US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

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Iran has announced the full closure of the Hormuz strait to all shipping, Centcom deny and say the ships are still passing. I suppose we will find out soon enough, difficult to see any shipowner getting insurance or risking it's crew though, you never know someone might risk it if true.

Has he finally accepted ĥe lost the war.

A brief recap on the 39 times Trump has said a deal is close.

Trump seems happy that he has achieved success by getting Iran to not have nuclear weapons which they have said they don't want for 40 years.

The US President said: "Today, we ended the war with Iran, and they agreed to never have nuclear weapons - that's what we insisted on... Our entire goal was to do this; it was 95% of our task, and they accomplished it in the most decisive way"

After talking to Israel who are not party to the non binding MOU agreement, Israel seems to think that they also will get everything we want in the final deal.

Starlink IPO today so all eyes will be distracted to that no doubt.

I think Donnie is engaging in wishful thinking that a deal is close.

If, as he says, Bibi is getting all he wants from the proposed deal that would likely require capitulation from the Iranians. For instance I can't see the Iranians agreeing to limit their missile production given it's all they have got to use as leverage.

this is quite a take:

https://aje.news/ze5vzt?update=4650899

‘Dangerous’ to assume Lebanon is part of any US-Iran deal

By Heidi Pett

Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon

The Israelis have made it clear they don’t consider themselves to be part of this deal, let alone Lebanon, and it’s dangerous to assume Lebanon would be a part of any US-Iran agreement.

In fact, it cannot be assumed Lebanon was a part of the previous “ceasefire” deal on April 8 when we had the Pakistani prime minister, who was key to facilitating that negotiation, announcing Lebanon was part of it.

Instead, what followed were 100 Israeli strikes within the span of 10 minutes and the deadliest day of the war so far here in Lebanon.

So it’s an extraordinarily dangerous assumption for the Lebanese to even think they might be included when there has been no announcement yet – nothing on paper, no media leaks – and the Israelis making it pretty clear they don’t consider themselves part of whatever is going on between the US and Iran.

seems like the main issue of the deal retreiving the uranium is pushed out for 60 days or so .. if this deal is even signed chances are it could all kick off again after US midterms as there is no way Iran will.give up their nuclear ambitions

They absolutely shouldn't after this farce. There is no way Israel is not going to attack again - and the US will help them. They'll just make up another excuse. 'Iran is 24 hours from developing a bomb.' One thing is clear from the past year is you simply can't trust the Trump regime. They're almost as bad as Israeli's genocidal regime. The MOU won't last. The only way peace has a chance is if Iran gets nuclear capability as a deterrent.

I guess it's over to Iran to see if they are willing to throw Lebanon under the bus…

Trump has just said that he has got Iran to not make a nuclear weapon and deal will be signed tomorrow.