Iran formally responded to Trump’s peace plan: No deal

Here’s a submit from Tansim, translated:

• An knowledgeable supply advised Tasnim Information Company that Iran’s response to the 15-point proposal from america was formally delivered final night time by way of intermediaries, and Iran is awaiting the opposite aspect’s reply.

• In response to this supply, Iran acknowledged in its response that acts of aggression and assassination by the enemy should finish; goal situations have to be created to make sure the conflict is not going to be repeated; compensation and conflict reparations have to be assured and clearly outlined; and the top of the conflict throughout all fronts—together with all resistance teams concerned within the battle all through the area—have to be applied.

• The supply added that Iran’s assertion of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz is its pure and authorized proper and have to be acknowledged, together with ensures that the opposite aspect’s commitments can be applied. These situations are along with the calls for Iran offered through the second spherical of negotiations in Geneva (a number of days earlier than the U.S. and Israeli assault within the month of Esfand).

• The supply additionally emphasised that, for Iran, it’s clear that the U.S. declare of negotiations is merely a “third deception challenge,” and that the Individuals are pursuing a number of targets underneath the duvet of negotiations:

  1. deceptive the world by presenting a seemingly peace-seeking picture,

  2. retaining international oil costs low, and

  3. shopping for time to arrange for a brand new aggressive motion in southern Iran by way of a floor incursion.

• The supply famous that even earlier than the “12-day conflict,” Iran had doubts concerning the consequence of negotiations and U.S. adherence to agreements, however since that conflict, it has full doubt concerning the U.S.’s willingness to barter at any stage. In response to the supply, the Individuals initiated battle each through the “12-day conflict” and through the Ramadan conflict whereas negotiations have been ongoing, and are actually once more utilizing negotiations as a canopy to arrange for brand new aggression.

It does sound like there’s a little bit of a foundation to go ahead right here because it does cite the Geneva negotiations simply earlier than the conflict. Nevertheless the management of Hormuz is a troublesome start line and can be a humiliating consequence for the US.

It is not clear whether or not Trump had acquired this when he wrote this morning:

The Iranian negotiators are very completely different and “unusual.” They’re
“begging” us to make a deal, which they need to be doing since they’ve
been militarily obliterated, with zero likelihood of a comeback, and but
they publicly state that they’re solely “ our proposal.”
WRONG!!! They higher get severe quickly, earlier than it’s too late, as a result of
as soon as that occurs, there may be NO TURNING BACK, and it received’t be fairly!
President DJT

That is going to be a really tense weekend and I wrestle to see how US shares may maintain agency forward of Friday’s shut with out some materials excellent news.