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.

According to Israel Hayom, an assassination attempt on Israeli Minister of National Security Ben Gvir was thwarted by Shin Bet and Israeli Police. The suspect, who is roughly 20-years-old, made contact with jihadist elements in Yemen and Turkey and voiced a desire to carry out a suicide attack. The suspect has yet to be named.

CCTV footage reportedly shows the collision between Jazz Airlines Flight 646, a Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-900, and a firetruck last night at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

Speaking during an event in Memphis, U.S. President Donald J. Trump states that Iran “means business” now in negotiations with the United States, saying that they have had “very good discussions,” which was the deciding factor in his decision to temporarily postpone strikes against power plants in Iran.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump talking about Iran: “So we are now having really good discussions. They started last night, a little bit the night before that. I think they're very good. They want peace. They've agreed they will not have a nuclear weapon.”

U.S. President Trump: “I called Pete, I called General Caine, I called a lot of our great people. We have great people. And I said, Let's talk. We got a problem in the Middle East. We have a country known as Iran that, for 47 years, has been just a purveyor of terror, and they're very close to having a nuclear weapon… And, Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up, and you said, ‘Let's do it,’ because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon.”

“Democrats are putting our country at great risk during this period of time, a period that they call a war. They call it a war. We call it a military operation.”

Despite today’s announcement by President Trump on the possible start of peace negotiations with Iran, there has been no change in plans to send thousands of additional Marines and Sailors, along with elements of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, to the Middle East, military sources told CBS News. 

Senior military officials are weighing the possible deployment of a Brigade Combat Team from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, roughly 3,000 Paratroopers assigned to the Immediate Response Force (IRF) which are capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 18 hours, as well as some elements of the division’s headquarters staff at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in order to support U.S. military operations in Iran, defense officials tell The New York Times.

Senior Iranian officials have agreed to several major demands from the United States to end the war, including a five-year freeze for its long-range ballistic missile program, officials tell Israel’s Channel 12.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his first statement since today’s announcement from U.S. President Trump regarding potential peace negotiations with Iran:

“Earlier today, I spoke with our friends, President Trump. President Trump believes that there is a chance to leverage the great achievements of the IDF and the US military to realize the war goals of the agreement. An agreement that will protect our vital interests. At the same time, we continue to attack both Iran and Lebanon. We sanctify the missile and nuclear programs to the last detail and continue to severely harm Hezbollah. Just a few days ago we eliminated two more nuclear scientists and the hand is still outstretched. We will protect our vital interests in any situation.”