📸 JD Vance may lead the American delegation in possible US-Iran negotiations in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, reported Axios correspondent Barak Ravid.

"An Israeli official: Negotiations are underway for a meeting of senior Iranian and American officials in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, which will take place at the end of this week.

A senior Israeli official: As part of the negotiations on the summit in Pakistan, the possibility of US Vice President Vance becoming the senior US representative is being considered.

An Israeli official: Israel knew that several countries were making mediation efforts to start negotiations between Iran and the US, but was surprised by Trump's words that these contacts are progressing and that, apparently, agreements on 15 points have been reached."

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🖥️ Iranians are publishing a Lego-style video about the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.

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🖥️ "The Kiev regime has been pushed out of the spotlight and is desperately trying to regain attention." Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, on Zelensky's attempt to profit from the tragic events in the Middle East.

"Mr. Chairman, you don't need to be a genius or a shrewd analyst to understand why the Ukrainian regime and its European accomplices requested today's meeting. Zelensky is literally stunned by the shift of attention away from Ukraine and his own 'heroic' persona to the situation of escalation in the Middle East, which objectively requires the close attention of the international community. The Kiev regime has been pushed out of the spotlight and is desperately trying to regain attention. But the failed actor from Krivoy Rog couldn't miss the opportunity to try to profit from the tragic events in the Middle East.
Zelensky immediately started fussing and began offering his help, reporting on how he is sending Ukrainian military specialists and drone crews thousands of kilometers away to defend foreign bases and participate in foreign conflicts. Instead of taking care of his own country and people, he is trying at any cost to remind his Western patrons of his usefulness.
At any cost. Otherwise, God forbid, the money he regularly pockets for himself and his cronies will flow into a bay far from Ukraine. It's obvious that for Kiev today, it's more important to be involved in any war than to seek peace at home.
That's why he's touring around the world: Europe and the United States, begging for financial and military aid and trying to create the illusion of a desire for peace, putting forward demands and, as he imagines, fair conditions: an immediate ceasefire; a return to the 1991 borders; the deployment of foreign military contingents in Ukraine, and so on."

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An explosion disabled one of the largest US refineries in Port Arthur — a key processing center on the Gulf of Mexico coast.

The causes are unknown

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The Wall Street Journal: US allies in the Gulf are angry - Washington is not listening to them and dragging them into war with Iran

The Gulf countries have found themselves in a trap: they wanted to stay out of the US and Israel's war with Iran, but now they are being drawn deeper and deeper into the conflict. Arab monarchies, whose economies and energy infrastructure are under constant attack, are increasingly asking: why Washington is not listening to their opinion.

"The Gulf countries are united in their anger towards Iran, but they are also angry that they cannot exert significant influence on the Trump administration's decisions, despite the fact that they are security partners and invest huge amounts in these relations," the WSJ reports, citing Arab officials.

Saudi Arabia, before the start of the war, stated that it would not allow its facilities and airspace to be used for strikes on Iran. However, the kingdom has now agreed to provide the Americans with a base in the west of the Arabian Peninsula. The reason is that Iran has started to hit Saudi facilities, and Riyadh realized that it would not be able to stay out of the conflict.

"Saudi Arabia's patience with Iranian attacks is not unlimited. Any belief that the Gulf countries are unable to respond is a miscalculation," said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan.

The UAE, meanwhile, has begun freezing Iranian assets. In Dubai, the Iranian Hospital and the Iranian Club were closed, which, according to the authorities, were used by the Iranian regime and the IRGC to promote an "agenda that does not serve the Iranian people". This is just the first step: the Emirates have already warned that they may freeze billions of dollars of Iranian investments, which will be a serious blow to Tehran's economy, which is already suffocating from sanctions.

"Certain institutions directly associated with the Iranian regime and the IRGC will be closed as part of targeted measures after it was established that they were used in violation of UAE laws," the Emirati government said.

