US going to Islamabad on Monday for Iran negotiations, Trump says
Donald Trump mentioned on Reality Social that his representatives have been going to be in Islamabad on Monday night time for extra negotiations.
“We’re providing a very reasonable and affordable DEAL, and I hope they take it as a result of, in the event that they don’t, the USA goes to knock out each single Energy Plant, and each single Bridge, in Iran,” Trump wrote.
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Iran at the moment has not decided on whether or not to ship a negotiating delegation to Pakistan “so long as there’s a naval blockade,” Iran’s semi-official information company Tasnim reported.
Yesterday, Iranian officers reversed the reopening of the strait of Hormuz and reimposed restrictions on the important delivery lane after the US mentioned it might not finish its blockade of Iranian ports. Iranian officers have maintained that the US blockade of Iran’s ports is a violation of the ceasefire settlement.
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The US power secretary has mentioned that petrol costs are anticipated to stay excessive as a result of fallout from the battle on Iran, CNN reviews.
Chris Wright spoke to the community and mentioned he believes that fuel costs have “possible peaked” however might not attain beneath $3 gallon “till subsequent 12 months.”
“Gasoline beneath $3 a gallon might occur later this 12 months, that may not occur till subsequent 12 months. However costs have possible peaked, and so they’ll begin taking place,” he mentioned.
The nationwide common at the moment stands at $4.05 per gallon, which is considerably greater than a 12 months in the past.
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White Home says Vance truly goes to Islamabad
Throughout the course of an hour, the Trump administration has reversed course 3 times on whether or not JD Vance could be heading to Islamabad for the following spherical of Iran peace talks.
Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, informed ABC Information that the vp could be main the American delegation set to reach in Islamabad on Monday.
Donald Trump then got here again to ABC Information to say that Vance wouldn’t be going to Islamabad due to safety points – it was too wanting a discover for Secret Service.
The White Home then informed CNN that Vance will likely be going – “Issues modified,” an official mentioned – and in reality, Vance will likely be main the delegation that features particular envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.
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London police investigating possibile Iranian proxy involvement in assaults in opposition to Jewish websites
Metropolitan police in London are investigating whether or not a collection of arson assaults in opposition to Jewish websites have been carried out by Iranian proxies.
Talking outdoors Kenton united synagogue in north-west London, the location of the most recent arson assault, deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans, the senior nationwide co-ordinator for counter terrorism, mentioned: “The character of the incidents has been comparable – arson assaults focusing on Israeli- and Jewish-linked premises in London.
London’s Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Matt Jukes (C), deputy assistant commissioner Vicki Evans (L) and Mathew Walker (R) make a press release to the media by an space cordoned off by police, close to the Kenton United Synagogue in Harrow, north-west London on April 19, 2026 {Photograph}: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Photographs
“Most have been claimed on-line by the group Ashab al-Yamin (Islamic Motion of the Companions of the Proper).
“This identical group has claimed a number of incidents over latest months at locations of worship, enterprise and monetary establishments throughout Europe. These areas all seem like linked to Jewish or Israeli pursuits.”
The Guardian’s Jamie Grierson has extra.
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Mohammad Ishaq Dar, the deputy prime minister of Pakistan, spoke on Sunday with Abbas Araghchi, the international minister of Iran.
The telephone name included dialogue on “the necessity for continued dialogue and engagement as important to resolving the present points as quickly as potential for selling the peace and stability within the area and past”, in keeping with Pakistan’s ministry of international affairs.
Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s president, is slated to have a telephone name with Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan’s prime minister, later at present as nicely.
These telephone conversations came about as Donald Trump confirmed {that a} US delegation could be in Islamabad on Monday for an additional spherical of peace talks relating to the battle in Iran.
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Iran international ministry: US blockade violates ceasefire and ‘quantities to battle crime’
The US blockade of Iran’s ports is a violation of the ceasefire settlement and is “each illegal and prison”, Esmaeil Baqaei, a spokesman for Iran’s international ministry, mentioned Sunday.
“The USA’ so-called ‘blockade’ of Iran’s ports or shoreline is just not solely a violation of Pakistani-mediated ceasefire but in addition each illegal and prison,” Baqaei posted on X.
Baqaei additionally mentioned the blockade was in violation of the UN Constitution and constitutes an act of aggression.
“Furthermore, by intentionally inflicting collective punishment on the Iranian inhabitants, it quantities to battle crime and crime in opposition to humanity,” Baqaei mentioned.
