“This event is quite significant and it has the potential to torpedo the deal between the US and Iran"
- @saminader, founder of Levant Institute for Strategic Affairs
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We are closer to a peace deal than ever before. With finalisation likely expected in the next 24 hours, Pakistan is preparing for the electronic signing of the peace deal immediately after, followed by technical level talks next week.
We would like to thank United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran for their ongoing commitment during the negotiations, and we extend our sincere appreciation to our brothers in the region for their support. We are confident that this historic peace deal will form a strong foundation for lasting peace.
@realDonaldTrump@JDVance@SecRubio@SteveWitkoff@SEPeaceMissions@drpezeshkian@araghchi
Iranians “added senior psychologists to their negotiating team,” @jeremyscahill claims, “because [they] believe that Trump is legitimately mentally ill and is operating in an impaired mental state.
“They didn't say this as a joke.”
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Regarding the federal investigation into Epstein, @RepStephenLynch accuses Acting AG @DAGToddBlanche of "witness tampering" and of having "interfered with the investigation."
"He's clearly unqualified and untrustworthy"
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is on track this week to reach its lowest levels since the early 1980s, not long after it was established in the wake of the 1973 energy crisis, itself sparked by US backing of Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
Trump: You cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon or they will blow you up. There will be no Kristen, there will be no NBC, there will be no 'Meet the Press.'
Rep. @sydneykamlager appears to storm out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee after a heated exchange with Secretary of State @marcorubio
"She gets to scream now, too?"
Energy @SecretaryWright on what the "bigger problem" is causing soaring gas prices:
"The even bigger problem with gasoline prices, electricity prices, heating prices, is Democrat green policies!"
Devine: In your first term one of the hallmarks was that peoples' wages were rising much faster than inflation.
Trump: It's happening now! We don't have very much inflation. Look, if you take away just the price of gasoline, the energy, we have very little inflation.
"You give us the opinion that there's something in there that you don't want us to see."
Sen. @timkaine presses SOS @marcorubio on why the OLC legal opinion on the Iran war has not been shared with lawmakers.
"Is there a dissenting opinion that says it's not legal?"
BREAKING: Iran officially suspends all negotiation message exchange with the US, due to the continued Israeli ceasefire violations in Lebanon, with the Iranian negotiating team halting "dialogue and the exchange of texts through intermediaries" until Iran's position on Lebanon is met, per Tasnim.
Iran and the Resistance Front have also placed on their agenda the complete blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the activation of other fronts including the full blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to "punish the Zionists and their supporters."