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"Iran's foreign ministry has issued a statement, saying: "We deny what US President Donald Trump said regarding negotiations taking place between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran."
Quoted by CBS News, the BBC's US partner, the foreign ministry adds: "The Islamic Republic of Iran adheres to its position rejecting any type of negotiations before achieving Iran's goals from the war.”
Do we know iran's war goals?
Unlike the unstable orange man Iran follows their plan meticulously.
They reach their goals and list every counter measure and possible targets when the USSA makes a threat (against Kharg Island or the energy infrastructure).
Follow what they say, not what the western regime says they say.
Id believe theres a plan being followed. I just am not aware of them having told anyone else what it is.
They publish it and it is reported on, despite the censorship of western media it is still accessible on other channels if you want to be aware.
https://en.ypagency.net/387687
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/20318?single
Not that I doubt, this is what I assumed was happening when the orange pedophile says anything (i.e. if he says X then it must be Y)
But best to post links to sources
Bbc.com
Pumping that stock market.
This is all probably made up. Trump does these posts all the time and the other side comes out and says we have agreed to shit. There just for his base to go wow what a negotiator! And so he doesn't look like he's just TACOing like usual.
That's my take... last time he said the USA was negotiating with Iran, Iran came out to say they have talked to nobody
I am willing to bet my last $100 that this is just a childish attempt to cool down the jitters in the market
“Immediately after power plants and infrastructure in our country are targeted, vital infrastructure as well as energy and oil infrastructure across the entire region will be considered legitimate targets and will be irreversibly destroyed."
There's the "very good and productive conversation" right there 🤣
Art of the deal!
Just scrolling through lemmy I passed a headline that Iran stated there were no talks.
This fucking idiot has caused the death of tens of thousands of people, the displacement of millions and somehow also managed to fuck up the global energy supply and markets.
I hope they force him away from his golf courses every day to answer questions once the democrats take power and then he ragequits and has a stroke.
nah just pump and dumb
Fucking Boomers, what the Hell is up with the all-caps locks posts? Who are these people?
I fucking feel you, and the ‘thank you for your attention to this matter’ as a sign off with a ‘signature’ is so cringe.
it is so obvious that he's LARPing
Hey I knew that before he did
It's not TACOing, it's blatant market manipulation. It's on purpose.
Very good productive conversations that consist almost entirely on threats via twitter. What a timeline.
Someone must have told him that this would trigger Great Depression 2.0. The BIGGEST, MEANEST, BADDEST depression.
Iran media has already refuted the claims. How many times does Trump think we are to believe his lies, this moron doesn't have a plan except keep the markets from tanking.
Friday’s press gaggle. Barely exaggerated: at 12:03 PM, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 12:05 he declared victory. At 12:07 he announced he was sending Marines. At 12:08 he said no boots on the ground. At 12:11 he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 12:16 he declared victory again. At 12:17 he asked for a ceasefire. At 12:23 he told NATO they were cowards. At 12:29 he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire. At 12:31 he said everything was perfect. At 12:36 he said $500 oil was a good thing. At 12:37 he demanded Iran open Hormuz. At 12:39 he said Hormuz was never closed. At 12:41 he said the US was not at war with Iran. At 12:42 he declared victory in Iran.
By 3:43 PM he told CBS he doesn’t want a ceasefire. By 5:13 PM - 13 minutes after futures markets closed for the weekend, in a coincidence that should be studied in every securities fraud textbook - he posted on Truth Social that the US is “getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts”. The S&P reversed more than 1% in seconds. QQQ had already surged 1.1% in the 80 minutes before the announcement, with call options flowing in at a pace that suggests someone, somewhere, had an itinerary.
From N01 Substack
The investor class will take this all-caps tweet seriously, and then turn around and remind you that they have all the money because they're smarter than you.
Yeah wall street jumped... These fucker are pumping te market again
I think there is some limited truth in this.
I think what really happened is that Iran and the GCC countries had conversations, where Iran confirmed their position, and the GCC countries relayed to Trump that they will default on every single obligation they have to him personally, once their countries are made unlivable.
So in a way, there was a negotiation, just not directly.
Iran publicly stated they would bomb the surrounding infrastructure.
Iran has changed from their past muted responses with limited retaliation, to adopting a similar reaction as the aggressor. Their gas got bombed and Iran then bombed Qatari gas. Then they put out a statement saying they would bomb the region if they got bombed again and Trump walked it back
The only thing that works against the US hegemony is the fear of retaliation and Iran is showing they won't be bullied into submission.
This is a way to threaten them, disguised as peace talks. Y'all are very new to this Trump stuff huh.
