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Curious admonition of Iranian state media who have been doing exactly that? There are layers of fiendish complexity here. There may be a deal now, at last. But state media will react to it for loyalist domestic consumption, which we should take with a pinch of namak. Ditto Trump to his base.

... This is like an hour before going off about how there isn't a deal, and how the ships Centcom announced we attacked were actually attacked by Iran. I hope he's enjoying the livestream of them removing his name from the Kennedy Center. Rained out currently, like UFC will hopefully be tomorrow.

Trump still doesn't understand that a memorandum of understanding is not the peace deal, it's just one preliminary step toward an actual agreement. And that's great. Just great.

Obscured in the spectacle is the simple fact that there is no reason to make any deal with this regime. The whole narrative about uranium‑based nukes is a myth — it’s nonsense. What is real is cutting off every channel of financial support to a regime that murdered their daughters to stay in power.

After saving the regime from being overthrown, the spectacle of a “deal” now serves only one purpose: domestic political optics for Trump. They’re not blocking the strait, and even when it reopens it will take months — maybe years — before anything meaningful moves through it again.