This morning?
There is NO Deal….
Trump is on ‘HOLD’
Iran’s internal politics is NOT allowing one due to the countries military harnlinbes who are holding out for a ending that they can sell as a ‘American Trump DEFEAT’….
Kuwait US military base gets a missile …..
The Saudi’s are alarmed that the UAE seems to working with the US on air strikes….
Trump’s hopes of the Middle Eastern countries improving public relations IS a pipe dream….
And?
Israel does NOT want a Iran/US deal that puts off the Uranium question for later…..
Tensions across the Middle East have escalated sharply as reports emerge of a missile strike linked to Iran hitting a Kuwaiti air base, confusion and violence continuing in Gaza after a fragile ceasefire, rising costs for Muslim pilgrims heading to Mecca, and the United States intensifying financial pressure on Tehran through major crypto seizures….
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According to a person with direct knowledge of the attack quoted by Bloomberg, the incident injured around five people, including contractors and active-duty personnel. The strike also damaged US military equipment….
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As Iran and the United States appeared to be nearing an agreement to end hostilities this week, not everyone in Iran was on board.
The hard-line faction, a fringe but loud group with members in Parliament and a seat on the Supreme National Security Council, has openly opposed any concessions to Washington, using rallies, state media and private and public statements as tools to try to derail a deal.
It remains unclear when an actual agreement will be announced, if at all. President Trump met for two hours with cabinet members in the Situation Room at the White House on Friday, but he put off making a final decision, according to a senior administration official. Iran’s lead negotiator, Gen. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said in a social media post earlier in the day that Tehran did not trust Washington and that no step would “be taken before the other side acts first.”
But in Iran the political fight continues. State television, which is controlled by a hard-line director, has amplified the divisions in the country and portrayed negotiations as a failure. On Monday, President Masoud Pezeshkian scolded state television in a meeting with its senior leaders, calling on them to avoid sowing discord.
Mr. Pezeshkian said even Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader killed on the first day of the war, “agreed that we must go to the negotiation table.”
“But now,” he continued, “we are advertising that we should not negotiate.”
At a packed rally of hard-line supporters in Tehran on Friday, large crowds waved flags and chanted for defiance. A state television reporter asked some attendees if Iran should retreat or continue fighting the United States and Israel. “We want them to punish them good,” one woman attendee said. “Stand firm, we are with you until our last drop of blood,” said one man.
“Trump must know that Iran, as the victor and conqueror of the field, sets the terms,” said Ebrahim Azizi, a conservative lawmaker and the head of Parliament’s national security and foreign policy committees, in a social media post on Friday.
Analysts close to the government in Iran say that the hard-line faction represents a minority view, both in the general public and among officials. Still, ignoring it risks alienating the part of the population that has been among the most loyal supporters of the Islamic Republic through political and social upheavals.
“This faction does not speak for the majority of Iranians and has been marginalized from key decision making; the nuclear talks are proceeding despite their disapproval,” said Mehdi Rahmati, a political analyst in Tehran, in a telephone interview. But, he added, “the system needs to come up with a plan to control them and keep them in check, otherwise they can become very dangerous for Iran’s stability.”
Even Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who is the son of the slain former leader, is not immune from their ire. On Thursday, a hard-line lawmaker cleric, Hamid Rasaee, took a jab at Ayatollah Khamenei in a social media post titled, “Who is worthy of the supreme leadership?” (Ayatollah Khamenei, who has been in hiding since the start of the war in late February, has expressed support for the nuclear negotiating team in written statements.)…
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Donald Trump has claimed he could approve an Iran peace deal on Friday that contains major concessions from Tehran, including the opening of the strait of Hormuz and the elimination of the country’s nuclear programme. However, top Iranian officials signalled a final agreement had not been reached.
The two versions indicate Trump may once again be practising his “art of the deal” as he seeks to talk his way out of a war that has disrupted global energy supplies and rocked the world economy.
Trump emerged from the White House situation room after spending more than two hours with senior aides but did not immediately announce his decision. The New York Times, citing a senior administration official, reported that Trump had not made a decision on the peace deal.
Describing the terms of the purported deal on his Truth Social platform, the US president said Iran “must agree that they will never have a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb”, open the strait of Hormuz for all traffic without tolls, eliminate mines in the waterway and allow the US to unearth and destroy highly enriched uranium from a secure nuclear site in Iran. He also said the deal would preclude the transfer of frozen assets to Iran.
Trump also said he would lift the US naval blockade against Iran, although it was not immediately clear whether that would be subject to the agreement being confirmed.
“I will be meeting now, in the Situation Room, to make a final determination,” he wrote.
The virtual wishlist of US demands in the negotiations was presented as a completed deal and would indicate that Iran had capitulated on key positions, including its right to exact tolls from ships traversing the strait of Hormuz, the release of the frozen assets and an insistence on the country’s right to maintain its nuclear programme.
But Iranian officials signaled defiance after Trump’s announcement, and those close to the government denied that a deal has been reached….
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ISW…Iran Update Special Report, May 29, 2026
- US President Donald Trump called for the Strait of Hormuz to “immediately open” without tolls and with the removal of mines. Iran has, in recent days, used force to try to create the reality that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s demands for “control” of the Strait of Hormuz directly contradict Trump’s position. These Iranian demands would be a fundamental change to long-held international maritime law and are at odds with the free flow of commerce.
- US Central Command has continued to respond to Iranian efforts to use force to create the reality that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, most recently by issuing a notice to mariners and airmen on May 29 that the US Navy will conduct military operations north of the Musandam Peninsula in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Iranian officials continue to indicate that Iran will not accept or make concessions on US President Donald Trump’s most recent demands regarding Iran’s nuclear program, which include not producing a nuclear weapon and agreeing to “destroy” or move its highly enriched uranium (HEU) stockpile.
- The US Treasury Department has sanctioned five front companies supporting the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff-controlled Sepehr Energy Jahan Nama Pars Company on May 28, for facilitating Iranian oil shipments, including exports to the People’s Republic of China.
- US Central Command (CENTCOM) denied Iranian claims that Iranian air defense systems downed US aircraft near Bushehr Province in southern Iran on May 28.
- Saudi officials complained to the United States in early April that the UAE’s involvement in US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran increased the risk that Iran would target regional energy facilities, according to the Wall Street Journal. It is unclear on which day the UAE strikes began, based on this reporting, but Iran first struck Gulf energy infrastructure on March 1, when it hit a structure at Jabel Ali Port’s oil terminal in Dubai, UAE, and Ras Tanura Refinery in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
- Hezbollah has adapted to increasing IDF night operations by fielding thermal camera-equipped first-person view (FPV) drones that enable nighttime attacks, after the IDF began nighttime operations to make it harder for Hezbollah to launch FPV drone attacks on them. Hezbollah, subsequently, appears to be dictating the pace of adaptation to the IDF at this time by quickly overcoming relatively rudimentary Israeli countermeasures.
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