⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Lebanese sources via Baabda state bilateral border talks have stalled over Israel's retraction from "the model areas" and the joint framework text, though the formal signing of a "Declaration of Intent" remains scheduled at the US State Department at 10 PM — Al Jadeed

➡️ The Lebanese Armed Forces rejected an Israeli proposal to designate Naqoura, Bayada, and western sector villages as pilot zones despite the stabilizing presence of UNIFIL forces, refusing to take orders or enter strategic installations prior to a complete Israeli military evacuation.

➡️ Highlighting structural deadlocks, the Lebanese military delegation rejected an Israeli demand to enter the Ali al-Taher hills north of the Litani River under US supervision, while Hezbollah accused Israel of utilizing the Washington track to avoid ending the war.

➡️ Hezbollah refuses to cede any infrastructure north of the Litani River while Israel maintains its regional presence, with Iranian officials warning Tehran will veto any bilateral accord with Washington if a full IDF withdrawal is not executed within sixty days.

➡️ Following a quadrilateral meeting in Cairo, Saudi, Qatari, Egyptian, and Turkish diplomats commenced drafting a multilateral formula to address weapons north of the Litani River in coordination with Nabih Berri and Hezbollah, concurrently leveraging developing Qatari political initiatives.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇸🇦🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Washington diplomatic sources confirm the margin of disagreement between the Lebanese and Israeli delegations "has narrowed" despite both sides remaining adamant about their positions, while Saudi Arabia initiated high-level communications with Washington in the last hours to support the Lebanese stance and facilitate a breakthrough — Al Jadeed

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 — The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship near the Strait of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz, causing structural damage with no casualties and putting the bilateral agreement to the test after previously firing warning shots at vessels in the area — The Wall Street Journal citing Senior US officials

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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 — IDF soldiers operating within the southern security zone eliminated five Hezbollah members in Zawtar al-Sharqiya and an armed fighter on the Ali al-Taher Ridge through coordinated ground and Israeli Air Force strikes to remove "immediate operational threats" — IDF Operational Statement

➡️ Ground forces stationed at the Ali al-Taher Ridge remain deployed to actively prevent tactical cells from exiting the underground tunnel network or establishing cross-border operations within the contested sector.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦 — US Vice President J.D. Vance confirmed a direct security channel will be established in Doha between a Revolutionary Guards official and a US Central Command officer to "resolve many of the disputes" within an initial framework document — N12 citing interview

➡️ Vance stated the temporary understandings aim to "open the strait, stop shooting" and evaluate a comprehensive nuclear pact from the US perspective, while Tehran seeks to lift the economic blockade in exchange for a "stricter inspection mechanism" and the "total elimination of its enriched uranium stockpile."

➡️ The vice president labeled the United Arab Emirates as the "most pro-Israeli country" in the GCC, noting Abu Dhabi is independently conducting unprecedented security and economic dialogues with the Revolutionary Guards to establish conditions that would make Iran an investable country.

➡️ Addressing the Lebanese arena, Vance classified regional progress as very good through a developing friction-prevention mechanism, affirming that while Israel and every regional actor maintains an inherent right to self-defense, Washington wants "to ensure that everyone has that right."

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⚡️🇮🇷 — The Persian Gulf Strait Authority announced that any vessel transiting outside its officially designated maritime routes will lose "all safe passage guarantees and insurance coverage", placing absolute liability for consequences on the owner, operator, and ship commander — PGSA Statement

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⚡️🇫🇷🇮🇹 — Italian PM Giorgia Meloni states Italy avoided direct combat in the US-Israel war on Iran:

"Italy did not participate in the conflict with Iran — In fact, if we had participated in the conflict with Iran, it would be difficult to explain the repeated disappointment expressed by the American President.

We respected our commitments by making our bases available only for logistical and technical activities, not for combat operations. And when requests were made that went beyond that framework—and you know this because it has been widely reported—we did not grant authorization for the use of our facilities."

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⚡️🇫🇷🇪🇺🇱🇧🇮🇹 — President Macron and Italian PM Meloni announced a multinational coalition to support Lebanon after UNIFIL's mandate expires December 31, 2026:

"Regarding Lebanon, France and Italy have a special responsibility because both contribute to UNIFIL. Together with Prime Minister Meloni, we want to launch a coalition to prepare a post-UNIFIL mechanism, naturally in cooperation with the European Union and the United Nations.

The objective is to strengthen Lebanon's sovereignty and prevent its territory from once again becoming the starting point of a new regional conflict. I believe our cooperation on this issue is excellent, and I hope it will open a new perspective before the end of UNIFIL's mandate."

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⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧🇺🇸 — US-mediated talks on Israel-Lebanon understandings remain stalled over specific contractual wording, causing a direct delay to the scheduled signing ceremony and media event previously set at the State Department — i24 Diplomatic Correspondent Guy Azriel

"Reporters have been asked to move to a waiting area — Could be a long evening ahead."

➡️ Concurrently, the United States is exerting intense pressure on both delegations to force an agreement, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio's intervention successfully driving the opposing factions to yield to a preliminary "Declaration of Intent" expected for signature today.

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⚡️🇮🇱🇷🇺 — Israeli airline El Al suspends flights between Tel Aviv and Moscow, According to TASS.

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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli airstrikes targeted the town of Beit Yahoun South Lebanon, According to Al Mayadeen TV.

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⚡️🇮🇷⚛️ — Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi:

We have a memorandum of understanding stipulating that our agency will oversee the inspection of Iranian nuclear facilities.

We are ready to move forward with our artistic work in Iran.

The details of our work in Iran and the composition of the inspection coordination committee will be determined by the Iranian-American negotiations.

We hope that IAEA experts will soon be able to access Iranian nuclear sites.

Thinning Iran's highly enriched uranium is one of the proposed solutions for dealing with Iran's uranium stockpile.

We believe that Iranian nuclear materials have not been moved since our last inspection in 2025, but we need to confirm this.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 — The US State Department announced that US-mediated talks between Israel and Lebanon will continue for an additional day into the morning to extend the fifth round of negotiations initiated this week, while the process faces an explicit diplomatic divide with the Lebanese delegation seeking an "intent declaration" compared to the Israeli demand for an "agreement" — Al-Jadeed correspondent in Washington.

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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 — An Israeli airstrike targeted the town of Al-Nabatieh Al-Fouqa in southern Lebanon — Al-Jadeed correspondent.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 — The fifth round of border negotiations in Washington faces difficulties due to historical disputes compounded by "emergency" complications from Iranian involvement in monitoring the ceasefire, while Israel evades establishing a withdrawal timetable and rejects "more than ten proposals" for pilot areas submitted by Lebanese and US mediators — An-Nahar

➡️ Tactical deadlocks persist over a drafted security annex as Israel demands Lebanese military operations expand outside the occupied zone both south and north of the Litani River, leaving structural disputes over wording and linking an IDF withdrawal to complete disarmament despite existing consensus on separate undisclosed points.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — President Trump addressed farmers, stating the U.S. will soon use unfrozen Iranian assets to fund major purchases of American products:

"We have a new market coming up, and that's called The Lovely Country of Iran. It's a beautiful place. Would anybody like to go there? They're having a hard time with food and we're going to be taking some of their money and we'll spend it and we're going to be buying wheat, soybeans, and corn, a lot of it, and that process is going to be starting soon. It’s going to be big."

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — President Trump on Iran:

"They want to make a deal with us very badly. And we probably will, I think we will, but the Strait is open. Yesterday, they took out 19 million barrels of oil. That's the most in the history of the Strait. And the oil prices are dropping like a rock."

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