Trump bumbles yet another interview about talks with Iran
US president Donald Trump has appeared to confirm – presumably unintentionally – that Israel has been targeting and killing Iranian figures who are, or could be, discussing potential peace deals with the US.
Trump claimed that the US is talking to a ‘most respected’ Iranian leader, but said that he couldn’t name him because “I don’t want him to be killed”. And as if further confirmation was needed, he slipped and said:
They’ve wiped out – we’ve wiped out – we’ve wiped out everybody.
Of course, Iran denies even having any such conversations and says it will continue the war the US and Israel started until its own war aims are achieved. So Trump may well be making up his claim – but the Freudian slip of his excuse for not naming a name still speaks volumes.
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“…the US is talking to a ‘most respected’ Iranian leader…”
Reza Pahlavi. he (an aide) is talking to Reza Pahlavi.
He want’s it understood that Iran will always sell their oil/gas in dollars and deposit the surpluses in US treasuries, not Chinese.
Bumbles? No. Canary seems to have fallen for Trump’s schtick. Some people are getting very rich betting on this with inside information. “Reports of precisely timed bets on oil futures and war policies in predictive markets have exposed new depths of criminality by the financial elite and corruption of the US political system under the presidency of Donald Trump. Media reports have documented cases in which war policy and presidential messaging have been transformed into private enrichment opportunities for those with direct access to inside information about US military operations and Trump’s media announcements.
In the early hours of March 22, the Financial Times reported that traders placed a huge, one‑way bet on falling oil prices just minutes before Donald Trump announced that he was pausing planned strikes on Iranian power plants and claimed there had been “productive conversations” with Tehran. CNN has noted how oil prices had been whipsawed by Trump’s alternating threats and promises of a quick end to the war, with Brent crude surging above $100 per barrel and at one point nearing $120 before tumbling on his assertion that the war would be over “very soon.”
This pattern is now clear: Trump’s televised remarks and social media posts, ostensibly about the fate of millions of people in the Middle East, functioned as signals to markets that certain traders anticipated by minutes—an interval that, in electronic futures markets, is an eternity and a hallmark of inside information.” (WSWS, which seems to have much more insight into US government policies than Canary.)