🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 - Trump on US - Iran negotiations in Islamabad: "The meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not."

🎥🇮🇷🇵🇰 - Footage shows the Iranian delegation, led by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Abbas Araghchi, departing from Nur Khan Airbase in Islamabad.

The delegation was seen off by Pakistan’s Field Marshal, Asim Munir, and Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar.

📸🇺🇸/🇮🇷 - A KC-135R of US airforce, which was damaged as a result of a ballistic missile strike by the IRGC Aerospace Force at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, arrived at RAF Mildenhall today, en route to the United States for final repairs.

Multiple patches on its fuselage caused by shrapnel from the ballistic missiles that struck the tankers parked next to it. That day, the U.S. Air Force lost a pair of KC-135Rs, one KC-46A, and one E-3G at Prince Sultan Air Base.

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🇮🇷🇵🇰 - The last two flyable transport aircraft of the Iranian Air Force—a C-130E and a C-130H Hercules—have been flown to Pakistan to protect them from incoming Israeli and U.S. airstrikes.

- Babak Vahdid

🚨🇵🇰🇸🇦 - NEW - Pakistan deployed approximately 13,000 ground troops and at least ten fighter jets to King Abdulaziz Air Base in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province Dhahran on April 11, the same day its ceasefire brokerage between Washington and Tehran collapsed in Islamabad — making Pakistan simultaneously Saudi Arabia’s largest military reinforcement since 1991.

- House of Saud

🎥🇵🇰/🇦🇫 - Pakistan Air Force (#PAF) Wing Loong II drone spotted over Kabul, Afghanistan.

🇦🇫❌🇵🇰 - Reports of explosions in Kabul are false. The sound is related to the Taliban engaging the drone with anti-aircraft guns.

🚨🇸🇦🇵🇰 - The arrival of Pakistani jets in Saudi Arabia is intended to bolster Riyadh’s efforts to develop C-UAS counter-drone capabilities against crucial energy infrastructure. This will help protect Saudi airspace in the event of a ceasefire collapse.

- Saudi sources

🇮🇷☢️🇺🇸 - Iran survived five weeks of punishing U.S. and Israeli bombing with most of the tools it needs to make a nuclear bomb intact, officials and experts say, posing a challenge for U.S. negotiators as the issue once again bedevils talks with Tehran.

- WSJ

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸 - Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi first statement post Islamabad talks:

In intensive talks at highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with U.S in good faith to end war.

But when just inches away from "Islamabad MoU", we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade.

Zero lessons earned

Good will begets good will.
Enmity begets enmity.

🇺🇸❌🇸🇦🇰🇼🇧🇭🇵🇰 - Amid the failure of U.S. defense arrangements and a new deployment of Pakistan Air Force assets to Saudi Arabia several other GCC countries are also looking at Islamabad as a replacement security provider.

One possible path forward is also exploiting the close relationship between China and Pakistan to have the GCC fund further Pakistani purchases of Chinese defense equipment and aircraft; thereby bringing Beijing into the equation:

- SCMP

🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW: - Trump says Iran has “called” and wants to continue negotiations.

"it won’t be pleasant for them” if a U.S.-Iran deal is not reached before the nominal April 21 deadline." - he added.