🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has received messages from the US that the talks in Geneva will only deal with the nuclear issue.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian state TV is reporting that negotiations between Iran and the United States are set to begin within the next hour at the Omani Embassy in Geneva, Switzerland.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “It seems to them that the US president repeatedly says that his army is the strongest in the world. The strongest army in the world can sometimes receive such a blow that it cannot get up. They keep saying that we sent an aircraft carrier towards Iran. Well, an aircraft carrier is of course a dangerous tool, but more dangerous than the aircraft carrier is the weapon that can send the aircraft carrier to the bottom of the sea." - Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as negotiations are ongoing between the United States and Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is conducting naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz for the second day in a row, as negotiations continue in Geneva, Switzerland.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Parts of the Strait of Hormuz will be closed for a few hours during the IRGC exercises.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭⚡- The second-round of US-Iran talks in Geneva have ended.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭⚡- The White House reports that progress was made in today's US-Iran talks in Geneva, but a lot of details still need addressing.

The third-round of talks will be held in the next two weeks.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭⚡- Tehran floated the idea of temporarily hating all enrichment on Iranian soil for three years and sending its stockpile of 400kg+ highly enriched uranium abroad, The Wall Street Journal reported.

In return, Iran wants major sanctions relief and possible US-Iran joint business deals.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, plans to step down and leave the Trump administration. - POLITICO.

Notably, this comes in the wake of shake-ups in the administration after Trump caved on mass deportations.

🇺🇸 - A squadron of US jets being dragged towards the CENTCOM AoR.

The image was taken over over the UK or Western Europe.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- 6 F-22s have arrived at RAF Lakenheath en route to the Middle East arena.

🇺🇸⚡- An E-11A BACN (Battlefield Airborne Communications Node) has departed towards Europe, with its final destination likely the Middle East.

🇺🇸⚡- Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has entered the Atlantic Ocean, leaving the Carribbean waters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Striking Iran is not just a political decision. It's an operational one. And the conditions are coming together," - Yoav Gallant, former Israeli Defense Minister.

🇺🇸⚡- Two tankers for the E-3G AWACS have gone airborne over mainland US, carrying another two E-3Gs to the UK, bringing the total to an unprecedented four in Europe.

🇺🇸 - The scale of US aerial movement to Europe / the Middle East over the past 24 hours has been extraordinary, by far the largest in decades.

🇺🇸 - In the past 12 hours, 12 F-16s and 12 F-22s departed from mainland US towards Europe. 24 F-16s departed from Europe towards the Middle East.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia has agreed only to a one-day ceasefire to organize and hold a nationwide vote, and not to the 60 days that Zelensky believes are necessary," - Axios.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The Ukrainian people would reject a peace deal that involves Ukraine unilaterally withdrawing from the eastern Donbas region and turning it over to Russia," - Ukrainian President Zelensky tells Axios.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Zelensky said it was 'not fair' that President Trump kept publicly calling on Ukraine, not Russia, to make concessions for peace.

He contended that, while it might be easier for Trump to pressure Ukraine than the much larger Russia, the way to create a lasting peace is not 'to give victory' to Russian President Vladimir Putin," - Axios.