—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧 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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—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 Sara Massoumi, Iranian diplomatic journalist:

‘The negotiation atmosphere has not been assessed as particularly positive, which is largely due to the United States' refusal to negotiate on the initially agreed-upon topics (10-points) as the basis for the talks’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: High-ranking IRGC delegation landed in Islamabad moments ago

A sign that some sort of framework could be reached or, at the very least, that negotiations will be extended.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: According to the NYT, Qalibaf and Vance shook hands when preparing for trilateral talks in presence of Pakistani PM

Despite them framing it as a ‘rare moment’, this is customary in diplomacy, regardless of the opponent, and Araqchi & Witkoff similarly shook hands months ago.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency:

‘After several hours of no progress in the Islamabad negotiations due to U.S. excessive demands, some Western media are exaggerating the positive atmosphere of the negotiations.

Currently, no significant change has been made in the negotiation situation, and despite initial progress in technical talks, the issue of the Strait of Hormuz and several other issues remain major points of disagreement.

Iranian delegation is not in a hurry, and the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as long as no common framework is reached.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: The third round of U.S.-Iran talks has come to an end, and now the technical expertise teams are once again exchanging drafts

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: At the request of Pakistan, Iran and the U.S. have both agreed to extend the negotiations with one extra day

Tasnim news says U.S. demands are still ‘unreasonable’.

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