A first America/Iran signing reported….
More talks and an acing to come….
Who can claim to be the ‘Winner’…..
What EXACTILY is gonna happen?
Israeli’s?
Gas/Oil Prices Drop…..
The Markets Soar….
Politics back home for Trump?
The United States and Iran have signed a framework agreement ending their monthslong war, but neither side had published the deal’s full text as of Monday. News of the deal was still enough of a relief that oil prices tumbled, fighting in Lebanon appeared to easeand Iranians expressed wary optimism that a conflict that has killed thousands could soon end.
American and Iranian officials continued to make conflicting statements about the deal’s terms, but it was clear that its immediate scope was focused primarily on ending military attacks and allowing traffic to resume through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital shipping lanes. Since the war’s start on Feb. 28, the conflict has not produced the objectives President Trump vowed to achieve at its start: destroying Iran’s military capabilities, abolishing its nuclear ambitions and toppling its theocratic leadership.
Mr. Trump said the deal would restart safe passage of oil tankers through the strait, solving a problem that didn’t exist until the United States and Israel initiated the war. Returning the strait to its prewar conditions could relieve Americans of soaring gas prices, a political liability for the president, but experts say that will take months. Reviving Iran’s crippled economy and rebuilding infrastructure destroyed in the war will be a similarly long process.
Mr. Trump previously said the deal meant the strait would be “permanently toll-free.” But the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei suggested on Monday that Iran could charge fees “in exchange for the services that are provided” to transiting ships.
Pakistan, which has been mediating talks between Washington and Tehran, said a ceremonial in-person signing of the agreement would take place in Geneva on Friday. After that, a 60-day period of negotiations toward a more comprehensive peace agreement would begin.
The deal could still come apart, and the talks are likely to be complex.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, said on Monday that negotiations would grapple with two issues on which neither side has shown much willingness to compromise: easing American economic sanctions against Iran and limiting Tehran’s nuclear program. And they will be made more difficult, he said, by “a history of broken promises.”
In an interview with CNBC, Vice President JD Vance acknowledged that the Trump administration still had “very important details to figure out” in the next phase of negotiations, including how to dispose of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
It was also unclear what the deal would mean for Lebanon, where the Israeli military has been attacking the Iran-backed militant group, Hezbollah.
Iran and Pakistan said the agreement called for an immediate end to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon. But U.S. officials said Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon was not a condition of the agreement, and Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said in a statement that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposed withdrawing Israeli troops. Israel was not directly involved in the U.S.-Iran talks.
Here’s what else we’re covering:
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Trump calls The Times: In a 28-minute phone conversation that he initiated from the White House, and a brief follow-up call, the president asserted that his decision to attack Iran and blockade its ports had remade the Middle East in America’s favor and saved Israel from nuclear obliteration. Read more ›
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Strait of Hormuz: Mr. Trump said in a social media post on Sunday that he had authorized “the immediate removal of the United States naval blockade” on Iranian ports. Yet the economic shock waves of the war will keep rippling through the global economy for months.
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Europe meetings: Mr. Trump arrived in France to attend a summit of the Group of 7 nations, where the deal will be a major topic of discussion this week. Read more ›
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New York Times: “The full text of the deal has not yet been released and Israel was not directly involved in the negotiations. Initial details suggest that the agreement does nothing to curb Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal, or its funding of regional proxies like Hezbollah in Lebanon or the Houthis in Yemen, who have attacked Israel with their own arsenals. It could help Iran bolster those proxies by easing sanctions, which would allow billions of dollars to flow into its bank accounts.”
“The deal’s terms when it comes to constraining Iran’s nuclear program — of greatest importance to Israel, and the greatest priority of Mr. Netanyahu’s career — remain undisclosed or still to be negotiated during the agreed 60-day cease-fire to allow for further talks. Questions remain over what will become of Iran’s stock of near-bomb-grade uranium and whether the country will be able to keep enriching nuclear fuel.”
“Worse still for Mr. Netanyahu, who faces re-election in a few months and is behind in the polls, President Trump, the Israeli leader’s most valuable political asset, has publicly rebuked him multiple times in recent weeks.”….
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Ryan Lizza: “Trump is always the hero of his own disaster. He batters the economy with tariffs and then bails out the American farmers he bankrupted. He foments civil unrest in American cities with extremist ICE agents and then claims to restore order with the National Guard. Now, after setting the Middle East ablaze, Trump is posing as the firefighter extinguishing the flames.”
“The damage from his attack on Iran is incalculable.”
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“It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place and had worked for, for a long stretch of time before we, the United States, pulled out of it.”
— Barack Obama, quoted by ABC News, on the reported deal President Trump says he struck with Iran.
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“Almost immediately after striking a deal with Iran, President Trump appeared eager to take a victory lap,” the New York Times reports.
“He trumpeted that the agreement would open the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for the world’s energy supplies whose stalled ship traffic has rattled the global economy. He told The New York Times that his efforts had saved Israel from nuclear extinction and made the Middle East safer. It all gave him a key win as he traveled to France for the Group of 7 summit, where he will meet with European leaders who have criticized his approach to the war.”
“Despite Mr. Trump’s grandiose claims, the agreement has not yet achieved the core goals he laid out three months ago for launching U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.”
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