1 hour ago, connda said:

What deal. It doesn't look like the MOU is going to survive even one day. It's a good chance to buy oil stocks if you missed the first time around.

Source: Times of Israel

Would not bet against you !! but the question now is how is trump going to handle it ???

This MOU just puts Iran in the driving seat. The US confirmed to Iran by signing they are desperate for a way out and Itan will drag out negotiations. I cannot see them ever signing anything meaningful about giving up the Uranium they have processed.

They also now know how desperate the US is to keep the straight open and Iran can open and close it easily.

They will be super pleased to be charging $2 million for ships to transit, something Trump said he would not allow.

1 hour ago, BexMan said:

This MOU just puts Iran in the driving seat. The US confirmed to Iran by signing they are desperate for a way out and Itan will drag out negotiations. I cannot see them ever signing anything meaningful about giving up the Uranium they have processed.

They also now know how desperate the US is to keep the straight open and Iran can open and close it easily.

They will be super pleased to be charging $2 million for ships to transit, something Trump said he would not allow.

And how would you know what they will be charging !!

On 6/18/2026 at 3:52 PM, webfact said:

Senate Republicans are voicing growing concerns over President Trump’s agreement with Iran ...

I don't get it. The demand was for unconditional surrender and that's what they got. Can't ask more.

But seriously, apparently Sec. of Energy, Chris Wright, told Trump last week that it wasn't oil prices that he was worried but that there would be no more oil. At all. The strategic reserves would fall to a level in a few weeks where you can't draw on them because of the sludge. And the VLCCs stuck in the Gulf would take a few weeks to reach their destinations even if allowed to sail on the day.

Now, Trump may be dumb be he ain't stupid. The math wasn't hard. Neither were the Iranians showing any sign of caving to the blockade. So, as Churchill once said, You can trust the Americans to do the right thing after they have explored all the alternatives.

14 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

It was not controlling oil Iran student did so because Jimmy Cater allow the former Shad medical treatment into the U.S.

So the problem was to do with the Shah? Who put the Shah in power? Why did they put the Shah in power? Could those reasons be partly to do with what happened 47 years ago? Can you join the dots?

38 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

So the problem was to do with the Shah? Who put the Shah in power? Why did they put the Shah in power? Could those reasons be partly to do with what happened 47 years ago? Can you join the dots?

These are legit question but my response was it was for oil, on top I didn't know and I responded! yout question is for further discussion join the dots which I have no interest to do so it was the past right or wrong for whatever reasons.

Why discuss no one seems to respect anyone else opinion except theirs. But it seems those who 47 years ago who wanted the shad out now want the same government back. Funny how times might have changed is there a right government who really know it seems fighting is the only thing going in this region.

My feeling is U.S. needs to withdraw and worry about themselves and let them have it any way they desire defend your region yourself but we all know that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

5 minutes ago, thailand49 said:

These are legit question but my response was it was for oil, on top I didn't know and I responded! yout question is for further discussion join the dots which I have no interest to do so it was the past right or wrong for whatever reasons.

Why discuss no one seems to respect anyone else opinion except theirs. But it seems those who 47 years ago who wanted the shad out now want the same government back. Funny how times might have changed is there a right government who really know it seems fighting is the only thing going in this region.

My feeling is U.S. needs to withdraw and worry about themselves and let them have it any way they desire defend your region yourself but we all know that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

My god !, this is hard to read ,!! so confusing !!

1 hour ago, thailand49 said:

It was not controlling oil Iran student did so because Jimmy Cater allow the former Shad medical treatment into the U.S.

Utter rubbish !!

The United States (CIA) and the United Kingdom (MI6) put the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in power by orchestrating a coup d'état in August 1953.

Operation Ajax by the CIA—overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, after he nationalized the country's oil industry. The 1953 coup eliminated the Prime Minister's political power and reinstated the Shah as an absolute monarch, cementing Western influence in the region The US and the UK wanted Irans Oil.

The Shah's regime was overthrown because it was corrupt, repressive, and overly reliant on foreign powers, particularly the United States and the United Kingdom, at the expense of Iran's sovereignty and cultural identity. he was forced to flee !

Decades of resentment boiled over in 1979 regarding the U.S.-backed 1953 coup that overthrew Iran's prime minister and installed the autocratic Shah.

1979, the Carter administration allowed the exiled Shah into the United States for cancer treatment, a move that enraged Iranian revolutionaries who suspected it was a prelude to a U.S.-backed restoration.

The US and UK wanted the oil originally, The raid on the embassy was nothing to do with oil !

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I blame this on that leftist democrat cult! It's all their fault! It always is. Damned commies...