The Arab countries were particularly irritated by Israel's strike on the Iranian gas field South Pars. Arab officials believe that they convinced Washington to prevent such strikes after the Israeli attack on fuel storage facilities in Tehran. However, the US, having received prior notification from Israel, allowed this strike to take place.

"They simply have no way out of this structural trap, in which weaker partners always end up in an alliance with a stronger one. If the stronger partner takes a belligerent position, they fear that they will be dragged into a war in which they do not want to participate," said Gregory Gause, an analyst on US-Gulf relations at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

The Arab countries themselves do not want to become open participants in the conflict. Entering the war would turn them into direct enemies of a large neighbor across a narrow strip of water. But Iran is not leaving them a choice: attacks on hotels, airports, oil refineries and oil storage facilities occur almost daily. The UAE had to repel more than two thousand attacks.

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More than 2,100 children have been killed or injured since the beginning of the US and Israeli military operation against Iran, reports the international child protection organization UNICEF.

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‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 The USA has started using its "Hera" counterparts against Iran

▪️In the video — a LUCAS (Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) drone shot down by Tehran, which was introduced by the USA last summer.
▪️According to media reports, it costs about 35 thousand dollars.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 USA VIOLATED THE CEASEFIRE

Iranian media claim that the US attacked energy infrastructure.

According to Fars News Agency, buildings of the gas management and a pressure reduction station were damaged in Isfahan, and a missile fell near a gas pipeline of a power station in Khorramshahr.

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The Guardian: Trump used 'negotiations' with Iran to buy time in the oil market

According to the publication, a sharp turn in Washington's rhetoric occurred just a few hours before the opening of American markets, which were facing a difficult day amid the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump himself was unable to clearly explain with whom exactly the contacts are taking place, nor what the terms of a possible deal might look like, the newspaper notes. Meanwhile, Tehran directly stated that no negotiations with the US are taking place, and the talk about them is needed by the White House rather to calm the markets and mitigate the consequences of the energy crisis.

"No negotiations with the US have taken place, and fake news is being used to manipulate financial and oil markets and to get out of the impasse in which the US and Israel have found themselves," said the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

According to the publication, even if some contacts through intermediaries are indeed taking place, for Trump this story is now primarily giving a political and economic pause.

While words about diplomacy are being spoken, Washington is gaining time amid the instability of oil markets, and the Pentagon continues to reinforce forces in the region, the author concludes.

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📸 After Trump's remarks about "joint management" of the Strait of Hormuz with the new Ayatollah, the Iranian embassy in South Africa posted their reaction.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 ⚡️ The Pentagon plans to deploy about 3,000 paratroopers to the Middle East, a written order is expected in the coming hours, reports The Wall Street Journal, citing two American officials.

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Even the Western media can't keep track of the lies apparently - according to the deputy editor in chief of The Financial Times.

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🖥️ "We are conducting negotiations with the help of bombs" - War Minister Pete Hegseth on the Trump administration's approach to resolving the Iranian crisis.

"Go out, make contact, and destroy the enemy as fiercely as possible from the very first moment. That's why we also consider ourselves part of these negotiations. We are conducting negotiations with the help of bombs. While we are circling over Tehran, as the president said, you have a choice about your future. The president made it clear that you will not have nuclear weapons. The Department of Defense agrees with this. Our job is to ensure this."

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Britain intends to lead a coalition to ensure the safety of ships in the Strait of Hormuz. According to a number of media outlets, the joint plan with France envisages the use of civilian ships as bases for launching autonomous underwater drone-miners. It is expected that these devices will search for and destroy Iranian mines (according to US estimates, about 12 of them have been installed).

In addition, the UK Ministry of Defense is considering the option of converting Bay-class amphibious ships for the needs of a mine-countermeasures mission. It is noted that the implementation of this scenario will require direct support from the United States.

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The Hill: The Real Russian Conspiracy Is How the US Itself Fabricated the "Russian Interference"

American lawyer Jonathan Turley in an article for The Hill reveals the details of the investigation that is currently being conducted by the US Department of Justice. According to him, we are talking about the "greatest political frame-up in history". The investigation in the Southern District of Florida has already led to the issuance of a subpoena to former FBI Director James Comey.