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JD Vance is just not going to Islamabad, Trump says
ABC Information had beforehand reported that Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, had mentioned that JD Vance was going to steer the American delegation in Islamabad this week.
Donald Trump has since corrected that assertion to say that the vp wouldn’t be going to Pakistan. Trump mentioned his representatives could be in Islamabad for peace talks on Monday night time, however that Secret Service couldn’t organize to accompany Vance there on such brief discover.
“It’s solely due to safety,” Trump mentioned. “JD’s nice.”
Trump had earlier confirmed to Fox Information and The New York Publish that particular enoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kusher, Trump’s son-in-law, could be going to Islamabad.
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Trump says ‘entire nation is getting blown up’ if Iran doesn’t settle for deal
Donald Trump informed Fox Information on Sunday that this was Iran’s “final probability” to comply with a peace deal.
“If Iran doesn’t signal this deal, the entire nation is getting blown up,” Trump mentioned. The US president then reiterated his earlier level on Reality Social that the US would goal bridges and energy crops particularly if Iran doesn’t signal this settlement.
The deal entails reopening the strait of Hormuz and ensuring Iranians should not have enriched uranium.
Trump additionally made clear that he wouldn’t be “making the identical mistake” that Barack Obama did with the 2015 settlement his administration made to restrict Iran’s nuclear capabilities. In alternate for the lifting of some sanctions, Obama had conceded that Iran might contiune enriching its uranium for 15 years, however solely on the stage of purity required for a civilian nuclear programme. The settlement additionally included limiting Iran’s stockpile of uranium to 300kg.
Trump withdrew from the settlement in 2018, calling the deal “one of many worst and most one-sided transactions” the US had ever entered into”.
Since then, Iran has grown its stockpile to 400.9kg of uranium enriched to 60% uranium-235 – a stage that may be shortly enriched to weapons-grade – 90%.
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Report: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to affix American delegation in Islamabad
Donald Trump informed The New York Publish that particular envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, may also be in Islamabad for the following spherical of peace talks with Iran.
JD Vance will likely be main the delegation, Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, informed ABC Information.
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Trump: Iran says it closed Hormuz, however US blockade already closed it
In that very same submit on Reality Social, Donald Trump bragged that the US blockade had already blocked the strait of Hormuz.
“Iran lately introduced that they have been closing the Strait, which is unusual, as a result of our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They’re serving to us with out understanding, and they’re those that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million {Dollars} a day! The USA loses nothing,” Trump wrote.
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Report: JD Vance to steer American delegation to Islamabad
JD Vance will lead the American delegration in Iran peace talks in Islamabad, Mike Waltz, the US ambassador to the UN, informed ABC Information.
Donald Trump on Sunday mentioned his representatives have been going to be in Islamabad on Monday night time for extra negotiations.
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US going to Islamabad on Monday for Iran negotiations, Trump says
Donald Trump mentioned on Reality Social that his representatives have been going to be in Islamabad on Monday night time for extra negotiations.
“We’re providing a very reasonable and affordable DEAL, and I hope they take it as a result of, in the event that they don’t, the USA goes to knock out each single Energy Plant, and each single Bridge, in Iran,” Trump wrote.
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Trump: ‘NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!’
Donald Trump took to Reality Social on Sunday to declare Iran in violation of the ceasefire settlement.
Trump mentioned the US was providing a “very reasonable and affordable deal” and if Iran didn’t take it, he promised to knock out “each single Energy Plant” and “each single Bridge”.
“NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” Trump wrote. “They’ll come down quick, they’ll come down straightforward and, in the event that they don’t take the DEAL, it is going to be my Honor to do what must be performed, which ought to have been performed to Iran, by different Presidents, for the final 47 years.”
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Trump: Peace deal ‘will occur. A method or one other’
Donald Trump informed ABC Information on Sunday that although Iran has dedicated a “severe violation” of the ceasefire, he nonetheless believes he can negotiate a peace deal.
“It can occur. A method or one other. The great approach or the laborious approach. It’s going to occur. You’ll be able to quote me,” Trump informed journalist Jonathan Karl.
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Worldwide flights to renew in Iran for first time since battle started
Worldwide flights will resume in Iran on Monday, the nation’s civil aviation division has mentioned.
