—❗️🇮🇷/🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: ‘Lebanon and Israel both prefer a ceasefire to be the result of a ‘gesture of goodwill’ from the Israeli side, and not to be portrayed as a result of Iranian pressure’ – Axios

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: ‘The Iranian delegation left for Islamabad after being informed by Pakistan that Israel had agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon’ – Sources

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. has authorized the release of $6 billion dollars in frozen Iranian funds

Qatari and Korean representatives are working to transfer the money to Iran within days.

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With the announcement of a ceasefire in Lebanon expected tomorrow, and the release of frozen Iranian funds, negotiations in Islamabad can now begin according to Iran’s 10-points.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: ‘In recent conversations with advisors, Trump has conceded that the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely to completely reopen anytime soon’ – Reuters

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: 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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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: The Iranian delegation has landed in Islamabad, Pakistan

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— Another Iranian plane, carrying Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, will land in some minutes.

Both decided to take two different planes for security reasons.

Allegedly a third plane too.

Possible SNSC chairman Zolqadr. Very interesting to see if he attends or not.

—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇺🇸 The Iranian delegation in Islamabad consists of:

– Parliament Speaker, Dr. Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf

– Foreign Minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi

– Secretary of the Defense Council, Ali Akbar Ahmadian

– Governor of Iran’s Central Bank, Abdolnaser Hemmati

– Various security, political, military, economic, and legal attachés

– Several members of Parliament

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇶🇦 WATCH: Al-Jazeera was shown parts of the wreckage of two Iranian Su-24s that were shot down in the sea near Qatar

The pilots were never found.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Iran’s delegation, led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and FM Abbas Araqchi, was received by Pakistan’s Defence Chief Field Marshall Asim Muneer

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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’.

There they are.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will eventually open up ‘automatically’, and then goes on to say the U.S. ‘does not use the Strait, we do not need it’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: An intelligence assessment has concluded that Iran still has ‘thousands’ of ballistic missiles, according to U.S. officials – WSJ

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Professor Mohammad Marandi, famous for his high-intensity interviews and debates with Western media outlets, seems to be part of the Iranian delegation in Islamabad

Marandi previously served as an advisor to Iranian nuclear negotiators for the JCPOA.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇺🇸 NEW: Pakistan has released a list of names from the Iranian delegation

It consists of 86 officials, experts, and media personnel.

Some important names that are attending, which weren’t mentioned in media extensively, are Baqeri Kani, deputy of the SNSC, and Mohammad Nabavian, a notoriously conservative MP.

Overall, this is a VERY heavy delegation which carries a lot of authority and expertise.

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Based on the density and size of the delegation, the talks will definitely take places over multiple days and not only one session.

In fact, the delegation is so extensive and features a multitude of important personalities, that I’m surprised they were all sent.