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Three main components of Iran’s proposal to U.S.

Pakistan is mediating the peace talks between the U.S. and Iran. The Pakistani official told PTI that the fresh Iran proposal is a phased de-escalation framework, seeking to separate immediate conflict management from the more complex and long-standing dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme.

There are three broad components of it.

“The first component of the plan focuses on urgent de-escalation measures,” the official said.

“Iran has indicated willingness to ease tensions in and around the strategic Strait of Hormuz, provided Washington reciprocates by scaling back its military posture and easing economic pressure, including restrictions affecting Iranian oil exports,” he said.

Tehran views confidence-building steps as essential before entering substantive negotiations, the official said.

“Secondly, Iran is seeking to decouple the restoration of maritime trade and oil flows from nuclear negotiations, arguing that economic normalisation should precede any binding commitments on its nuclear activities,” he said.

The third component concerns “conditional flexibility” on the nuclear front.

“While reaffirming its position on the right to peaceful nuclear energy, Iran has indicated openness to discussing limits on uranium enrichment and enhanced monitoring mechanisms – but only within a broader agreement that guarantees tangible sanctions relief,” he said. — PTI



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Trump said he will review the plan that Iran has sent



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U.S. to withdraw about 5,000 troops from Germany

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the withdrawal of about 5,000 troops from Germany within the next year, the Pentagon said, in the latest spat with a European leader over the West Asia war.

The announcement came after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened earlier this week to remove troops from NATO ally Germany amid a row with its chancellor, Friedrich Merz, who said that Iran was “humiliating” Washington at the negotiating table.

“We expect the withdrawal to be completed over the next six to twelve months,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement.

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Flames and smoke errupt from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the southern Lebanese village of Tair Filsay on November 19, 2025.
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The Israeli military said it struck Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in several south Lebanon towns on Wednesday (November 19, 2025), and accused the group of rebuilding its capabilities close to the border.

The Israeli military has kept up frequent air strikes in Lebanon in spite of a ceasefire sealed last November that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with Iran-backed Hezbollah.

The latest raids came a day after 13 people were killed in a strike that Israel said had targeted Hamas members in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon — the deadliest attack since the truce came into effect.

Israel’s military said Wednesday (November 19, 2025) that it had struck “several weapons storage facilities belonging to Hezbollah’s rocket unit in southern Lebanon”, calling such sites “a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon”.

It had previously warned residents to evacuate the area around sites in the southern Lebanese towns of Deir Kifa, Shehur, Ainata and Tayr Felsay.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) later said raids hit all four locations.

In Deir Kifa, Lebanese soldiers deployed near the targeted building, which collapsed after the strike, an AFP correspondent saw.

An AFP journalist in Tayr Felsay saw fireballs and smoke erupt after the raid there.

In its evacuation warnings on X, the Israeli military had said it would strike Hezbollah “military infrastructure… in response to Hezbollah’s prohibited attempts to rebuild its activities in the area”.

‘Dozens’ of sites

In a subsequent statement, the military singled out the town of Beit Lif, just a few kilometres from the Israeli border.

It accused Hezbollah of rebuilding “dozens of terrorist infrastructure sites in the area of the village, including headquarters and weapons storage facilities”, some inside civilian homes.

Lebanon says Israel is violating the truce with its strikes, and by maintaining troops in five areas of the country’s south.

Under heavy U.S. pressure and fears of expanded Israeli attacks, Lebanon has committed to disarming Hezbollah, but the militant group has rejected the idea of handing over its weapons.

Earlier on Wednesday (November 19, 2025), Lebanon’s Health Ministry said one person was killed and 11 others wounded in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in south Lebanon’s Tiri that Israel said killed a Hezbollah operative.

The NNA reported that the man killed worked for the local municipality, and said the strike took place as a university bus carrying students passed by, wounding some on board.

On Tuesday (November 18, 2025), Israel said it struck a Hamas training compound in south Lebanon’s Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp.

The Palestinian militant group denied it had military installations in Lebanon’s refugee camps and called Israel’s claims “lies”.



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