🇺🇸🇮🇷 IRAN-U.S. AGREEMENT: WHAT TRUMP JUST ANNOUNCEED
Trump has just posted on Truth Social outlining the key points of what appears to be a framework
agreement with Tehran:
What Iran would agree to:
→ Zero nuclear weapons
→ The Strait of Hormuz open without tolls, in both directions
→ Complete demining of the strait (the US has already neutralized several mines using its minesweepers)
The nuclear issue:
→ The enriched uranium buried deep underground following the B-2 strikes 11 months ago will be extracted and destroyed—jointly by Washington, Beijing, Tehran, and the IAEA
→ No financial transfers for the time being
Background:
→ Trump announces he is heading immediately to the Situation Room for a “final decision”
→ The U.S. naval blockade is reported lifted ships — blocked in the Strait can return
⚠️ It remains to be seen what “destroying” the enriched uranium buried under collapsed mountains actually means, and what the deliberately vague “other points” section covers.
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🇪🇺🛢 Another Critical Oil Waterway Is About to Close
With apologies to Oscar Wilde, to lose one critical waterway may be regarded as misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Of course, we’re long past carelessness and are now barreling toward disaster, with three already lost (the Strait of Hormuz, the Black Sea ports and the Red Sea’s Bab el-Mandeb) and a fourth poised to join their ranks: the mighty Rhine.
The river, which stretches across northwest Europe, doesn’t have the geopolitical pedigree of some of the other waterways in the headlines lately. But it’s similarly essential, acting as a conveyor belt that connects chemical plants, oil refineries, steel foundries, coal-fired power stations and other manufacturing sites across Switzerland, Germany and France with the Dutch ports. BASF SE, the German chemical behemoth, describes its importance in hyperbolic terms: “Without the Rhine, industrial production in western Europe would collapse.”
The river is one of ...
⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US CENTCOM:
At 5:45 p.m. ET today, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces launched multiple ballistic missiles from Iran in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces based in the Middle East. All Iranian missiles were successfully intercepted. U.S. forces remain vigilant and at a high state of readiness.
@wfwitness