— 🇮🇷 NEW: Every major underground missile base in Iran is now back in operation, either fully or partially

About 80% of all tunnel entrances that were collapsed during the war have been restored as of this moment.

Some minor clearing still needs to happen in heavy hit places like Tabriz, Khorammabad and Kermanshah.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘We haven’t made a deal with Iran yet, and I’m not happy about that. We’re not satisfied with what they’re offering.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran will not receive sanctions relief for giving up the enriched uranium’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran thinks I want the war to end because of the midterm election, that’s not true, I don’t care about that at all’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency warns that President Trump could unilaterally announce an Iran-U.S. deal before all differences have been resolved, in an attempt to pressure Iran to accept the current U.S. version of the draft

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 President Trump on joint Iranian-Omani control over Hormuz:

‘Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we’ll have to blow them up. I’m sure they understand that.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘There won’t be any easing of sanctions on Iran or giving them money. No sanctions relief, no money—nothing.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘Would you be comfortable with Russia or China taking Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium?’

President Trump: ‘No, I wouldn’t be comfortable with that’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇸🇦/🇶🇦 NEW: President Trump says maybe he shouldn’t even sign a deal with Iran if Saudi Arabia and Qatar don’t join the Abraham Accords to make peace with Israel

Trump is basically threatening to keep bombing Iran and letting the Gulf Arabs deal with the consequences, unless they recognize Israel. What a great ally!

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🇮🇷🇺🇸| According to Iran’s national TV (IRIB):

Iran’s demands are:
• A permanent ceasefire
• US withdrawal from the region
• No interference in Iran
• Full sanctions relief
• Release of blocked funds
• +$300B in reconstruction compensation
• Control/management of maritime traffic.

In return, Iran would also take reciprocal steps.

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Very nice but anyone who thinks America will agree to even one of these conditions is completely delusional.

And even if they do agree they’ll never keep their promise. It’s the United States, their word is meaningless.

It’s literally better to just keep getting bombed, at least we’ll know where we stand and not have false expectations.

— The maximum I see America agreeing to (best case scenario):

– Release half of Iran’s frozen funds, about $12 Billion USD.

Which is not really a concession because the money already belongs to Iran.

– Limited drawdown of American forces in the Middle East.

Which is also not really a concession, because the U.S. carrier groups and refuelers would eventually have to leave anyway due to high costs.

– Accepting Iranian ‘influence’ over the Strait of Hormuz, like maybe being able to determine the flow of traffic and charging some bullshit environmental tax that won’t be anywhere near as beneficial as tolls.

And that’s about it. Literally that’s all.

Anything else they’re offering will come AFTER Iran either gives up its enriched uranium stockpile (which would be a disaster) and even then I doubt they’ll abide by their promise, like giving Iran the other half of frozen funds or providing any sort of sanctions relief.

The reality is that America will never allow Iran to prosper, unless it makes peace with Israel, which is absolutely out of the question. So there will be zero sanctions relief no matter what Iran does. Even if the U.S. promises sanctions relief, they’ll find ways not to.

That’s why I say a deal is illogical and not beneficial, and experience has shown this, and the martyr Khamenei has said this 10000x times.

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Iran has leverage, most importantly by being able to threaten security of the Gulf Arabs and their puppet masters.

And the oil supply hubs of the region were not yet sufficiently targeted, presumably because Iran is keeping it for leverage in a worst-case scenario.

Even against Israel, Iran has some military leverage. In the last few days of the war, interception rates were falling rapidly due to degrading stockpiles. But then, it stopped, because it was decided to negotiate.

Iran just always stops right when the pressure on the enemy starts to kick in. Because some of the officials still have a delusional belief that diplomacy is possible. As long as this mindset prevails among the country’s elites (among them Araqchi, and yes, also Qalibaf), nothing will change.

I pray that the officials will at some point start to really listen to the words of Martyr Khamenei and the new Leader, his son, Sayyed Mojtaba.

I seek refuge in Allah from whatever that thing is

I wonder if she’s related to Staff Sergeant Hamburger

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Clashes between the U.S. and Iran in the Persian Gulf

Air defenses in Bandar Abbas have been activated.

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