This morning, President Trump announced an agreement with Iran, explaining:
The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change! There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear “Dust.” It is now, and has been, under very exacting Satellite Surveillance (Space Force!). Nothing has been touched from the date of attack. We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran. Many of the 15 points have already been been agreed to. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
At the Ron Paul Institute, Alastair Crooke makes the case that Donald Trump is claiming victory, while admitting defeat in Iran. Crooke concludes:
Iran has launched the extensive machinery of its “Mosaic” system of long-term, pre-planned military actions. This is the point – Iran’s strategic counterattack was not conceived to lead to any negotiated compromise, but rather to create the circumstance by which it can escape the western-imposed “cage” of endless sanctions, blockades, isolation and siege.
The uncomfortable reality for the US and its allies is that every available counter-military or diplomatic response to Iran’s strategic counterattack carries significant downsides.
The war is Trump’s and the US’ to lose. Trump now realises the war is lost – it may be lost, but it is not over. It may last for some time.
After a month of war, “it is arguably Iran that has secured the most significant strategic victory,” notes Bloomberg – with its ever “tightening grip over traffic through the Strait of Hormuz”
Read more from Crooke here.
Trump followed up his post announcing a peace plan with Iran with a threat to any country supplying Iran with weapons, writing:
A Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions! President DJT
Trump explained that to ensure compliance, American forces would be “hangin’ around” the Middle East. He wrote:
A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else! The United States of America will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz. There will be lots of positive action! Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP
