"The relief that swept markets in the morning lasted approximately four hours before the Beirut strikes, the suspended strait, and the competing violation lists reframed it."

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/2

"Israel’s attacks on Beirut have caused widespread devastation, killing at least 200 people on one of the deadliest days of the conflict."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Iran #Israel #Lebanon #Beirut #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/3

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-says-military-read-for

"Iran is now charging a $2 billion toll on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, effectively boosting its own economy by 15% while American consumers foot the bill. That is, as Cliff said on the show, 'just a wholly absurd outcome from a wholly absurd President and a wholly unnecessary attack.'”

~ Cliff Schechter

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/4

https://www.blueamp.co/p/trump-humiliated-in-iran-standoff

"This will become the 'ninth war' that President Art O’Deal has 'stopped.' Iran walks away with more than it had in the previous agreement it struck with the Obama administration. Israel is still firing missiles into Iran, to say nothing of laying waste to half of Lebanon. Iran maintains control of the Strait of Hormuz."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/5

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70965582/trump-hegseth-vance-iran-war-ceasefire/

"Indeed, the deal turns the strait into an Iranian tollbooth. I think we’re lucky that Iran doesn’t now own half of Montana. On the other hand, Pete Hegseth thinks the whole thing is/was a masterstroke."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
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"One of Trump’s Truthed conditions for a ceasefire was the 'SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz.' The White House appeared ready to declare that condition met. But even this morning, before reports emerged that Iran was once again closing the strait, there was some fine print."

~ John Light

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/7

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/open-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder

"As David [Kurtz] noted in Morning Memo, Iran, through the ceasefire, now has quite a bit more control over the strait than it had before the war started, saying that it will control it jointly with Oman. The Financial Times reported this morning that Iran will charge boats crypto to get through, and, seemingly, leisurely inspect them as they make the passage."

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"This all flew in the face of the alternate reality being advanced by the White House, with Trump claiming the U.S. is going to get a cut of these ships’ fees."

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/9

David Kurtz offers a sampling of headlines today about Trump's "ceasefire" deal." See below.

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/10

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/pentagon-threatened-pope-after-he

"The last thirty-six hours have shown us the truth. Trump’s threats aren’t only a blot on America’s conscience and stain on our standing in the world, which now sees America as a country that might threaten the worst possible crimes to get what it wants. They’re also a total failure on their own terms."

~ Andrew Egger

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/11

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/iran-schools-trump-in-the-art-of-the-deal-hormuz-war-oil-strait-ceasefire-lebanon-israel

"For all intents and purposes, the ceasefire we announced with so much fanfare on Tuesday has already ceased to exist—indeed, never existed at all."

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
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"What Donald Trump has accomplished, if you want to call it an accomplishment, in doing this absolutely ridiculous, needless war is to effectively end even the perception of American power, and particularly American power in the region."

Joy-Ann Reid

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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/trump-humiliated-on-iran-and-cenk

"And he's elevated other countries, other powers, to a position where they are allowed and have the ability to negotiate with the United States on roughly an even footing in many ways."

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"When Trump announced the ceasefire last night, I called it fake. Nothing that has transpired today has changed my mind. ...

Trump wanted the world to know that he had his finger on the button, and he was willing to use it. Then he backed down, announcing that Iran had agreed to a ceasefire that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/15

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/forty-days-of-war-crimes

"His announcement immediately sent stocks soaring and the price of oil down. That’s what he wanted. Money. ...

I guess we have reached the sad nadir as a nation that we should be thankful Trump is an outrageous crook."

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/16

"The only thing that’s saving us, and the world, from Trump using a nuclear weapon is his greed, even though it’s clear after this week that if he could figure out a way to make a buck from blowing up a civilization and killing millions of people, he would."

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/17

"The latest 'ceasefire' lasted less than twenty-four hours. Why? Because the aggression is no longer about security; it is about Benjamin Netanyahu’s expansionist project for a 'Greater Israel.'"

~ Danielle Moodie

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/18

https://daniellemoodie.substack.com/p/the-scalp-hunters-how-the-politics

"While the White House mumbles about 'linguistic challenges' and 'interpretation issues'—the inevitable result of firing the State Department’s seasoned negotiators to 'clean out the deep state'—the reality is simple: Israel blew up the deal."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/19

Laura Silver reports on some of Pew's latest findings:

"60% of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of Israel, up from 53% last year.

59% have little or no confidence in Netanyahu to do the right thing regarding world affairs – up from 52% last year.

In both political parties, majorities of adults under the age of 50 now rate Israel and Netanyahu negatively."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire
/20

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-views-of-israel-netanyahu-continue-to-rise-among-americans-especially-young-people/

"I don't know if you've looked at corporate media today. Oh, my God. They're honestly treating this like it's an actual ceasefire."

~ Jared Yates Sexton

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire #media
/21

https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-empire-is-bleeding-out-the-check

"If Joe Biden had done anything close to this, can you imagine how it would be covered?

Polling suggests that a majority of the American people have already reached the conclusion that Trump is unfit. Even though he cannot run for another term, he still has almost three more years to wreak havoc."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire #media
/22

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/if-joe-biden-had

"And one of the primary reasons he is back in power is that he was covered, as both a candidate and a president, with enough credulity, sanewashing, and false equivalence to be portrayed as fit to serve when he has been anything but."

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire #media
/23

"Despite the media-bashing president ramping up his already white-hot incitement towards the fourth estate to new levels, the White House press corps tasked to cover him has delivered a collective shrug.

And all the while, the elite political media class is prepping to spend a night publicly feting this man during a lavish party."

~ Justin Baragona

Bless its heart: a lapdog must be a lapdog, after all.

#Trump #Iran #Israel #war #StraitofHormuz #ceasefire #media
/24

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-threatens-to-jail-press-ragebait

"Most of the media spent Wednesday describing the alleged two-week ceasefire in Trump’s war on Iran as 'fragile.' Better descriptions would be 'non-existent,' 'failed,' or 'notional.' Bottom line: Trump needed a ceasefire—any ceasefire—to give himself an offramp from his threat to destroy the 'whole civilization' of Iran, so he claimed he had an agreement for a ceasefire."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

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/25

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/some-good-news-amidst-the-chaos