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Iran Negotiations: Iran tries to play President Trump for a fool

NYPost Editorial: Iran’s peace offer tries to play President Trump for a fool

Iran has no leverage in this game of chicken. While they threaten to harass commercial shipping through the Persian Gulf, the US has blocked all Iranian shipping.

Not only does that prevent Iran from selling its oil, it means that the Iranians have to store millions of barrels of oil that are being pumped every day.

But their storage capacity is quickly running out.

Pumping oil isn’t a matter of turning a spigot on and off. Shutting down productive wells means risking their usability forever, because the oil flow will effectively destroy the wellhead.

Iran’s latest “peace” offer — which President Donald Trump would be nuts to consider — continues the Islamic Republic’s history of playing from a posture of strength when the regime is actually in a state of near-collapse.

Now the mullahs say they will agree to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for an end to the hostilities.

Yet the nuclear question will remain off the table for now … future talks TBD.

What chutzpah! The whole war was started to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons, so why would the United States — which paused its hell-storm to give the Iranians a chance to get their minds right — give up a key demand, as though we were the ones on our heels?

Iran’s foreign-policy strategy seems to be “fake it ’til you make it.” Its leaders — whoever they are at the moment — think that if they pretend to be a major world power, and demand to be treated as such, eventually Washington will partake in the fantasy.

Iran To Send Revised Proposal To US In ‘Days’ As ‘Tank Tops’ Loom, Trump Claims Iran “Informed Us They Are In State Of Collapse”

Iran’s counter is that it has three M’s on its side:“munitions, markets, and the midterms.“

  • Trump TS claim: Tehran has informed Washington they are in a “state of collapse” and that the Iranians want the US to “open the Hormuz Strait” – as ‘tank tops’ loom.

  • Trump doesn’t appear open to Iran’s proposal which hinges on US naval blockade ending & nuclear issue being pushed to future negotiations (CNN). Tehran working on revised plan to be sent in ‘few days’.

  • First crude-laden Japanese tanker from Saudi port exits Hormuz Strait successfully without Iranian interference.

  • Iranian analyst describes that Tehran believes it can outlast Trump & the standoff with US in Hormuz, citing “munitions, markets, and the midterms.”

Continue reading Iran Negotiations: Iran tries to play President Trump for a fool

Trump: Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon – not now, not ever

That is his bottom line.

So it seems unlikely he will sign up to any sort of deal that would allow Iran to postpone those nuclear talks for the time being.

He’s also very much aware the blockade is doing significant economic damage to Iran. He thinks it’s putting the Iranians under extreme pressure and, as he said on social media, he’s waiting for Iran to effectively sort out its leadership so they can work out who to speak to.

Two months of near-total internet blackout in Iran

Iran’s near-total internet blackout has now lasted exactly two months, according to global watchdog Netblocks.

Five sentenced to life in Bahrain for plotting with Iran

Five people have been sentenced to life in Bahrain for plotting “terrorist and hostile acts” with Iran.

  • As Gulf leaders meet in Saudi Arabia, Qatar says the Strait of Hormuz should not be used as a pressure card and warns against the possibility of a “frozen conflict”.
  • US President Donald Trump’s national security team is reviewing an Iranian plan to halt the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, while postponing talks on its nuclear programme.
  • Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade fire as the death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since an April 17 “ceasefire” rises to at least 40 people.
  • Dozens of nations have called for the “urgent and unimpeded reopening” of the Strait of Hormuz, with UN chief Antonio Guterres warning that the US-Iran standoff in the waterway risks triggering a global food emergency.
  • Visit our live tracker for the latest casualty figures from across the region.

The Arab Voice

Strait of Hormuz should have ‘never been closed’

Qatar’s FM spokesperson al-Ansari says they are engaging with all their interlocutors over reopening the Strait.

“We believe it should have never been closed and it should be opened immediately, regardless of other considerations going on in the region,” he said.

Qatar in favour of ‘comprehensive deal’ to end conflict

The spokesperson said that Doha would be in favour of a “comprehensive deal” to end the conflict, following a question about reports that Iran wants to decouple Hormuz talks from nuclear discussions.

Lebanon:

Lebanon began discussing the group’s full disarmament, while debates raged within the country over Hezbollah’s future as a military and political power.

However, Hezbollah is now back on the battlefield, fighting Israel in southern Lebanon and appears not to be as degraded a fighting force as many had believed.

Read more here.

Iran accuses Washington (of everything)

Read more here.

Trump Effect: NATO Nations Agree to Increase Defence Spending to Five Per Cent of GDP

TDS is off the charts.

