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🚨 Trump demands Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan sign Abraham Accords as condition of Iran deal President Trump posted on Truth Social Monday demanding that all countries involved in Iran negotiations simultaneously sign the Abraham Accords, describing it as a prerequisite for any deal and warning those who refuse would be excluded from the agreement. “It should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote, naming Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain as targets. The UAE and Bahrain are already members. 🔸Trump warned: “If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention.” 🔸He said it “should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit.” 🔸He also dangled Iran’s own potential membership, writing: “If Iran signs its Agreement with me… it would be an Honor to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition.” 🔹The Abraham Accords, brokered during Trump’s first term, normalized relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Kazakhstan. Trump’s demand would require the mediating countries to recognize Israel and normalize relations as a condition of ending the Iran war — a significant ask given that Saudi Arabia has publicly conditioned any normalization on a credible and irreversible path to Palestinian statehood, a position shared in various forms by Turkey, Egypt, and others on the list. 🔹The demand comes as the U.S. has allowed Israel to continue the daily killing of Palestinians in Gaza for more than seven months since the October 2025 Trump-brokered ceasefire, with over 900 Palestinians killed since the agreement was approved by Israel. The U.S. and Israel are also deliberately blocking minimum levels of food, medicine, shelter, fuel, and reconstruction aid. 🔹President Trump has also removed sanctions on the most violent Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, where rampant state-backed settler violence to uproot Palestinian families has gone unchecked since the start of his second term. 🔹Trump closed his social media post with a warning: “It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before.”

🚨I asked a senior Iranian official for comment on the current state of the Iran war negotiations. They sent the following statement: “We are very close to reaching and signing an agreement to end the war, and today’s constructive negotiating approach has made the prospect of peace in the region highly attainable. “We recognize that President Trump is now faced with an important political decision — one that must balance the interests of the United States, regional countries, and respect for Iran’s fundamental rights. Should this agreement ultimately be achieved, the international community will commend all negotiating parties for their role in advancing stability and peace. “At the same time, Israel is currently undertaking its final extensive efforts and applying considerable pressure to disrupt the formation of this agreement. We hope that the U.S. administration will make its decision independently of external influence and in favor of the broader collective interests of all parties involved.”

⭕️ Trump announces Iran deal “largely negotiated” 🔸President Trump posted from the Oval Office Saturday that a memorandum of understanding with Iran has been “largely negotiated, subject to finalization,” following a call with regional leaders and a separate call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which he said “went very well.” The leaders on the call included: ● Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia ● Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE ● Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar ● Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan ● President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey ● President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Egypt ● King Abdullah II, Jordan ● King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahrain 🔸“An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly. In addition to many other elements of the Agreement, the Strait of Hormuz will be opened.” 🔸A source close to Iran’s negotiating team told IRGC-linked Fars News earlier Saturday that Hormuz control remains one of three unresolved sticking points — with Iran only committing to restoring ship numbers to previous levels under Iranian management and along routes determined by Tehran. 🔸Fars also reported that U.S. officials involved in the negotiations sent indirect messages to the Iranian side through intermediaries urging them to “ignore Trump’s tweets,” saying his public statements are “purely for domestic and media consumption” and that “his position at the negotiation table is completely different.” A source told Fars that Trump “has realized that Iran is not one to give concessions” and sends word through intermediaries that his statements “should not be paid attention to.”

🎥 Professor Rashid Khalidi on the dangers of “purity politics” and why meaningful political change requires broad coalitions, strategic alliances, and building power beyond politics as “self-satisfaction.” Khalidi says that if the goal is to stop arms sales, advance divestment, and shift policy, movements cannot remain trapped in a “tiny, ineffective minority.” Source: Shu-Kaman (full interview below).

🚨 REPORT | Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the Islamic Republic’s top security decision-making body, announced that “negotiations will begin with complete distrust of the American side on Friday, April 10, in Islamabad,” with 2 weeks allocated for talks to finalize the details of its 10-point demands and codify them into a binding UN Security Council resolution — which the Council says would make the agreements “binding international law.” The council released a statement Wednesday morning outlining what it claims are the terms America has accepted in principle, and what Iran is formally emphasizing. Trump, in a post on Truth social, wrote that Iran’s 10-point proposal constitutes “a workable basis on which to negotiate.” 💢 Here is what Iran’s Supreme National Security Council claims the U.S. has “fundamentally committed to”: 🔸 Guaranteeing non-aggression against Iran 🔸 Continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz 🔸 Accepting Iranian uranium enrichment 🔸 Lifting all primary and secondary sanctions 🔸 Ending all UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors resolutions 🔸 Paying war reparations to Iran 🔸 Withdrawing all U.S. combat forces from the region 🔸 Halting the war on all resistance fronts, “including against the heroic Islamic resistance of Lebanon” (Hezbollah) 💢 Later in the text, the document states that Iran’s formal 10-point demands, submitted via Pakistan, “emphasized”: 🔸 Controlled Hormuz passage coordinated with Iran’s armed forces, which it notes would grant Iran a “unique economic and geopolitical position” 🔸 The “necessity to end the war” against all Resistance axis factions – fronts listed in the document include Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine (occupied territories) – described as the “historic defeat of the child-killing Israeli regime’s aggression” 🔸 Full withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from “all bases and deployment points in the region” 🔸 The establishment of a Strait of Hormuz safe-passage protocol “guaranteeing Iran’s control according to the agreed protocol” 🔸 “Full compensation to Iran according to assessments” of war damage 🔸 Lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, and resolutions of the IAEA Board of Governors and Security Council 🔸 Release of “all blocked Iranian assets abroad” 🔸 Finally, all the terms above codified in a “binding Security Council resolution” — which the document says would turn the agreements into “binding international law” and “an important diplomatic victory for the Iranian nation”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 📌 The Council states that if the “enemy’s battlefield submission” is not translated into a “decisive political achievement” in negotiations, Iran will resume fighting “until all demands of the Iranian nation are met” — adding: “our hands are on the trigger, and the moment the slightest error is made by the enemy, it will be answered with full force.“