Iran to sign deal

[Zincwarrior]

So no deal signed? Any day now.

 

[kyzr]

So no deal signed? Any day now.

Tick-tock...how long can Iran hold out with no oil revenue...the CIA says 3 months.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Tick-tock...how long can Iran hold out with no oil revenue...the CIA says 3 months.

How long can Trump?

 

[Cellblock2429]

YOu are kind of agreeing with me.

The problem there was that house-flipping was encouraged by the banks, the real estate industry, heck, there were whole TV shows dedicated to it. "See how Chip and Joana can turn this house around and make it profitable!!!"

Out where I lived, they were converting this row of houses to McMansions about the time the market crashed. The shells of half-finished houses just sat there for five years before they finally got around to finishing them when Obama fixed the economy.

/—/ Yes, I’m agreeing with you that people jump in where they don’t belong.

 

[Matted Joybeard]

No deal?

 

[EdwinAMartin]

They will break it anyway, same as the Russians, Red Chinese and nearly everybody else Democrats love and support always do.

 

[kyzr]

How long can Trump?

Until January 2029, easily.
Democrats keep forgetting that Trump has twice the approval rating of democrats.

 

[markef]

Another one who's thinking doesn't go beyond binary and refuses to hold Trump to any standard. Trump negotiated the end of the war, began the final withdraw, and left a U.S. force half the size of even the Taliban he had released from Afghan prison.

It's sad that the last presidential candidate that had a clue was Mitt Romney. Ever since then they all have been over their heads.

Biden trashed agreements Trump had made with the Afghanis and Biden trashed the advice of military experts in the Trump administration, and the result was dead and abandoned Americans and allies, and the tremendous loss of valuable military equipment.

 

[Hypatia415]

The end date never happened..."The die was cast"

Trump ensured the JCPOA never reached its end point by withdrawing the USA from the agreement in 2018.

Enjoy the "mess" as you/they sit and watch in irrelevance....

A mess that is entirely the responsibility of Trump and which will likely be his legacy.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

It appears Iran is on its last leg, hanging on by a thread. Of course they are famous for breaking every deal they ever signed. Time will tell but it looks like it’s over.

‘Designated target’ Mojtaba Khamenei to sign Trump deal in ‘unprecedented’ courier setup

Experts say the U.S. is negotiating with an invisible counterparty as Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly remains in hiding and relies on secret couriers.

www.foxnews.com

Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, would have to approve any final deal with the U.S. through secret courier networks while remaining in hiding as a "designated target," counterterrorism experts said Tuesday.

The unprecedented arrangement, they claimed, means Washington is negotiating a high-stakes accord with an entirely invisible counterparty, with a potential memorandum signed by a regime leader and a "designated target" who can never publicly show his face.

"Iran to sign deal"​

Actually not.

Trump’s failed, illegal war of choice drags on, Trump is trapped with no way out, Iran continues to have the advantage the consequence of Trump’s arrogance and stupidity.

The best Trump could hope for is a deal not as good as President Obama’s Iran accords.

 

[KissMy]

Tick-tock...how long can Iran hold out with no oil revenue...the CIA says 3 months.

Fake News -

All our gulf allies rely on the Strait of Hormuz to import 90% of their food & export most of their oil. Iran only imported 30% of their food. Iran is also connected to China by "Silk Road" Railway & pipe lines.

Our gulf allies started asking US to leave because Iran was starving them to death. We were being starved out, so Trump allows Iranian & China's Oil Tankers through our US navel blockade to transport Iranian crude oil to China.

Iran will last forever like this & Trump has lost it.

 

[KissMy]

/-----/ Nope.
From a petroleum shipping and global logistics perspective, the claims that the Trump administration is "allowing" Venezuelan oil to flow freely to Cuba are entirely incorrect. In fact, the exact opposite is happening.

The U.S. has instituted an aggressive, highly effective maritime fuel blockade that has systematically dismantled the historic Venezuela-to-Cuba oil lifeline.




Here is a breakdown of the current situation from a shipping and energy logistics standpoint:

1. The Death of the Petrocaribe Lifeline​

Historically, Venezuela was Cuba’s primary source of crude and refined products, keeping the island's inefficient power grid afloat. However, following the U.S. military operation in January 2026 that ousted Nicolás Maduro and installed interim leadership in Caracas, the U.S. took direct control of the logistics narrative. The Trump administration immediately declared a total blockade on exports of Venezuelan state oil to Cuba, actively seizing tankers caught violating the directive.

2. Secondary Sanctions & Tariff Threats on Third-Party Carriers​

To ensure the blockade wasn't bypassed by "flag of convenience" tankers or third-party brokers, the administration signed Executive Order 14380 on January 29, 2026. This order authorizes heavy tariffs on imports into the U.S. from any country that directly or indirectly supplies oil to Cuba.

• The Impact on Mexico (Pemex): Mexico had briefly stepped in to alleviate Cuba's shortages, shipping nearly 20,000 barrels per day via its state-owned company, Pemex. Under the threat of these aggressive U.S. tariffs, Mexico was forced to pause its commercial shipments, dealing a catastrophic blow to Cuba's energy security.

3. The Private Sector Exception (The Source of Misunderstanding)​

The rumor that Trump is "allowing" oil shipments likely stems from a highly specific regulatory nuance. The administration has permitted a legal framework where companies can apply for specialized Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) licenses to sell or resell Venezuelan oil exclusively to Cuba’s nascent private sector.

However, from a shipping volume and macro-energy perspective:

• These allocations are tightly monitored, strictly small-scale, and legally barred from entering Cuba's state-owned energy grid or military-controlled conglomerates like GAESA.
• This exception does absolutely nothing to fuel Cuba’s massive thermoelectric plants, which require bulk commercial crude.

