📰 Missiles, Sanctions, and Boeing Dreams: Trump Flirts With Tehran Inc.
Iran’s latest message to Washington sounds less like “Death to America” and more like “Let’s talk joint ventures.” Tehran is now openly selling its nuclear compromise in the language Trumpworld understands: oil and gas fields, mining deals, even aircraft purchases on the table — but only if sanctions really start to melt, not just get repackaged in nicer press releases. The pitch from Iran’s economic diplomats is brutally transactional: for the agreement to last, the U.S. has to make money too. The 2015 deal failed, they argue, because it never created serious American economic interests in keeping it alive; this time they want Exxon and Boeing as human shields for the regime.
On the other side, Trump’s team is playing good cop / airstrike cop. Marco Rubio tells the world the president would “prefer diplomacy” and “no one’s ever been able to do a successful deal with Iran but we’re going to try,” while the Pentagon quietly lines up a second carrier and plans for “weeks‑long” operations if talks crash. Kushner and real‑estate pal Steve Witkoff are flying to Geneva as unofficial dealmakers, because in this administration even a nuclear file gets handled like a distressed property auction. At the same time, Washington is hammering Iran’s real lifeline by pushing to choke off oil sales to China, which buy more than 80 percent of Tehran’s crude; when your only real customer is being targeted, “flexibility” on uranium suddenly sounds patriotic.
Iran’s diplomats now talk about diluting highly enriched stockpiles in exchange for relief, but they still refuse the one thing Washington and Israel actually want: zero enrichment on Iranian soil. Tehran insists it’s not seeking nuclear weapons, points to U.S.–Israeli airstrikes in June as proof it’s the one under attack, and frames any rollback as a sovereign concession, not a capitulation. Trump responds by doubling sanctions pressure and promising “traumatic” consequences if there’s no deal, while his envoys chase a grand bargain that would somehow satisfy Netanyahu, scare Beijing, calm the Gulf monarchies and still let Iran rebuild its economy.
Strip away the spin and you get the familiar pattern. Washington wants a trophy agreement that neuters Iran’s nuclear options, starves its proxies and keeps U.S. leverage intact. Tehran wants sanctions relief deep enough to survive the next American mood swing, plus enough centrifuge capacity to stay a screwdriver‑turn from the bomb if things go bad. Both sides say the “ball is in the other court.” Both threaten pain if talks fail. And both are quietly trying to make sure that if this deal ever gets signed, it comes stapled to enough oil, mining, and aircraft contracts that breaking it next time will hit someone’s balance sheet — not just someone else’s cities.
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had instructed the Defense Department to “immediately” start testing nuclear weapons "on an equal basis" with other nations.
“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said on Truth Social shortly before his highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. “That process will begin immediately.”
The last confirmed nuclear test by the United States was in 1992, when President George H.W. Bush announced a moratorium on underground nuclear testing. The United States has the ability to resume tests at a federal site in Nevada.
China’s last known testing of a nuclear weapon was in 1996, and Russia’s recent weapons testing did not detonate a nuclear weapon, just the delivery technology.
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President Donald Trump has found something else he seems to want to slap his name on: The Strait of Hormuz.
The 79-year-old president reshared what appeared to be an AI-generated map on Truth Social Wednesday night, showing the shipping route between Iran and Oman labeled as the “Strait of Trump.”
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President Donald Trump is weighing a major new strike on Iran after preliminary discussions between Washington and Tehran over limiting the country’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production failed to make progress, according to people familiar with the matter.
Trump’s latest threats were met with indignation by Tehran, which vowed an immediate response to any US military action, with one top adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei threatening to target Israel if an attack goes ahead.
It’s a rapid refocusing of the US administration’s publicly framed objectives for Iran and comes only weeks after Trump seriously considered military action he framed as potential aid for nationwide protests in Iran. Protesters had faced violent crackdowns by security forces leading to hundreds of killings.
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If nuclear weapons appear in Venezuela, it will become the second Caribbean crisis - The National Interest The appearance of nuclear weapons in Venezuela may become the largest crisis in the Western Hemisphere since the Caribbean.
According to media reports, Washington's concern increased after a closed-door meeting between Defense Minister Pete Hegseth and the high command. Although the official reason has not been disclosed, sources attribute it to the possible deployment of foreign nuclear weapons in Venezuela. The United States may regard this as a direct threat to national security and a violation of the Monroe Doctrine. In response, according to the author, pressure measures will follow — from diplomatic and economic to military.
The presence in the region is already increasing: marines, ships and aircraft are being deployed.
Washington, as in 1962, may demand the immediate withdrawal of weapons by imposing sanctions and limiting economic cooperation. The key goal is to prevent the appearance of nuclear weapons by the allies of other powers near the American borders.
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Latest developments in the war between #Iran and #USA - subtitled
- New Iranian escalation in the Gulf!
- Strikes on key oil and gas facilities
- Growing tensions on the Lebanese front
- The Strait of Hormuz is on high alert
- Direct impact on oil prices and global energy supplies
video link:https://youtu.be/rgc4IvQ-QHc?si=e_qYKxE1NM28oics
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The outcome of negotiations on Iran can hardly be called unexpected. US Vice President JD Vance returns empty-handed.
