NEW: Jeremy Scahill reported this morning that Iranian officials say the U.S. has accepted Iran’s red lines in the latest revisions to the ceasefire declaration, but is asking for time to “manage domestic public opinion” before formally announcing acceptance of the interim agreement.Dr. Foad Izadi of the University of Tehran says Iran will want proof Washington is serious about ending the war, including the release of frozen Iranian assets and an end to Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.“If the U.S. cannot give the money that belongs to Iran back to Iran, and the U.S. cannot put a leash on Netanyahu and stop him from going on a rampage in Lebanon, then it shows that this conflict has not ended,” Izadi says.“This is a test for Iran to see what’s going on with the other side.
/IRAN - US Continues Bombing Iran Amid "Ceasefire" and "Peace Talks" The Western media continues to portray US-Iranian talks as a means for US President Donald Trump to end the war many portray as a "failure" even as the US continues striking Iran amid a "ceasefire." But the US wanting to end the war is a false assumption.The US goals are:1. Continue weakening Iran but without triggering wider, unsustainable hostilities;2. Continue decreasing Middle East energy exports to Asia, including China by maintaining constant instability and threat of wider war;3. All while preventing a rapid global economic collapse and instead using the crisis to incrementally impose dependence on US energy exports onto Asia just as the US did to Europe;The worst part about Western reports regarding supposed US "diplomacy" is that the last 26 years alone of US aggression against Iran prove the US uses diplomacy only to further war on its own terms, not to avoid or end it. The US is currently managing similar balancing acts of hostility just below the threshold of all out direct war with both Russia and China.
Trump Rejects Russia/China Taking Iran’s Uranium:Trump said he will not allow Russia or China to take Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile.He also made clear: No sanctions relief unless the Strait of Hormuz is fully open to everyone.Iran’s Response: Parliament leader says enrichment rights, full control of Hormuz, and complete sanctions removal are non-negotiable.
Ebrahim Azizi, head of Iran's parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, on the state of the US negotiations:"Right now, the only thing we're seeing is the wavering and instability of the Americans, and the bewilderment of the American president, who has reached a dead end. The whole world is seeing that he has no path other than submitting to the will of the Iranian nation. If someone wants to get out of this dead end, they must also have the power of decision-making — and what we are observing is the Americans' lack of it."
This is the physical manifestation of what I have been warning about for many months: the president blatantly lies to our face and pretends that we are close to a deal, that Iran “has all been agreed to“ terms that President Trump wants, yet it was a lie from the beginning, and we are nowhere near a negotiated settlement w Iran on terms that we find acceptable.Because there *are no such terms* we can find acceptable that Iran will agree to.The longer we go on with the fiction, the longer we wait to take the “ugly deal“ I have been advocating for many weeks, the closer we get to the cliff, at which point even President Trump‘s best lies will not work and we are going to pay a significant economic price even here at home.
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