Iran…Trump…Conflict… Evening… 4/25/2026…No Talks….Stalemate….

Yup…..

Stalemate…..

Trump sends no one because it appears that the people talking FOR Iran TO US reps are NOT the people who have the ‘juice’ to make things happen…

The Miliary DOES have the ‘juice’….

They ARE communicating with the injuried , but still alive Religious Leader….

They ARE NOT backing down from wanting to control the Strait of Hormuz….

They ARE animate AGAINST any solution that does NOT come across as a WIN for thmeslsves….

They appear to be ready to have the US resume bombing attacks since they have survived 5 weeks of bombing and still have missiles and drones ready to fire ….

Trump IS STUCK I believe….

Unlike Iran?

He’s an elected official….

Polls count….

So does the price of oil/gas

And he ain’t doing good in them for himself and his ‘War’ which is now a Conflict….

I, for one?

Will NOT be surprised if Trump turns to Hegseth to start shooting again….

But?

THAT probably won’t work…..

It hasn’t up to now….

 

AP….

• President Donald Trump says he told top U.S. envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, telling Fox News that ″they can call us anytime they want.” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan on Saturday evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press.
• Trump said Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House. The meeting was the second high-level negotiation between the two countries since last week. The initial 10-day ceasefire, which took effect last Friday, had been due to expire Monday.
• The Trump administration is placing economic sanctions on a major China-based oil refineryand roughly 40 shipping companies and tankersinvolved in transporting Iranian oil. The move, announced Friday, actualizes the administration’s threat to impose secondary sanctions on entities that do business with Iran, an effort to cut off Iran’s key source of revenue — its oil exports.
• Airlines worldwide have begun canceling flights as the war in the Middle East strains jet fuel supplies and pushes up prices. Here’s what to know if your flight is canceled.

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The Guardian….

• Donald Trump canceled his plan to send US envoys for ceasefire talks in Pakistan. “I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going is Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work!”

• Trump said later that Iran “offered a lot but not enough” after he announced the cancellation. He claimed he received a better offer from Iran just minutes after the trip was called off. “They gave us a paper that should have been better, and interestingly, immediately, when I canceled it, within 10 minutes, we got a new paper that was much better,” Trump told reporters.

• Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his military to “vigorously attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon”, according to a statement from his office, despite a ceasefire with Lebanon that Trump recently said had been extended by three weeks.

• Another four people have been killed in Israeli strikes in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor al-Shaqif, according to the official Lebanon National News Agency. Lebanon’s ministry of health announced on Saturday that the death toll from Israeli attacks had risen to 2,496.

• The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had also killed 15 Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon, despite the three-week extension of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.

• Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, issued a brief statement on social media following his meeting with the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi. “Had a most warm, cordial exchange of views on the current regional situation. We also discussed matters of mutual interest, including the further strengthening of Pakistan-Iran bilateral relations,” Sharif said…..

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ISW…Iran Update Special Report, April 25 2026

1. Prospects for meaningful US-Iran negotiations remain low as Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and his inner circle continue to dominate Iran’s decision-making and oppose compromise. ISW-CTP assessed that in recent days, the IRGC has sidelined civilian officials and that Iran’s negotiating team lacks the authority to make independent decisions, which helps explain continued inflexibility and the absence of tangible progress.
2. US President Donald Trump canceled US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s planned trip to Islamabad, Pakistan, for talks with Iran, due to Iran’s unchanged negotiating positions.
3. Hezbollah may be conducting smaller-scale attacks targeting uninhabited areas of northern Israel and Israeli forces in southern Lebanon to demonstrate that it has the ability to threaten Israeli security and will respond to Israeli operations in Lebanon. This strategy accepts the risk of a return to war, but is still attempting to keep the attacks below a threshold that would trigger major Israeli attacks.

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Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Atomic Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create

As President Trump struggles to negotiate or intimidate his way out of the war he began with Iran, he is confronting the complicated legacy of his decision, eight years ago, to cancel what he has called “a horrible, one-sided deal.”

That Obama-era agreement suffered from flaws and omissions. It would have expired after 15 years, leaving Iran free after 2030 to make as much nuclear fuel as it wanted. But once Mr. Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, the Iranians went on an enrichment spree much sooner, leaving them closer to a bomb than ever before.

Now, Mr. Trump’s negotiators are dealing with the consequences of that decision, which he made over the objections of many of his national security advisers at the time. Underscoring the challenges, Mr. Trump abruptly called off on Saturday a round of nuclear talks with Iran in Pakistan.

Much recent attention has focused on Iran’s half-ton of uranium that has been enriched to a level just shy of what is typically used in atom bombs. The majority of it is thought to be buried in a tunnel complex that Mr. Trump bombed last June. But those 970 pounds of potential bomb fuel represent only a small fraction of the problem….

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