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‘ BREAKING: President Trump responds to Iran denying his statement of "productive discussions" to end the Iran War.

President Trump says:

1. He hopes the US and Iran will "meet soon and settle this"

2. He plans to "get together" with Iran via phone call

3. "Iran would like to make a deal, we would like a deal too"

4. The US has talked to Iran's "top respected leader"

5. "We want to see no nuclear weapon for Iran"

Buckle up for another volatile week ahead.’


https://x.com/kobeissiletter/status/2036077673521234086?s=61

The main question is still who can speak for Iran, and what’s their process for agreeing to anything?

Stop killing the people who can speak for Iran might be a good first step.

Every single coastal town in the UK should have a version of The Royal Whitstable Oyster Company. A breezy airy lovely old seaside gastropubby restaurant, where you can reliably get good oysters (and everything else seafood)

Britain has some of the very best seafood on the planet. It’s mad that it’s so hard to get, in Britain

I remember some years ago having absolutely delicious crustaceans fresh off the BBQ in Portugal and, I noticed on the boxes, fresh off the boat from Oban in Scotland where they had been harvested. If you found them for sale in this country at all they were some rare delicacy at multiple times the price. It was more than a bit frustrating. Its got a bit better, there are more seafood restaurants than there were but we could still do a lot better.

Yeah, it’s improved (especially in places like the Hebrides, FWIW - also Cornwall), but it’s still quite often dismaying. The Iberians and the French adore seafood and they sensibly realise ours is the best. We don’t

I remember 30 years ago eating at a restaurant in Skye and we ordered fish and it was frozen. Even as we ate it, we could see the local fishermen, outside on the quay, offloading superb fresh fish that was all going for export

@adamscochran

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:

* $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip.

* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold.

More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close.

Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

https://x.com/adamscochran/status/2036070980754239563?s=20

A remarkable President, he has managed to make the S&P market trade like the next Spurs manager market, no ever President has even come close to that.

He's demonstrated that he's still in control and has "de-escalation dominance". Now the war can go on for another week while markets remain calm and then he can reactivate the ultimatum, or not, depending on what happens.

As Iran have demonstrated the ultimatum isn't worth shit so it doesn't really matter whether he reactivates it or not.

Iran should try for some sanctions relief as a condition for reopening the strait. They'd probably get it.

(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
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Trump gave the Iranians an ultimatum. They called his bluff. He's backed down. That's it. No "3-D Chess". No masterful deployment of "The Mad Man Strategy". Trump has caved.

https://x.com/DPJHodges?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

See my prior remark. The fact is Dan has no idea if this is true. The only people that do are in the White House and at the top of the Iranian regime

Given that both sides have a penchant and a motivation for lying we will likely never find out

Some people are far more interested in Trump being seen to be defeated than they are the Iranian regime.

I support essentially nothing in this malign clusterfuck of a war, and certainly not protecting Trump from embarrassment. But if this means not escalating to systematic destruction of power and water supplies in the region I'm all for it.

Every single coastal town in the UK should have a version of The Royal Whitstable Oyster Company. A breezy airy lovely old seaside gastropubby restaurant, where you can reliably get good oysters (and everything else seafood)

Britain has some of the very best seafood on the planet. It’s mad that it’s so hard to get, in Britain

I remember some years ago having absolutely delicious crustaceans fresh off the BBQ in Portugal and, I noticed on the boxes, fresh off the boat from Oban in Scotland where they had been harvested. If you found them for sale in this country at all they were some rare delicacy at multiple times the price. It was more than a bit frustrating. Its got a bit better, there are more seafood restaurants than there were but we could still do a lot better.