—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 CONFIRMED: The U.S. delegation carrying J.D. Vance has just departed from Washington D.C. towards Islamabad, Pakistan, and will arrive overnight – Al Arabiya

Talks scheduled in the morning.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇰🇼 NEW: The Iranian attack which killed 6 Americans at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait was carried out with Su-24 bombers, not drones, and a FAB-500 Soviet-era unguided bomb can be seen near the rubble

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇶🇦 NOTE: This is consistent with reports from during the war, when Qatar claimed to have shot down two Su-24 bombers minutes before reaching Doha

These Iranian Su-24 pilots, in the early hours of the war, likely gave their lives in what they ultimately knew would be a suicide mission, miraculously managing to hit and destroy a U.S. target in Kuwait with 60-year old equipment before eventually being downed in Qatar.

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Hezbollah has carried out 30 operations so far today.

Will likely hit 65+ by day’s end.

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧/🇮🇷 What I’m hearing (could be false, could be true):

A ‘compromise’ has been reached where Israel has committed not to strike Beirut while negotiations are ongoing, and ‘scaling back’ attacks in other areas of Lebanon. And when the final ceasefire is in place, a permanent one, then Israel will cease all attacks.

—> If true, this fails to address three key problems:

1. Any aggression, even outside of Beirut, is a violation of the ceasefire as explicitly agreed upon — and implicitly condoning such strikes would be a return to the post-2024 era, which is exactly what Hezbollah wanted to prevent by engaging in this battle.

2. We risk returning to a situation where certain officials make statements, yet there is no actionable follow-through to them; this carries the risk of collapsing the very deterrence that Iran has painstakenly rebuilt through the past 40 days of war.

3. The massacre that Israel carried out two days ago, killing more than 300+ Lebanese, cannot go unpunished by Iran. It cannot simply be said: ‘Any violations from now on will be responded to’, no; previous violations must still face a response, especially one as severe as this.

Iranian officials may believe that returning to fighting is currently not necessary due to the unprecedented leverage they have by closing the Strait of Hormuz. But America (and especially Israel) cannot be restrained merely by economic means alone.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: ‘The Strait of Hormuz is effectively under full IRGC control. They decide who gets to go through, but more importantly, who doesn’t’ – Fox News

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who is expected to lead the Iranian delegation in Islamabad, says there must first be a ceasefire in Lebanon AND the release of Iranian blocked assets before negotiations begin

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇰🇷/🇶🇦 NEW: A South Korean representative and Qatari bank executives are scrambling behind the scenes to release $6 Billion dollars worth of frozen Iranian funds held by South Korea in Qatari banks

The frozen assets are a result of U.S. financial sanctions, and Iran wants them released immediately.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has rebuilt Yahyabad railway bridge in Kashan, after it was bombed by Israel on April 7th, just three days ago

Reconstruction efforts around the country, especially of vital infrastructure, are progressing at a rapid pace.

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The Board of Peace’s deadline for the disarmament of Hamas ends today

If Hamas does not agree to disarmament, Israel will resume the war in Gaza to ‘completely and utterly destroy’ Hamas.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: Negotiations between the U.S. and Iran in Islamabad, if they take place, will be indirect

Americans and Iranians will sit in seperate rooms, and Iran will not allow the U.S. to have a ‘photo-op’ with J.D. Vance and Iranian officials. – Al Arabiya

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: ‘It’s very simple; America must abide by its commitments, or we’re done.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Nick Fuentes, a respected Mexican-American political commentator:

‘So epic.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: One single oil tanker passed through the Strait of Hormuz today, after paying Iran a fee – CNN

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