“I Don’t Like It,” Says Trump.
According to Iran’s proposed plan, the current phase of negotiations will be focused exclusively on the cessation of hostilities in the region, not nuclear weapons.
Iran gave no further details.
I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called “Representatives.” I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
That was a damn feeble response by Trump.
OK, Mr. President, what are you going to do about it besides whine on Truth Social.
Earlier today I noted With Clock Ticking, Iran Submits Its Response to the US. Pressure on Trump
Details are scarce, likely because there purposely aren’t any. That’s a brilliant response with no hype or irrational demands on the US.
It’s a simple proposal to stop the war and open up the strait. 90 percent of the world wants the strait open and hostilities to end.
Israel and the warmongers don’t like this starting point, but that’s about it. However, it would make Trump back down, making him look like the loser he is.
Pressure Points
- Pressure Point One: Trump for whatever reason is beholden to Israel. He also listens to warmongers like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham. Some believe it’s Epstein blackmail. Whatever, the reason it’s real.
- Pressure Point Two: The second pressure point on Trump comes from rising oil prices, fertilizer prices, farmers, independents, and everyone who is sick of this stupid war. US allies are also applying pressure, even China.
- Pressure Point Three: Himself. Trump cannot admit he made a mistake. He wants a better deal than Obama and Iran is unwilling to give it. Iran’s response today was simple and brilliant. Open up the strait for 30 days.
It’s clear Trump does not want to escalate because of inflation and depletion of missiles. He’s been making excuses for not retaliating.
Trump’s Three Losing Options
- War with unknown consequences
- A humiliating deal that lets oil pass through while negotiations continue
- Status quo and rising inflation, gasoline prices, fertilizer prices, diesel, etc.
So which is it?
It seems Trump is set to fume for a few days, perhaps just a few hours. Then depending on what mood he’s in, he may threaten to blast Iran back to the stone age or end their civilization.
Iran’s best counter move would be to accuse Trump of being unwilling to negotiate. And that would actually be the truth.
Trump has midterms to worry about, Iran doesn’t.
But fuming for a few hours or days changes nothing. Oil prices would head back up.
They are already up a few dollars as I type. WTIC is 98.22 with Brent at 104.42. The longer the delay, the more oil prices rise.
Trump Blames Obama
Truth Social: Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit “pay dirt” when Barack Hussein Obama became President. He was not only good to them, he was great, actually going to their side, jettisoning Israel, and all other Allies, and giving Iran a major and very powerful new lease on life. Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and 1.7 Billion Dollars in green cash, flown into Tehran, was handed to them on a silver platter. Every Bank in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland was emptied out — It was so much money that when it arrived, the Iranian Thugs had no idea what to do with it. They had never seen money like this, and never will again. It was taken off the plane in suitcases and satchels, and the Iranians couldn’t believe their luck. They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President. He was a disaster as our “Leader,” but not as bad as Sleepy Joe Biden! For 47 years the Iranians have been “tapping” us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 innocent, unarmed protestors, and laughing at our now GREAT AGAIN Country. They will be laughing no longer! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Obama actually had a deal that was working.
Was Iran Honoring Obama’s Deal?
That’s where we need to start. The answer is yes.
This was a war of choice, by warmongers pledging to end wars.
We have Congressional Testimony proof.
Trump’s First Term Flashback
- Trump’s US State Department: Iran honoring the terms.
- Trump’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Iran honoring the terms.
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): Iran honoring the terms.
- Arms Control Association: Iran honoring the terms.
- All US European allies: Iran honoring the terms.
- Every other signee of the accord: Iran honoring the terms.
- Trump’s top general Gen. Joseph Dunford: Iran honoring the terms.
- Trump’s Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis: Iran was complying with the terms of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal
Key Details on Mattis’ Statement and Context:
- Testimony (October 2017): Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mattis said, “I believe that [Iran] fundamentally [are] in compliance with its nuclear deal”.
- Contradicting Trump: Mattis, a career hawk, advised that staying in the deal was in the U.S. national security interest, putting him at odds with President Trump’s public criticism of the agreement as an “embarrassment”.
Iran only began stepping back from JCPOA limits (e.g., higher uranium enrichment levels, reduced IAEA access) after Trump unilaterally withdrew in 2018 and reimposed sanctions—not before.
This sequence is well-documented in IAEA reports and international statements that include Trump’s top general and Secretary of Defense.
For discussion and further details, please see What If Iran Just Honored Obama’s Nuclear Deal? Would We Be at War?