AFP reported a press release that had aired on state TV which mentioned the Mashhad airport within the north-east of Iran would see flights arriving and departing tomorrow.
The assertion mentioned: “Permission to function worldwide passenger flights at Mashhad Airport has been issued, beginning tomorrow.”
Iranian airports have been closed for the reason that outbreak of battle with Israel and the US on 28 February.
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Iran’s army turns round two tankers in strait of Hormuz, state-affiliated information company reviews
Two tankers have been circled by Iran’s army as they tried to move by the strait of Hormuz, the nation’s information company Tasmin has reported.
Reuters reported that it got here after the persevering with US blockade on Iran.
The vessels, crusing underneath the flags of Botswana and Angola, have been pressured to vary course after what the report described as “unauthorised transit” by the strategic waterway.
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Iran’s prime negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, mentioned on Saturday that the latest talks with the US had made progress however gaps remained over nuclear points and the strait of Hormuz. “We have now had progress however there is nonetheless an enormous distance between us,” he informed state media, referring to talks final weekend. “We made progress within the negotiations, however there are various gaps and a few elementary factors stay.”
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian weighed in on Sunday about Donald Trump and efforts to quash Iranian nuclear capabilities. “Trump says Iran can not make use of its nuclear rights however doesn’t say for what crime. Who’s he to deprive a nation of its rights?” Pezeshkian mentioned.
In additional nuclear information, Iranian deputy international minister Saeed Khatibzadeh informed the Related Press that opposite to Trump’s earlier claims, Iran is not going to hand over its enriched uranium to the US.
In Lebanon, killing and destruction has continued regardless of a fragile ceasefire. An Israeli soldier was killed in southern Lebanon in an incident that severely wounded one other troopers and reasonably injured 4 extra, whereas one other succombed on Saturday to accidents incured in one other incident. In the meantime, the state-run Nationwide Information Company is reporting that the Israeli army has demolished houses within the cities of Bayyada and Naqoura and have blocked roads resulting in a number of cities. Lebanese state media additionally reported that Israeli forces on Saturday started demolishing houses within the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil and different border cities the place Israeli troops are current.
Earlier, a UN peacekeeper was killed and three others have been injured in an assault that UN secretary-general António Guterres has strongly condemned. Each Emmanuel Macron, president of France, and the group often called the UN Interim Power in Lebanon blamed Hezbollah, however the militant group has denied involvement.
In Gaza, the Israeli army killed two Unicef-contracted truck drivers at a water level within the northern Gaza forcing the UN company to droop its operations within the space, Unicef mentioned.
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How the Iranian regime targets UK journalists
Iranian journalists working in London say they concern for his or her lives after a latest spate of threats and bodily assaults, which they blame on a Tehran regime intent on silencing Persian-language information media resembling BBC Persian and Iran Worldwide.
On Wednesday, the London workplaces of Iran Worldwide, a information channel that opposes the regime in Tehran, have been the goal of an tried arson assault, with an “ignited container” thrown into the automobile park of a neighbouring constructing, in keeping with the Metropolitan police.
Talking after the assault, one journalist at Iran Worldwide says violence had turn into normalised to employees. “Our minds are ignoring these ugly issues routinely.
“Right now, our British employees mentioned to us, ‘How courageous you’re, bravo!’ However to let you know the reality, what actually occurs is that we’re fucked up. We’ve tricked our brains into normalising these threats and never fearing in any respect as a result of in any other case we might want to go to the psychological hospital.”
Tom Levitt, Deepa Mother or father and Maryam Foumani have the story:
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Listed below are some extra photos popping out of Lebanon at present of residents pressured to traverse damaged bridges and destroyed roads to return dwelling in the course of the momentary ceasefire:
Displaced individuals cross on foot over a destroyed bridge in Tayr Felsay village as they return to their houses throughout a brief ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel on 19 April 2026. {Photograph}: Bilal Hussein/APDisplaced individuals cross on foot over a destroyed bridge in Tayr Felsay village as they return to their houses throughout a brief ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel on 19 April 2026. {Photograph}: Bilal Hussein/APLebanese military troopers arrange a makeshift bridge for individuals to cross a river in Tayr Felsay, a village in southern Lebanon, on 19 April 2026. {Photograph}: Bilal Hussein/APDisplaced individuals drive throughout a brief bridge on their approach dwelling in Bedias, Lebanon on 19 April 2026. {Photograph}: Xinhua/ShutterstockShare