Trump Effect: NATO Spending Surge Hits Levels Not Seen in Decades

“We Have All The Cards”: Trump Cancels Witkoff-Kushner Trip To Pakistan For Iran Talks

“They can call us anytime they want, but you’re not going to be making any more 18 hour flights to sit around talking about nothing’” 

Meet The Woke Assassin: Cole Allen

Anti-MAGA, Anti-Christian Manifesto

Trump = ’Antichrist’

Part of ’The Wide Awakes’ Group

Attended ’No Kings’ Rally

Confirmed: Targeted Trump, Officials

Cole Tomas Allen

The suspected shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner wrote a manifesto and attended a No King’s protest, according to a senior Trump administration official.

Inevitable: Dems Push Gun Control…

SUSPECT CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT

TDS is now totally out of control:

Pritzker Defend Trump-Nazi Comparison After 3rd Assassination Attempt

‘Much of What I Said Has Been Proven to Be True’

What a despicable swine:

JB Pritzker on ABC on 4/27/2026

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) defends invoking Nazi Germany in reference to the Trump administration, doubling down after a Democrat voter attempted to assassinate the president: “The institutions of this democracy are being attacked by the Republicans and by Donald Trump.”

James Carville regarding President Trump:

“I do not want that man to die. I want to watch him suffer. And I can’t watch a dead person suffer.”

Carville gloats that Democrats will go after President Trump and his family if they regain control of Congress after the midterms:

“They’re going to start going after you… Then they’re going to go after your stupid jacka– kids and their spouses and all the other bulls— that you see, and they’re going to investigate the s— out of you.”

“I detest Donald John Trump in a way that I never ever thought I could hate another human being — with the passion and the depth that I hate f*cking Donald Trump!”

How do we end left-wing violence?

President Trump just survived yet another attempt on his life, and at some point, America has to stop pretending this is normal. It’s not. The left has a big, bloodthirsty murder problem.

Another Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump

The conspiracy to get Trump is real

Fifth Assassination Attempt on President Trump Foiled at White House Correspondents Dinner Chaos

Shooting at White House Correspondents Dinner

Shock Footage

“A man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of the Secret Service,” Trump told a news conference at the White House shortly after the incident.

“They seem to think he was a lone wolf, and I feel that too,” he said, after posting video of the suspect sprinting past security as guards drew their weapons.

Donald Trump speaks at a press conference in the White House, wearing a tuxedo, with a security detail standing beside him.

Trump Confirms a Secret Service Agent Was Shot at White House Correspondents’ Dinner (VIDEO)

The man wore protective gear, so he was not severely injured.

It’s a good time to use the firing squad the administration was talking about.

DC Police Identify Shooter at White House Correspondents’ Dinner as 31-Year-Old California Teacher
 
A 31-year-old teacher from Torrance, California, named Cole Allen opened fire near the entrance of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, according to DC Police Chief Jeffrey Carroll.
 

Another Assassination Attempt!

Cole Allen of California Detained…

…Reports: Caltech Grad, ’Teacher of the Month’…

…Likely Lone Wolf

Trump Safe After 5+ Gun Shots Fired

Event Canceled

’Not a Particularly Secure Building ’: POTUS Demands Ballroom

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a shocking display of the Party of Peace and Tolerance’s unwavering commitment to non-violence, a gunman armed with a shotgun attempted to breach security at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night and open fire on President Donald Trump.
 
According to sources who spoke on condition of total media silence, the suspect — described only as “a concerned citizen exercising his First Amendment rights” — fired multiple shots near the magnetometer screening area before Secret Service agents heroically tackled him, evacuated Trump and the entire cabinet, and then immediately issued a statement reminding everyone that “this is not who we are.”
 
Trump, who was rushed from the ballroom unharmed, later posted on Truth Social that the shooter had been apprehended. No one was injured, unless you count the feelings of MSNBC hosts who had to cancel their “Trump Is Literally Hitler” segments for the evening.
 
“This is a tragic reminder that we must redouble our efforts to ban assault shotguns and common-sense security theater,” said an anonymous DNC strategist who asked to remain unidentified because his job depends on pretending Democrats aren’t the party of stochastic terrorism.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou confirms the “conspiracy to get Trump” is REAL.

“Of course, there’s a Deep State, and it’s dangerous.” Continue reading Another Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz calls US-Israel war on Iran “completely unnecessary”

Sure thing, schmucky.

Business is good with the mullah regime. Why worry about  fanatical 12-ers plotting to nuke Israel?

The German government defied US sanctions on Iran’s clerical regime on Monday, by continuing to insure its companies with export credit – 911 million euro for 58 companies.

German leader calls US-Israel-Iran war ‘completely unnecessary’

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has described the US-Israel war on Iran as “completely unnecessary”.

Merz said the war was contributing to rising instability, affecting Europe, Asia and the US. He stressed that only a united Europe could respond effectively to the emerging challenges.

“We have spent two days meeting with the 27 heads of state and government of the European Union to discuss how to tackle major challenges that lie ahead, including the Iran conflict and this completely unnecessary war there, as well as many other challenges we face,” said the chancellor.

