— 🇮🇷 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.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry: ‘The Strait of Hormuz is none of America’s business’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 According to Al-Jazeera, some details of the alleged MoU:

– A permanent end to the war in the entire region, including Lebanon.

– U.S. lifts the naval blockade.

– Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz.

– American military forces leave the region.

Nuclear matters to be discussed at a later stage.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NOTE: As they say, ‘the devil is in the details’, and that’s most certainly the case with this Memorandum of Understanding

Is there a practical mechanism to ensure U.S. forces leave the region, or is it just a vague committment?

Will there be a release of frozen funds? If yes, how many — and when will they be released?

Will the U.S. grant Iran temporary oil sanctions waivers for the duration of the remaining negotiations?

But perhaps most importantly, it will be key whether Iran’s reopening of Hormuz includes the collection of tolls and abiding by the Iranian maritime traffic separation scheme.

If Iran is allowed to collect tolls and ships have to get Iranian permission to pass the Strait, that’s a major American concession and practically grants Iran sovereignty over the Strait.

But if Iran has agreed to temporarily shelf the idea of toll collection, this MoU is less favorable. As I said, details matter a lot, this all means nothing yet.

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