Current Logistics Outlook​

The maritime reality is that Cuba is facing its most severe energy blockade since the Cuban Missile Crisis, resulting in severe island-wide blackouts. By deploying a naval presence in the Caribbean, intercepting tankers, and using the threat of penalizing secondary shipping networks (like Mexico's), the U.S. has successfully choked the Venezuelan-Cuban energy trade down to near zero. State-to-state oil shipments between the two nations are effectively shut down.

PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Blockade More Effective Than Widely Reported - JINSA

Washington, DC - Reports indicate Israel is prepared to invite the United States to relocate some of its Middle East regional bases to Israel. The United States should pursue this move, building directly on its deployment of F-22 combat aircraft to Israel's Ovda Air Base and the vulnerabilities...

jinsa.org

Trump’s ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign on Cuba, Explained | Council on Foreign Relations

The Trump administration has tightened sanctions and restricted oil shipments to Cuba. The moves are part of a broader pressure campaign aimed at driving significant economic and political change on the communist-led island.

www.cfr.org

2026 Cuban crisis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Funny how when I sent your quote "Biden allowed Venezuelan oil to slip through to Cuba" to Google's Gemini, the following was it's response:

"The Biden administration did not establish the authorization for Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba; rather, it was the Trump administration that announced a favorable licensing policy allowing private entities to resell Venezuelan-origin oil and petroleum products to Cuba.

This late February 2026 U.S. Treasury Department guidance authorized licensed third-party companies to supply fuel to the island, specifically for commercial and humanitarian use."

 

[Hypatia415]

So no deal signed? Any day now.

Like the White Queen's jam, it is never today

 

[JoeB131]

Tick-tock...how long can Iran hold out with no oil revenue...the CIA says 3 months.

Do you think we can hold out? Our strategic reserves will run dry by July, then oil is going to spike again.

 

[JoeB131]

Biden trashed agreements Trump had made with the Afghanis and Biden trashed the advice of military experts in the Trump administration, and the result was dead and abandoned Americans and allies, and the tremendous loss of valuable military equipment.

Um, guy, get real.

Trump is the one who sold out our allies with the Doha accords.

The agreement he made was to pull out the last of our troops by May 2021 (Biden extended that to August to allow the contractors more time to leave)

There was no contingency to take back the equipment we gave the Afghan military

Everyone knew after Doha that our puppet government was a dead man walking.

 

[egp320i]

It appears Iran is on its last leg, hanging on by a thread. Of course they are famous for breaking every deal they ever signed. Time will tell but it looks like it’s over.

‘Designated target’ Mojtaba Khamenei to sign Trump deal in ‘unprecedented’ courier setup

Experts say the U.S. is negotiating with an invisible counterparty as Mojtaba Khamenei reportedly remains in hiding and relies on secret couriers.

www.foxnews.com

Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, would have to approve any final deal with the U.S. through secret courier networks while remaining in hiding as a "designated target," counterterrorism experts said Tuesday.

The unprecedented arrangement, they claimed, means Washington is negotiating a high-stakes accord with an entirely invisible counterparty, with a potential memorandum signed by a regime leader and a "designated target" who can never publicly show his face.

This the guy who is gay with a limp dick viagra can't help?
what he is signing.......does it benefit us or them?

 

[kyzr]

Trump ensured the JCPOA never reached its end point by withdrawing the USA from the agreement in 2018.
A mess that is entirely the responsibility of Trump and which will likely be his legacy.

Getting Iran to forego its nuclear weapons and ICBM programs is the goal, cleaning up the "diplomatic" mess.

 

[kyzr]

Do you think we can hold out? Our strategic reserves will run dry by July, then oil is going to spike again.

Not a math major?
Here are the numbers, there are about 40 weeks of oil remaining in the SPR, way more than we need to outlast Iran:
From Copilot:
Recent data shows the SPR holding about 365 million barrels as of late May 2026 — the lowest level since mid‑April 2024 and approaching levels last seen in August 1983.
Other reports confirm similar figures, noting a weekly drop of 9.1 million barrels and a total inventory of 365.1 million barrels.

 

[JoeB131]

Not a math major?
Here are the numbers, there are about 40 weeks of oil remaining in the SPR, way more than we need to outlast Iran:
From Copilot:
Recent data shows the SPR holding about 365 million barrels as of late May 2026 — the lowest level since mid‑April 2024 and approaching levels last seen in August 1983.
Other reports confirm similar figures, noting a weekly drop of 9.1 million barrels and a total inventory of 365.1 million barrels.

This is why you shouldn't use Copilot to tell you what you want to hear.

MSN

Analysts caution these are temporary fixes, with Macquarie warning prices could surge to $130–$150 by Labor Day, and potentially $200 in 2027 if the closure persists.

Coordinated emergency releases of over 400 million barrels since March are projected to run dry around July 9, removing the key buffer preventing a price spiral. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest since April 2024 and could hit legal or geological minimums by autumn, limiting further drawdowns. Without reopening the Strait or finding new supply, the market's only balancing tool will be steep price hikes to force demand cuts, historically a trigger for recession.


The problem with the SPR is that it can't go below 150 million barrels. Because it is kept in salt caverns, it has a geological medium.

 

[markef]

Um, guy, get real.

Trump is the one who sold out our allies with the Doha accords.

The agreement he made was to pull out the last of our troops by May 2021 (Biden extended that to August to allow the contractors more time to leave)

There was no contingency to take back the equipment we gave the Afghan military

Everyone knew after Doha that our puppet government was a dead man walking.

Trump's withdrawal agreement had key conditions in order to guarantee a safe withdrawal. Biden' buffoons scrapped all those conditions.