🇺🇸🇵🇰🇮🇷 Full statement from JD Vance following 21 hours of talks in Islamabad:

"We have not reached an agreement, and I think that's bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States."

Vance says the US made clear its red lines and what it would accommodate — Iran chose not to accept US terms. The core issue:

"We need to see an affirmative commitment that they will not seek a nuclear weapon and will not seek the tools that would enable them to quickly achieve a nuclear weapon."

He claims Iran's enrichment facilities "have been destroyed" but says the US hasn't seen "a fundamental commitment of will for the Iranians not to develop a nuclear weapon, not just now, not just two years from now, but for the long term."
Talks collapse.

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🐻Enjoy your weekend - and here's all the key news of the past 24 hours you maybe missed

➡️Russian fighters get ready for Orthodox Easter

➡️Sane residents of Odessa celebrate the city's liberation from the Nazis

➡️Russia and Ukraine have carried out an exchange of prisoners of war, and Russia returned its last civilian hostages Ukrainians had kidnapped from the Kursk region

➡️Iran and the US held negotiations in Pakistan. That went about as well as most people expected - the Iranian side called them "not merely dialogue and negotiation, but rather a demand", and no agreement was reached, JD Vance says that the nuclear issue is the one the sides can't agree on. Here's the Iranian take on the whole thing

➡️Netanyahu claims Israel is "strangling" Iran, Iraq, and Yemen

➡️Trump threatens China over reports that they are supplying Iran with MANPADS

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🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸Pakistani Defense Minister following Islamabad talks:

Several rounds of intense and constructive negotiations continued for twenty-four hours between US Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Parliament Speaker Qalibaf, mediated by Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir. Pakistan expresses gratitude to both sides for appreciating its mediatory role.

"We hope that the two sides continue with the positive spirit to achieve durable peace and prosperity for the entire region and beyond. It is imperative that the parties continue to uphold their commitment to ceasefire."

Pakistan will continue facilitating engagement and dialogue between Iran and the United States in the days to come.

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🇮🇷 Al Mayadeen analyst Musa Assi: Vance's uranium/nuclear weapons excuse is "very weak and cannot be believed."

Iran has repeatedly said it doesn't want nuclear weapons and is ready to reduce enrichment to very low levels for civilian use. Everyone is convinced Iran does not have the intention to produce a nuclear weapon.

The real reasons for failure:

1. Israel succeeded in sabotaging negotiations by insisting on continuing the war on Lebanon, violating the ceasefire that Trump had agreed to as a precondition.

2. The US chose "Israel first" not "America first." Vance called Trump ten times in 21 hours, showing he lacked full authority. The American negotiating team chose Israeli interests over American interests and peace.

Failure may take us back to before the ceasefire. The military option is still on the table.

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🇹🇷💬🇮🇱'Isn't this a form of apartheid?' - Erdogan criticizes new Israel death penalty for Palestinians

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🇺🇸 Trump is sharing articles floating a US naval blockade of Iran, the "Venezuela playbook," after talks fail. Here's what that would actually look like.

The idea is the US Navy takes control of the Strait of Hormuz and Kharg Island strangling Iran's economy while cutting China and India off from their key oil source simultaneously.

The problem: Iran is not Venezuela.

🔸 The strait is only 33km wide at its narrowest point, every ship that enters is within range of Iran's entire coastal arsenal
🔸 Iran's Khalij Fars anti-ship ballistic missiles have a 300km range and are designed specifically to hit moving ships at sea
🔸 Noor and Qader cruise missiles, fired from mobile launchers hidden in coastal caves, cover the entire strait from the Iranian shoreline
🔸 Iran has an estimated 5,000-6,000 naval mines — including influence mines that sit on the seabed and are nearly impossible to detect
🔸 IRGC fast attack swarm boats are designed specifically to overwhelm US destroyers in confined waters — a classified DoD war game found the US lost 16 major warships including a carrier to Iranian swarm tactics
🔸 Iran controls three fortified island outposts (Larak, Qeshm and Abu Musa) sitting directly on the shipping lanes, each with underground bunkers and missile batteries

Iran doesn't even need to win a naval battle, FPRI experts note Iran is running an "insurance blockade," it only needs to strike occasionally to make insurance uneconomical for commercial shipping. That alone shuts the strait down.

