Iran War. . . USA Up 2-0 in the First Period

Ron in Regina

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President Trump and his national-security team are skeptical of Iran’s offer to stop attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz in return for an end to the war, U.S. officials said?
Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade on the country and ends the war in a proposal that would postpone discussions on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, two regional officials said Monday.
With the war now entering its third month, the proposal presented by Tehran to regional mediators includes the U.S.’s lifting of its blockade of Iranian ports and the postponement of nuclear negotiations, according to officials familiar with the matter.

A previous agreement in 2015 between Iran and multiple other countries including the U.S. sharply curtailed Iran's nuclear programme, which it has long maintained ⁠is for peaceful, civilian purposes. But that deal fell apart when Trump unilaterally withdrew from it in his first term in office.
Iran is willing to share its defense capabilities with other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security-focused body led by Beijing and Moscow, its deputy defense minister said. Members of the SCO include China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, Pakistan, Iran, and Belarus. The official languages of the SCO are Chinese and Russian. The SCO has a youth group, which is entitled the Score Foundation.
 

Ron in Regina

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Read that again.

"has frequently targeted Israel as part of its ideological narrative"

They said mean things? Oh my gosh! Say it isnt so Ron. Say it isn't so.
I think you’re misunderstanding things. In that link that you’re criticizing, click on the header that says “Successful attacks” if you choose to enlighten yourself, or don’t.
 
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I think you’re misunderstanding things. In that link that you’re criticizing, click on the header that says “Successful attacks” if you choose to enlighten yourself, or don’t.
I did.

HamasHamas
Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
al-QaedaAl-Qaeda-linked networks

Linked....but according to who? Who drew the line?

al-Qaeda run Syria is a threat to Israel? How about Isis currently fighting as Israel's proxy in Gaza? Are they not a threat? You don't find that odd?

If there were no al-Qaeda, Isis or Hamas, what would the excuse be for a Palestinian State not to exist?

Botswana?
 
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Ron in Regina

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U.S. President Donald Trump criticized German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the war ‌in Iran on Tuesday, a day after Merz said the Iranians were humiliating the United States in talks to end it.

"The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz (& the Pope😳), thinks it’s ⁠OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He (they?) doesn’t know what he’s (they’re?) talking about!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post, mischaracterizing Merz's position. Merz has said Iran must not have a nuclear weapon.
 

Ron in Regina

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“Both sides seem to believe that they have calculated this right and that time is on their side,” said Nico Lange, director of Germany’s Institute for Risk Analysis and International Security and a former chief of staff at the German defense ministry.
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In Europe, the price of jet fuel has risen nearly 84% since the start of the conflict on 28 February.
A standoff remained on in the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran has restricted movement through it and the U.S. enforces a blockade of Iranian ports…or is it the U.S. enforces a blockade of Iranian ports and shipping, so Iran is also blockading all other shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Either way, everyone is winning 103%, and winning so hard, harder than anyone has ever won in the history of winning.
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1777468539452.jpegHe did not elaborate on who from the Iranian government told him that.
 

Ron in Regina

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So….Trumps flip-flop position is currently between:
A) We have all the time in the world, &
B) We’re going to start bombing Iran again including civilian infrastructure to get them back to the bargaining table again faster
Iran and the United States are locked in a faceoff over the future of negotiations, with President Donald Trump and the leadership in Tehran each confident they can outlast the other amid mounting costs to the global economy from the blockage of a crucial shipping waterway, as the U.S. blockade and Iranian mines and drones halt shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. gas prices also reached a level not seen since just after Russia’s Ukraine invasion.

Both sides believe time is on their side as the Strait of Hormuz is closed to shipping traffic, trapping oil, fertilizer and petroleum products inside the Persian Gulf and driving up energy prices worldwide.
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Members of Iran’s security establishment believe they have emerged victorious from the war and don’t support conceding ground on key issues like the nation’s right to enrich uranium, said a senior Iranian official. Iran’s leaders have long said they do not want a nuclear weapon, but they have insisted the country has a right to a civilian nuclear program, including the right to enrich nuclear fuel, which potentially could pave the way for a weapons program.

U.S. negotiators continue to work towards a deal that will ensure Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon. Thanks to the successful blockade of Iranian ports and crippling impacts of Operation Economic Fury, the United States maintains maximum leverage over the Iranian regime, and progress continues to be made,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement.

At least each side agrees that they alone are winning.
When one of the world's largest energy companies spends $13.6 billion on Canadian shale reserves in the same week its CEO warns about multi-year supply tightness, the message isn't subtle.
After weeks of unsuccessfully pressuring Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump spent recent days arguing that its closure had brought Tehran to the brink of an explosive plumbing problem that would force it to the bargaining table.

If they don’t get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode (?),” Trump told reporters at the White House last Thursday, touting the success of a U.S. blockade on the waterway that ordinarily ferries about 20 percent of the world’s oil and natural gas.

That is not how it works,” Rosemary Kelanic, an energy scholar and director of the Middle East Program at the foreign policy think tank Defense Priorities, said of Trump’s predictions that Iran’s oil pipelines would soon detonate and that its energy industry is on the verge of collapse. “Nothing is going to self destruct.”