Continuing the theme of might Trump want a long closure of Hormuz, while saying otherwise -- AJ reporting may be relevant.
Trump-favored US oil interests might be pressing for a longer closure with subsequent higher and longer profits for their business. If so, the expectation is they would hide such a policy.
Does "great and meaningful" mean long and drawn out? Trump-speak often has a meaning behind the actual words used, often close to or beyond greatly bending truth. In part - from the start -
A
billboard in Vanak Square in Tehran depicts the Strait of Hormuz with a
caption in Persian reading, "Forever in Iran's hand" [Atta Kenare/AFP]
United
States President Donald Trump says a deal with Iran would either be
“meaningful” or there would be “no deal”, days after claiming an
agreement with Tehran had been “largely negotiated” to end the nearly
three-month war.
“The deal with Iran will either be a great and
meaningful one, or there will be no deal,” he wrote on his social media
platform Truth Social on Monday.
Washington
and Tehran have observed a ceasefire since April 8 while mediators push
for a negotiated settlement although Iran has continued to block the
Strait of Hormuz to most shipping and the US has blockaded Iran’s ports.
Earlier
on Monday, Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil
Baghaei said Iran and the US “have reached a conclusion on a large
portion of the discussion topics” but warned that “this does not mean
that the signing of an agreement is imminent.”
Addressing a news
conference in Tehran, Baghaei also emphasised that at this stage, Iran
and the US have not been “talking about the nuclear issue” and their
focus is “on ending the war”, which began on February 28.
Those links to other AJ reports were left in the quote, as they look interesting. Readers may wish to follow up on linked content. I have no idea what "Persian-Style" means, nor how Trump might talk around it.
UPDATE - Bibi troops still run amok in Labanon, and a deal without addressing that would be a strange deal, with Iran seeming disinclined to go that way.
Alan Fisher, Al Jazeera senior correspondent in Washington said: “The
President has repeatedly claimed that Tehran has agreed to various
concessions, only for Iranian officials to deny them. Many argue Trump’s
calculus shifted over the last 24 hours following sharp blowback from
his own base, with critics warning that a weak deal would make the
entire military campaign a waste of time.”
See, Crabgrass here, quoting from a Minnesota Republican-leaning blogger. We await a big, beautiful deal with Iran - which could take a long time to be born. Give it, like a human gestation situation, nine months to be born? Would US big oil find that too long, or too short, from their wishes and perspective?
