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Axios Announces Date For New Attack On Iran
June 10 2025
Trump told Netanyahu he still wants to defuse Iran crisis with talks, not bombs – Barak Ravid / Axios
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President Trump stressed after a three-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday that he wants to keep pursuing a deal with Iran rather than moving to military action at this time.
June 13 2025
In Twist, U.S. Diplomacy Served as Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack (archived) – WSJ
U.S. negotiations with Iran aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program were widely seen as an important way to preserve regional peace. They ended up being the perfect cover for a surprise Israeli attack.
—February 11 2026
Trump to Netanyahu: U.S. prefers deal with Iran to war, for now – Barak Ravid / Axios
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President Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in their Monday phone call that he believes there’s a chance of reaching a nuclear deal with Iran and he therefore opposes military action at this time, an Israeli official and a U.S. official tell Axios.
February 28 2026
Yet another mid-talks attack suggests Trump was never serious about peace – Guardian
The attack mounted jointly by Israel and the US on Iran had been planned for months, but the timing, in the midst of negotiations between Iran and the US, will again raise questions about whether Washington was ever serious about striking a deal with Tehran.
—May 20 2026
New Iran peace proposal triggers tense Trump-Netanyahu call – Barak Ravid / Axios
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Trump continues to say he thinks a deal can be reached but that he’s ready to resume the war if it isn’t.
May 22-26 2026
Planning trades? Here’s the Memorial Day stock market blackout – Palm Beach Post
U.S. bond market will close early on Friday
The New York Stock Exchange will be closed on Monday, May 25, and will reopen for trading at normal hours, 9:30 a.m. ET to 4 p.m., on Tuesday, May 26.
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The U.S. bond market will close early, at 2 p.m. EDT, on Friday, May 22, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and remain closed on Monday. The bond market will reopen at normal hours on Tuesday.
h/t Hamidreza Azizi
In Twist, U.S. Diplomacy Served as Cover for Israeli Surprise Attack (archived) – WSJ
U.S. negotiations with Iran aimed at curbing Tehran’s nuclear program were widely seen as an important way to preserve regional peace. They ended up being the perfect cover for a surprise Israeli attack.
b offered the above. I liked b’s comment, the WSJ article itself is bogus.
The article fails to mention that it was a breakthrough! at the negotiations that forced forward Israel’s timetable for murder.What Zios feared most was peace with Iran.
The legacy media messes with us, as no one denies; yet, we (including myself) are susceptible to their tricks.Was it your sense too, that the February nuke negotiations between the US and Iran produced nothing. That was my general sense, and that is what the legacy media sold us.
Yet, it is amazing that there was actually a huge breakthrough two days before Israel attacked Iran.
Israel had an urgency to attack Iran on that date, including assassinating Ali Khamenai, on Feb 28, 2026,becausethere had been a major breakthrough in nuclear talks between the US and Iran on Feb 26th.Peace with Iran would be a disaster from the viewpoint of Zionists.According to Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi, the mediator of the talks:—————————————–https://x.com/badralbusaidi/status/20270897083925795761:33 PM · Feb 26, 2026Badr Albusaidi – بدر البوسعيدي@badralbusaidi
We have finished the day after significant progress in the negotiation between the United States and Iran. We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals. Discussions on a technical level will take place next week in Vienna. I am grateful to all concerned for their efforts: the negotiators, the IAEA, and our hosts the Swiss government.
——————————————-And the mediator of the talks, Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi, had much more to say the next day, Feb 27th, on CBS’ program, Face The Nation.Read the whole thing.
MINISTER ALBUSAIDI: Because if the ultimate objective is to ensure forever that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, I think we have cracked that problem through these negotiations by agreeing a very important breakthrough that has never been achieved any time before. And I think if we can capture that and build on it, I think a deal is within our reach.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/full-transcript-omani-foreign-minister-badr-albusaidi/
archived:https://archive.ph/6PrEV————————————-It is vital to note that the negotiations acted in Israel’s favor if it wanted to assassinate Ali Khamenai.
Oman’s foreign minister Badr Al Busaidi posted on X: “We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals.”
After a “breakthrough in negotiations” it would compel the important Iranian players to meet and discuss asap.
The assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the culmination of decades of painstaking intelligence gathering by Israeli secret services, with crucial technological resources and manpower provided over the last six months by the CIA and other US intelligence services, which culminated in a single concentrated burst of lethal violence to decapitate the Iranian regime, according to experts, veteran spies and officials in Israel and the US.Khamenei was killed along with seven “members of the top Iranian security leadership who had gathered at several locations in Tehran” and about a dozen members of his family and close entourage in near-simultaneous strikes within 60 seconds, military officials in Israel said. Forty other senior Iranian leaders also died in the attack.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/how-israeli-sleight-and-us-might-led-to-the-assassination-of-ali-khamenei
The treachery of Israel, the dishonor of the Trump administration and the complicity of the legacy media should takes one’s breath away.
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