—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 Iran’s Foreign Ministry: ‘The fact that the American delegation has traveled to Islamabad is their own affair’

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— 🇮🇷/🇻🇦 NEW: In a letter to Pope Leo XIV, the parents of killed Iranian schoolgirls from the ‘Minab’ massacre thank him for his stance on human rights, and ask the Pope to be the ‘voice of the voiceless’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Pakistan’s Field Marshall, Assim Muneer, has been speaking directly to President Trump, who reportedly said he is ‘considering’ removing the naval blockade against Iran to facilitate further talks

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran announces that flights to and from Imam Khomeini International Airport and Mehrabad Airport (both located in Tehran) will resume starting today

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— 🇧🇾/🇮🇷/🇺🇸 President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko:

‘The war in Iran has shown us two things. Firstly, that the United States is not as powerful as expected.

Secondly, that people in the Islamic world are willing to sacrifice their lives — unlike me’

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— 🇺🇸/🇧🇾 President Lukashenko of Belarus: ‘Belarus is more democratic than the United States. But why should I care about democracy?’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Vice President J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff will land in Islamabad in a few hours

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 President Trump: ‘We’re supposed to have the talks today. So I hope nobody’s playing games with us’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘We have a pretty good idea about who’s leading Iran, and we believe we’re dealing with the right people’

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Intensive efforts are ongoing by Pakistan to convince Iran to attend the talks in Islamabad tomorrow.

— 🇮🇷/🇷🇺 NEW: Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has called Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: CNN’s White House correspondent says that J.D. Vance and the American delegation have not yet departed Washington D.C. for Islamabad, contrary to Trump, who said ‘they’re going over there now’

According to CNN, Vance is expected to depart Washington D.C. tomorrow.

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, also held a phone call with Ishaq Dar, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘If the ceasefire expires, lots of bombs will be dropping on Iran’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 PBS Reporter: ‘Will Iran attend the talks in Islamabad?’

President Trump: ‘I don’t know, but they are supposed to be there’

Reporter: ‘What if they don’t?’

President Trump: ‘That’s fine too. If they do that’ll be great, and if they don’t it’ll be great’

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