All right, we have some breaking news for you. CNN has learned Iran is sending a delegation to Islamabad for negotiations.

That is, according to Pakistani and Iranian sources.

We don't know yet if the U.S. plans to send a delegation of its own.

It comes after negotiations, as you well know, fell through earlier this week.

And we are standing by for an update from the

Pentagon scheduled to begin in just about 30 minutes from now. It comes as a third U.S. aircraft

carrier arrives in the Middle East, and it's the first briefing since President Trump extended

the ceasefire with Iran. You'll remember that originally he said the war would last four to six weeks,

but now it's been nearly eight weeks. The president says he feels no pressure to bring it to an

end, telling reporters, quote, don't rush me. And if the ceasefire fails, CNN has learned

the U.S. military officials are developing new plans to target Iran's capabilities in the

Strait of Hormuz. Well, good morning. Unlike the endless wars of the past that dragged on for years

and for decades with little to show for it, Operation Epic Fury has delivered a decisive military

results in just weeks, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.

As the President has pointed out, all took years, decades.

Vague missions, shifting sands, little to show for it.

Operation Epic Fury has been laser focused from the very start, as I've said to all of you.

Clear mission objectives and ultimately Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.

It's a bold and dangerous mission, a gift to the world, historic, courtesy of a bold and historic president without the permission of the United States

Navy. To the regime in Tehran, the blockade is tightening by the hour. We are in control,

nothing in, nothing out. Iran's battered military, the IRGC specifically, has been reduced to a gang of pirates with a flag.

They cloak their aggression in slogans, but the world now sees them for what they are.

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