Iran
President Trump doesn’t want to bomb Iran, and it is obvious they won’t negotiate. He is changing course once again and will try to wait them out as their economy implodes. He told Axios he is low-keying it.
“We are only semi-negotiating with them. We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money.”
He stressed that Iran “is in very bad shape” economically and has no money to pay its troops. The U.S. naval blockade has exacerbated the Iranian regime’s economic crisis, Trump said.
At the same time, Trump said that with oil down to slightly over $75 a barrel, U.S. consumers are feeling less pain from the war.
“It will work out. It always works out. It’s like a chess game,” Trump said of the back-and-forth with Iran.
U.S. officials also say there are growing disagreements inside the Iranian regime. One camp, led by President Masoud Pezeshkian, is extremely worried about an economic collapse and believes Iran needs to reach a deal with the U.S. Another, led by the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ahmad Vahidi, rejects any concessions.
The IRGC deal they offered to the USA was ridiculous, and what they have offered all along. We already posted the demands. No one thinks they will negotiate.
Gaza
Israeli President won’t withdraw forces from Gaza until Hamas hands in their weapons.
HOLDING FIRM: Netanyahu rejects Trump’s Board of Peace 15-point Gaza proposal outright, declaring the IDF will not withdraw until Hamas surrenders every weapon it has — heavy, light, all of it.
The Israeli prime minister is insisting “genuine disarmament, not fictitious… pic.twitter.com/LTT4i89Dx5
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It looks like he will eventually have to bomb Iran into compliance. I am not in that group.
