—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Al-Jazeera, citing Fars News Agency:

‘Iran informed the Pakistani mediators that if the movement of the U.S. warship continues, it would be targeted in 30 minutes.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ismael Baqaei: ‘The U.S. destroyer, which attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz without permission, has started moving in the opposite direction after a firm warning by the Iranian Armed Forces’

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Interesting way of saying they were forced to turn around, but alright.

‘Our forces are not retreating, they are advancing towards the rear’ type shit

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. warship passed the Strait of Hormuz from the East, entering the Persian Gulf, and then abruptly turned around following an Iranian warning, leaving the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea

It’s unclear if the U.S. warship took the normal route (red) or Iran’s newly designated route (yellow), because its transponder was off until it started the return journey.

(Map credit: MenchOsint)

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇪 NEW: An Irish man broke into Shannon Airport, getting on top of an American C-130 cargo plane and smashing it with a hammer

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—❗️🇦🇪/🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Emiratis are crashing out that they aren’t invited to the Islamabad talks

He says Iran should issue a ‘formal apology’ to the UAE, and threatens Iran that if it doesn’t, what comes next will be ‘devastating’.

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Israel continues to bomb southern Lebanon

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— Talks resumed between Qalibaf, Araqchi, Baqeri Kani, J.D. Vance, Kushner, Witkoff, and Assim Muneer.

The talks are direct, although with Pakistan in the room.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇨🇳 NEW: For the first time since the war, Iranian aircraft went to to China

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘The Fake News Media is CRAZY, or just plain CORRUPT! The United States has completely destroyed Iran's Military, including their entire Navy and Air Force, and everything else. Their Leadership is DEAD!

The Strait of Hormuz will soon be open, and the empty ships are rushing to the United States to "load up." But, if you listen to the Fake News, we're losing!’

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian C-130 cargo planes seen over Tehran

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Patience bro let us cook

Diplomacy sometimes requires pragmatism. We’ll see what happens.

I do get people are skeptical, so am I, but this is the first time Iran is negotiating from a position of strength, so let’s not draw early conclusions.

❗️Launcher movement, likely repositioning / spreading out assets.

No indications of an imminent attack.

Negotiations will continue into the night.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- A regional intelligence official says that two U.S. destroyers attempted to cross the Strait of Hormuz but were turned back after threats from the IRGC, according to Bloomberg.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇳🇱 NEW: Due to Iran not allowing a photo-op with Vance and Qalibaf, Western media outlets have now resorted to using AI images showing them together

This image, posted by Dutch national broadcaster NOS, is fake and was circulated by Pakistani outlets.

Qalibaf’s face looks off, his shirt is a different colour than we saw in today’s images (should be black), his jacket doesn’t have the circular Khamenei pin, and he lacks a beard.

The quality of news in America and Europe has truly gone downhill, and they are desperate to portray an image of Iranian officials meeting with the U.S. Vice President to present it as a ‘win’.

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Negotiating atmosphere is negative, especially last two hours.

Neither Iran nor the U.S. budging on fundamental issues.

Nevertheless, they might continue into the night or tomorrow, to see if gaps can be bridged.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: According to initial reports, there is a stalemate on the issue of the Strait of Hormuz

America doesn’t want Iran to collect tolls or control the Strait, but if it does, the U.S. wants part of the revenue.

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