— 🇮🇷 NEW: Today, 30 ships that contacted the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) were issued transit permits for the Strait of Hormuz, after paying the necessary tolls and signing the relevant documents

The ships will be safely guided through the Strait of Hormuz according to the guidelines and regulations of the Islamic Republic.

Transit will proceed in a phased manner and in accordance with Iran’s traffic separation scheme.

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— 🇮🇷 Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi: ‘For 47 years, we have cared about international law, but international law did not care about us’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has rapidly started rebuilding military capabilities that were lost in the recent war, according to U.S. intelligence assessments

Among these capabilities, Iran has already restarted some of its drone production during the six-week ceasefire that began in early April, according to two sources familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments.

Four sources told CNN that U.S. intelligence indicates Iran’s military is reconstituting much faster than initially estimated. ‘The Iranians have exceeded all timelines the IC had for reconstitution’, one U.S. official said.

While the time to restart production of different weapons components varies, some estimates indicate Iran could fully reconstitute its drone attack capability in as soon as six months, one of the sources, a U.S. official, told CNN.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran’s defense industrial base has likely only been set back by a matter of months, not years – CNN

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: U.S. and Israeli strikes did not inflict as much damage on Iran as they had hoped, sources told CNN

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Iran is so awesome

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s President, Masoud Pezeshkian, met with the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army, Major General Amir Hatami

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: In case of a renewed conflict with the U.S. and Israel, Iran will consider targeting American bases in Greece, Romania and Germany – MES

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘We have total control of the Strait of Hormuz, as you know.

We wiped out Iran’s navy, wiped out their air force, we knocked out 85% of their drone and missile capacity.

But look, we will either make sure Iran won’t have a nuclear weapon, or we will have to do something very drastic.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran can’t keep its enriched uranium. We’re going to get it, we need to have it, and we’ll probably destroy it’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran is going to give us what we want, one way or another’

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— 🇺🇸/🇨🇺 President Trump: ‘I want to help the Cuban people for humanitarian reasons’

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— 🇺🇸 U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio: ‘You ask me if I’m worried about Ebola. But Ebola is in Africa.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘Will you attend your son’s wedding at the end of the week?’

President Trump: ‘I want to go, but I told him it’s not a very good time right now. I’ve got something called ‘Iran’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian source close to the negotiating team:

1. The exchange of texts has not yet reached a final draft concept.

2. The U.S. insistence on nuclear negotiations has dragged the talks to a deadlock.

3. Meanwhile, U.S. threats have angered Iran, and Tehran shows little desire to continue negotiations.

4. The possibility of conflict starting exists at any moment.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇺🇸 NEW: Pakistani Field Marshal Assim Muneer’s planned trip to Tehran tonight has been canceled

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Everything published by Al-Arabiya and other outlets about nearing a draft are false.

There was some sense of optimism that emerged yesterday, but U.S. has shifted goalpost again since then.

Appetite for a deal in Iran, especially on nuclear matters, is extremely low now.