He added that Europe must adjust to shifting global conditions. “We must accept this new economic reality, however difficult it may be.”

Despite sanctions, Germany supports Iran trade with nearly 1 billion in credit

The German Press Agency revealed the credit guarantee figure on Saturday, noting that the nearly 1 billion euros have been provided to German firms to protect their business with Iran.

Trump: ‘Nobody Knows Who Is in Charge in Iran’

Trump Cancels Witkoff, Kushner Islamabad Trip for Iran Talks

Calls It Waste of Time Because ‘Nobody Knows Who Is in Charge’

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at a press conference, March 9, 2026. (Official

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he has canceled a planned trip by U.S. representatives, including Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner, to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials, citing time wasted on traveling and work and describing what he called “infighting” and “confusion” within Iran’s so-called “leadership.”

Trump cancels Witkoff and Kushner trip to Pakistan for talks

  • Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has departed Islamabad, Pakistan, after holding high-level meetings and delivering Tehran’s list of demands for ending the war to Pakistani officials.
  • US President Donald Trump ⁠later cancelled a ⁠planned trip to Pakistan by ‌envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for peace ⁠talks with Iran saying it takes too much time and is too expensive.

The White House will say that they want to hear what the Iranians have to say, and if there is something significant, substantial, and moving towards a deal, then JD Vance and also Marco Rubio will be called over to Islamabad to essentially tie up the deal.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that we have to finish the job with Iran and “Iran may not end until we bankrupt them, just as we did the Soviet Union.”

Iran’s Leaders Try to Show Unity After Trump Mocks Power Struggle in Tehran

Title: Iran War Image ID: 26099445843253 Article: Government supporters attend a mourning

Multiple top Iranian regime officials, including missing “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei, issued statements on Thursday and Friday declaring that they are all entirely in agreement with how to move forward on the current crisis with the United States, denying the existence of political dissent.

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his forces have “full freedom of action” in Lebanon despite the announcement of a three-week extension to a ceasefire, which Hezbollah has said is meaningless amid continued Israeli attacks.
  • Israeli forces said they killed six Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon as the Lebanese Health Ministry said the number of people killed by Israel’s attacks since March 2has risen to 2,491, with 7,719 injured.

Algeria: Pope’s message sparks outrage

This pope is a flake.

A Chicago ‘democrat’ is by definition a communist.

Pope decries migrants and refugees being treated ‘worse than house pets’

That is false. When Mohammedans land in EUrope, which is quickly turning into EUrabia, they are given everything their hearts desire, except sex-slaves, which is why there is a rape epidemic in EUrabia now.

Mass weaponised migration has been deliberately manipulated to destroy western civilisation – it will only continue to get worse.

Pope Leo has previously criticised US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, calling for better treatment of refugees.

Leo, who has previously attacked United States President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies, called for better treatment of migrants as he flew back to Rome on Thursday following a four-nation Africa tour.

Algeria: Pope’s message sparks ‘outrage among Christians, many of whom live with the daily threat to their lives’

The last pope, Pope Francis, was no better than Pope Leo, and may have been been worse. Pope Francis earned the sobriquet the Pope of Islam on Jihad Watch, but Pope Leo XIV is giving him stiff competition.

There comes a point when people have had enough of being lied to, played for fools  and deceived by the red-green axis of evil. The article below points out how Muslims have been persecuting Christians, and how the pope is insensitive to that fact. It isn’t Christians who are murdering Muslims for being Muslims.

The pope was already raising eyebrows with his obscene moral equivalence on his recent tour; Jihad Watch covered it HERE.

But now he is sparking outrage, not only among observers in the West, but among the persecuted Christians themselves.

Pope Leo even went so far as to warn about “turning geopolitical rivalry into a civilizational struggle between Christianity and Islam.” Hasn’t that ship sailed long ago with Islam, and for the past 1,400 years of Islamic war against every other religion? Where has Pope Leo been?

Even the Muslim Mirror noted:

His remarks carried significance beyond a conventional appeal for peace, particularly because they came at a moment of escalating confrontation involving the United States, Israel and Iran, where narratives about civilisation, religion and geopolitical loyalty have increasingly shaped public discourse.

Pope Leo, like his predecessor, is on the wrong side of history.

Pope Leo XIV

“The pope’s Algerian mirage,” by A. S. Ibrahim, WNG News, April 20, 2026: Continue reading Algeria: Pope’s message sparks outrage

Trump is winning

No Deal

And that’s a good thing.

If Mojtaba Khamenei and his minions, or whoever is now running the Islamic Republic of Iran, actually do at some point make a deal with Trump, it also must be remembered that it won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on.

As The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran explains, the Islamic concept of taqiyya, lying to deceive one’s enemies, is a particularly Shi’ite concept, and the Islamic Republic of Iran is a Shi’ite nation.

