The Telegraph reports,
Donald Trump has postponed strikes on power plants in Iran for at least five days.
The US president said the two countries had entered talks on a “complete and total resolution” of hostilities.
On Saturday night, Mr Trump set a deadline of 48 hours for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on energy facilities.
The threat prompted Iran to publish a list of retaliatory targets, including a nuclear plant that powers Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Mr Trump said: “I am pleased to report that the USA, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.
“Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth, detailed, and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I have instructed the department of war to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.”
Iran denied that direct talks with the US had started. One headline on Iranian state TV said: “Trump retreated after Iran’s decisive warning.”
Other than seeing Iran free, I don’t even know what I want to be going on.
Seeing as we’ve got Schrödinger’s Ayatollah and The Orange Cock Womble is making this up on the fly I have no fucking idea. This puts me about two notches above those two. It is a clear demonstration that tragedy and farce are two cheeks of the same arse.
Saw a great speech from Rubio in 2015 stating his opposition to Obama unfreezing Iranian funds to the tune of approx 50 billion.
He stated that Iran would use this money to arm itself to make it too painful to attack which was a key goal to developing nuclear capability.
And here we are today. After 25 years of looking around and hoping the problem will go away/someone else will deal with it, the USA has finally stepped up.
It’s definitely an odd situation. Iran technically hasn’t done anything ‘yet.’ So they’re being punished for a non crime.
The problem is that the non crime is of a hugely monstrous nature.
If they developed nukes they would use them. They were developing nukes.
Therefore, here we are….
I read this earlier https://thearabweekly.com/water-security-gulf-highlights-irans-growing-shortages
“While Gulf nations invested heavily in advanced water infrastructure, Iran devoted substantial resources to costly nuclear projects, leaving citizens to contend with mounting thirst and drought.”
“While neighbouring states strengthened water infrastructure to mitigate drought, Iran invested billions in nuclear programmes and ballistic missiles, none of which addressed the daily needs of its population.”
Using good old Godwins law, if you could go back in time to stop Hitler would you do it? Well the economic situation post WW2 means stopping Hitler may not have stopped etcetc you know the drill. But would you try?
And here we are with Iran. If you knew they were developing nukes, should you try to stop it?
I know where I stand.