— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry:

‘Focus is now on ending the war on all fronts, and finding a solution to the situation in the Strait of Hormuz.

The nuclear issue, as far as we are concerned, is not currently a topic for discussion, and may be discussed sometime in the future.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Axios, citing U.S. officials:

‘Trump has grown increasingly frustrated in the past few days over the current state of negotiations with Iran and has raised the possibility of one final major military operation, after which he would unilaterally declare victory and end the war.

A U.S. official briefed on the diplomatic efforts described the negotiations as ‘agonizing’, saying draft proposals are ‘going back and forth every day’ with little meaningful progress being made.’

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— 🇺🇸 President Trump: ‘I’m the smartest person you’ll ever meet’

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran closes its western airspace for night-time flights until Monday morning

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— 🇮🇷/🇶🇦 NEW: The Qatari delegation has departed Tehran, escorted by Iranian fighter jets

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There is a possibility the U.S. will give the green light for Israel to attack Iran, with no or minimal U.S. participation, to avoid dragging in the Arab states.

Note that Iran almost certainly won’t let this fly.

—❗️🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran’s Armed Forces enter the highest state of alert

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Surely they wouldn’t attack when their beloved Field Marshal is still in Tehran

Ok nothing’s happening, goodnight.

— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Pakistan’s Field Marshal Assim Muneer has left Tehran

No breakthrough was reached.

Iran submitted one final response to the U.S. proposal, and if it is rejected, hostilities will likely resume.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Ali Hashem, Al-Jazeera’s correspondent in Iran:

‘There are unbridgeable gaps. The unknown is when the breaking point comes. The known is that it’s coming.’

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Mohsen Naqvi, has also left Tehran after being there for over a week

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇺🇸 NEW: Iran’s chief negotiator, Parliament Speaker Qalibaf, told Pakistan’s Field Marshal Assim Muneer that Iran will make no further concessions than what has already been offered – Reuters

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰/🇺🇸 NEW: In his talks with the Pakistani Field Marshal, Iran’s chief negotiator Qalibaf said that the U.S. is a party that has ‘no honesty at all’, it is ‘completely untrustworthy’, and that Iran would pursue its legitimate rights either through diplomacy or on the battlefield – Reuters

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There is a draft MoU now that has been accepted by both Iran and Pakistan, from what I am hearing.

It focuses on permanently ending the war, but does not mention nuclear matters at all until a later stage and after sitgnificant U.S. concessions.

Ball is in America’s court.