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154K views · 11K reactions | This is a tough one to admit, but credit where credit is due. This is Iran deal is so great I wish President Obama had thought of it back when it could’ve actually helped. #obama #iran #trump #deal #president | Ohh that's
This is a tough one to admit, but credit where credit is due. This is Iran deal is so great I wish President Obama had thought of it back when it could’ve actually helped. #obama #iran #trump #deal...
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Thank you, Mr President, for proving my point within 24 hours of me making it:
President Trump suggested on Wednesday that the United States might jointly control the strait with Iran.
“The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz,” Mr. Trump said in a social media post. “There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made.”
Is the Strait of Hormuz Reopening? What to Know Under Iran-Cease Fire.
Vessels are wary of passing the coast of Iran in the strait, given the fragile agreement, and the number of ships traveling through it has even dropped.
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So we really don't have a cease fire agreement? I'm cofused.
US oil prices jump near $100 a barrel again. Trump’s Strait of Hormuz plan has hit a snag.
Oil prices rose early Thursday after traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remained limited and President Donald Trump said the U.S. military will remain around Iran until a “real agreement” is reached and fully complied with.“If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the ‘Shootin’ Starts,’ bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before,” he wrote in a social-media post late Wednesday.
Brent crude futures, the international benchmark, rose 4.2% to $98.68 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate futures—the U.S. standard—were up 5.3% to $99.55. WTI tumbled 16% Wednesday and Brent fell 13%.
The price moves also reflect growing concerns about whether the two-week cease-fire can hold. Israel’s strikes on Lebanon undermine international efforts to bring peace and stability to the Middle East, Pakistan’s government said Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Activity, or a lack of it, in the Strait of Hormuz is another reason.
Trump reiterated in his post that the U.S. and Iran have agreed the strait will be open and safe. He also said the U.S. would help with the traffic buildup in a separate post Wednesday. More than 400 vessels remain “effectively stranded” in the region, vessel-tracking company MarineTraffic said Wednesday.
But ship traffic through the strait, which normally accounts for around 20% of the world’s oil supply, has stayed at minimal levels since the cease-fire was announced late Tuesday.
Ten vessels appeared to be in the strait, as of 5.30 a.m. Eastern time early Thursday but four of those were Iranian-flagged, according to MarineTraffic’s live map.
Two ships did make it through early Wednesday—a Greek-owned bulk carrier and a Liberia-flagged vessel, MarineTraffic said. In total four ships were allowed to pass through, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
However, the strait was then reclosed to oil tankers as of Wednesday evening local time, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency. Iran has also told mediators it will be limiting the number of ships passing through to around a dozen a day and charge tolls, the Journal also reported.
Goldman Sachs analysts said they expected energy flows through the strait to start to recover this weekend, followed by a gradual one-month recovery in exports to prewar levels. The two-week cease-fire was consistent with that base case, they said in a note late Wednesday.
They kept their fourth-quarter Brent crude forecast unchanged at $80 a barrel—and $75 for WTI.
But UBS analysts said important questions still need to be answered, such as “whether ships will be happy to enter the Gulf, especially as we get closer to the end of the 2-week period.”
They added there is also the question of whether Gulf countries would be willing to send tankers through the strait under a process controlled by Iran. “This may be the case in particular with Saudi Arabia and UAE,” they said, noting the two countries had a combined 4 million barrels a day of liquids production shut-in in the Middle East.
UBS also forecast Brent crude to fall to $80 a barrel in the fourth quarter.
But those price targets rely on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to start picking up—and there’s no guarantee of that right now.
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There is no ceasefire. There actually has to be a pause in hostilities for that to happen and it only takes one party to torpedo the deal.
Israel does not want peace, so peace is not going to happen.
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Marshall
ARE YOU SURE!!!
I mean
Israel launches fresh strikes on Lebanon April 9th after huge attacks jeopardize truce
DUBAI/BEIRUT, April 9 (Reuters) - Israel bombed more targets in Lebanon on Thursday, putting the Middle East ceasefire in further jeopardy after its biggest attacks of the war on its neighbour killed more than 250 people and threatened to torpedo Donald Trump's truce from the outset.
Iranian negotiators were expected to set off later on Thursday for Pakistan for the first peace talks of the war, due to meet a U.S. delegation on Saturday.
But there was no sign Iran had lifted its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has caused the worst disruption to global energy supplies in history. Tehran said there would be no deal as long as Israel was striking Lebanon.
The shortage drove the price that European and Asian refineries pay for oil to record levels near $150 a barrel, with even higher prices for some products such as jet fuel.
Israel, which invaded Lebanon last month in parallel with the war on Iran to root out the armed group Hezbollah, Tehran's ally, says its actions there are not covered by the ceasefire announced late on Tuesday by Trump.
