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This may have been a rope a dope strategy by Trump. Give in to a 2 week ceasefire so United States can continue to move troops and materiel into the region and allow the airmen to regroup, etc.

Starting to feel like “the agreement” Trump claimed is just a rope a dope to drop the hammer but we shall see.

So Trump can try to speak a ceasefire into existence but Iran hasn’t said anything. What’s really happening?

So vessel traffic through the Strait needs to go back to how it was pre-war for this to mean anything.

TACO’d.

And then 2 weeks from now there will be another 2 week deadline until the U.S. has been in Iran for 2 years.

Trump didn’t mention any further details about talks or negotiations. I thought that was a fairly big tell.

Once the United States leaves, Iran will still control the Strait and will wield an inordinate amount of power and influence over the global economy.

Stock market jumped on unconfirmed reports that Iranian President Pezeshkian is "open to ending the war". Is anyone else seeing this report anywhere?

So apparently Witkoff and Kushner “spoke throughout the night” to “whoever is in charge” in Iran and “they want to make a deal” but it’s “not the Supreme Leader”. So who is making a deal on behalf of Iran if that’s true?