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Lead: Peace Talks on a Deadly Trip Wire
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President Trump missed his son Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding over the weekend to work on a peace deal with Iran. It looks like he missed the wedding for nothing because that “peace deal” has turned violent.
The U.S. claims to have launched “self-defense strikes” in Iran, attacking what they claim to have been mine-laying boats. The U.S. thinks it can strike first and then claim “self-defense.” CENTCOM told reporters that this does “not indicate ceasefire is over.”
Alternate sources report that this is not what happened. They claim that U.S. drones were shot down by Iran in the region.
Meanwhile, Israel has launched Operation Arrows of Fire into Lebanon on Monday, an escalation with Hezbollah. There are reports of evacuations in Beirut and schools in northern Israel have been closed “until further notice.”
Iran has demanded that Israel withdraw from Lebanon as a part of any peace deal but Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu flatly said over the weekend that they will not.
“We’re not taking our foot off the gas; on the contrary, I’ve said to step on the gas even harder,” he said in a video message.
He is either ramping up the final blows before the U.S. makes him stop (lol) or he is flatly ignoring President Trump’s requests to stop. My money is on the latter option.
President Trump said on Monday that negotiations with Iran were “proceeding nicely” but then said that Iran would have to hand all nuclear material over to the U.S. as a condition of the deal.
What are we to make of all of this? We should conclude that the negotiations for peace are no further along than they were before a weekend full of hullaballoo. It is an impasse with a deadly trip wire teetering on the brink.
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