Washington has also said Lebanon is not covered by the truce, but Iran and Pakistan, which acted as mediator, say it was explicitly part of the deal. A host of countries, including Britain and France, said the truce should extend to Lebanon.
A Pakistani source with knowledge of the discussions said Pakistan was working on ceasefires for Lebanon and Yemen: "It will be discussed during the (upcoming) talks and we will settle it."
ISRAEL SAYS IT KILLS HEZBOLLAH CHIEF'S NEPHEW
The Israeli military said on Thursday it had killed the nephew of Hezbollah's Secretary-General Naim Qassem, who had served as his personal secretary, and had struck river crossings in Lebanon overnight.
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Army survivors of deadly attack in Kuwait dispute Pentagon's account
Survivors of the deadliest Iranian attack on U.S. forces since the war began have disputed the Pentagon's description of events and said their unit in Kuwait was left dangerously exposed when six service members were killed and more than 20 wounded.Speaking publicly for the first time, members of the targeted unit offered CBS News a detailed account of the attack and its harrowing aftermath from the perspective of those on the ground.
The members CBS News spoke to disputed the description of events from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who described the drone as a "squirter" — in that it squirted through the defenses of a fortified unit inside Kuwait.
"Painting a picture that 'one squeaked through' is a falsehood," one of the injured soldiers told CBS News. "I want people to know the unit … was unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It was not a fortified position."
That service member, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military, said that in spite of the carnage that ensued, those inside the charred and splintered compound responded with swiftness, ingenuity and valor that saved lives.
"I don't think that the security environment or any leadership decision diminishes in any way their sacrifice or their service," the member of the Army's 103rd Sustainment Command said in an interview. "Those soldiers put themselves in harm's way and … I'm immensely proud of them, and their family should be proud of them."
These first eyewitness accounts, along with photos and videos of the attack's aftermath obtained exclusively by CBS News, offer the first descriptions of what occurred March 1 at the thinly fortified Kuwaiti port facility on the day of the Iranian drone strike.
In the hours before the attack, incoming missile alarms had signaled to a crew of about 60 troops to take cover in a cement bunker while a ballistic missile flew overhead. But around 9:15 a.m., an all-clear alert sounded. Officers removed their helmets and returned to their desks in the wood and tin workspace, about the width of three trailers.
From there they resumed managing the movement of equipment, munitions and personnel across the Middle East.
About 30 minutes later, "everything shook," one soldier told CBS News. "And it's something like what you see in the movies. Your ears are ringing. Everything's fuzzy. Your vision is blurry. You're dizzy. There's dust and smoke everywhere."
Dazed, the service member surveyed a grisly scene: "Head wounds, heavy bleeding, lots of perforated eardrums, and then just shrapnel all over, so folks are bleeding from their abdomen, bleeding from arms, bleeding from legs."
A video shows smoke billowing from the building, fires smoldering. The blast killed six — the deadliest attack on U.S. troops since 2021 — and injured more than 20 others.
It was a direct hit.
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Sheriff
Once again, Kim Jong Un, better stay good friends with Trump and not start acting up about his nuclear bombs on missiles. I don't trust his close proximity to China would deter the demented Trump.
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Marshall
US soldiers are having to go on camera with their identity hidden to tell the US public that the Pentagon and the Trump admin are lying to you
Think about that....if you have ever muttered words that you support our US military service men and women then this should piss you off to no end
OUR HEROS DEMAND AND DESERVE BETTER than to be pawns from keeping the Trump Admin from looking like complete and utter fools....I KNOW our military isn't full of Fools and Idiots and if your supporting this crap from the Trump admin you might as well tell a soldier to their face you aren't supporting them because this is a complete lack of support for our troops
Think about that....if you have ever muttered words that you support our US military service men and women then this should piss you off to no end
OUR HEROS DEMAND AND DESERVE BETTER than to be pawns from keeping the Trump Admin from looking like complete and utter fools....I KNOW our military isn't full of Fools and Idiots and if your supporting this crap from the Trump admin you might as well tell a soldier to their face you aren't supporting them because this is a complete lack of support for our troops
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Marshall
Welp, Trump threatening Genocide wasn't enough for the Republicans in Congress to stop him
Republicans block bid to rein in Trump Iran war powers
WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic effort to end U.S. attacks on Iran, as Donald Trump's party continued to prevent efforts to rein in the Republican president's war powers.Representative Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican, presided over an abbreviated "pro forma" House session, ending it before a group of Democrats could seek to pass the resolution via unanimous consent.
Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives have tried and repeatedly failed in recent months to pass war powers resolutions to force Trump to obtain lawmakers' authorization before launching military operations, in both Venezuela and Iran.
Trump's threat early this week that "a whole civilization will die" intensified concern from Democrats, dozens of whom called for Trump's removal from office. The 1949 Geneva Conventions on humanitarian conduct in war prohibit attacks on sites considered essential for civilians.
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