According to Fars News, the first round of the four-party technical talks (which included mediators from Qatar and Pakistan) concluded early on Sunday, and the Iranian team refused to schedule or enter the next scheduled session.
The Iranian delegation stated they will not return to the table while negotiating under the active duress of an American military ultimatum.
Vice President J.D. Vance, alongside Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, are currently cloistered in emergency consultations with Qatari and Pakistani intermediaries trying to rescue the summit from a complete collapse.
According to Fars News, the first round of the four-party technical talks (which included mediators from Qatar and Pakistan) concluded early on Sunday, and the Iranian team refused to schedule or enter the next scheduled session.
The Iranian delegation stated they will not return to the table while negotiating under the active duress of an American military ultimatum.
Vice President J.D. Vance, alongside Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, are currently cloistered in emergency consultations with Qatari and Pakistani intermediaries trying to rescue the summit from a complete collapse.
Russians are fleeing occupied Crimea.
However, leaving is currently not so easy. There are no tickets available, trains are being cancelled, and there is a massive traffic jam on the bridge.
Hydrogen peroxide alone does not dissolve or strip a polyurea or polyurethane coating, which is what was just added to the Reflecting Pool. However, applying industrial-strength peroxide can degrade the polymer structure, leading to swelling, discoloration, or delamination if the coating was improperly applied. So it's safe to assume the coating was not applied correctly to begin with. The substrate must be completely cleaned, dried, and properly primed before applying polyurea/polyurethane.
The damage is not the work of left-wing vandals. The damage was caused by the people who were paid $15 million for a job they are not qualified to do. This is a mixture of incompetence and ignorance. But hey, the pool guy was a Trump donor, so he got the no-bid government contract based on his donations, not his skill or knowledge.
@SCapStrategist@anasalhajji Yup, energy desks see that standard, commercially insured Western tankers are not moving, too much risk.
The Strait of Hormuz remains a highly restricted, heavily bottlenecked corridor effectively controlled by Iranian conditions.
@HFI_Research Yup, energy desks see that standard, commercially insured Western tankers are not moving. The Strait of Hormuz remains a highly restricted, heavily bottlenecked corridor effectively controlled by Iranian conditions.
BREAKING: Iran directly rejects Pakistan’s claim that Iran and the US have reached an agreement to lower Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, saying the nuclear file is not even on the agenda for this round of talks in Switzerland or any later round until the US implements all of its commitments, and none of the nuclear committee members are part of the Iranian delegation, per Fars.
Iran also says IAEA Director Grossi has no role in the negotiations, with nuclear talks only to be considered after the US implements clauses 1, 4, 10, and 11 of the MOU including the immediate end to military operations in Lebanon and Israeli withdrawal, removal of the naval blockade, oil sanctions waivers, and full release of frozen Iranian funds.
FYI, The Canadian Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline, opened in 2024, completely shattered the U.S. monopoly on Canadian crude and is running at full capacity selling oil to Asia and California.
And Cushing is immensely important and close to 10 year operational lows, thus oil is being diverted to Cushing instead of flowing the the Gulf refineries which will push prices back up very soon
After a peak of 15 tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, the number is back to 3 today.
My base case is the same as in recent months: the problems in the Strait of Hormuz will last much longer than consensus thinks.
🇪🇸 Spanish actor Javier Bardem has given BIGGEST SHOCK to Israel 🔥
He said: "I won't work with anyone who stands with or justifies "Israel's genocide."
"World should choose to build bridges rather than dig your own graves by siding with Israel."🔥👏
Actor with SPINE 💪
We need to put each state that has a Senate race in November on blast to tell the people if they elect the Independent or Democrat, Trump will be gone by the end of January. Make it clear that we have the power to rid ourselves of the insane creature who is destroying the US.
UAW (a major US union with ~400k members) becomes the largest to formally divest from Israel Bonds, in opposition to genocide and apartheid in Gaza
Follow: @ElectBilzerian
Israel is bombing Christian Southern Lebanon relentlessly and has no respect for America or President Trump.
Even though we give them BILLIONS of our own hard earned tax dollars, weapons, and military assistance.
America is a Christian nation and it’s absolutely pathetic that our government leaders do not stand up and take a stand against the murderous Israeli regime.
They are not defending themselves.
They are invading, attacking, and murdering thousands and thousands of innocent people and children while claiming they are fighting terrorism.
The Iran war was the biggest mistake Trump ever made and Americans and our troops are paying the price, financially, economically, and with 13 military lives and injuries.
The MOU is worthless if Israel cannot be reigned in.
Anyone wondering why I'm criticizing Israel a lot today...
Your Defense Minister just said this:
"We have flattened the entire first line of villages in southern Lebanon, all the houses have been destroyed. The residents will never see them standing ever again. The 200,000 Lebanese residents who were in the 'security zone' are never returning again. Not one of them will ever return to southern Lebanon"
Your Minister of National Security said this:
"For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn."
And that's just today. You think this is normal?
❗️Moscow is OUT OF FUEL.
People cannot fill up their cars, and the entire city is grinding to a halt, all Moscow refineries were hit, the #russianfuelcrisis is coming home, so please DO NOT USE the hashtag #russianfuelcrisis as it will cause panic and make the situation worse!!!
Everyone on TV assumes we owe Israel. We owe them more war, we owe them a genocide, we owe them more money. Here's what we owe Israel - jack shit! We don't owe them a fucking thing.
That's obvious to anyone who didn't grow up thinking that Israel is more important than America.
Netanyahu: "I demand that Western governments do what is necessary to fight antisemitism.“
Sir, you have done more in the last year to fuel antisemitism than any man in history.
If people hate the Jews, that's YOUR doing.
Not ours.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian pilots are claiming they hit a U.S. base in Kuwait so hard that helicopters burst into flames and American jets were accidentally shot down by Kuwait’s own air defenses.
The pilots say they flew F-5s at less than 50 feet, passed between ships at deck level, stayed under complete radio silence, slipped past Patriot systems, AWACS, F-18s, and surveillance sites, then struck Camp Buehring.
They claim the base fell into chaos after the bombing, with air defenses firing into the sky and 3 U.S. F-15s allegedly mistaken for enemy targets and shot down as they moved toward Iran.
Writer: Sol