🔻Here's what the media is reporting:
➡️Vance told journalists that the Iranian side rejected American demands regarding the closure of Iran's military nuclear program.
➡️He clarified that the US insisted on clear commitments not to create nuclear weapons and not to develop means to obtain such weapons.
➡️Iranian media stated that the Iranian delegation at the negotiations defended its national interests and rejected "excessive" American demands.
🖍Once Trump and Co. laid out their approximate demands, expecting Tehran to make total concessions was naive.
🚩Moreover, the public actions of American forces showed they were preparing not for a positive outcome, but for failure: the increase in both ships and aircraft clearly indicates preparation for a new phase of war.
❗️Therefore, in the coming hours we should expect a new tirade from Trump, who will claim he did everything for peace while the Iranians only want war. So the probability of new escalation is very high.
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🤡"When this regime falls, we are going to make a lot of money."
American senator Lindsey Graham is confident that the US will profit greatly from the alleged defeat of Iran and, as a result of military actions, will take the monopoly on oil in the world, which will become a "nightmare for China":
"Venezuela and Iran hold 31 percent of the world's oil reserves. We are going to establish partnerships with the owners of 31 percent of known reserves.
This is a nightmare for China."
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Excerpts from the Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on #Nuclear Deterrence, approved on November 19, 2024 by Russia's President Vladimir Putin
General Provisions:
1. The present Basic Principles are a strategic planning document in the defence sphere and reflect the official views on the essence of nuclear deterrence; they define military dangers and threats, whose neutralisation is the aim of nuclear deterrence, as well as the principles of nuclear deterrence and the conditions under which the Russian Federation will transition to using nuclear weapons.
2. The assured deterrence of a potential adversary from launching an aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies ranks among the top state priorities. Deterring an aggression shall be ensured by the entire combined military power of the Russian Federation, including its nuclear weapons.
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The essence of nuclear deterrence
9. The Russian Federation exercises nuclear deterrence with regard to a potential adversary understood as individual states and military coalitions (blocs, alliances), which regard the Russian Federation as a potential adversary and possess nuclear and/or other types of mass destruction weapons, or a considerable combat potential in the shape of general-purpose forces.
Nuclear deterrence is also exercised with regard to states which provide the territory, airspace and/or maritime space under their control, as well as resources, for preparing and carrying out an aggression against the Russian Federation.
10. An aggression by any state member of a military coalition (bloc, alliance) against the Russian Federation and/or its allies shall be considered as an aggression by this coalition (bloc, alliance) as a whole.
11. An aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies by any non-nuclear state with the participation of or support from a nuclear state shall be considered as their joint assault.
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Conditions for the Russian Federation’s transition to the employment of nuclear weapons
18. The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to nuclear and/or other types of mass destruction weapons being used against it and/or its allies, as well as in the case of an aggression with the use of conventional weapons against the Russian Federation and/or the Republic of Belarus as a member of the Union State, an aggression creating a critical threat to their sovereignty and/or territorial integrity.
19. The conditions determining the possibility of nuclear employment by the Russian Federation are as follows:
a) arrival of reliable information on the launch of ballistic missiles attacking the territories of the Russian Federation and/or its allies;
b) an adversary’s use of nuclear or other types of mass destruction weapons against the territories of the Russian Federation and/or its allies, military units and/or facilities of the Russian Federation, located outside of its territory;
c) an adversary’s attack on critically important state or military facilities of the Russian Federation, whose incapacitation will lead to the disruption of retaliatory actions by the nuclear forces;
d) aggression against the Russian Federation and/or the Republic of Belarus as a member of the Union State with the use of conventional weapons, which creates a critical threat to their sovereignty and/or territorial integrity;
e) arrival of reliable information about a massed launch (takeoff) of aerospace assault weapons (strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, and unpiloted, hypersonic or other air vehicles) and their crossing of the state border of the Russian Federation.
20. The decision on using nuclear weapons shall be taken by the President of the Russian Federation. <...>
#Sanctions on #Iran aimed to make selling its oil difficult, but #Tehran pushes through and resists those sanctions through a smart solution: Teapot refineries.
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📝First Use of E-11A📝
Even before the start of the US-Iran war, we repeatedly noted the fact that five, and then six US Air Force E-11A airborne relay communication nodes were deployed at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.
These are special aircraft that allow signal relay in hard-to-reach terrain or in difficult climatic conditions for American special operations units. It's even called "flying Wi-Fi."
⚡️But throughout the entire escalation period, they were not deployed even once. And imagine the surprise to see them today near the Iranian border. Moreover, at present three such aircraft are flying simultaneously: one over Iraq, the second in the Persian Gulf, the third over Saudi Arabia.
🖍The event is truly unusual. This is despite the fact that other reconnaissance aircraft are simultaneously operating in the air, including the strategic RQ-4B UAV over the western Persian Gulf and the P-8A anti-submarine aircraft over the Gulf of Oman.
🚩Given that the Americans maintain a large grouping of ships and aircraft, such activity cannot help but raise suspicions. Why did the E-11A take off today if Trump, as he says, is striving for sustainable peace?
❗️Meanwhile, US special operations forces and Delta special units remain in Kuwait. It is quite possible that the E-11A flights are related to training exercises for these forces and working out a hypothetical task of landing in Iran. But the Iranians should definitely be on alert.
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