{"id":61664,"date":"2026-04-26T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=61664"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:05:41","slug":"irgc-seizes-ship-with-witkoff-kushner-team-en-route-to-pakistan-us-sanctions-chinese-refinery-iran-shadow-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=61664","title":{"rendered":"IRGC Seizes Ship With Witkoff-Kushner Team En Route To Pakistan; US Sanctions Chinese Refinery, Iran Shadow Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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READ HERE:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/flurry-reports-signal-breakthrough-us-iran-getting-back-table-pakistan-third-us<\/a><\/h3>\n
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  • IRGC seizes a ship it says ‘collaborated with US’<\/strong>\u00a0in provocative move ahead of Pakistan talks;\u00a0Iran FM preparing written proposal for US side<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • President Trump is sending two envoys – Steve Witkoff and Jared Jushner – for talks with Iran in Pakistan, CNN reported,\u00a0<\/strong>while Tehran sounded a more pessimistic tone on the prospects of further negotiations<\/em><\/li>\n
  • US hits Iran ‘shadow fleet’ with new sanctions<\/i><\/b>, also<\/i>\u00a0takes aim at Chinese ‘teapot’ oil refinery<\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/li>\n
  • Third US aircraft carrier, the George HW Bush, has finally arrived\u00a0<\/strong>in Mideast regional waters after taking the long way around Africa.<\/i><\/li>\n
  • Hegseth in presser renews call, highlighting main issue, for Iran:\u00a0“All they have to do is abandon a nuclear weapon in meaningful and verifiable ways<\/strong>…“<\/strong>; Warns Iranians over continued mine-laying<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Tehran again rejects as ‘false’ the rumors about Iran Parliament speaker being replaced\u00a0<\/i><\/b>with someone more hardline.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61665,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61664\/revisions\/61665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}