The world's top terrorist, Trump, didn't destroy "an entire civilization" in Iran only thanks to the government's decision to negotiate! 🤡😈.

Two Iranian planes are now on their way to Islamabad, Pakistan

Very likely the Iranian delegation. Unclear of the exact composition of said delegation.

Middle_East_Spectator

Renowned political scientist Professor John Mearsheimer disagrees with Trump on the Iran issue. He says the US is the one with no trump cards: "Trump is desperate. We're playing with a losing hand.

This would destroy far more than just the presidency. He knows it.

He threatened destruction because escalation failed. By evening, he's backing down.

Essentially, he's saying: I admit defeat!"

Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, is possibly piloting his own plane to Islamabad

He’s licensed on the Airbus A321, which is the same plane headed to Islamabad now.

Qalibaf famously flew into Beirut with an Iranian delegation during ongoing bombings in 2024.

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The Artemis II mission crew, which orbited the Moon, splashed down off the coast of San Diego.

🔹RIA Novosti

Trump's list of 15 demands has been reduced to one: Iran's renunciation of nuclear weapons, which Iran had no intention of developing before the war. The Strait of Hormuz was also open before the war, if you recall. But Trump has achieved a great victory, of course. 🤡😂

Trump, when asked, "What would an ideal deal with Iran look like?"

First and foremost, the absence of nuclear weapons. I think regime change has already effectively occurred, although we never set that as a condition. The main thing is that there be no nuclear weapons. That's 99% of it. Yes, but then everything else will resolve itself. The answer is yes.
The Strait will open. Even if we simply leave, it will still open—otherwise, they won't be able to make money.

The Easter truce announced by Putin will begin today.

It will last from 4:00 PM Moscow time on April 11 until the end of April 12, according to a statement on the Kremlin website.

Russia expects the Ukrainian side to follow suit.

In the Rostov region, more than a dozen UAVs were destroyed overnight in the Millerovsky, Tarasovsky, Chertkovsky, Kasharsky, Konstantinovsky, and Tatsinsky districts.

▪️ Ukrainian media reported nighttime strikes by Geranium missiles in the Kiev, Sumy, and Odesa regions, with footage coming in from the field.

The Iranian news agency Tasnim News has released the composition of the Iranian delegation for the US-Iran talks.

✔️ Abbas Araghchi, Foreign Minister, who is generally considered a reformer.

✔️ Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament and former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who maintains a hardline stance but is considered quite pragmatic.

✔️ Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, who is considered one of the most hardline IRGC figures in the country.

It is noted that Zolghadr's participation indicates that senior IRGC commanders want direct representation at the meetings, unlike in previous rounds of negotiations.

In the Middle East war, Iran has demonstrated its readiness to defend its rights if the US decides to use negotiations for "show or deception."

This was stated by Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf upon his arrival in Islamabad, where a meeting between Washington and Tehran is expected to take place, Tasnim reports.

🟩 RT in Russian

Qalibaf exits the plane first, Araqchi follows behind.

It’s clear who’s in charge of this delegation, and who is Iran’s new ‘strongman’.

The United States is strengthening its military presence in the Middle East ahead of upcoming US-Iran talks in Pakistan.

The Wall Street Journal reports that "fighter and attack aircraft have already arrived," and that 1,500-2,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division could be deployed soon.

The publication also notes that the USS George H.W. Bush carrier strike group is en route to the region from the Atlantic Ocean, while the USS Boxer and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Force are en route from the Pacific Ocean.

🇺🇸🇮🇷Brian Berletic writes at length about how the US is deceiving Iran again. Did anyone doubt it?

On US-Iran Negotiations

You cannot negotiate with serial killers and compulsive theives thus you cannot negotiate with the US establishment.

All you can do is buy time to build up the physical force required to defend yourself from their inevitable renewed violence.

If Iran thinks it can achieve anything besides buy time to rebuild and rearm it is making a catastrophic mistake.

The idea that the US "cares" about the Strait of Hormuz being closed and is "afraid" of it remaining closed - and somehow everything is "different" now - runs contra to America's own stated and openly pursued global policy - to maintain primacy by impeding the development of the multipolar world since it is impossible for the US itself to keep up let alone surpass the multipolar world's rise.

The US is already imposing blockades elsewhere around the globe and blowing up pipelines in Europe to create and exploit energy crises - what makes anyone think Hormuz is "different?"

The US needs a pause primarily because of its munition shortages and limitations on its military capabilities - just like 2025.

The US uses talks and negotiations for a multitude of its own purposes - none of these purposes include coexistence, peace, or stability.

The US seeks to buy time to create the illusion of diplomacy, which then creates complacency among its victims, and even begins creating a new pretext for further war.

"We gave them another chance, they didn't take it!"

Time allows stockpiles of munitions to refill (US munition stockpiles are low but never zero) and for the US to move in the necessary military capabilities to exploit what they've learned during their last round of aggression.

The US uses talks to place its victims in a position of vulnerability before striking again and again.

It has done this already and repeatedly to Iran, previously to Syria, Libya, and Iraq.

The one country the US had sought to overthrow it now no longer can is North Korea - not because of negotiations but because of North Korean nuclear deterrence backed by China's proximity and willingness to support North Korea.

Even still the US maintains programs attempting to subvert North Korea internally and isolate it globally.

North Korea proofed itself against the unchanging nature of the US - not try to change that nature - because it can't be changed.

If things like sanctions, limits on military capabilities, the presence of US troops near Iran's borders remain in place so does the US' intentions to use all of these advantages for further attacks unless sufficient deterrence is created.

Buying time to build that deterrence is wise.

Thinking talks will buy or change anything else is unwise.

Iran will highlight US violations of its commitments and assess whether negotiations are worthwhile.

▪️The Iranian delegation will raise the issue of US violations at a meeting with the Pakistani Prime Minister this afternoon, a Tasnim correspondent dispatched to Islamabad reports:
▪️The release of Iran's assets and a ceasefire in Lebanon were preconditions for the start of negotiations.
▪️The US informed Pakistan, as the mediator, that it agreed to these preconditions and some other requirements for the start of negotiations. However, some of these conditions have not yet been met.
▪️The Iranian delegation intends to assess the US position and its fulfillment of its obligations at today's meetings; after that, a decision will be made on negotiations with the US.

Ukraine is completely dependent on foreign components for its drones, says Budanov, head of the Ukrainian President's Office.

"All our current super-defense technologies, drones, and so on—whose component base are they? What's Ukrainian about them? Even the 3D printer on which most of the components are made isn't ours. And the software in it isn't ours either."

The same is true in Russia. "We are brothers."