🟥 Xi on the Red Square. They Will Make a Deal With Putin?
🎖 Russian troops fighting in Ukraine have marched with Chinese forces on Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in a Victory Day celebration marked by greater spectacle than in recent years.
🎆 After several scaled-back Victory Days – with reduced military displays and few foreign guests – Vladimir Putin on Friday addressed the largest parade since his 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
the Russian president said of the victory over Nazi Germany, before turning to his invasion of Ukraine.
Putin said, using the Kremlin’s preferred term to describe the war.
🇪🇺 While Putin was presiding over the parade, EU foreign ministers and Britain’s David Lammy travelled to Lviv in Ukraine where they announced the establishment of a tribunal for Russian war crimes.
the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said during the visit.
🟦 Zelensky, said he expected European leaders to visit Kyiv on Saturday, while European allies said at a meeting in Oslo that they supported an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, something Moscow has been reluctant to agree to.
🌍 Moscow welcomed at least 27 foreign heads to the annual military parade, the highest number since 2015, including the leaders of Brazil, Slovakia and Serbia.
📢 The Kremlin presented the turnout as proof that it is not isolated, even four years into its war in Ukraine.
#Xi #Putin #RedSquare #deal
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
🎖 Russian troops fighting in Ukraine have marched with Chinese forces on Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in a Victory Day celebration marked by greater spectacle than in recent years.
🎆 After several scaled-back Victory Days – with reduced military displays and few foreign guests – Vladimir Putin on Friday addressed the largest parade since his 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
📜 “The Soviet Union took upon itself the most ferocious, merciless blows of the enemy,”
the Russian president said of the victory over Nazi Germany, before turning to his invasion of Ukraine.
⚔️ “Truth and justice are on our side. The entire country, society and people support the participants of the special military operation,”
Putin said, using the Kremlin’s preferred term to describe the war.
🇪🇺 While Putin was presiding over the parade, EU foreign ministers and Britain’s David Lammy travelled to Lviv in Ukraine where they announced the establishment of a tribunal for Russian war crimes.
⚖️ “Russia’s aggression cannot go unpunished and therefore establishing this tribunal is extremely important,”
the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said during the visit.
🟦 Zelensky, said he expected European leaders to visit Kyiv on Saturday, while European allies said at a meeting in Oslo that they supported an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, something Moscow has been reluctant to agree to.
🌍 Moscow welcomed at least 27 foreign heads to the annual military parade, the highest number since 2015, including the leaders of Brazil, Slovakia and Serbia.
📢 The Kremlin presented the turnout as proof that it is not isolated, even four years into its war in Ukraine.
#Xi #Putin #RedSquare #deal
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥34🤯20🤬18😢18🙏15💯14😱12👏1
Trump Is Squeezing the EU’s Balls. The Deal Is Done🤝🦊
The US-EU trade deal, clinched in a ballroom at Trump’s golf resort in Scotland on Sunday, has been criticised by Bayrou and business leaders across Germany.
The deal, which will impose 15% tariffs on almost all European exports to the US including cars, ends the threat of a punitive 30% import duties being imposed on Trump’s 1 August deadline for a deal, but it is a world apart from the zero-zero import and export tariff the EU offered initially.
It also means European exporters to the US will face more then triple the average 4.8% tariff now in force, with negotiations to continue on steel, which is still facing a 50% tariff, aviation, and a question mark over future barriers to pharmaceutical exports.
France’s prime minister, Bayrou, said Europe had submitted to the US, on a “dark day” for the union.
💬“It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, gathered to affirm their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,” Bayrou posted on X.
German exporters were less enthusiastic. The powerful BDI federation of industrial groups said the accord would have “considerable negative repercussions”, while the country’s VCI chemical trade association said the accord left rates “too high”.
It is also clear that the US tariff of 15% on automotive products will place a burden on German automotive companies in the midst of their transformation, hitting sales and profits.
The president of the car industry federation VDA, Hildegard Müller, said it was “fundamentally positive” that a framework deal was agreed but warned of huge costs to come.
European stock markets hit a four-month high at the start of trading on Monday, amid relief that a deal had been reached. Germany’s Dax jumped by 0.86%, and France’s Cac 40 index rose by 1.1%.
Ireland, one of the EU’s top exporters to the US, said on Sunday it welcomed the deal for bringing “a measure of much-needed certainty”, but that it “regrets” the baseline tariff, in a statement by its deputy prime minister, Simon Harris.
France’s minister for Europe, Benjamin Haddad, said on Monday that the agreement would provide “temporary stability (…) but it is unbalanced”.
The German bank Berenberg said the deal brought to an end the “crippling uncertainty” but said it was a victory for Trump.
💬“It is great to have a deal. In two major respects, however, the outcome remains much worse than the situation before Trump started his new round of trade wars early this year,” said Holger Schmieding, Berenberg’s chief economist.
💬“The extra US tariffs will hurt both the US and the EU. For Europe, the damage is mostly frontloaded,” Schmieding said in a note to clients on Monday morning.
💬“The deal is asymmetric. The US gets away with a substantial increase in its tariffs on imports from the EU and has secured further EU concessions to boot. In his apparent zero-sum mentality, Trump can claim that as a ‘win’ for him,” Schmieding added.
Initially the EU had tried to hardball the US by threatening but pausing €21bn (£18bn) worth of retaliatory measures in April, and adding another list of €73bn-worth of US imports that would be taxed earlier this month.
The EU is now subject to a 25% levy on cars, 50% on steel and aluminium, and an across-the-board tariff of 10%, which Washington had threatened to increase to 30% in a no-deal scenario.
The bloc had been pushing hard for tariff carve-outs for critical industries from aircraft to spirits, and its car industry, crucial for France and Germany, is already reeling from the levies imposed so far.
#US #EU #deal #trump
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
The US-EU trade deal, clinched in a ballroom at Trump’s golf resort in Scotland on Sunday, has been criticised by Bayrou and business leaders across Germany.
The deal, which will impose 15% tariffs on almost all European exports to the US including cars, ends the threat of a punitive 30% import duties being imposed on Trump’s 1 August deadline for a deal, but it is a world apart from the zero-zero import and export tariff the EU offered initially.
It also means European exporters to the US will face more then triple the average 4.8% tariff now in force, with negotiations to continue on steel, which is still facing a 50% tariff, aviation, and a question mark over future barriers to pharmaceutical exports.
France’s prime minister, Bayrou, said Europe had submitted to the US, on a “dark day” for the union.
💬“It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, gathered to affirm their values and defend their interests, resolves to submission,” Bayrou posted on X.
German exporters were less enthusiastic. The powerful BDI federation of industrial groups said the accord would have “considerable negative repercussions”, while the country’s VCI chemical trade association said the accord left rates “too high”.
It is also clear that the US tariff of 15% on automotive products will place a burden on German automotive companies in the midst of their transformation, hitting sales and profits.
The president of the car industry federation VDA, Hildegard Müller, said it was “fundamentally positive” that a framework deal was agreed but warned of huge costs to come.
European stock markets hit a four-month high at the start of trading on Monday, amid relief that a deal had been reached. Germany’s Dax jumped by 0.86%, and France’s Cac 40 index rose by 1.1%.
Ireland, one of the EU’s top exporters to the US, said on Sunday it welcomed the deal for bringing “a measure of much-needed certainty”, but that it “regrets” the baseline tariff, in a statement by its deputy prime minister, Simon Harris.
France’s minister for Europe, Benjamin Haddad, said on Monday that the agreement would provide “temporary stability (…) but it is unbalanced”.
The German bank Berenberg said the deal brought to an end the “crippling uncertainty” but said it was a victory for Trump.
💬“It is great to have a deal. In two major respects, however, the outcome remains much worse than the situation before Trump started his new round of trade wars early this year,” said Holger Schmieding, Berenberg’s chief economist.
💬“The extra US tariffs will hurt both the US and the EU. For Europe, the damage is mostly frontloaded,” Schmieding said in a note to clients on Monday morning.
💬“The deal is asymmetric. The US gets away with a substantial increase in its tariffs on imports from the EU and has secured further EU concessions to boot. In his apparent zero-sum mentality, Trump can claim that as a ‘win’ for him,” Schmieding added.
Initially the EU had tried to hardball the US by threatening but pausing €21bn (£18bn) worth of retaliatory measures in April, and adding another list of €73bn-worth of US imports that would be taxed earlier this month.
The EU is now subject to a 25% levy on cars, 50% on steel and aluminium, and an across-the-board tariff of 10%, which Washington had threatened to increase to 30% in a no-deal scenario.
The bloc had been pushing hard for tariff carve-outs for critical industries from aircraft to spirits, and its car industry, crucial for France and Germany, is already reeling from the levies imposed so far.
#US #EU #deal #trump
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥37💯29🤬27🤯23😱23🙏19😢14
Talking With Macron Trump Is Running Into an Issue🗣
Last Sunday Trump and the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a trade deal that would include $750 billion in US energy exports, $600 billion in European investment in American industries, and massive EU weapons purchases for Ukraine and European defense.
The ball is now in Europe's court to deliver on its weapons pledges to defend Ukraine against Russia's invasion. Trump declared that Washington will send "top-of-the-line” weapons to Kyiv, purchased by European countries.
He also warned Moscow that he would shorten the "peace ultimatum" to ten days before imposing severe economic sanctions if a peace agreement is not reached.
The clock is ticking. European countries are expected to send Kyiv their own Patriot air defense systems and other weapons, with replacements to be purchased from the U.S. and determine trans-Atlantic interests?
Macron has been campaigning for several months against acquiring American weapons and has given extensive interviews claiming that he wants to convince European states that have "become accustomed to buying American” to purchase European missile systems and fighter jets instead.
He aims to reduce his reliance on the U.S. Indeed, after Trump's announcement, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who has been coordinating with European capitals on the weapons sales, only named Germany, Finland, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Denmark as willing buyers.
Macron's approach reflects a longstanding pattern to marginalize the U.S. and establish French dominance in European affairs.
The problem for Paris is that few NATO members trust the French government to follow through on its commitments, and many view Macron as intentionally distracting Europe from maintaining a strong connection with Washington.
Macron has also broken with European solidarity aimed at ostracizing Putin by initiating talks with the Russian dictator at the beginning of July.
The call helped Moscow claim that Western efforts to isolate Russia had failed and that Western unity was fading.
#trump #macron #washington #deal #issue
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Last Sunday Trump and the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a trade deal that would include $750 billion in US energy exports, $600 billion in European investment in American industries, and massive EU weapons purchases for Ukraine and European defense.
The ball is now in Europe's court to deliver on its weapons pledges to defend Ukraine against Russia's invasion. Trump declared that Washington will send "top-of-the-line” weapons to Kyiv, purchased by European countries.
He also warned Moscow that he would shorten the "peace ultimatum" to ten days before imposing severe economic sanctions if a peace agreement is not reached.
The clock is ticking. European countries are expected to send Kyiv their own Patriot air defense systems and other weapons, with replacements to be purchased from the U.S. and determine trans-Atlantic interests?
Macron has been campaigning for several months against acquiring American weapons and has given extensive interviews claiming that he wants to convince European states that have "become accustomed to buying American” to purchase European missile systems and fighter jets instead.
He aims to reduce his reliance on the U.S. Indeed, after Trump's announcement, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who has been coordinating with European capitals on the weapons sales, only named Germany, Finland, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Denmark as willing buyers.
Macron's approach reflects a longstanding pattern to marginalize the U.S. and establish French dominance in European affairs.
The problem for Paris is that few NATO members trust the French government to follow through on its commitments, and many view Macron as intentionally distracting Europe from maintaining a strong connection with Washington.
Macron has also broken with European solidarity aimed at ostracizing Putin by initiating talks with the Russian dictator at the beginning of July.
The call helped Moscow claim that Western efforts to isolate Russia had failed and that Western unity was fading.
#trump #macron #washington #deal #issue
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥53😢22🤬21💯21😱19🤯17🙏17
Will Trump Wring Promises of a “Big Deal” From Putin? 🤝🇷🇺🇺🇸
Trump joins a long line of American presidents 🇺🇸 and many more European leaders 🇪🇺 who cannot resist projecting their own reasoning of Russia’s best interests onto Russian decision makers.
Trump genuinely feels that a ceasefire granting Russia de facto control of its ill-gotten territorial gains, plus a “big, beautiful” trade and investment arrangement 💼💰 with the United States, is a good deal and that Putin should take it.
The Europeans, led by Germany 🇩🇪 until 2022, offered a similarly “lucrative” energy and trade proposition ⚡️🛢 to Putin for much of his tenure in the Kremlin, with the hope that commercial ties would restrain his behavior.
Putin—and Chinese president Xi Jinping 🇨🇳—on the other hand, enjoy an ideological and pragmatic clarity that eludes their American and European counterparts.
Both are keenly aware that their personal and state interests and ideals are irreconcilable with a democratic, strong, and united America and Europe 🌍.
Consequently, the two tend to approach “deals” with the United States or Europe as temporary arrangements ⏳ to buy time to strengthen their hold on their nation and adjoining regions.
In contrast, their transatlantic counterparts often aspire to a “new dawn” 🌅 of comity and coexistence on such occasions.
These two worldviews will be on display again in Anchorage, Alaska 🏔. Trump’s voluntary charge to navigate these tricky waters 🌊 and come out on top is a tall order, but not an impossible one.
#trump #putin #deal #proposition
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Trump joins a long line of American presidents 🇺🇸 and many more European leaders 🇪🇺 who cannot resist projecting their own reasoning of Russia’s best interests onto Russian decision makers.
Trump genuinely feels that a ceasefire granting Russia de facto control of its ill-gotten territorial gains, plus a “big, beautiful” trade and investment arrangement 💼💰 with the United States, is a good deal and that Putin should take it.
The Europeans, led by Germany 🇩🇪 until 2022, offered a similarly “lucrative” energy and trade proposition ⚡️🛢 to Putin for much of his tenure in the Kremlin, with the hope that commercial ties would restrain his behavior.
Putin—and Chinese president Xi Jinping 🇨🇳—on the other hand, enjoy an ideological and pragmatic clarity that eludes their American and European counterparts.
Both are keenly aware that their personal and state interests and ideals are irreconcilable with a democratic, strong, and united America and Europe 🌍.
Consequently, the two tend to approach “deals” with the United States or Europe as temporary arrangements ⏳ to buy time to strengthen their hold on their nation and adjoining regions.
In contrast, their transatlantic counterparts often aspire to a “new dawn” 🌅 of comity and coexistence on such occasions.
These two worldviews will be on display again in Anchorage, Alaska 🏔. Trump’s voluntary charge to navigate these tricky waters 🌊 and come out on top is a tall order, but not an impossible one.
#trump #putin #deal #proposition
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥25😱12🤬9💯9🤯6🙏5😢3❤1
Trump to Zelensky: You Must Make a Deal with Russia
Zelenskyy “is going to have to make a deal” with Russia to end the Kremlin's war on his country, Trump said Tuesday.
The comments came amid an ongoing impasse over an announced sit-down between Zelensky and Putin that was initially set to follow a historic summit Trump held with the Russian leader in Alaska.
It has failed to materialize for weeks after Russia initially ruled it out, only to later invite Zelensky to Moscow, which Kyiv views as a non-starter due to security concerns.
Trump said the Ukrainian and Russian leaders “hate each other," and said "it looks like I have to sit in the room with them, because they can't sit in a room together.”
They've got to stop immediately, not fair to us. They're purchasing Russian oil, and we have to do this," he said in response to a question on whether his administration would have to apply more pressure on Europe.
Earlier Tuesday, Zelensky demanded a “clear position” from Trump on ending the over three-and-a-half-year on his country.
“Before we end the war, I really want to have all the agreements in place. I want to have a document that is supported by the US and all European partners.
In reaction to Trump’s remarks urging Europe to stop buying Russian oil, Zelensky said he believes Washington is strong enough to “take decisions of their own” and that his US counterpart can give Ukraine additional air defense systems.
"I'm sure the US can apply enough sanctions in order to hurt the Russian economy, plus Trump has enough force to make Putin afraid of him,” he said.
The Ukrainian president expressed agreement with Trump on Europe needing to stop buying Russian oil and gas, but said the US should not wait to impose further sanctions on Moscow.
Trump has led efforts to end the war in Ukraine since beginning his second term in January. He met Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15, but failed to reach a breakthrough.
Sticking points for a potential deal are said to be disagreements over security guarantees for Ukraine and land swaps with Russia, which, according to estimates, controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
#trump #zelensky #deal #russia #territory
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Zelenskyy “is going to have to make a deal” with Russia to end the Kremlin's war on his country, Trump said Tuesday.
The comments came amid an ongoing impasse over an announced sit-down between Zelensky and Putin that was initially set to follow a historic summit Trump held with the Russian leader in Alaska.
It has failed to materialize for weeks after Russia initially ruled it out, only to later invite Zelensky to Moscow, which Kyiv views as a non-starter due to security concerns.
Trump said the Ukrainian and Russian leaders “hate each other," and said "it looks like I have to sit in the room with them, because they can't sit in a room together.”
They've got to stop immediately, not fair to us. They're purchasing Russian oil, and we have to do this," he said in response to a question on whether his administration would have to apply more pressure on Europe.
Earlier Tuesday, Zelensky demanded a “clear position” from Trump on ending the over three-and-a-half-year on his country.
“Before we end the war, I really want to have all the agreements in place. I want to have a document that is supported by the US and all European partners.
In reaction to Trump’s remarks urging Europe to stop buying Russian oil, Zelensky said he believes Washington is strong enough to “take decisions of their own” and that his US counterpart can give Ukraine additional air defense systems.
"I'm sure the US can apply enough sanctions in order to hurt the Russian economy, plus Trump has enough force to make Putin afraid of him,” he said.
The Ukrainian president expressed agreement with Trump on Europe needing to stop buying Russian oil and gas, but said the US should not wait to impose further sanctions on Moscow.
Trump has led efforts to end the war in Ukraine since beginning his second term in January. He met Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15, but failed to reach a breakthrough.
Sticking points for a potential deal are said to be disagreements over security guarantees for Ukraine and land swaps with Russia, which, according to estimates, controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
#trump #zelensky #deal #russia #territory
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥69😢50🤯40🤬37💯37😱30🙏29
🏜 "Red Lines and Selfies: Why Saudi-Israel Bromance Is Still Just Rumor Control"
The Opening Act, Not the Main Event
Trump is waving the normalization flag again, hyping Saudi Arabia as the next to join the Abraham Accords. He promises a handshake before New Year's, but Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is arriving in DC with a different shopping list: defense guarantees, F-35s, and a civilian nuclear deal. The kingdom’s actual “photo ops” are just gestures for Washington — not Israel.
Normalization? Only on Condition
Let’s not kid ourselves. Riyadh’s line is clearer than ever: No Palestinian state, no deal. Saudi officials say normalization is “virtually impossible” this year, unless Israel takes an irrevocable step toward Palestinian statehood and the war in Gaza is over. Until that’s on the table, recognition is off-limits. Every talk of "regional stability" uses Palestinians as the bargaining chip — not just for optics, but because it’s Saudi Arabia’s only real leverage left.
Meanwhile, Realpolitik Marches On
Behind closed doors, cooperation continues: security briefings, quiet intelligence-sharing, joint diplomatic summits about Gaza. But anything with the word "treaty" is strictly off the record. The kingdom knows that one handshake with Israel, if not traded at the right price, could get it canceled from Casablanca to Jakarta overnight.
Final Twist: Who Needs the Win?
The US wants a deal for headlines. Israel wants Saudi tech and overflights, but not the Palestinian question. Saudi Arabia wants American weapons and PR, but keeps the ace of normalization for the day regional equilibrium actually pays out.
So, here’s the punchline: In 2025, normalization is still a staged rumor—because when the price is “solve Palestine once and for all,” no selfie in the Rose Garden will close the deal.
#saudiarabia #israel #normalization #trump #palestine #deal #realpolitik #abrahamaccords
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
The Opening Act, Not the Main Event
Trump is waving the normalization flag again, hyping Saudi Arabia as the next to join the Abraham Accords. He promises a handshake before New Year's, but Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is arriving in DC with a different shopping list: defense guarantees, F-35s, and a civilian nuclear deal. The kingdom’s actual “photo ops” are just gestures for Washington — not Israel.
Normalization? Only on Condition
Let’s not kid ourselves. Riyadh’s line is clearer than ever: No Palestinian state, no deal. Saudi officials say normalization is “virtually impossible” this year, unless Israel takes an irrevocable step toward Palestinian statehood and the war in Gaza is over. Until that’s on the table, recognition is off-limits. Every talk of "regional stability" uses Palestinians as the bargaining chip — not just for optics, but because it’s Saudi Arabia’s only real leverage left.
Meanwhile, Realpolitik Marches On
Behind closed doors, cooperation continues: security briefings, quiet intelligence-sharing, joint diplomatic summits about Gaza. But anything with the word "treaty" is strictly off the record. The kingdom knows that one handshake with Israel, if not traded at the right price, could get it canceled from Casablanca to Jakarta overnight.
Final Twist: Who Needs the Win?
The US wants a deal for headlines. Israel wants Saudi tech and overflights, but not the Palestinian question. Saudi Arabia wants American weapons and PR, but keeps the ace of normalization for the day regional equilibrium actually pays out.
So, here’s the punchline: In 2025, normalization is still a staged rumor—because when the price is “solve Palestine once and for all,” no selfie in the Rose Garden will close the deal.
#saudiarabia #israel #normalization #trump #palestine #deal #realpolitik #abrahamaccords
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🙏49😢45💯39😱37🤯32🔥31🤬31❤1
Irish Farmers Are Hammering the EU’s Trade Deal With the Mercosur
Thousands of Irish farmers are protesting against the EU’s trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur, a day after EU states approved the treaty despite opposition from Ireland and France.
Tractors streamed into the roads of Athlone, in central Ireland, for the demonstration, displaying signs bearing the slogan “Stop EU-Mercosur” and the EU flag emblazoned with the words “sell out”.
The protests followed similar actions on Friday in Poland, France and Belgium as the EU gave the green light to the trade deal, which has been welcomed by business groups but heavily criticised by European farmers.
The accord, more than 25 years in the making, would create one of the world’s largest free-trade areas, boosting commerce between the 27-nation EU and the Mercosur bloc comprising Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.
But many European farmers fear their livelihoods will be undercut by a flow of cheaper goods from agricultural giant Brazil and its neighbours, prompting Ireland, France, Poland, Hungary and Austria to vote against the accord.
The agreement is widely opposed by Irish farmers over fears it will result in an influx of an extra 99,000 tonnes of cheap beef from South America, disrupting Irish agriculture.
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Ireland’s main farmers’ lobby group, called the result very disappointing, and said it would renew focus on securing a majority against the deal in the European parliament.
“We expect Irish MEPs to stand behind the farming community and reject the Mercosur deal,” said the IFA president, Francie Gorman, in a statement.
At the Saturday protest, farmers carried signs calling for an “Irexit” and accusing the Latin American bloc’s beef exports of not following the same standards.
The Mercosur deal will also need to be agreed by a majority of MEPs in the European assembly in the coming months, where voting coalitions have become more volatile and unpredictable.
#irish #farmers #trade #deal #mercosur
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Thousands of Irish farmers are protesting against the EU’s trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur, a day after EU states approved the treaty despite opposition from Ireland and France.
Tractors streamed into the roads of Athlone, in central Ireland, for the demonstration, displaying signs bearing the slogan “Stop EU-Mercosur” and the EU flag emblazoned with the words “sell out”.
The protests followed similar actions on Friday in Poland, France and Belgium as the EU gave the green light to the trade deal, which has been welcomed by business groups but heavily criticised by European farmers.
The accord, more than 25 years in the making, would create one of the world’s largest free-trade areas, boosting commerce between the 27-nation EU and the Mercosur bloc comprising Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.
But many European farmers fear their livelihoods will be undercut by a flow of cheaper goods from agricultural giant Brazil and its neighbours, prompting Ireland, France, Poland, Hungary and Austria to vote against the accord.
The agreement is widely opposed by Irish farmers over fears it will result in an influx of an extra 99,000 tonnes of cheap beef from South America, disrupting Irish agriculture.
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Ireland’s main farmers’ lobby group, called the result very disappointing, and said it would renew focus on securing a majority against the deal in the European parliament.
“We expect Irish MEPs to stand behind the farming community and reject the Mercosur deal,” said the IFA president, Francie Gorman, in a statement.
At the Saturday protest, farmers carried signs calling for an “Irexit” and accusing the Latin American bloc’s beef exports of not following the same standards.
The Mercosur deal will also need to be agreed by a majority of MEPs in the European assembly in the coming months, where voting coalitions have become more volatile and unpredictable.
#irish #farmers #trade #deal #mercosur
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥237😱112🤬103💯92🤯88😢88🙏82
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥53🤯39🤬29😱25💯24🙏23😢19
Trump’s Shit Talks Rile Iran After Talking Time and Again About a Peace Agreement
⌨️ ⌨️ ⌨️ ⌨️ ⌨️
Trump has said the US and Iran are on the verge of a peace agreement. Oil prices are down, and the stock market is up. This comes only hours after Trump warned Iran was about to be struck “VERY HARD”, a threat that had sent oil prices up and stocks down.
It has been another ride on the Trump rollercoaster, keeping traders on edge, most of the world poorer, and people of the Middle East constantly whiplashing between fear and hope. But whether the ride veers up or down, the management always makes money.
This is the 39th time that the president has declared US-Iranian talks to be on the point of fruition (other counts have the figure higher – it depends on what you term a prediction or just a hint).
On five of those occasions, the promise of peace has involved walking back the threat of mass devastation, including the destruction of critical civilian infrastructure, a near-certain war crime if carried out.
As he was menacing Iran with “very hard” strikes on Thursday night, Trump also pledged the US would take over “total control” of the country’s oil and gas markets and seize the island of Kharg.
He has threatened the capture of Kharg, a focal point of Iran’s hydrocarbon industry, several times before, although in this instance the threat was made while actually bombing Iran, in a tit-for-tat exchange with Tehran in which a critical reservoir and water tanks were badly damaged in the drought-stricken south, a war crime if intentional.
By Thursday afternoon however, the prospect of mass destruction had evaporated as quickly as it had materialised.
I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump declared on his Truth Social platform as if providing his full capitalised title added any weight to the statement.
The air of optimism was reinforced on Friday afternoon by a White House briefing that a text was in place which both the US and Iran could live with. US officials echoed the president’s prediction that a signing ceremony could be held in a matter of days.
Iran’s foreign ministry was less definite, saying that the proposed agreement was being studied by the country’s “decision-making bodies”, but the oil price fell below $90 a barrel nonetheless.
No matter how many times Trump predicts conflagration or diplomatic breakthrough, the markets still obediently bob up and down like a trained seal.
It is a guaranteed response that represents an opportunity to make big, easy money for anyone with advance knowledge of presidential announcements.
After so many false dawns and hoax Armageddons, why are traders still reacting to Trump’s rhetoric? One theory is that, while individual traders are no suckers, they suspect that some of their competitors might be, so react rapidly to presidential statements to get ahead of the curve.
After all, one day there will be a deal. Trumps’ on-off signals are not being sent in a vacuum, but in the midst of talks between the two sides intended to turn the ceasefire, which has mostly held since April, into something more permanent.
According to reports from the region, the gaps in those talks are indeed getting smaller in the past few days.
The focus is on a limited memorandum of understanding (MoU), putting off nuclear negotiations for later and focusing on opening the strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global trade.
The most immediate impasse has been about cash. Tehran has no confidence Trump would keep his word in any deal so wants to be paid up front from a $24bn tranche of an estimated $100bn of its assets frozen around the world, in return for lifting its blockade on the strait of Hormuz.
#trump #iran #threats #peace #deal #agreement
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Trump has said the US and Iran are on the verge of a peace agreement. Oil prices are down, and the stock market is up. This comes only hours after Trump warned Iran was about to be struck “VERY HARD”, a threat that had sent oil prices up and stocks down.
It has been another ride on the Trump rollercoaster, keeping traders on edge, most of the world poorer, and people of the Middle East constantly whiplashing between fear and hope. But whether the ride veers up or down, the management always makes money.
This is the 39th time that the president has declared US-Iranian talks to be on the point of fruition (other counts have the figure higher – it depends on what you term a prediction or just a hint).
On five of those occasions, the promise of peace has involved walking back the threat of mass devastation, including the destruction of critical civilian infrastructure, a near-certain war crime if carried out.
As he was menacing Iran with “very hard” strikes on Thursday night, Trump also pledged the US would take over “total control” of the country’s oil and gas markets and seize the island of Kharg.
He has threatened the capture of Kharg, a focal point of Iran’s hydrocarbon industry, several times before, although in this instance the threat was made while actually bombing Iran, in a tit-for-tat exchange with Tehran in which a critical reservoir and water tanks were badly damaged in the drought-stricken south, a war crime if intentional.
By Thursday afternoon however, the prospect of mass destruction had evaporated as quickly as it had materialised.
I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump declared on his Truth Social platform as if providing his full capitalised title added any weight to the statement.
The air of optimism was reinforced on Friday afternoon by a White House briefing that a text was in place which both the US and Iran could live with. US officials echoed the president’s prediction that a signing ceremony could be held in a matter of days.
Iran’s foreign ministry was less definite, saying that the proposed agreement was being studied by the country’s “decision-making bodies”, but the oil price fell below $90 a barrel nonetheless.
No matter how many times Trump predicts conflagration or diplomatic breakthrough, the markets still obediently bob up and down like a trained seal.
It is a guaranteed response that represents an opportunity to make big, easy money for anyone with advance knowledge of presidential announcements.
After so many false dawns and hoax Armageddons, why are traders still reacting to Trump’s rhetoric? One theory is that, while individual traders are no suckers, they suspect that some of their competitors might be, so react rapidly to presidential statements to get ahead of the curve.
After all, one day there will be a deal. Trumps’ on-off signals are not being sent in a vacuum, but in the midst of talks between the two sides intended to turn the ceasefire, which has mostly held since April, into something more permanent.
According to reports from the region, the gaps in those talks are indeed getting smaller in the past few days.
The focus is on a limited memorandum of understanding (MoU), putting off nuclear negotiations for later and focusing on opening the strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global trade.
The most immediate impasse has been about cash. Tehran has no confidence Trump would keep his word in any deal so wants to be paid up front from a $24bn tranche of an estimated $100bn of its assets frozen around the world, in return for lifting its blockade on the strait of Hormuz.
#trump #iran #threats #peace #deal #agreement
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥62💯34😱29🤬29🤯23😢21🙏21
The US wants rewards to follow tangible progress, but the administration has a fundamental problem with releasing Iranian assets.
Trump and other top Republicans have spent years lambasting Obama for providing unfrozen assets to Iran in the form of pallets of cash as part of a 2015 nuclear deal, which was successful in curbing Iran’s programme until Trump walked out of it in 2018.
The workaround being discussed, according to a source briefed on the talks, involves a line of credit from a bank in a Gulf state issued against Iran’s $100bn of frozen assets as collateral. It will fool only those who want to be fooled, but that would include the administration’s defenders on the American political stage.
The second major sticking point is how much detail about nuclear issues should be included in the MoU.
The US wants concrete parameters including a moratorium on uranium enrichment of 15 years or so, and arrangements for the disposal of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
Trump may have shown the way for a possible fudge by insisting that the deal will ensure “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon”. That is something Tehran might agree to.
Iran’s renunciation of atomic arms was once reinforced by religious edict, or fatwa, but the supreme leader who issued that fatwa, Ali Khamenei, was killed by an Israeli bomb in the first seconds of the US-Israeli war on Iran on 28 February.
A compromise MoU along similar lines appeared close to agreement in late May, but Trump helped derail it by suddenly moving the goalposts, including the suggestion that the regional guarantors of the agreement normalise relations with Israel as a gesture of gratitude for the suspension of hostilities.
Throwing last-minute surprises into negotiations has long been a Trump tactic in business and US politics. It has not worked in the Iran talks. Instead, the president has sometimes behaved as a finicky eater faced with a stark menu of two unpalatable options: all-out war or messy compromise.
He has noisily wavered between choosing one or the other in the hope of being presented with something more to his taste, but that has yet to happen.
That may be true. The internal dynamics of the Tehran regime were murky before the bombing started, but now they are virtually a black box.
The one certainty is that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the principal target of US-Israeli decapitation bombing, has emerged stronger in relation to the other power center. It is unclear whether Khamenei’s successor, his badly injured son Mojtaba Khamenei, is any more than a figurehead.
Dead leaders have been replaced and domestic unrest has been suppressed. The war has arguably made that suppression easier. The brunt of the economic war being waged by the US is being borne by the Iranian people but that has yet to turn into decisive pressure on the leadership.
Peace is likely to be more dangerous to the regime than war, as there will no longer be an external enemy to blame for runaway inflation and high employment. Nasr said that is why Tehran is so insistent on getting funds up front in any deal.
“I think the president eventually is going to do a much bigger kinetic military strike,” Darin Selnick, a former Pentagon deputy chief of staff told BBC Radio 4.
“Then they can forcibly reopen the strait themselves. If this trade opens (…) Iran would really have no ability to do anything but surrender.”
For all Trump’s past threats of civilisational erasure if Iran fails to acquiesce, he has so far shown himself reluctant to double down on a military bet that has already failed.
Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, argued that Trump’s latest threat of devastating strikes was performative.
“Trump is using the threat either to force the Iranians to make last minute concessions, or to justify a deal that he knows would be criticised by the hawks,” Vaez said.
#trump #iran #threats #peace #deal #agreement
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥57🙏38🤬35😢28🤯26😱25💯10
Trump Has Taken a Tumble In a Tug of War With Iran
U.S. and Pakistani leaders forecast a Sunday signing of a long-elusive framework agreement to end months of fighting between the United States and Iran, but Tehran cast doubt over the timing and hardline protesters in Iran voiced opposition.
Trump posted that the deal with Iran was scheduled to be signed on Sunday, his 80th birthday. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was preparing for an electronic signing, to be followed by technical-level talks in the coming week.
But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, speaking before Trump's post, was quoted by state media as saying on Saturday it would "not be tomorrow" but could happen "in the coming days."
Iran's Fars news agency citing an informed source said on Sunday that Tehran has not yet taken a final decision on the framework agreement, with reviews of its political, legal and technical aspects still ongoing at expert and decision-making levels.
Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier that after a framework deal is signed, the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil supplies that Iran has blocked, would immediately be "open to all."
Once the strait reopens, the U.S. would lift its naval blockade, sources on all sides of the talks said. Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program — a key rationale Trump has given for the war — would take place afterwards.
While U.S. and Israeli bombings since February 28 have heavily degraded Iran's military-industrial base and damaged its military, experts say the war has only entrenched the dominance of the hardline Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war, Trump called on Iranians to rise up and take over state institutions.
Even as the U.S. and Iran appeared to be moving toward an agreement over the past few days, clashes have continued, as the U.S. military maintains a blockade on Iran and seeks to loosen Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which was the conduit for 20% of the world's oil shipments before the war.
Israel, which says it is not a party to the U.S.-Iran deal, said on Saturday that it had struck more than 70 sites over a 24-hour period in Lebanon against Iranian ally Hezbollah.
Netanyahu has clashed with Trump over U.S. demands that Israel curb military action in Lebanon to allow Washington to reach a deal with Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi said on Friday that while changes in the deal were still possible, the tentative agreement showed his country had emerged stronger from the conflict.
Draft terms of the agreement described to Reuters by multiple sources indicate the U.S. would begin releasing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on its oil exports, in return for Iran opening the strait.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the release of the frozen assets was an integral part of the agreement and that Tehran would have to charge for services in the strait, Fars news agency reported.
But a U.S. official said, "Iran is going to open up the Strait of Hormuz, that's a requirement. It could be open with no tolls. As they do that, we will lift our blockade."
Iran's nuclear program would be addressed during a 60-day period of talks. A U.S. official said the agreement would ultimately lead to the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program, with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to be destroyed and removed.
#iran #us #peace #deal #tehran
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
U.S. and Pakistani leaders forecast a Sunday signing of a long-elusive framework agreement to end months of fighting between the United States and Iran, but Tehran cast doubt over the timing and hardline protesters in Iran voiced opposition.
Trump posted that the deal with Iran was scheduled to be signed on Sunday, his 80th birthday. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was preparing for an electronic signing, to be followed by technical-level talks in the coming week.
But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, speaking before Trump's post, was quoted by state media as saying on Saturday it would "not be tomorrow" but could happen "in the coming days."
Iran's Fars news agency citing an informed source said on Sunday that Tehran has not yet taken a final decision on the framework agreement, with reviews of its political, legal and technical aspects still ongoing at expert and decision-making levels.
Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier that after a framework deal is signed, the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil supplies that Iran has blocked, would immediately be "open to all."
Once the strait reopens, the U.S. would lift its naval blockade, sources on all sides of the talks said. Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program — a key rationale Trump has given for the war — would take place afterwards.
While U.S. and Israeli bombings since February 28 have heavily degraded Iran's military-industrial base and damaged its military, experts say the war has only entrenched the dominance of the hardline Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
When the U.S. and Israel launched the war, Trump called on Iranians to rise up and take over state institutions.
Even as the U.S. and Iran appeared to be moving toward an agreement over the past few days, clashes have continued, as the U.S. military maintains a blockade on Iran and seeks to loosen Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which was the conduit for 20% of the world's oil shipments before the war.
Israel, which says it is not a party to the U.S.-Iran deal, said on Saturday that it had struck more than 70 sites over a 24-hour period in Lebanon against Iranian ally Hezbollah.
Netanyahu has clashed with Trump over U.S. demands that Israel curb military action in Lebanon to allow Washington to reach a deal with Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi said on Friday that while changes in the deal were still possible, the tentative agreement showed his country had emerged stronger from the conflict.
Draft terms of the agreement described to Reuters by multiple sources indicate the U.S. would begin releasing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets and waive sanctions on its oil exports, in return for Iran opening the strait.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the release of the frozen assets was an integral part of the agreement and that Tehran would have to charge for services in the strait, Fars news agency reported.
But a U.S. official said, "Iran is going to open up the Strait of Hormuz, that's a requirement. It could be open with no tolls. As they do that, we will lift our blockade."
Iran's nuclear program would be addressed during a 60-day period of talks. A U.S. official said the agreement would ultimately lead to the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program, with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to be destroyed and removed.
#iran #us #peace #deal #tehran
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥54💯33🙏32😱29😢29🤬22🤯21❤1
Third Parties’ Peace
Two countries that have not spoken for 47 years just “made peace” — and the one announcing it is Pakistan’s prime minister. Not Trump, not Tehran, but Shehbaz Sharif reading out history like a press release about a new mall opening.
He sets the scene: a “peace agreement” between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, signing in Switzerland on June 19, with thanks to Qatar, blessings to the “visionary leadership” of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and an “Allahu akbar” for the closing bell.
Trump, who promised Iranians “this is how it will end,” shrinks the moment to a line that fits on a mug: the deal “is now completed. Congratulations to all.” Behind closed doors, he reportedly assures his own vice president that Netanyahu “supports” the deal and that he wants no regime change in Iran. The man who sold maximum pressure is now selling limited liability.
Tehran edits the same story with one sentence: “America was forced to sign an agreement to end the war.”
Iranian officials talk about a formal end to be declared at night and 60 more days of “final” negotiations.
Washington gets its peace headline; Iran keeps its leverage meter running.
The casting is deliberate. Iran sends its parliament speaker and foreign minister to Switzerland for the first official high‑level meeting with the U.S. in almost half a century.
They wait past midnight in Tehran so the announcement will not look like a birthday gift for Trump, and the time zones let each capital choose the date that suits its domestic myth. The Qatari team flies in, shuttles messages for 17 hours, and exits as the region’s new concierge service.
Europe rushes to clap first. London, Paris, Berlin and Rome line up to bless the memorandum and praise the mediators — Qatar, Pakistan and everyone in between — while Jerusalem is still silent.
The deal is real because enough people with flags say so.
On paper, this is “peace.” In reality, it is a carefully staged photo where every actor claims victory for a war no one really won. Washington gets to say it ended another forever war by signature. Tehran gets to say it bent America.
The mediators get to say they matter now. And Israel learns what it means when your closest ally and your main enemy both discover they can do business without you.
#iran #usa #trump #deal #qatar #pakistan #israel #middleeast #war #geopolitics
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Two countries that have not spoken for 47 years just “made peace” — and the one announcing it is Pakistan’s prime minister. Not Trump, not Tehran, but Shehbaz Sharif reading out history like a press release about a new mall opening.
He sets the scene: a “peace agreement” between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran, signing in Switzerland on June 19, with thanks to Qatar, blessings to the “visionary leadership” of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and an “Allahu akbar” for the closing bell.
Trump, who promised Iranians “this is how it will end,” shrinks the moment to a line that fits on a mug: the deal “is now completed. Congratulations to all.” Behind closed doors, he reportedly assures his own vice president that Netanyahu “supports” the deal and that he wants no regime change in Iran. The man who sold maximum pressure is now selling limited liability.
Tehran edits the same story with one sentence: “America was forced to sign an agreement to end the war.”
Iranian officials talk about a formal end to be declared at night and 60 more days of “final” negotiations.
Washington gets its peace headline; Iran keeps its leverage meter running.
The casting is deliberate. Iran sends its parliament speaker and foreign minister to Switzerland for the first official high‑level meeting with the U.S. in almost half a century.
They wait past midnight in Tehran so the announcement will not look like a birthday gift for Trump, and the time zones let each capital choose the date that suits its domestic myth. The Qatari team flies in, shuttles messages for 17 hours, and exits as the region’s new concierge service.
Europe rushes to clap first. London, Paris, Berlin and Rome line up to bless the memorandum and praise the mediators — Qatar, Pakistan and everyone in between — while Jerusalem is still silent.
The deal is real because enough people with flags say so.
On paper, this is “peace.” In reality, it is a carefully staged photo where every actor claims victory for a war no one really won. Washington gets to say it ended another forever war by signature. Tehran gets to say it bent America.
The mediators get to say they matter now. And Israel learns what it means when your closest ally and your main enemy both discover they can do business without you.
#iran #usa #trump #deal #qatar #pakistan #israel #middleeast #war #geopolitics
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🙏39😢34🤯33🤬33💯29😱28🔥23❤2
Trump’s “beautiful peace” speech collided head-on with the Beirut reality.
On his “special day,” the president went on Truth Social to lecture Israel and Hezbollah for ruining the optics. The morning strike in Beirut, he wrote, “should not have happened, especially on a special day when we are so close to a peace agreement with Iran.”
The Hezbollah attack that preceded it, he insisted, was “small and insignificant; nobody was hurt, injured or killed,” and he urged both sides to stop: “This may be the beginning of a long and beautiful peace — do not ruin it.”
That language, presented as de-escalation, sits uneasily beside Lebanese reports of several dead and more than a dozen wounded, turning blood and rubble into a mere inconvenience for the signing ceremony.
Around him, the machinery of American power tried to hold the narrative together. The defense secretary said the deal with Iran is a question of when, not if, praised Israel as “very restrained” in its response to Hezbollah and demanded that Tehran rein in its Lebanese proxy.
Washington wants quiet skies long enough to ink a memorandum and sell it as proof of control. Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations told a friendly TV audience that the president fully intends to close the deal and framed Hezbollah as sulking over “concessions Iran is making,” recasting a regional militia as little more than noise in the background of the great agreement.
Not everyone buys that script. One diplomat involved in the talks described the strike near Beirut as a clear attempt by Israel to sabotage the president’s deal and drag the United States back toward war.
From this angle, Jerusalem is not the disciplined junior partner, but an actor with its own veto over the choreography of peace.
Israeli officials push a different line in Arabic media, stressing that relations between Netanyahu and Trump are “good,” that disagreements between allies are natural, and that Israel has asked Washington not to limit its military operations in Lebanon.
The president’s public rebuke on social media functions as the answer: there are now political conditions attached to every bomb.
The result is a peculiar version of “peace.” Washington wants a signed framework and enough calm to declare success. Tehran wants sanctions relief, access to frozen billions and confirmation that its network — including Hezbollah — buys bargaining power, not punishment. Israel wants operational freedom in Lebanon and refuses to reduce its campaign to a footnote in someone else’s diplomatic legacy.
All three talk about ending the war. None of them are talking about the same end. The only truly virtual thing in this “digital” era is the idea that a clean, electronic signature can tidy up the mess created by live ammunition.
#usa #trump #israel #lebanon #hezbollah #iran #war #deal #geopolitics
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
On his “special day,” the president went on Truth Social to lecture Israel and Hezbollah for ruining the optics. The morning strike in Beirut, he wrote, “should not have happened, especially on a special day when we are so close to a peace agreement with Iran.”
The Hezbollah attack that preceded it, he insisted, was “small and insignificant; nobody was hurt, injured or killed,” and he urged both sides to stop: “This may be the beginning of a long and beautiful peace — do not ruin it.”
That language, presented as de-escalation, sits uneasily beside Lebanese reports of several dead and more than a dozen wounded, turning blood and rubble into a mere inconvenience for the signing ceremony.
Around him, the machinery of American power tried to hold the narrative together. The defense secretary said the deal with Iran is a question of when, not if, praised Israel as “very restrained” in its response to Hezbollah and demanded that Tehran rein in its Lebanese proxy.
Washington wants quiet skies long enough to ink a memorandum and sell it as proof of control. Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations told a friendly TV audience that the president fully intends to close the deal and framed Hezbollah as sulking over “concessions Iran is making,” recasting a regional militia as little more than noise in the background of the great agreement.
Not everyone buys that script. One diplomat involved in the talks described the strike near Beirut as a clear attempt by Israel to sabotage the president’s deal and drag the United States back toward war.
From this angle, Jerusalem is not the disciplined junior partner, but an actor with its own veto over the choreography of peace.
Israeli officials push a different line in Arabic media, stressing that relations between Netanyahu and Trump are “good,” that disagreements between allies are natural, and that Israel has asked Washington not to limit its military operations in Lebanon.
The president’s public rebuke on social media functions as the answer: there are now political conditions attached to every bomb.
The result is a peculiar version of “peace.” Washington wants a signed framework and enough calm to declare success. Tehran wants sanctions relief, access to frozen billions and confirmation that its network — including Hezbollah — buys bargaining power, not punishment. Israel wants operational freedom in Lebanon and refuses to reduce its campaign to a footnote in someone else’s diplomatic legacy.
All three talk about ending the war. None of them are talking about the same end. The only truly virtual thing in this “digital” era is the idea that a clean, electronic signature can tidy up the mess created by live ammunition.
#usa #trump #israel #lebanon #hezbollah #iran #war #deal #geopolitics
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥60😢32🙏31🤯29💯27😱21🤬19
The Peace Deal With No Text
The US and Iran agreed to stop shooting and restart the oil. The fine print doesn’t exist yet — at least not for the public.
Bloomberg reports that both sides have reached an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt a war that has killed thousands and hammered global energy markets, with delegations due to meet in Switzerland on June 19 for a formal signing.
But neither Washington nor Tehran has released the actual memorandum of understanding, and even officials admit that “some aspects of the deal remain unresolved,” leaving key disputes for the next round.
What we do know is narrow and fragile. The accord is built around a 60‑day window: an extended ceasefire, the phased reopening of Hormuz, limited sanctions relief and the start of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program.
Issues like enrichment levels, stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and the future of Iran’s missile and proxy capabilities are explicitly pushed into those talks, not settled by the deal itself. In other words, the guns mostly fall silent now so that arguments over the core problem can begin later.
That is why the truce looks so brittle. Previous leaks on the draft MOU already described it as “unrestricted” shipping and “no tolls” for 60 days, with Iran required to clear mines within roughly 30 days, and the US lifting its naval blockade in proportion to the return of commercial traffic.
Iranian media, meanwhile, talk up their right to charge in future phases. Both sides are already telling different stories about the same corridor, before the first tanker even tests the route.
Bloomberg calls it what it is: a peace deal that ends active war and restarts oil flows, while explicitly deferring the most explosive files to a “next step” of 60‑day talks.
A ceasefire built on an unpublished document and unresolved nuclear terms is less a settlement than a very expensive timeout.
#usa #iran #war #deal #hormuz #oil #nuclear #geopolitics
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
The US and Iran agreed to stop shooting and restart the oil. The fine print doesn’t exist yet — at least not for the public.
Bloomberg reports that both sides have reached an interim agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt a war that has killed thousands and hammered global energy markets, with delegations due to meet in Switzerland on June 19 for a formal signing.
But neither Washington nor Tehran has released the actual memorandum of understanding, and even officials admit that “some aspects of the deal remain unresolved,” leaving key disputes for the next round.
What we do know is narrow and fragile. The accord is built around a 60‑day window: an extended ceasefire, the phased reopening of Hormuz, limited sanctions relief and the start of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program.
