WASHINGTON -- "The tariffs need to be removed. Let's get back to trading in an open market. That's free trade for both sides," said Davie Stephens, president of the American Soybean Association.

With depressed prices and unsold stocks expected to double by the 2019 harvest, U.S. soybean farmers are unwilling to be "collateral damage" in endless trade disputes with China, Stephens told Xinhua in a recent interview.

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TEHRAN -- "This is the most decisive moment for the Islamic revolution, because the enemy has come to the battlefield with all of its capacities at its disposal," said Iranian Major General Hossein Salami, referring to the U.S. pressure.

Iran is "on the verge of a full-scale confrontation" with the enemies, who are trying to crush the Iranian nation's resistance through the "strategy of maximum pressure and by using all of their capacities," Salami said.

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DUBAI -- "This is our region, the escalation isn't in UAE's interest."

Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) minister of state for foreign affairs, said on Wednesday that the UAE's priority is need for de-escalation, caution and good judgment after attacks on Saudi tankers and other vessels off the coast of the UAE earlier this week.

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PARIS -- "Things are going to continue, to be stepped up for the good of the country because we have committed to do it."

French President Emmanuel Macron will continue his government's reform drive, which has triggered recurrent street protests, even if the far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally) Party takes the lead in the European Parliament elections, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said here on Thursday. Enditem

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