Mine clearance in a contested environment takes a minimum of 4 weeks, and the US has decommissioned most of its dedicated minesweepers in CENTCOM. In 1991 it took 40 ships four months to clear Iraqi minefields in a permissive environment.

Meanwhile the USS Gerald R. Ford, cited in the article as leading the blockade, is currently in Split, Croatia being repaired after Iranian strikes. The USS George H.W. Bush is en route as replacement.

Trump may be out-blockaded before the blockade even starts.

Source.

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🇷🇺💬🇺🇳Russia does not yet have a preference for a candidate for the post of the new UN Secretary-General. The election campaign is just gaining momentum, Kirill Logvinov, the director of the Department of International Organizations of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti.

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🇷🇺🚩 April 1961: Moscow metro passengers reading newspaper reports of Yury Gagarin's space flight.

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🇭🇺Parliamentary elections have started in Hungary

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🇭🇺💬🇺🇦Ukraine will open the "Druzhba" oil pipeline immediately after the elections in Hungary, Orban believes.

"We will win the elections and the next morning, the Ukrainians will open it," he told RIA Novosti.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷Trump stated that he is considering the possibility of a naval blockade of Iran.

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🇷🇺 A cat from Sevastopol is ready for Easter too

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🇮🇷 Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf: "The United States failed to gain Iran’s trust in response to our initiatives."

➡️Before the negotiations, I emphasized that we have the necessary goodwill and determination, but due to the experiences of the previous two wars, we do not trust the other side.

➡️My colleagues in the Iranian delegation at “Minab 168” presented forward-looking initiatives, but in the end, the other side failed to earn the trust of the Iranian delegation in this round of talks.

➡️The United States understood our logic and principles, and now it is time for it to decide whether it can gain our trust or not.

➡️At all times, we consider “power-based diplomacy” as another approach alongside military struggle to secure the rights of the Iranian people, and we will not cease for a moment our efforts to consolidate the achievements of 40 days of Iran’s national defense.

➡️I appreciate the efforts of the friendly and brotherly country of Pakistan in facilitating this negotiation process, and I send my greetings to the people of Pakistan.

➡️Iran is one body with 90 million souls. I thank the entire heroic nation of Iran, who—following the guidance of the Supreme Leader—supported their compatriots by taking to the streets and sending their prayers with us. I also commend my colleagues for their efforts in these intensive 21-hour negotiations.

➡️Long live and prosper beloved Iran!

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Two U.S. warships entered the Strait of Hormuz yesterday but turned back after an Iranian drone appeared overhead.

This was reported by The New York Times, citing sources familiar with the operation.

The ships were expected to demonstrate that the passage was secure—potentially the first step toward a mine-clearing mission. Instead, they withdrew after an Iranian reconnaissance drone showed up. The drone was reportedly shot down.

According to sources, the two U.S. Navy vessels moved out of the Gulf of Oman, entered the strait, and then reversed course. While U.S. officials said the drone posed no direct threat, the Navy chose not to proceed under active Iranian surveillance.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Masoud Pezeshkian, according to the Kremlin.

Pezeshkian congratulated Putin and Orthodox Christians in Russia on Easter.

He also commented on the Iran–U.S. talks held on April 11 in Islamabad.

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🇮🇷🇷🇺 Masoud Pezeshkian thanked Vladimir Putin for Russia’s humanitarian assistance to the Iranian people, as well as for Moscow’s principled stance, including on international platforms, aimed at de-escalating the situation, the Kremlin said.

Putin and Pezeshkian also reaffirmed their mutual commitment to further strengthening comprehensive, good-neighborly relations between Russia and Iran.

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🇺🇸 Alex Jones and conservative comedian JP Sears did a sketch mocking Donald Trump.

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