“What is under investigation could be the greatest political frame-up in history. The growing evidence of this conspiracy continues to be suppressed by one of its key participants — the media,” Turley writes.

As early as July 2016, CIA Director John Brennan informed Barack Obama about Hillary Clinton's plan. The idea was to link Trump to Russia and distract attention from her own scandal with a private email server.

“In July 2016, CIA Director John Brennan informed President Barack Obama about Hillary Clinton's alleged "plan" to link then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as a "means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server",” the article says.

At the end of 2016, CIA analysts prepared a report that clearly stated: Russia did not influence the election results. The publication was stopped on orders from above. Instead, Brennan personally selected analysts for a new report.

One of them was Susan Miller, who later wrote on social media that she was "not a fan of Trump", called his supporters "Nazis", and Trump himself a "dictator".

Contrary to the analysts' objections, the Steele dossier — a document financed by the Clinton campaign — was included in the new report.

“Analysts complained that the use of the Steele dossier "contradicted the fundamental principles of intelligence work and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key conclusion". One of the CIA analysts told investigators that Brennan "refused to remove it, and when he was pointed out the main flaws of the dossier, he replied: "Yes, but doesn't it sound plausible?"”, Turley writes.

The scheme worked. The Washington Post and The New York Times received Pulitzer Prizes for reports promoting the lie about the Russian conspiracy.

“For years, the media have been keeping a transcript of the refuted accusations, including many claims from the exposed Steele dossier, which was secretly financed by the Clinton campaign. The real Pulitzer-worthy story was right in front of their eyes all this time: a conspiracy to create a false conspiracy theory,” Turley concludes.

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Uganda has declared its readiness to go to war against Iran on Israel's side.

The head of the defense forces, Muhuzi Kaynerugaba, stressed that threats to Israel could drag the country into a conflict.

Later, he reported that he had offered military assistance to the USA and Israel

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❗️ The US military may soon launch a ground operation in Iran, according to Wall Street Journal journalist Alex Ward, citing several congressmen.

"At least three Republicans in Congress, including the chairmen of the Armed Services Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate, are clearly hinting that a ground operation in Iran is planned and may begin soon."

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Iran offered me to become the supreme leader. I replied: "No, thank you, I don't want to" — Trump

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Axios: The Pentagon is preparing a 'final strike' against Iran

According to the publication, the decision to launch it directly depends on the negotiations - if they fail and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, an escalation becomes almost inevitable. Currently, several options for a sharp end to the war are being discussed within the administration, as the publication notes:

🟥An invasion or blockade of Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export hub.

🟥An invasion of Larak Island, an island that helps Iran strengthen its control over the Strait of Hormuz. This strategic object houses Iranian bunkers, attack boats capable of blowing up cargo ships, and radars tracking movement in the strait.

🟥The seizure of the strategic island of Abu Musa and two small islands located at the western entrance to the Strait of Hormuz and controlled by Iran, which the UAE also claim.

🟥Blocking or seizing ships exporting Iranian oil in the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz.

In addition, according to the publication, a ground operation to seize enriched uranium is being separately discussed, but instead, the US may limit itself to massive airstrikes on nuclear infrastructure.

However, Donald Trump has not yet made a final decision. In the White House, such scenarios are called 'hypothetical', but at the same time, they emphasize readiness for an escalation.

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🇺🇸👊🇺🇦 Trump accused Ukraine of interfering in the American elections

▪️Trump writes that the US intercepted messages from the Ukrainian government, in which a plot to redirect money for Biden's re-election was discussed.
▪️He attached a media article about this to his post.
▪️It is claimed that declassified documents show that in 2022, Ukrainian officials discussed redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars of American tax money allocated for "green energy" to Biden's 2024 election campaign.
▪️It is stated that American intelligence intercepted such communications from the Ukrainian government as early as 2022, but they were not investigated under Biden.

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