The US secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between Qatar and Iran, under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz, three diplomatic officials now confirm.
This was a deliberate and conscious course of action by the US administration, which allowed its navy to turn a blind eye to the arrangement, in complete contradiction of its declared policy. The move was intended to ease the crisis in global energy markets and curb rising oil prices.
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Asked for comment about UFC Fighter Josh Hokit saying “Michelle Obama is a man” in his post fight interview, WH spokesman Steven Cheung said “He had a great win last night. He showed toughness and the ability to pressure his opponent both on his feet and on the ground.”
"The US secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between #Qatar and #Iran, under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz, three diplomatic officials now confirm."
"The secret US approval, which the sources said was granted about a month ago, dovetailed with Doha's interest in opening a direct channel of communication with Tehran, which began to tighten after the ceasefire. Qatar, fearing a renewed Iranian attack on its facilities after one of its gas installations was attacked during the war, sought to buy security quiet."
"Some of the payments were disguised as fees for tankers passing through Hormuz, and a broad credit line of up to $1 billion was also opened for the purchase of goods through Qatar."
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What a loser Hochul is.
During the Championship Playoffs it was announced that Texas ranks #1 for Fortune 500 HQs. A title once held by NY.
Unlike the Knicks title, Texas’s lead over New York in business and new jobs will continue… forever.
CBS: The Iranians are saying they're gonna have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false?
JD VANCE: That's the sort of things they could have access to so long as they honor their end of the obligation
President Trump's investment accounts traded between $212 million and $695 million in stocks and other securities in the first three months of the year — an unprecedented sum for a sitting president. cbsn.ws/4eqg612
🚨 In a now-deleted post, Daniel Cormier exposed Eric Trump for asking him if any of the UFC White House fights were rigged:
"I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for bringing this to light, however I refuse to stay silent... Shame on anyone trying to ruin this beautiful event."
@NoVA_Campaigns@MontuMariana@GovernorVA@DominionEnergy What is with you freaks being against wind turbines like they don’t work and while oil production destroyers habitas all over the world. Yall are a bunch of fucking freaks
Former @GovernorVA George Allen’s daughter took a picture today from the dunes in Virginia Beach. The costly, gigantic & inefficient turbines of CVOW are 💯 visible to the naked eye… @DominionEnergy admitted they might produce ⚡️ only 40% of the time with all 176 turbines
BRENNAN: But there is a crisis with those weapons stockpiles right now
HEGSETH: No there is not. That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle
BRENNAN: You have testified to it in front of Congress
HEGSETH: You don't have to read back to me what I testified
Your meme with the big red map and “small pockets of blue shitholes” is classic dumb geography fail. Those blue pockets — dense cities, suburbs, and coastal metros — are where the overwhelming majority of Americans actually live.
About 80% of the U.S. population is urban or suburban. The vast empty red spaces on a land map contain far fewer people.
Empty acres don’t vote. People do.
Trump won the popular vote, sure. But sneering at the concentrated engines of American prosperity as “shitholes” is pathetic elitism in reverse. Those “small pockets” generate the lion’s share of:
GDP, tax revenue, innovation, tech, finance, culture, medicine, and global power.
They house most of the educated workforce, young people, and future growth.
Your “Red Kingdom” of wide-open land includes vital farms and energy, but pretending it’s the “real America” while insulting the places where most citizens live, work, and build wealth is just resentful cope.
America isn’t a kingdom of empty dirt with a few annoying blue exceptions. It’s a country of people — densely packed in some places, spread out in others — and your map reduces complex reality to childish insults.
Grow up.
Beyond iconic man, idc where you are politically Fucking Alex coming from a tire shop, alcoholic to doing his walkout on the White House is stuff of dreams
I personally don’t care for Politics but I’m very happy for the fighters involved, I’m sure none of em thought they’d be doing something like this
BREAKING: Iran directly rejects Trump's new claim of a deal being signed tomorrow, saying the insistence on signing the deal on specifically Sunday is engineered around his own birthday, calling it a "propaganda event" that Trump is trying to turn into a unilateral "symbolic occasion" for himself, along with his UFC White House event, per Fars.
The Iranian negotiating team says it "will not permit such a media and ceremonial manoeuvre," explicitly stating that the memorandum of understanding has not been finalized and no signing will happen.
The UAE is releasing billions of dollars to Iran as part of a deal to reduce bilateral tensions and assist with reopening the strait.
It could be as much as $20 billion. $3 billion has already been delivered, confirming rumors from earlier this week.
The move comes after the emirates emerged as the single largest target for Iranian missiles and drones during the war.
From confrontation to accommodation. reuters.com/world/middle-e…