well, that ceasefire only lasted less than one Scaramucci. 
/borrowed from bsky

Cheer up, you might still get your second genocide

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:

True, but trump isn't going to do anything about him

 haresfur wrote:

According to a NY Times article it was more Bibi,

However, the damage to the US should not be underestimated .

This guy (German geopolitical specialist who teaches in the UK) has a good take on it.

 Steely_D wrote:
The best thing right now would be to convince trump that the blame all belongs on hegseth and vance. And frankly that's where I think this idea came from

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
If only anybody would have told him.

 R_P wrote:

Darth Putin:
Stop calling him a master strategist. He may have wrecked his economy, failed to change a regime and had to make a massive "goodwill gesture", but he has NOT taken 1.3 million casualties doing it.

 Steely_D wrote:
Negotiations haven't even started. Why so sad?

Iran gets:

the strait

the hereditary leader the dead guy wanted

withdrawal of enemies

to tell the story of how they fought off all of west asia plus USA at the same time and won for the next 100 years

to give no nuclear assurances

USA gets:

 buddy wrote:
Easy to say afterwards. It's far from over.

 R_P wrote:
Was there ever any doubt?

Latest Lego

I don't see the US/Israel accepting any of that

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the Islamic Republic’s top security decision-making body, announced that “negotiations will begin with complete distrust of the American side on Friday, April 10, in Islamabad,” with 2 weeks allocated for talks to finalize the details of its 10-point demands and codify them into a binding UN Security Council resolution — which the Council says would make the agreements “binding international law.”

The council released a statement Wednesday morning outlining what it claims are the terms America has accepted in principle, and what Iran is formally emphasizing.

Trump, in a post on Truth social, wrote that Iran’s 10-point proposal constitutes “a workable basis on which to negotiate.”

💢 Here is what Iran’s Supreme National Security Council claims the U.S. has “fundamentally committed to”:

🔸 Guaranteeing non-aggression against Iran
🔸 Continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz
🔸 Accepting Iranian uranium enrichment
🔸 Lifting all primary and secondary sanctions
🔸 Ending all UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors resolutions
🔸 Paying war reparations to Iran
🔸 Withdrawing all U.S. combat forces from the region
🔸 Halting the war on all resistance fronts, “including against the heroic Islamic resistance of Lebanon” (Hezbollah)

💢 Later in the text, the document states that Iran’s formal 10-point demands, submitted via Pakistan, “emphasized”:

🔸 Controlled Hormuz passage coordinated with Iran’s armed forces, which it notes would grant Iran a “unique economic and geopolitical position”
🔸 The “necessity to end the war” against all Resistance axis factions – fronts listed in the document include Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine (occupied territories) – described as the “historic defeat of the child-killing Israeli regime’s aggression”
🔸 Full withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from “all bases and deployment points in the region”
🔸 The establishment of a Strait of Hormuz safe-passage protocol “guaranteeing Iran’s control according to the agreed protocol”
🔸 “Full compensation to Iran according to assessments” of war damage
🔸 Lifting of all primary and secondary sanctions, and resolutions of the IAEA Board of Governors and Security Council
🔸 Release of “all blocked Iranian assets abroad”
🔸 Finally, all the terms above codified in a “binding Security Council resolution” — which the document says would turn the agreements into “binding international law” and “an important diplomatic victory for the Iranian nation”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

📌 The Council states that if the “enemy’s battlefield submission” is not translated into a “decisive political achievement” in negotiations, Iran will resume fighting “until all demands of the Iranian nation are met” — adding: “our hands are on the trigger, and the moment the slightest error is made by the enemy, it will be answered with full force.“

The podcast Today Explained draws the many parallels to Bush’s Iraq War/Mistake.