U.S. and Iran Far From Peace Deal as War Hits 100 Days
Talks are stalled over frozen Iranian assets as U.S. Central Command says two attack drones were shot down near the Strait of Hormuz.
- The U.S. and Iran appear to be making little progress toward an interim deal 100 days into the war Washington and Israel began, as fresh attacks pile pressure on a fragile ceasefire.
- Since the U.S. and Israel began hitting Iran on February 28, Tehran and its proxies have launched missile and drone attacks on industrial sites and military facilities across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
- On Friday, Centcom intercepted six ballistic missiles fired at Bahrain and Kuwait, and on Sunday, the command downed two Iranian attack drones threatening maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Negotiations between Washington and Tehran remain bogged down over frozen assets and the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, even as Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi met Iran's top envoy Abbas Araghchi in Tehran to discuss mediation.
- West Texas Intermediate crude ended the week above $90 a barrel, with Brent closing near $93; President Donald Trump remarked, "Today I looked at $96 a barrel, people thought that was going to be $300 a barrel.
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The Iran Stalemate Could Be the Next Oil Supercycle Trigger
As one deadline for a peace deal in the U.S./Israel-Iran war passes another, the chance of no firm agreement being struck to end the conflict in the coming months is rising dramatically. There are good reasons why Washington under President Donald Trump may be perfectly happy to keep this conflict simmering as it is, including the effective closure of the world’s critical transit route, the Strait of Hormuz. There are also good reasons why Tehra…
Nothing Donald Trump can do that does not mean to sow uncertainty or chaos. Only his absence of scruples overcomes the strategic vacuum with which he directs his wars and his clumsy and fruitless purposes of peace. One hundred days have passed since he launched all of America’s formidable military force over Iran’s Islamist dictatorship to topple the regime’s leadership. More than half of this time, occupied by a fragile truce, constantly violat…
U.S. and Iran far from peace deal as war hits 100 days
(CNN, KYMA) - It's been 100 days since the U.S. and Israel first launched strikes on Iran, and despite efforts toward a peace deal, negotiations between the U.S. and Iran appear stalled. "The main problem of negotiating with this administration is that you have to face so many changing positions. It makes the whole process very cumbersome, very unstable," said Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Baghaei says the sides…
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