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There was no gain, except from the point of view of Netanyahu.
What next? Let the whole thing drag on. Another ‘forever war’ that the “Peace President” promised he wouldn’t get us into. Surprise, surprise, here we are.
Afghanistan was a $3 trillion war. How about going for $5 trillion this time? Great for defense companies, federal contractors and U.S. oil companies.
Sure, the impending oil crisis will cause misery and social unrest and even starvation. but it’s good for ‘the economy’. The stock market can only go up from here.
“They finally found the greatest SUCKER of them all, in the form of a weak and stupid American President.” I believe he is correct. Netenyahoo actually found Taco gullable and stupid enough to start a war with Iran.
Trump’s not weak.
He’s severely mentally ill, appears physically unfit and he’s probably got nagging misgivings if the rest of the Epstein files leak out and/or he’s being blackmailed.
Whatever Bibi has on him has to be big. His treason is right in the open for god and everyone else to see. The fact that he keeps threatening to nuke Iran shows how bad he’s gotten. It really is time for the 25th Amendment. Now, right now, while we still have the bloody remains of the Republic left.
Well Trump says it’s unacceptable, and yet no bombing of Iran.
We now defer to the Chinese summit to see if China can get Trump to bow. If not this will take at least six months to a year before Trump realizes he isn’t winning.
Just think what the world will look like if he doesn’t back down (US gasoline prices for example, world travel flights another). If this does indeed last longer than six months I fear the use of nuclear bombs as the final means to enforce submission.
The best case is, if this does drag out six months or more, Trump realizing he can’t win and just walks away, but that’s not how things like this usually end.
“We now defer to the Chinese summit”
Yes ,we will soon know if Trump releases oil exports to china in exchange for rare earths.
This is much better drama than The Apprentice. And the gas prices make for a good audience participation piece as well. I’m just waiting for the “you’re fired” part.
In my life in business, I learned to drop any deals with snakey weasels like Trump.
Get effed over once–that’s all it takes.
What credibility does Trump have?
Just because there are millions of fools in the US, doesn’t mean that sovereign nations act the same way.
Trump is inherently untrustworthy and is taking the US government down to his level.
Iran doesn’t get to walk away. Let’s keep the blockade on and the Strait closed and see what happens. Let’s also start sending weapons and ammunition into Iran for opposition use.
Eventually the pain in Iran will get high enough that the common people will find the bravery to start picking off members of the Regime. One here, another two there, three around the corner. This is how the Iranian Regime loses.
You do realize Iran has already survived decades of sanctions?
Sending weapons to opposition groups in Iran? Gonna be much more difficult than US gun dealers selling to Mexican cartels…
As the clock is ticking, the US and “allies” will feel the pain first..
Why waste time with all that. If a speedy end is required, the nuclear option is the fastest way to make things happen.
Doesn’t have to be a US nuke either, a false flag of some kind and Israel can do the dirty work this time.
I hope you’re being sarcastic. I assume so. I do believe they will nuke the so-called nuclear site in Iran before this is all over in order to intimidate Iran into “surrendering unconditionally”. That’s pretty predictable.
It’s not going to make Iran surrender though. It’s just going to make Israel and the U.S. even worse pariahs than they already are.
We tried that. It was called The Bay of Pigs.
Trump already sent a load of weapon to the Kurds. The weapons “disappeared”. Lol.
For some well referenced thoughts on where we go from here, have a look at the link:
Hal Turner Radio Show – EIGHT WEEKS TO EMPTY SHELVES. SIXTY DAYS TO FAMINE. WHAT CAUSED IT, AND WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IMMEDIATELY
The grand irony is that when oil hits $150, $200 or $300, you know who’s going to make a monetary killing? The Middle East, including, Iran and Russia.
And all our oil companies even though their cost to extract and market oil has not changed form when it was $60/barrel and they were doing well then.
The US is a net importer of oil. While oil companies would make more money, other industries would lose. If high oil prices were an unalloyed good to the US, we would be releasing oil from the strategic.
Not all. Most US and Canadian oil companies are doing very well. A few are not because they have lost production from the Persian Gulf area. And some have lost money because they hedged their production. Most of my Canadian oil have doubled or more this year already.
ExxonMobil: profit down 45%
Chevron: profit down 36%
Iran did release details of their proposal through their state TV:
– The need for the United States to compensate Iran for military damage.
– Recognition of Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
– Termination of US sanctions.
