—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇺🇸 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.

This is basically the entire country’s leadership in a single place, except for Pezeshkian and Ejei.

I would say ‘not very smart’ until you realize that Pakistan is a nuclear state and Israel wouldn’t dare to attack it.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 Tasnim, semi-official Iranian state news:

‘The Iranian delegation has arrived. They will stay at Iran’s Embassy in Islamabad and will meet with Pakistan’s Prime Minister and other government officials at the Prime Minister’s House tomorrow morning.

The delegation will then meet with U.S. officials if it is confirmed that preconditions have been met.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 Talks in Islamabad will take place within five ‘committees’:

1. The general committee, led by Parliament Speaker Qalibaf.
2. The political committee, led by FM Araqchi.
3. The military committee, led by Defense Council Chairman Ahmadian.
4. The economic committee, led by Central Bank Governor Hemmati.
5. The legal committee, led by deputy FMs Baqaei and Gharibabadi.

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Contrary to earlier reports, these talks will very likely be direct, due to practical reasons it would be impossible to relay sensitive messages between dozens of different officials.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Despite three Iranian planes landing in Islamabad, only one of them had Iranian officials on board, the other two were decoys

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No talks have taken place yet, Iran first talked to the Pakistanis and now America is doing the same.

It’s still about the ‘preconditions’.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 Iranian TV:

Iran’s delegation has talked to Pakistan and conveyed its red lines for upcoming negotiations:

1. Iranian control and sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz
2. War reparations / sanctions relief
3. Unblocking all frozen assets
4. A permanent ceasefire on all fronts in the region

(Interesting, nothing mentioned about the right to continue enriching)

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—❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, and Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇬 The Ugandan Chief of Defense who promised to deploy ‘500,000 hungry men’ to defend Tel Aviv is actually on his way there.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: An Iranian journalist reports, that despite the U.S. reassuring Iran yesterday, it has still failed to comply with implementing a ceasefire in Lebanon and unlocking frozen funds

If these preconditions aren’t met before the end of the day, the Iranian delegation may decide not to meet with the Americans at all.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Several U.S. Navy ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday without prior coordination with Iran, a U.S. official says - Axios

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇺🇸 NEW: Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. have officially started

IRIB reports the U.S. has agreed to Iran’s preconditions; a ceasefire in Lebanon and the release of frozen funds.

They add that ‘talks are ongoing’ in Lebanon to implement the ceasefire within the coming days.

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— Admin note: We went from ‘an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon is a precondition to negotiate, or there will be a military response’ to ‘talks are underway to implement one’.

Slippery slope if you ask me.

But let’s hope they actually do it.