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Swaps given "to prevent disorderly sale of US assets." Translation: some holders can't sell. ICYDK: hidden single-digit % sale cap limits some institutional holders. Door closes if things escalate. Get out while open. Their frontline is the yield curve. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/…


⭕️ FT: Pakistan's army chief is the unlikely broker of US-Iran talks but faces mounting doubts over his neutrality and ability to secure a deal 🔹Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan's most powerful figure, has emerged as the surprise lead mediator between the US and Iran where he has been spending days in Tehran meeting not just political leaders but the Revolutionary Guards, while staying in constant phone contact with the White House, the Financial Times reports. 🔹Ali Vaez, an Iran specialist at the International Crisis Group think-tank, described his approach as “a whole-of-the-system approach to mediation”, personally engaging every major Iranian power centre to ensure no faction feels left out. Pakistani officials were so confident Iran would attend a second round of talks in Islamabad that authorities locked down swaths of the city and prepared signs celebrating an "Islamabad Peace Deal." Iran didn't show. 🔹Analysts and diplomats are increasingly questioning Pakistan's neutrality; they have signed a mutual defence agreement with Saudi Arabia, deepened financial ties with Trump's circle, and have avoided publicly criticising the naval blockade or pushing back on Israel's exclusion of Lebanon from the ceasefire.




Periodic reminder that today would be an excellent day to denaturalize and deport Mehdi Hasan


“Very good news! I have just been informed that eight women protestors who were going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer be killed…” - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸













