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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
« Reply #900 on: Today at 01:19 pm »
from bele's reply 884 above:
"Oh wait .... we're supposed to trust Iran as they have promised not to build a nuke?  Seriously??? "

I've pretty much stopped reading the "iran threads".
Waste of my time now.
Especially since this "deal" was announced.

There's really only one way (in my feeble mind) to describe this "agreement", courtesy of Ayn Rand:
"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

That's the way this is going to go in the coming years.

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« Reply #902 on: Today at 01:26 pm »
from bele's reply 884 above:
"Oh wait .... we're supposed to trust Iran as they have promised not to build a nuke?  Seriously??? "

I've pretty much stopped reading the "iran threads".
Waste of my time now.
Especially since this "deal" was announced.

There's really only one way (in my feeble mind) to describe this "agreement", courtesy of Ayn Rand:
"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

That's the way this is going to go in the coming years.

until Iran successfully completes its newly approved ICBM program & launches them with MIRVd nuclear warheads. Let the fun begin!!!
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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
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My recollection is that the people of Iran were protesting and were being slaughtered and Trump announced that help is on the way and more people took to the streets and that help never came....the punishments and murders continued.

I think that sequence of events is correct...
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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
« Reply #906 on: Today at 01:47 pm »
When Trump returned from China, Trump was no longer Trump.
China turned him into Jimmy Carter. Trump is Jimmy Carter now.
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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
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5 reasons Trump allies don’t like his Iran deal

The Hill
by Laura Kelly and Colin Meyn
06/16/26

Some of President Trump’s most prominent allies in his war on Iran are revolting against the reported contours of his memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Tehran to end the conflict.

Conservative pundits and hawkish Iran experts are warning against any agreement that gives up key leverage against the Islamic Republic, or opens access to badly needed funds, without completely giving up its nuclear capacity.

The text of the deal is not released, but it would reportedly allow Iran to immediately restart oil exports free from U.S. trade and banking sanctions, while Gulf states would contribute to a $300 billion reconstruction fund as part of a final deal.

Iran would commit to never pursuing nuclear weapons and to hand over its enriched uranium, though the details of that process would be hammered out in future talks.

While the memorandum is largely meant to set the terms for future negotiations, Iran hawks are worried Tehran has no intention of following through and will use the financial lifeline and reprieve from fighting to rebuild both militarily and organizationally.

“Ask yourself: Why are so many of us who support and defend President Trump all expressing the same concerns about this deal?” asked Marc Thiessen, a conservative commentator with a line to the president, on Tuesday.

“If we’re wrong release the MOU and show the world there’s nothing to be concerned about.”

Here are five reasons Iran hawks are alarmed:
  • The text is not yet available
  • Little substance on nuclear program
  • MOU allows Iran to resume oil exports
  • It creates $300B reconstruction fund for Iran
  • Israel’s hands tied on Lebanon
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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5926899-trump-allies-oppose-iran-mou/

People who "win" a war do not make 'deals'.
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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
« Reply #908 on: Today at 02:00 pm »
until Iran successfully completes its newly approved ICBM program & launches them with MIRVd nuclear warheads. Let the fun begin!!!


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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
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I see a photo is toooo big...I will reduce it..
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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
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I see a photo is toooo big...I will reduce it..
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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
« Reply #911 on: Today at 02:14 pm »
Heck..I’d consider it a win to get the straight opened and make sure they have no nukes. We need to arm the general Iranian population in some way.  Is that worth US lives?  I personally don’t think so.

Absolutely agree,

But it's going to take military might ...aka Precision Weapons to kill these mutinous rebels.

That's what I hope the President meant when he said "...we have Eyes in the Skies 24/7..."


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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
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Clouds darken over Trump’s Iran deal

The Hill
by Niall Stanage
06/16/26

A storm is growing over President Trump’s deal to end the war with Iran.

The memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreed between the two sides is expected to be formally signed in Switzerland on Friday. It has already been signed electronically by senior figures in Washington and Tehran, including Trump.

But no official text has been made public. The vacuum has been filled by fear, speculation and, increasingly, by leaks of the text that may or may not be accurate.

Trump on Tuesday promised he would go though the MOU “word by word” in public — but not immediately, only in “the next couple of days.”

The bottom line is that Republican lawmakers, especially those of a more hawkish worldview, are deeply uneasy; some prominent conservative commentators are incandescent; and people around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are making it known that requests to see the MOU have been rebuffed, which they cast as extraordinary and shabby treatment of an ally.

Democrats and liberals are mostly content to let the disarray on the right play out. Their stance, in essence, is that Trump plunged into a reckless and unnecessary war from which he is now willing to pay almost any price to escape.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5927055-trump-iran-deal-criticism/

So Trump is ostensibly negotiating for the Nation of Israel, but he will not allow Israel to see what he, Trump, has committed that Israel will or will not do.
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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
« Reply #913 on: Today at 02:20 pm »
Correct me if I am wrong..I am pretty sure the *Help is on the way* statements brought the people to the streets on several occasions...all to be arrested or shot until they stopped doing it...and Trump stopping making these statements.



That is my recollection as well.

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LOL....like I even know how to do that...lol.  Thanks....

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Clouds darken over Trump’s Iran deal

The Hill
by Niall Stanage
06/16/26

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The bottom line is that Republican lawmakers, especially those of a more hawkish worldview, are deeply uneasy; some prominent conservative commentators are incandescent; and people around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are making it known that requests to see the MOU have been rebuffed, which they cast as extraordinary and shabby treatment of an ally.

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Trump admin rejected Israel’s request to see Iran deal text: report
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Israel wasn’t given advanced notice of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding that ends the war the Jewish state has been a party to for more than three months, Israeli media reported Tuesday.

“Israel asked to see the Iran-US MOU. the admin said: ‘NO,'” i24 News diplomatic correspondent Amichai Stein reported on X Tuesday.

That closely held document is said to directly affect Israel, demanding a stop to all “hostilities” in the region by US and Iranian “allies.”

Early details leaked Tuesday suggest Israel’s ongoing war on Hezbollah in Lebanon is explicitly mentioned in the text as being part of that cease-fire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who on Monday defiantly said Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon “as long as necessary — is among those who have been shut out of seeing the deal, according to a source familiar with Israeli politics.

President Trump said he was displeased with Israel over its weekend strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, which came as he was finalizing a peace deal with Iran, before suggesting that Syria’s new leaders “take care of” the Iran-backed terror group.

“I’m not happy with the way Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and Hezbollah,” the president said Tuesday at the G7 summit. “They should have been able to handle themselves faster.”

“Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed,” Trump also said. “You don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody. There are a lot of people in those apartment houses and they’re not all Hezbollah.”

He added that Netanyahu “has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.”

“I did not like that, I let them know that,” Trump said of the Sunday strikes, which he called “too much.”

Senior US officials said Tuesday that Washington is not yet “ready” to publish the document, while Trump and Iranian media said it would be released after Friday’s formal signing ceremony in Switzerland.

A US official described the report of Israel being denied text as “not accurate,” adding that “the United States has remained in close coordination with our regional partners, including Israel, throughout the negotiations.”

A source familiar with US-Israel communications claimed “the Israelis did not make any such request of US negotiators.”


https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/trump-admin-rejected-israels-request-to-see-iran-deal-text-report/

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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
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Netanyahu Furiously Scrambles to Meet With Trump Over Iran Deal
The New Republic, Jun 15, 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking to schedule an immediate meeting with Trump, likely back in Washington, a person familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal Monday.

There is just no way that Netanyahu is thrilled about Trump’s plan to stop bombing Iran, something the Israeli leader has been dreaming about for decades.

It was Netanyahu who pulled the United States into this “joint” conflict, selling the narrative that Iran was building nuclear weapons—even when U.S. intelligence confirmed there was no imminent threat.

In the early days of the war, Secretary Marco Rubio admitted that the U.S. went to war because the administration “knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.”

If Trump ends the war now, Netanyahu won’t walk away with anything. It’s unclear what the exact terms of the peace deal are—or whether any firm commitments have been made at all—but the U.S. has failed to satisfy Israeli objectives to execute regime change, undermine regional militias, or significantly upend Iranian missile production.

It’s also not clear what this deal will mean for Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon. On a phone call Monday, U.S. senior officials made clear that an Israeli withdrawal was not a condition of the deal, and that if Iran was not able to control Hezbollah, then Israel would have the right to respond.

Israeli officials were quick to condemn Trump’s deal with Iran, The Washington Post reported earlier Monday.


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« Reply #917 on: Today at 03:54 pm »
Next to go under the bus for Trump's "Deal"; Israel!  **nononono* **nononono* **nononono*
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Nobody really knows what’s in the document, and (paraphrasing Taylor Swift) they know he’s a player, and he loves the game. We will see it (contents) when it makes for the best TV coverage.

Here’s my Understanding of the Memorandum: Iran knows, without a shadow of a sounds, that Trump will bomb the shit out them, while letting Bibi do the dirty, nasty work needed on the ground, if they pop their head out of that massive Whack-A-Mole of a region known as the ME.

Thus the “Iran” problem is as settled as it can ever possibly be… pending the cojones on the next X number of POTUSes.

Meanwhile, gasoline will drop to a price that (proportionately) will settle into a new norm, along with new generational “I remember when gas was XXX”, adapted to it.

I wanted to write a piece in that subject, but I can’t possibly stretch that idea into a viable essay.
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Next to go under the bus for Trump's "Deal"; Israel!  **nononono* **nononono* **nononono*

Yeppers!!! You are absolutely correct!
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« Reply #921 on: Today at 05:14 pm »
Next to go under the bus for Trump's "Deal"; Israel!  **nononono* **nononono* **nononono*
Oh man....I hope not.

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« Reply #922 on: Today at 05:16 pm »

https://twitter.com/manniefabian/status/2066916884721873169


Israel has every right to defend itself and Trump has absolutely no right to tell them otherwise.
@Bigun is correct -- Trump is going to throw Israel under the bus.  I think he already has.
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Re: Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #5
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US officials downplay text of the Iran agreement, saying it doesn’t account for back-channel commitments

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-officials-downplay-text-iran-225040569.html

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US negotiators are working to quickly release the text of the agreement between Washington and Tehran, even as they downplay the significance of the specific language in the document, US officials told CNN.

The officials described the text of the agreement as incredibly vague, mainly intended to create a more favorable environment for the highly technical, in-person talks to come. They added that the framework is aimed at providing Iran the ability to sell it politically to their internal audience.

Additionally, the officials said that the text of the memorandum of understanding — which Vice President JD Vance told CNN Monday is one-and-a-half pages long — didn't reflect critical back-channel commitments Iran has made to the US, which they argued gave them more confidence in signing on to the arrangement.

"People shouldn't read too much into the language of the MOU," one of the officials said, describing the agreement as a "political document."

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Oh this just gets better and better!

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Israel has every right to defend itself and Trump has absolutely no right to tell them otherwise.
@Bigun is correct -- Trump is going to throw Israel under the bus.  I think he already has.


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« Reply #928 on: Today at 06:42 pm »
I'm not buying that.

I pray that you are right!
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« Reply #929 on: Today at 06:48 pm »

Israel has every right to defend itself and Trump has absolutely no right to tell them otherwise.
@Bigun is correct -- Trump is going to throw Israel under the bus.  I think he already has.


How would anything in Trump’s relationship with Bibi and Israel, to date, led you to believe that?
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Next to go under the bus for Trump's "Deal"; Israel!  **nononono* **nononono* **nononono*

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I truly don't think Trump is throwing Israel "under the bus".  He wants to return to the plan for the Middle East in play before the Iran war.    There *are* changes coming to the Middle East --- and while Israel's not going under any bus, the changes will make Israel pretty damn uncomfortable --- until Israel begins to notice the air is fresher, the sun is brighter, the drones have gone silent and they are wealthier and more secure  --- and not just Israel, but the Gulf States, too.

POTUS wants to return to the Gaza peace and reconstruction initiatives, do the same in the West Bank and now in Lebanon.

Trump wants to go full speed ahead with the Abraham Accords --- with Israel a newly valued member of the neighborhood. 

It'll get bumpy, but, let's get this done! ---

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The Abraham Accords are a set of historic, U.S.-brokered agreements signed in 2020 that established normalized diplomatic, economic, and security relations between Israel and several Arab nations. Named for the shared patriarch of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, the accords marked a massive geopolitical shift in the Middle East.

Signatories and Status:

°United Arab Emirates (UAE): Signed the first historic normalization treaty alongside Israel in September 2020, followed by active embassies, direct flights, and extensive trade.

°Bahrain: Signed a parallel normalization declaration in September 2020, establishing formal diplomatic ties and security cooperation with Israel.

°Morocco: Established formal diplomatic relations in late 2020, leading to a surge in bilateral tourism and trade agreements.

°Sudan: Signed an initial agreement in principle in late 2020, though formal ratification has remained limited due to domestic and regional turmoil.

°Kazakhstan: Formally joined the broader diplomatic grouping in late 2025.

Key Impacts and Economic Ties

°Regional Architecture: The accords paved the way for unprecedented security, defense, and intelligence integration between Israel and Gulf partners to counter mutual threats like Iran.

°Trade and Tourism: Despite regional turbulence, trade and economic cooperation between Israel and accords partners have steadily grown, providing a major financial and investment boost to the region.

°Diplomatic Strategy: The accords effectively bypassed the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian peace process, taking an "outside-in" approach focused on geoeconomic incentives.

Future Expansion and Diplomacy

The accords have continued to hold immense strategic focus, with ongoing U.S. and regional efforts aimed at expanding the agreements to include other major players like Saudi Arabia—which has tied its potential normalization to a clear pathway for a Palestinian state.

To explore the geopolitical impact of these treaties or view the official texts, visit the United States Department of State archives. For updates on business and interpersonal progress, check the Abraham Accords Peace Institute.





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According to Bloomberg, this is the draft of the MOU:

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/read-the-14-point-draft-memorandum-between-the-us-and-iran

1.The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, together with their allies in the current war, declare upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and undertake that from now on they will not launch any hostile action against each other, and will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other. The final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article and the remaining Articles.

2. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.

3.The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States undertake to negotiate and reach a final agreement within a maximum period of 60 days, extendable by mutual consent.

4. Immediately upon the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, the United States Lift the naval blockade and prevent any interference or obstruction against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and restore traffic within a maximum of 30 days to its full capacity; the traffic of ships shall be proportional to the pre-war volume of traffic on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States also undertakes to withdraw its forces from the surrounding areas within 30 days after the final agreement.

5. Upon signing this Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately take steps to ensure that the movement of merchant ships from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of ​​Oman and vice versa is resumed within 30 days to the pre-war volume, taking into account the need for the removal of technical obstacles and the neutralization of mines by Iran.

6.The United States undertakes, together with its regional partners, to create a comprehensive plan agreed upon by both parties for the rehabilitation and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran, While ensuring financing of at least $300 billion. The implementation mechanism of this plan, as part of the final agreement, will be formulated within 60 days.

7. The United States commits to ending, on a schedule to be agreed upon as part of the final agreement, all types of sanctions currently facing the Islamic Republic of Iran, including resolutions of the United Nations Security Council and the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and all unilateral U.S. sanctions, both primary and secondary.

8. The Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates that it will never produce nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States have agreed that the fate of enriched material and the fate of all other mutually agreed nuclear-related issues, including Iran’s nuclear needs, will be adequately addressed in a final agreement; the final agreement will confirm the provisions of this Article.

9. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that, pending a final agreement, they will maintain the status quo: Iran will maintain the status quo on its nuclear program, and the United States will not impose new sanctions on Iran or strengthen its forces in the region.

10. The United States undertakes that immediately after the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and until the date of the lifting of sanctions, the United States Treasury Department will issue waivers for exports of Iranian crude oil, petrochemical products and their derivatives, and all related services, including banking, insurance, transportation, and the like.

11. The United States undertakes that, in light of the progress of negotiations towards a final agreement, frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be released and made fully available. These funds, whether held in the master account or transferred, will be used for any final beneficiary payment determined by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and will be fully available for use. The United States undertakes to issue all necessary permits and licenses on this basis.

12. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States agree that an implementation mechanism will be established to oversee the successful implementation of and future commitment to the Final Agreement.

13. Following the signing of this Memorandum of Understanding, and upon receipt of assurances regarding the commencement of implementation of Articles 4, 5, 10, and 11 of this Memorandum of Understanding, and the continued implementation of these steps, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States will enter into negotiations for a Final Agreement solely with respect to the remaining Articles.

14. The final agreement will be approved through a binding resolution of the UN Security Council.