🇺🇸🇮🇷 - It should be noted that the Iranian foreign minister specifically says “nuclear talks,” indicating that U.S. demands to negotiate on additional topics were likely dropped.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Axios confirms that the talks in Oman on Friday will be bilateral and focused solely on the nuclear issue.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The United States has asked Israel to refrain from military action against Iran while negotiations are underway.

🇺🇸⚡️- Trump: “It bothers me that somebody is going after Bill Clinton. I like Bill Clinton. I thought he understood me.”

🇺🇸⚡️- Trump on Minneapolis incidents: “Maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian fishermen sped toward and attempted to chase a U.S. destroyer near the coast of Iran.

The fishermen were civilians and, as far as is known, were not armed.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli cabinet ministers have received their summonses from the prime minister's office to attend the security cabinet meeting today, 4pm local time.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "Signs are increasing of renewed fighting in the Gaza Strip, possibly already in the coming months This is expected to lead to a large-scale reserve call-up and the breaking of the promise.

Hamas violations on the yellow line are increasing, and is rearming – politically, spring is the convenient time for action, after the budget approval," - Ynet.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The last US-Russian nuclear arms reduction treaty (New START) has expired today.

🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has seized two oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and detained roughly 15 foreign crew members.

🇮🇷 - Note, both tankers were smuggling illegal Iranian crude. The seizure of tankers carrying smuggled crude from Iran by the Iranian navy is normal, and occurs frequently.

Iranians see a 15-20x incentive to sell on the black market, which are typically ship-to-ship transferred to East Asian markets.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- The US and Russia are open to negotiating an extension to the START treaty, Axios reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING:

Turkey, Egypt and Qatar have proposed a possible US-Iran deal, al-Jazeera reports. The framework of the deal will be discussed this Friday between Washington and Tehran in Muscat.

- Iran would cease all enrichment on its soil for three years,

- After three years, Iran will limit enrichment to 1.5%,

- Its current stock of 440kg of 60% enriched uranium would be transferred to a third country,

- Iran would cease arming non-state actors in the region (alluding to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iraqi-based groups and Ansarullah),

- Iran would cease transferring technology to non-state actors in the region,

- Iran would pledge to not use ballistic missiles,

- The US and Iran to sign a non-aggression pact.

🇶🇦🇹🇷🇪🇬 - Note, the three mediators, Turkey, Egypt and Qatar, also played a major role in designing the 20-point Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement in late 2025.

The agreement, just like the US-Iran proposal, was and is one-sided, in which Hamas effectively signed their capitulation. The agreement 'forced' the Palestinian group to either sign for peace, or lose the mediators support.

The three regional mediators are now cornering Iran into a similar position.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli military correspondent for Channel 14, Yaakov Bardugo, threatens unilateral action if the US does not address Israel's red-lines in negotiations. Bardugo also claims Israel has received the greenlight for military action against Iran's ballistic missile program.

"If the US fails to address Israel's red-lines, Tel Aviv will retain the right to attack on the issue of ballistic missiles, and as far as I understand, the approval to strike ballistic missiles was already given in Mar-a-Lago. President Trump said on the issue of ballistic missiles: 'I won't intervene if you attack and end this matter,'" - Yaakov Bardugo.

🇮🇷🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Israel raised Iran's ballistic missile program concern with Russia's Sergei Lavrov, Yaakov Bardugo of Israeli Channel 14 reports.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We will not leave ballistic missiles in Iran's hands.

Ballistic missiles are an existential threat no less than the Iranian nuclear program, and we understand the pressures from Arab parties in the region.

It's possible, as in the Twelve-Day War or in other cases, that Israel will take the first steps to war," - Yaakov Bardugo of Israeli Channel 14.

🇪🇬🇮🇱⚡- "The Egyptian army is growing and must be closely monitored and prevented from excessive growth," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, during the Security Cabinet meeting.

🇺🇸⚡️- Bitcoin has broken down under $67,000.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “We will not accept the imposition of conditions such as halting enrichment, and we will not negotiate on the missile file or the regional file.” - Ebrahim Rezaei spokesperson for Iran’s parliamentary national security committee to Al Mayadeen.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - The Israeli security cabinet meeting has ended, lasting three and a half hours.