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19.04.26 - 17:18
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Bericht: Keine Entscheidung im Iran zu Verhandlungen mit USA (DPA-AFX)
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TEHERAN (dpa-AFX) - Die iranische Führung hat einem Bericht zufolge noch keine Entscheidung zu einem möglichen Treffen mit US-Vertretern getroffen. Solange die US-Marine weiter an ihrer Seeblockade vor der Straße von Hormus festhalte, werde es keine Verhandlungen ......
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19.04.26 - 16:27
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"No More Mr. Nice Guy": Trump Sends Witkoff To Pakistan For U.S.-Iran Talks As Hormuz Traffic Freezes (ZeroHedge)
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"No More Mr. Nice Guy": Trump Sends Witkoff To Pakistan For U.S.-Iran Talks As Hormuz Traffic Freezes
By Sunday morning, the latest Bloomberg ship tracking data showed that tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz had largely ground to a halt. There were multiple incidents of tankers U-turning over the last 24 hours. At the same time, a senior Iranian official renewed threats to close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
The Hormuz chokepoint (closed once again after briefly opening on Friday morning) comes as the US blockade of Iranian ports remains in place and US-Iran diplomatic channels appear active.
President Trump told Fox News that special envoy Steve Witkoff is traveling to Pakistan for talks with Iranian negotiators, suggesting the Trump team and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are still pursuing a negotiated off-ramp.
Separately, Trump wrote on Truth Social that his representatives "will be there tomorrow evening, for Negotiations."
Trump also renewed threats made earl...
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19.04.26 - 15:27
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Turkey Could Be ′Next Iran′ For Israel: US Envoy Scrambles To Calm Tensions (ZeroHedge)
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Turkey Could Be 'Next Iran' For Israel: US Envoy Scrambles To Calm Tensions
Via Middle East Eye
US Envoy Tom Barrack has downplayed escalating tensions between Turkey and Israel as just "rhetoric" and pushed for regional cooperation between the two countries in security and energy projects.
Speaking during a panel at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, Barrack pushed back against comments from some officials in both countries that suggested they could come into conflict in the near future. "I think Turkey is just not a country to be messed with," Barrack said.
Handout: Antalya Diplomacy Forum via AFP
Barrack said that both countries were seeing a distorted image of each other as a result of sensationalized media coverage that painted both as expansionist.
"So if you wake up in Tel Aviv, you read the newspaper, what do you see? You see the diagram on the paper of The Ottoman Empire 2.0, which is Vienna to the Maldives, right," he said.
"You wak...
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19.04.26 - 15:27
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U.S. Navy Deploys Sea Robots To Sweep Hormuz Chokepoint For Mines (ZeroHedge)
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U.S. Navy Deploys Sea Robots To Sweep Hormuz Chokepoint For Mines
The US military is deploying unmanned and autonomous surface platforms that can tow an advanced mine-hunting sonar system to detect sea mines that were deployed by Iranian naval forces. This development comes even as Iran closed the Hormuz chokepoint on Saturday morning.
By Sunday morning, Iran's chief negotiator said some progress had been made in negotiations with the US, but there is still a long way to go before a deal is reached.
Despite the volatility in the Hormuz chokepoint's operational status, somewhat like Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold," the US military deployed numerous sea drones towing the floating sonar minesweeping system.
WSJ explained:
The Common Uncrewed Surface Vessel, a drone made by RTX that tows a new floating sonar system called the AQS-20, scans the bottom of the sea for mines, patrolling columns that are 100 feet wide at a time.
Battery-powered submarine drones, called the MK18 Mod 2 King...
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