TRUMP SAYS "OVER THE WEEKEND," IRAN SAYS "NO PROGRESS"

Trump told reporters talks are going "very, very well" and floated a joint arrangement where US personnel would enter Iran to recover buried nuclear material after the war ends 5GLT Trump says U.S., Iran to jointly dig out Iran's buried nuclear material. If real, that would be the most significant arms control commitment Tehran has made in decades. Iran has not publicly confirmed it, and a single-source presidential readout on a live negotiation is not a confirmed term. Araghchi said the same day that both sides are reviewing exchanged texts but "no tangible progress" has been made 10TOI Trump suggests Iran talks could yield deal by weekend while Tehran denies progress. The Wall Street Journal reported Trump privately set his threshold for restarting the war at Iranian attacks on US troops 3AAM Trump says he won’t end ceasefire unless Iran attacks kill US troops: Report, which tells you more about the actual timeline than any optimistic deal language does.

Hours after signing a renewed ceasefire framework with Lebanon in Washington, Israel carried out drone strikes in the Nabatieh area and hit an ambulance team in Zebdine, killing one paramedic 4GDN Israel and Lebanon agree to renew ceasefire as Trump seeks to overcome barriers to Iran deal 9AAM 1 paramedic killed, another wounded as Israel targets ambulance in southern Lebanon. It was the fourth Israeli attack on medical personnel or facilities in under 24 hours according to Lebanon's Health Ministry 9AAM 1 paramedic killed, another wounded as Israel targets ambulance in southern Lebanon. The new framework creates "pilot zones" for exclusive Lebanese Armed Forces control, structurally similar to the 2024 arrangement Israel violated over 10,000 times before the current war 4GDN Israel and Lebanon agree to renew ceasefire as Trump seeks to overcome barriers to Iran deal. The joint statement says nothing about when Israeli troops will leave the roughly 608 square kilometres of Lebanese territory they currently occupy 4GDN Israel and Lebanon agree to renew ceasefire as Trump seeks to overcome barriers to Iran deal.

Rubio told the Senate foreign relations committee Tuesday that Oman "flirted with" backing Iran's position on the strait, and Trump last week threatened to bomb the sultanate 6GDN Oman resists US pressure to break ties with Iran over strait of Hormuz. Oman's Washington ambassador held emergency calls with Treasury Secretary Bessent to walk things back. Iran is reframing its Persian Gulf Strait Authority fees as an environmental remediation charge rather than a toll, a deliberate legal manoeuvre designed to give Oman political cover and make the mechanism harder to challenge under international law 6GDN Oman resists US pressure to break ties with Iran over strait of Hormuz. That is a more sophisticated play than it looks, and it is not getting the attention it deserves.

Iran's Navy claimed to have targeted a command-and-control centre aboard a US destroyer in the Sea of Oman 12MHR Iran Navy targets 'command center' aboard US destroyer. US Central Command denied it within minutes 5GLT Trump says U.S., Iran to jointly dig out Iran's buried nuclear material. The IRGC separately claimed the Kuwait airport damage was caused by a failed US Patriot interceptor rather than an Iranian projectile 11MHR US patriot missile behind destruction in Kuwait airport, a claim no independent source has confirmed. Both fit the established pattern of competing narratives around each Gulf exchange, and neither changes the operational picture materially. Rubio characterised ongoing Gulf activity as "defensive," which is the administration signalling it does not plan to escalate 3AAM Trump says he won’t end ceasefire unless Iran attacks kill US troops: Report.

The 215-208 vote included four Republican defections, which Trump called "grandstanders" invoking Trump Derangement Syndrome 1BBC Trump hits back at 'unpatriotic' vote after House rebukes him over Iran. The practical legal effect is close to zero: the White House calls the resolution unconstitutional, and lawyers are genuinely split on whether a concurrent resolution carries force of law without presidential signature 2AJE US House votes to end Trump’s Iran war: Does it matter?. The political signal is harder to dismiss. A similar Senate measure advanced in May without a full floor vote 8GDN US House passes war powers resolution to curb Trump’s authority in Iran, and if it passes there, Republican dissent on war powers becomes a documented pattern rather than an outlier. Iran's negotiators will read that domestic clock, and they have every incentive to let it run.