompted an Iranian response with missile and drone strikes, derailed nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington, which had begun in April.

A ceasefire between Iran and Israel has been in place since June 24.

“If the country becomes strong and the enemy realises that confronting this strong nation will not yield profit but will bring loss, the country will certainly gain immunity,” Khamenei added.

Iran has been reeling under years of international sanctions, especially after the United States in 2018 withdrew from a nuclear accord and reimposed sanctions.

In September, the United Nations reinstated sanctions under the so-called “snapback” mechanism after Britain, France and Germany triggered the process.

On Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with Al Jazeera that Tehran remained “ready to enter negotiations” with Washington, but only on its nuclear programme, ruling out any talks on its missile capabilities.

He added that talks could resume “whenever the Americans are ready to negotiate on an equal footing and based on mutual interests. Apparently, they are not in a hurry. We are not in a hurry either.”

Canadians supporters of Prince Harry have that Meghan Markle has completely ignored their support for the Duke of Sussex’s Invictus Games.

The Duchess of Sussex sparked fresh backlash as after a video showed her celebrating the Los Angeles Dodgers’ World Series win against the Toronto Blue Jays.

The clip was shared by Kelly McKee Zajfen . 

A fan said, “Canada just warmly welcomed Harry’s Invictus Games.  “That also deserves a level of respect from a royal.” I don’t care who she supports in sports, but she doesn’t need to post it. Again it speaks volumes of narcissism .”

Many others reminded Meghan Markle of how Canada had welcomed her and Harry when the couple departed the UK.

Others said the Duchess of Sussex should also not forget that Harry’s father, King Charles III, is the head of state of Canada.

Many Canadians were unhappy because it came just months after political tensions started between the two countries due to US President Donald Trump’s controversial statements about making Canada the 51st state of the United States.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had first arrived in Canada after stepping down from their royal duties and before settling in California with their Prince Archie.

The couple now live in US with their two children, Archie and Lilibet, the couple’s daughter who was born in Los Angeles.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, Duke of York, appears set to be stripped of his last honorary military title as the British royals continue their efforts to distance themselves from King Charles III’s younger brother over his links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“We’ve seen Andrew surrender the military positions that he’s had and we’re looking now at the one remaining position he has, which is the honorary vice admiral position, and we’ve got a process underway for that” to be removed, Defense Secretary John Healey told Britain’s Sky News on Sunday.

In a separate interview on the same subject with CBS News’ partner network BBC News, the defense chief said “it’s a move the king has indicated we should take.”

Mountbatten Windsor is the late Queen Elizabeth II’s third child. He spent decades in public life as a working member of the royal family, but revelations of his historical ties Epstein have turned him into a pariah figure. In 2016, he was named in a civil lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, who alleged that Epstein paid her to have sex with the former prince on several occasions. Mountbatten Windsor has repeatedly denied the claims, but he settled the case out of court with Giuffre in 2022, for an undisclosed sum.

That settlement failed to stanch criticism of the former prince and the resulting pressure on the royal family, however, as new information continued to emerge about his historic connections with Epstein in the wake of a damning 2019 interview with the BBC’s Newsnight, in which he defended his ties to the disgraced financier.

In the years after that interview, right up until this year, amid revelations about correspondence between Epstein and the then-prince, the royal family appeared reluctant to intervene, allowing him to step away from public duties and to give up many of his titles and privileges of his own volition. 

Last week, however, in a landmark move, King Charles announced that his younger brother would be deprived of the title of prince and told to leave his 30-room, tax-payer-funded Royal Lodge home in Windsor.

One of the few titles Andrew Mountbatten Windsor still holds is honorary Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy, which he received on his 55th birthday in 2015. It is unclear how long the process to remove that title, which defense chief Healy has now confirmed is underway, might take.

The former prince had a 22-year career in the Royal Navy, including serving as a helicopter pilot during the Falklands War, and commanding the anti-mine vessel HMS Cottesmore.

Asked about the ongoing scandal, President Trump told CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell in an interview that aired Sunday on 60 Minutes that “it’s a terrible thing that’s happened” to the royal family. 

“That’s been a tragic situation,” he said. “And, I mean, I feel badly for the family.”

CBS News has contacted the royal family for comment on the pending removal of the former prince’s Royal Naval title.