If there is any truth to President Trump’s statement about actual talks with Iran, expect Israel to significantly escalate strikes against Tehran and other areas of the country in the coming days, in an attempt to draw out a “reaction” from the Islamic Regime. The last thing that Israel wants is a diplomatic end to this war that results in any kind of agreement between Iran and the United States.

Washington had kept Israel informed of its talks with Tehran, and that Israel would likely follow the U.S. in suspending any targeting of Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure, a source briefed on Israel's war plans against Iran told Reuters.

Crude oil prices have collapsed following this morning’s announcement by President Trump on “very good and productive talks” with Iran, with Crude Oil WTI now at $88.7 per barrel, approaching the lowest point since the start of the Iran War.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump tells Fox Business that Iran wants to make a deal “badly” and that an agreement could be reached within five days or sooner, stating that talks occurred Sunday night involving Special Envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff with the help of Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey.

In a post moments ago on TruthSocial, U.S. President Donald J. Trump tells ICE Agents being deployed to airports across the country “NO MASKS,” adding that he normally supports masks when agents “search for, and are forced to deal with, hardened criminals, many of whom were let into our Country by Sleepy Joe Biden.”

The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) arrived Monday morning at NATO’s Crete Naval Base in Souda Bay, Greece, following several weeks in the Eastern Mediterranean and Northern Red Sea supporting Operation Epic Fury, during which the ship suffered a significant ventilation fire that resulted in damage to multiple berthings, forcing several hundred sailors to sleep on mattresses placed throughout the Ford.

Speaking about his decision to postpone potential strikes against Iranian power plants by at least five days following negotiations with Iran, U.S. President Donald J. Trump tells reporters this morning at Palm Beach International Airport:

“So, tomorrow morning sometime, their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build. It's a very good one. There was no dearth of money. And one shot, it's gone. It collapses. Why would they want that? So they called. I didn't call. They called. They want to make a deal. And we are very willing to make a deal. It's got to be a good deal. And it's got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons anymore. They're agreeing to that. Any of that stuff is no deal.”

U.S. President Donald J. Trump spoke earlier about his Former Director National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent, who resigned last week due to the Iran War, telling reporters that Kent, “remarried fairly quickly,” after his wife, Senior Chief Shannon M. Kent, was killed in a suicide bombing in Manbij, Syria in 2019. With Trump saying:

“Look, I'm not a fan of the guy. If you look at, and you never cover this, if you look at his truths or whatever he went on, if it's X or truth, if you look at his truths or his statements, he was all for everything. All of a sudden, he wasn't. He was a man that I met at Dover. He came and his wife was killed. He remarried fairly quickly. His wife was killed, and I felt badly for him. He ran for Congress. He lost. He ran for Congress again, and he lost.”

Asked who would control the Strait of Hormuz following a potential peace settlement with Iran, President Trump stated: “It would be jointly controlled. Maybe me. Maybe me. Me and the Ayatollah - whoever the Ayatollah is, whoever the next Ayatollah.”

When asked if he believed that Israel would abide by a potential ceasefire deal with Iran, U.S. President Donald J. Trump said that Israel would be "very happy with what we have," adding that U.S. officials and Israeli officials spoke "a little while ago." President Trump also characterized any potential deal as "long-term peace, guaranteed peace."

After President Trump revealing that his administration is in contact with an unnamed principal Iranian decision-maker, while declining to name him due to them not wanting "him to be killed," Barak Ravid of Axios has been told by an unnamed Israeli official that the contact is Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

In addition to White House Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Vice President JD Vance may attend a peace summit with Iranian officials, including Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, being planned for later this week in Islamabad, Israeli official tell Axios.

The Israel Defense Force has announced that the Air Force, with precise intelligence from the Intelligence Directorate, completed a wave of strikes earlier on command-and-control centers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in and around Tehran.

Statement from Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, following reports that he has been involved in peace negotiations with the United States and may attend a summit with U.S. officials later this week in Pakistan:

“Iranian people demand complete and remorseful punishment of the aggressors. All Irainan officials stand firmly behind their supreme leader and people until this goal is achieved. No negotiations have been held with the US, and fakenews is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped.”

Video footage shows the burning wreckage of a Colombian Air Force C-130 Hercules after crashing earlier during take off from Puerto Leguízamo, with authorities reporting that the death toll includes at least 90 officers with the Fuerza Pública de Colombia.