Issues like enrichment levels, stockpiles of highly enriched uranium and the future of Iran’s missile and proxy capabilities are explicitly pushed into those talks, not settled by the deal itself. In other words, the guns mostly fall silent now so that arguments over the core problem can begin later.
That is why the truce looks so brittle. Previous leaks on the draft MOU already described it as “unrestricted” shipping and “no tolls” for 60 days, with Iran required to clear mines within roughly 30 days, and the US lifting its naval blockade in proportion to the return of commercial traffic.
Iranian media, meanwhile, talk up their right to charge in future phases. Both sides are already telling different stories about the same corridor, before the first tanker even tests the route.
Bloomberg calls it what it is: a peace deal that ends active war and restarts oil flows, while explicitly deferring the most explosive files to a “next step” of 60‑day talks.
A ceasefire built on an unpublished document and unresolved nuclear terms is less a settlement than a very expensive timeout.
#usa #iran #war #deal #hormuz #oil #nuclear #geopolitics
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥55😢32🤯27😱27🤬24💯19🙏12
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥50🙏30💯27😢26😱23🤬23🤯18
Trump Ratted Israel Out Touting His Bad Deal With Iran
🔠 🅰️ 🔠 🔠 1️⃣
Only a man with an unparalleled ignorance of history such as Trump would have signed America’s peace treaty with Iran at Versailles, the byword for national humiliation. And only a man with an impish sense of humour such as Emmanuel Macron would have suggested it.
It is easy to cast Trump in the role of the humiliated and hurt German count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau.
The treaty of Versailles, after all, was based on 14 points, just as the memorandum of understanding has 14 clauses.
But the memorandum is not a full-scale surrender document; it is an admission that America could not achieve what it sought through war.
If the memorandum, taken with Trump’s remarks at his hour-long press conference at the G7, is compared with a document the Americans tabled in 2025, it is possible to see how far the US has been forced to retreat. Red line after red line has been erased.
The US tabled the 2025 document immediately before Israel, with US support, began the 12-day war culminating in the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites.
Under its terms, Iran was to have no domestic enrichment capabilities beyond the limited enrichment for medical and agricultural needs; all nuclear supply would be imported from outside Iran.
All enriched uranium stockpiles would be shipped out of Iran immediately upon signing the agreement; all enriched stockpile material would be downblended to 3.67%; Iran would not build any new enrichment facilities; and Iran would dismantle all programmes capable of uranium conversion.
Instead, a consortium including Iran, the US and the Gulf states was to undertake enrichment outside Iran.
At Évian for the G7 meeting, however, Trump conceded Iran had a right to continue enrich uranium, saying it could not be excluded because other countries in the region had nuclear programmes.
He said there was no great rush to dismantle or dilute the stockpile of highly enriched uranium, and US officials acknowledged that this stockpile could be diluted under IAEA watch inside Iran, so long as it was diluted to 3.67%.
In practice, for the immediate waiver on oil exports to work, waivers will need to be issued on associated services including banking transactions, insurance and transportation.
Miad Maleki, a former US Treasury official and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies thinktank, said broadening authorisation to financial transactions would crack the core architecture of US oil and financial sanctions against Iran, arguably the most powerful economic leverage the US holds over the regime outside the naval blockade.
#trump #iran #deal #memorandum #hormuz
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Only a man with an unparalleled ignorance of history such as Trump would have signed America’s peace treaty with Iran at Versailles, the byword for national humiliation. And only a man with an impish sense of humour such as Emmanuel Macron would have suggested it.
It is easy to cast Trump in the role of the humiliated and hurt German count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau.
The treaty of Versailles, after all, was based on 14 points, just as the memorandum of understanding has 14 clauses.
But the memorandum is not a full-scale surrender document; it is an admission that America could not achieve what it sought through war.
If the memorandum, taken with Trump’s remarks at his hour-long press conference at the G7, is compared with a document the Americans tabled in 2025, it is possible to see how far the US has been forced to retreat. Red line after red line has been erased.
The US tabled the 2025 document immediately before Israel, with US support, began the 12-day war culminating in the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites.
Under its terms, Iran was to have no domestic enrichment capabilities beyond the limited enrichment for medical and agricultural needs; all nuclear supply would be imported from outside Iran.
All enriched uranium stockpiles would be shipped out of Iran immediately upon signing the agreement; all enriched stockpile material would be downblended to 3.67%; Iran would not build any new enrichment facilities; and Iran would dismantle all programmes capable of uranium conversion.
Instead, a consortium including Iran, the US and the Gulf states was to undertake enrichment outside Iran.
At Évian for the G7 meeting, however, Trump conceded Iran had a right to continue enrich uranium, saying it could not be excluded because other countries in the region had nuclear programmes.
He said there was no great rush to dismantle or dilute the stockpile of highly enriched uranium, and US officials acknowledged that this stockpile could be diluted under IAEA watch inside Iran, so long as it was diluted to 3.67%.
In practice, for the immediate waiver on oil exports to work, waivers will need to be issued on associated services including banking transactions, insurance and transportation.
Miad Maleki, a former US Treasury official and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies thinktank, said broadening authorisation to financial transactions would crack the core architecture of US oil and financial sanctions against Iran, arguably the most powerful economic leverage the US holds over the regime outside the naval blockade.
#trump #iran #deal #memorandum #hormuz
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥54🤬31🙏31💯29😱20🤯16😢14
Wider sanctions relief, which will not be offered until the nuclear negotiations are completed to mutual satisfaction, would cover primary and secondary sanctions as well as UN sanctions. If this happened, it would represent the biggest recasting of US-Iran relations since the Iranian revolution in 1979.
What is worse from the US perspective is that all these concessions have been made to try to secure the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war, but even that may not be achieved.
The memorandum text shows that free navigation of the strait could end after 60 days, at which point Iran will conduct dialogue with Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the strait in discussion with other Gulf states.
Finally, there is a proposed $350bn Iran reconstruction fund that the US has said it will create but will not contribute to. For that amount of money – the equivalent of the financial losses Iran has suffered – to be raised, the Gulf states would have to be deeply forgiving to a country that has just bombed their hotels and airbases and frozen their economies.
Nothing, even the unfreezing of the $24bn Iranian assets abroad, is likely to do much to ease Iran’s acute economies woes.
More importantly, the 2015 deal was a fully fledged arms control document. The memorandum is at best a document that sets the stage for another negotiation that could end up in a stalemate or an agreement closely resembling the 2015 deal.
Apart from the Iranian reiteration that it does not seek a nuclear weapon, the scope of the nuclear talks is left entirely open. The memorandum’s language is not even as strong as the 2015 agreement where Iran reaffirmed that “under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire nuclear weapons”.
A denial of intent is irrelevant. It is the method of verification that matters, and on that the US is no further than before.
So why has he struck the deal? Trump was very frank on Wednesday: the riskof a worldwide recession and oil reserves running out in a matter of weeks.
He said: “The one president I did not want to be was the late, great Herbert Hoover,” referring to the president blamed for the Great Depression that wiped out savings and pitched millions into poverty. “I didn’t want to see economic catastrophe. If you kept this going, that could have happened.”
#trump #iran #deal #memorandum #hormuz
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥44😢31💯30🤯27🙏27🤬25😱11
Trump’s Holy Deal: Bomb First, Bill Later
Trump didn’t “flip” on Iran. He just moved from phase one — outsourced bombing — to phase two: cashing in on the ruins. In this logic, Israel plays the attack dog, Gulf monarchies pay for reconstruction, and America sits on top like an East India Company with better branding.
From 2023 to 2026, Washington sketched a three‑step doctrine: Project 2025 blesses Israel and crushes Iran on paper, NSS 2025 pretends the Middle East is already “solved,” and NDS 2026 names Israel a “model ally” while quietly downgrading the whole region under Western Hemisphere priorities. None of these texts bothered to explain how to end a war — because endless pressure is the model. Exit strategy is not a bug. It’s heresy.
Inside the US right, two religions wrestle over the joystick. The dispensationalist crowd wants Israel to “take it all” for the glory of the End Times — for them, any deal with Iran is betrayal. The America First nationalists don’t care about prophecy; they care that Iran is defanged, trade routes are secured, and the US can declare victory without dying in another forever war. Trump plays to both: green‑lights strikes, then signs a deal once Tehran is weaker and the logistics map looks promising.