President Trump said today he has ordered the US Navy to take lethal action against any Iranian vessels attempting to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has granted “friendly” countries, including Russia, a fee exemption to transit the Strait of Hormuz, reports the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

That kind of stuff doesn’t work with Trump.

Nothing gets in or out:

This is the Persian Gulf! You see the first blockade in the narrow area? That’s the strait of Hormuz. That’s what the terrorist Islamic regime closed to put pressure on president Trump and US to back down. But they still don’t get it that President Trump is a 3 D chess player. He closed the second area which is wider and no ship related to the terrorist Islamic regime is able to leave or enter.

This is absolutely one of the smartest moves in the modern warfare. We give the glory to God for giving President Trump wisdom, knowledge understanding and might. The Islamic regime never thought of this and are caught by surprise. They literally can’t import weapons, missile fuels, they can’t sell oil. This is like holding them by the neck. Plus because of the Islamic regime closed the strait of Hormuz, now everyone is buying expensive oil from the USA. US oil sale jumped to 5.3 million barrels per day. Military masterpiece.

Relatives carry the coffin of Haider Farhat, a Hezbollah fighter killed during the conflict with Israel, in Tyre, southern Lebanon, on April 23, 2026

Lebanon truce extended; Trump says ‘clock is ticking’ for Iran to make deal

  • US President Donald Trump says he hopes to host Israeli and Lebanese leaders “in the near future”, after announcing a three-week extension to the fragile ceasefire in Lebanon, which was due to expire on Sunday.
  • President Trump said he is under no pressure to end his war with Iran, though time is limited for Tehran. “I have all the time in the World, but Iran doesn’t – The clock is ticking!” Trump wrote on social media.
  • A third US aircraft carrier has arrived in the Middle East. The USS George HW Bush joined the USS Gerald R Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln in a massive buildup of naval firepower.
  • Trump gives orders to “shoot and kill” any Iranian boats placing sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as the US naval siege of Iran’s ports continues, and officials in Tehran say talks will not resume until the blockade is lifted.

The black spot on Salami’s forehead is a zebiba, from banging his head on the floor when he prays to allah to help him destroy the infidels….

In a daring midnight operation, U.S. Special Forces launched a high-impact raid on a hidden Iranian naval fleet near Bandar Abbas, uncovering a top-secret IRGC compound that had been off the radar for years.

155 vessels were sunk, fast attack boats and missile craft obliterated, and high-profile figures extracted under extreme pressure. But the real bombshell came when one key figure was captured, and what they revealed could change everything.

Explosions tore through the harbor as the operation became one of the deadliest naval strikes in recent history. But what the world doesn’t know yet about this operation could send shockwaves through international security…

7NEWS Melbourne

 

Continue reading Trump is winning

Iran: US blockade must end to allow talks

Can’t wish them good luck with that, but Trump isn’t going to move unless Iran submits.

Iran dismisses Trump’s claim of leadership rift, says nation is ‘one soul’

Women hold Iranian flags and a portrait of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei during a state-organised rally in Tehran, April 17

Several Iranian officials share same message, emphasising what they call the ‘iron unity of the nation and government’.

‘Blockade and threats’: Iran blames US siege of ports for stalled talks

  • Senior Iranian officials have blamed Washington for stalled peace negotiations due to the United States naval blockade of the country’s ports, while Iran’s Revolutionary Guardsays it captured two foreign vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and opened fire on a third ship for violating maritime regulations.
  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran wants “dialogue and agreement” but “breach of commitments, blockade and threats are the main obstacles to genuine negotiations”.
  • White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said no deadline has been set by US President Donald Trump for the extension of his ceasefire on Iran, adding that it will be the president’s decision when the truce ends.

Trump says Iran won’t execute 8 women after he demanded their release…

No Deal — And That’s a Good Thing

JD Vance was supposed to be heading to Pakistan today to resume negotiations with the leaders of the Islamic Republic, but as of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, the whole thing is off, at least for now.

Just The News reported Tuesday that Vance “put off travel to Islamabad after Iran failed to respond to negotiating positions put forth by the U.S…. With no official response coming from Tehran, the diplomatic process is paused.” However, “while paused, the trip hasn’t been canceled. Iran has yet to announce a decision on whether it will participate in the scheduled talks, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Tuesday.” Continue reading Iran: US blockade must end to allow talks

Trump extends cease fire; Iran blames US siege of ports for stalled talks

The mullahs’ cash flow is drying up fast. The IRGC ( Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) can’t even pay their own wages.

Senior Iranian officials have blamed Washington for stalled peace negotiations due to the United States naval blockade of the country’s ports

Trump extends ceasefire as Pakistan talks in disarray

Marlow: Iran Counting on American Media to Pressure Trump to End War Before Enriched Uranium Secure