After a night packed with talks and reports, including a historic handshake between Vance and Ghalibaf, the vice president gave a brief statement. “I think that’s bad news for Iran much more than it's bad news for the United States of America,” Vance said. Pakistan: “Iran and the US must honor the ceasefire.”
Israel Hayom has learned that President Donald Trump personally promised Gulf leaders that the Strait of Hormuz would remain fully open. A source familiar with the talks says Iran is taking relatively conciliatory positions on the nuclear issue, and the matter now appears solvable.
Talks between Pakistan’s prime minister and the American delegation have begun. Tehran is insisting on the preconditions it set for negotiations, including a ceasefire in Lebanon, war reparations and the release of frozen assets.
Tehran claims it threatened to destroy a US destroyer within 30 minutes unless it withdrew. Washington denies that account and says US warships crossed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the war began. Trump: “We are clearing out the Strait of Hormuz.”
Senior officers argued that weapons production could be shifted to the US because “we are completely dependent on them anyway.” That is a mistake. Dependence is not binary. But the officers’ response was not only a miscalculation of power. It also reflected a deeper intellectual failure.