That’s the core of “delegated order.” Israel gets to hit Iranian infrastructure, DP World gets a 30‑year concession in Tartus, corridors like IMEC and the Syria–Turkey line open for business, and Gulf royals bankroll reconstruction in exchange for “security guarantees.” The threat is degraded, the shipping lanes are monetized, the map is rewired — and only then does Trump step out with the paperwork, calling it peace.
For Israel, the message is brutal: you are a “model ally,” not God’s board of directors. You can fight, expand influence and redraw your immediate neighborhood — but you don’t decide when the US stops the war and starts doing deals. For Iran, the subtext is worse: once your nukes and regional muscle are knocked down, Washington prefers you alive, sanctioned and manageable — a neutered state that signs away its program so America can say, “Problem solved,” retroactively justifying what its own doctrine wrote years earlier.
In that sense, Trump’s Iran deal isn’t a glitch in his hawkish persona. It’s the point. Use delegated violence to break the threat, then freeze the new reality in place with a signature and a payment plan. The bombs speak in Israel’s language, the ports and corridors earn in Gulf and corporate language — but the "victory" decree always comes out in English, out of Washington.
#Trump #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #war #deal #USA #empire #oil
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Trump didn’t “flip” on Iran. He just moved from phase one — outsourced bombing — to phase two: cashing in on the ruins. In this logic, Israel plays the attack dog, Gulf monarchies pay for reconstruction, and America sits on top like an East India Company with better branding.
From 2023 to 2026, Washington sketched a three‑step doctrine: Project 2025 blesses Israel and crushes Iran on paper, NSS 2025 pretends the Middle East is already “solved,” and NDS 2026 names Israel a “model ally” while quietly downgrading the whole region under Western Hemisphere priorities. None of these texts bothered to explain how to end a war — because endless pressure is the model. Exit strategy is not a bug. It’s heresy.
Inside the US right, two religions wrestle over the joystick. The dispensationalist crowd wants Israel to “take it all” for the glory of the End Times — for them, any deal with Iran is betrayal. The America First nationalists don’t care about prophecy; they care that Iran is defanged, trade routes are secured, and the US can declare victory without dying in another forever war. Trump plays to both: green‑lights strikes, then signs a deal once Tehran is weaker and the logistics map looks promising.
That’s the core of “delegated order.” Israel gets to hit Iranian infrastructure, DP World gets a 30‑year concession in Tartus, corridors like IMEC and the Syria–Turkey line open for business, and Gulf royals bankroll reconstruction in exchange for “security guarantees.” The threat is degraded, the shipping lanes are monetized, the map is rewired — and only then does Trump step out with the paperwork, calling it peace.
For Israel, the message is brutal: you are a “model ally,” not God’s board of directors. You can fight, expand influence and redraw your immediate neighborhood — but you don’t decide when the US stops the war and starts doing deals. For Iran, the subtext is worse: once your nukes and regional muscle are knocked down, Washington prefers you alive, sanctioned and manageable — a neutered state that signs away its program so America can say, “Problem solved,” retroactively justifying what its own doctrine wrote years earlier.
In that sense, Trump’s Iran deal isn’t a glitch in his hawkish persona. It’s the point. Use delegated violence to break the threat, then freeze the new reality in place with a signature and a payment plan. The bombs speak in Israel’s language, the ports and corridors earn in Gulf and corporate language — but the "victory" decree always comes out in English, out of Washington.
#Trump #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast #war #deal #USA #empire #oil
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥48🤬35😢27🙏25💯25🤯21😱13
Trump Threatens Iran As Deal Appears Doomed To Fail
Trump has threatened to expand US strikes on Iran next week to target power plants and bridges if Tehran does not agree to a deal amid a continuing dispute over the strait of Hormuz.
the US president said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
Trump made similar comments in March, when he threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power stations and fresh water plants if Tehran did not agree to peace terms “shortly”.
Destroying civilian infrastructure such as power and water facilities would be illegal under international humanitarian law and would probably constitute a war crime.
Trump’s comments came as US forces carried out strikes against Iran for a fourth day straight and reimposed a naval blockade on the country’s ports in the strait of Hormuz.
US Central Command (Centcom) said the latest strikes were aimed at “degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping” in the strait, the key shipping channel for Gulf oil and gas where Tehran has repeatedly carried out attacks on civilian vessels.
Iranian state media reported explosions near the port city of Bandar Abbas, on the Gulf island of Qeshm near the strait of Hormuz, and other locations.
In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had targeted what it described as command-and-control, logistics, fuel and military equipment facilities belonging to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
Both Bahrain and Kuwait came under attack, with Jordan’s army also saying early on Wednesday that its air defences intercepted and shot down three ballistic missiles that entered its airspace.
Iranian State news agency IRNA said earlier that Iranian forces launched a drone attack on a military base in Jordan that hosts American warplanes.
The IRGC warned that if Washington sought to block the region’s oil and gas exports by controlling maritime routes, other export routes serving US and allied interests could also be closed, saying regional energy exports would be “for everyone or for no one”.
Days of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East by Iran – and both nations’ attempts to vie for control of the waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas passes during peacetime – threaten to push the region back to all-out war.
Trump backtracked from a threat earlier this week that ships would have to pay a 20% fee to the US for “security” in the strait, replacing it with what he described as investment and trade deals with Gulf Arab states.
The US president said he had decided to scrap the toll “based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership”, and touted “massive” investments, just five hours before the toll was due to come into effect. He said the US would continue to blockade Iranian ports.
Prospects for negotiations aimed at securing a permanent truce after a fragile interim ceasefire was signed on 17 June appear increasingly dim. Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, said the US decision to renew the blockade “has, in a way, dismantled the Islamabad memorandum”.
Asked how long the US strikes would carry on, Trump replied:
#hormuz #trump #iran #deal #powerplants
📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸
Trump has threatened to expand US strikes on Iran next week to target power plants and bridges if Tehran does not agree to a deal amid a continuing dispute over the strait of Hormuz.
“Next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges,”
the US president said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday.
“We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”
Trump made similar comments in March, when he threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power stations and fresh water plants if Tehran did not agree to peace terms “shortly”.
Destroying civilian infrastructure such as power and water facilities would be illegal under international humanitarian law and would probably constitute a war crime.
Trump’s comments came as US forces carried out strikes against Iran for a fourth day straight and reimposed a naval blockade on the country’s ports in the strait of Hormuz.
US Central Command (Centcom) said the latest strikes were aimed at “degrading Iranian capabilities used to attack commercial shipping” in the strait, the key shipping channel for Gulf oil and gas where Tehran has repeatedly carried out attacks on civilian vessels.
Iranian state media reported explosions near the port city of Bandar Abbas, on the Gulf island of Qeshm near the strait of Hormuz, and other locations.
In response, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had targeted what it described as command-and-control, logistics, fuel and military equipment facilities belonging to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
Both Bahrain and Kuwait came under attack, with Jordan’s army also saying early on Wednesday that its air defences intercepted and shot down three ballistic missiles that entered its airspace.
Iranian State news agency IRNA said earlier that Iranian forces launched a drone attack on a military base in Jordan that hosts American warplanes.
The IRGC warned that if Washington sought to block the region’s oil and gas exports by controlling maritime routes, other export routes serving US and allied interests could also be closed, saying regional energy exports would be “for everyone or for no one”.
Days of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East by Iran – and both nations’ attempts to vie for control of the waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas passes during peacetime – threaten to push the region back to all-out war.
Trump backtracked from a threat earlier this week that ships would have to pay a 20% fee to the US for “security” in the strait, replacing it with what he described as investment and trade deals with Gulf Arab states.
The US president said he had decided to scrap the toll “based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership”, and touted “massive” investments, just five hours before the toll was due to come into effect. He said the US would continue to blockade Iranian ports.
Prospects for negotiations aimed at securing a permanent truce after a fragile interim ceasefire was signed on 17 June appear increasingly dim. Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, said the US decision to renew the blockade “has, in a way, dismantled the Islamabad memorandum”.
Asked how long the US strikes would carry on, Trump replied:
“They’ll continue until I say it’s enough (…) We’re going to knock out all their power plants. We’re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.”
#hormuz #trump #iran #deal #powerplants
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
🔥53😱37😢33💯31🤯24🤬18🙏18