re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

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President Trump @POTUS: "If Iran surrenders, admits their Navy is gone and resting at the bottom of the sea, and their Air Force is no longer with us, and if their entire Military walks out of Tehran, weapons dropped and hands held high, each shouting “I surrender, I surrender” while wildly waving the representative White Flag, and if their entire remaining Leadership signs all necessary “Documents of Surrender,” and admit their defeat to the great power and force of the magnificent U.S.A., The Failing New York Times, The China Street Journal (WSJ!), Corrupt and now Irrelevant CNN, and all other members of the Fake News Media, will headline that Iran had a Masterful and Brilliant Victory over The United States of America, it wasn’t even close. The Dumacrats and Media have totally lost their way. They have gone absolutely CRAZY!!! President DJT"

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Trump is just fed up with the fake news as always.

You can`t blame him.

TDS is real!

I don't see Trump agreeing to this, after spending years bashing Obama for opening the Brinks truck for Iran.

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Iran will sign a peace agreement with the United States only if $24bn (£17.8bn) worth of frozen assets are released.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Tehran’s chief negotiator, and Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister, delivered the ultimatum during meetings with Qatari officials in Doha.

They insisted that the Islamic Republic would not proceed with any agreement until half the frozen assets – worth $12bn – are transferred when the memorandum of understanding is announced, with the remainder released over the following 60 days.

“Our demand is the release of the frozen assets – not in the future, but right now,” one Iranian official close to the negotiations said.

“No negotiations are possible without depositing Iran’s blocked funds.”
Donald Trump has been warned that accepting the deal would be tantamount to rewarding the Iranian regime, and paying to end a war he began.

The frozen assets Iran wants released include revenue from oil and gas sales that has been held in foreign banks during years of United States sanctions. Iran’s frozen assets, which are largely cash but also include some property, total more than $100bn (£74.4bn).

The funds are held primarily in South Korea, Qatar, Iraq, Japan, Luxembourg, Bahrain, Turkey and Germany. Iran earned the money but could not repatriate it because international banking restrictions made transfers illegal under US treasury department rules.

To release it, Washington would likely need to waive sanctions, ensure cooperation from foreign governments and create a mechanism to guarantee the regime does not use the money to rebuild its nuclear programme or fund proxies.

A Persian Gulf source involved in negotiations told The Telegraph that parties were discussing a “complex mechanism” to stop the money going directly to the regime.

Transferring billions in frozen assets before Iran signs an agreement to curb its nuclear programme permanently would be a hard sell with the president’s base.

Allies of the president see the move as a de facto reward for the regime, which has already held the world to ransom by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and almost forcing a global recession.

“It’s a deal he cannot take,” a source close to the president told The Telegraph.

“The art of the deal was a great book. Trump should consider reading it,” another senior Maga figure said, reflecting the growing discontent at a war the president had pledged to end.

The assets have become the primary sticking point in talks aimed at ending the months-long stand-off following the 40-day Iran-US war.

According to Iranian sources, the 14-point memorandum of understanding discussed by Pakistani and Qatari mediators cannot move forward without resolving the frozen funds issue.

Washington had previously agreed in principle to release some Iranian assets but later backtracked on implementation details, according to Fars news agency, which cited sources saying “America’s history of breaking promises” has made Tehran unwilling to proceed without concrete guarantees.

Qatar’s mediation has reportedly made progress on the technical mechanisms for releasing the funds, but Iranian negotiators consider nothing finalised until money is transferred.

The demand reflects Iran’s experience with the 2015 nuclear deal, when the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew and reimposed sanctions despite Tehran’s compliance, re-freezing assets that had been released.

Iranian officials repeatedly cite this history when explaining why they insist on immediate, verifiable payment rather than promises of future sanctions relief.

Oil prices rebounded to $100 per barrel on Tuesday as markets reacted to continued uncertainty over reopening the waterway.

Camp David meeting moved to the White House due to weather?

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Maybe this has been talked about already but how is Iran controlling even a little bit of the strait when supposedly we have destroyed their navy and Air Force ?

Drones, and bay boats.

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Maybe this has been talked about already but how is Iran controlling even a little bit of the strait when supposedly we have destroyed their navy and Air Force ?

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Because they have been planning for this war and knew they would not be using an Air Force or a Navy to threaten that small area. They just thought ahead.

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don’t control the Strait under any traditional understanding of the term. But at the moment they are effectively controlling transit

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Great summary, I had the same question with the actual Strait versus the risk of transit and no one underwriting the insurance.

Who did they catch? Pretty vague X post.

The one armed man?