– Unblocking by the United States of frozen Iranian assets.
THIS is one of the big reasons when you negotiate you realise it can’t just be “my way or the high way”. Iran has already had a flipant counterparty in the US. If they can buy albeit painful time WTHeck do they care to be giving in ANY way now? Not like the US was. Trump has only pretended to show goodwill. He’s really been a A-hole as far as Iran is concerned.
Losers don’t get to make demands.
Which is why Trump will slink away after gaining very little, and leaving Iran more powerful than when the war began. He lost the moment he started this war.
Correct. The Axis of Evil that launched a sneak attack on Iran cannot make demands on Iran.
Yup, that’s the rules of the playground.
Seems obvious Iran doesn’t think they’ve lost. I guess we’ll soon see.
First rule of negotiations is to ask for the moon knowing that only a fool is going to agree to it.
Both sides will gradually whittle down their demands in the coming weeks / months.
First rule of negotiations is understanding what the other side values, and what it is hoping to get. The trick is to limit the costs of what you give up and maximise the value you get in return. For that you need to understand the others position very well. Trump has no clue how to play that game.
Sounds extremely reasonable.
Iran owes the US 47 years of vengeance, they’ve been planning & training for this for easily 30 years. The US is now in it’s collapse phase & Iran will play on The grifter in chiefs ego to finish the job. They absolutely know he won’t humble himself & dig his own grave.
I can feel Trump’s (intense) pain. But when you face asymmetrically committed foes, you can’t win if your home base thinks it was you who started a stupid war.
Yea, he’s used to inflicting pain on the defenceless & now he’ll spend his last days learning what it feels like, then he’ll go to hell.
He’ll pick the option that makes it easier to suspend elections
Nope… hes just going to send in The Election Integrity Army: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-election-integrity-army-midterms-b2973934.html
I think Taco is boxed in here. He can’t restart the war, because if he does, Xi will deep-six the summit. Which, by the way, there is still no confirmation from the Chinese that it is gonna happen. That rules out number 1.
Consider (2) a humiliating climbdown. But Israel and the war pigs like Graham won’t him. So door number 3 it is -status quo. Tick, tock, jet fuel running low, Fed clowns checkmated, no rate cuts, higher food and gas prices.
If only we had a Nobel Peace Prize winning president right now, we’d all be better off.
Looks like it’s going to be a good week for more profitgasms on energy.
Remember guys, kosher pigs get fat, treif hogs get slaughtered.
And…
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
Trumpty Dumpty is so Damn Dumb. And a Child-man: thinks whinning and threatening does anything but demonstrate his ignorance and lack of planning. If anything at all it’s probably humorus to Iranian leadership.
Go pout Trump. Pout away. Good thing you don’t have a dog. You’d have probably kicked it to death by now!
He’s got li’l Marco and a few other puppydogs to kick.
If he declared it unacceptable and continues the blockade then he doesn’t lose. He will need a distraction though. Once everyone is looking at his invasion of Cuba, he can just remove the navy from the Middle East and if anyone asks him, it’s been solved. Yeah, that bonkers but watch.
We were never at war with Westasia.
The talk show president believes this situation is nothing more than game where he believes he is the host. Unfortunately, this is serious business.
The Grifter in Chief is like the show host on The Running Man movie, look what happened to him & you’ll see how this ends.
Arnold needs to come out of retirement and fix this, as only he can.
Iran is Arnold, come on now get with the programme.
He really needs a commercial break
Millions will likely starve next year over his comic shenanigans.
Potentially 10s of millions and possibly more than 100+ million with a majority of that coming in Africa.
The real question is will those 10s of millions starve quietly or will they mass migrate from Africa into Europe and the Middle East.
Putin to get Iran’s near weapons-grade uranium behind Trump’s back?
https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/putin-to-get-irans-near-weapons-grade-uranium-behind-trumps-back-iran-russia-101778419168642.html
Pretty sure the US would be fine if the Uranium went to Russia since Russia has plenty of their own so it wouldn’t make any difference if they had it.
The idea is for Iran not to have it.
Never a comment like, “Iran’s proposed peace plan is not good for the U.S. and our allies.” Never the stateman Trump, always makes everything about himself. A sociopath narcissist who thinks he knows what he is doing.
He’s getting attention, and that’s all he really wants. The more asinine his statements, the more attention he gets.
Yet Trump is President, chosen by 75+ MILLION people and you are a random internet commenter with no power to change or effect anything.
$300 oil coming up! WINNING!