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@FirstSquawk We know the exact opposite is true. Iran leadership are a bunch of psychotic, lying rats.

IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY: THE FOUR IRANIANS DETAINED BY KUWAIT WERE CARRYING OUT A STANDARD MARITIME PATROL OPERATION AND CROSSED INTO KUWAIT'S TERRITORIAL WATERS DUE TO A MALFUNCTION IN THEIR NAVIGATION SYSTEM

@FirstSquawk Let’s get a new Treaty Organization going in the Mid East.

UAE PRESIDENT AND TRUMP DISCUSSED STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AND ASSESSED MIDDLE EAST DEVELOPMENTS IN A PHONE CALL – EMIRATI NEWS AGENCY

@RoKhanna Keep making our argument to scrap the filibuster. TDS has turned your brain to yogurt.

The next Democratic White House does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar. We need action. We need term limits for Justices. We need to expand this morally bankrupt Court from 9 to 13.

@Osint613 Ask the Iranian citizenry what they want. Sadly they’d be murdered and you arrested. That’s the regime you love. Time to erase them.

Iran says it will not discuss its nuclear program with the U.S. unless five conditions are met: an end to the war on all fronts, full sanctions relief, release of frozen assets, war reparations, and recognition of Iran's sovereign right over the Strait of Hormuz. - Al Jazeera

@FirstSquawk Japan refused to surrender, with ridiculous boasting about inflicting humiliating defeat on the U.S., before they did.

Iranian state media says US plan 'meant Iran's surrender to Trump's greed'

@eugny196958443 @Osint613 No. We are also laughing at you. 🫵🤡

@Osint613 All of U laughing at the Iranians should remember that they effected severe damage on our bases throughout the Gulf. U should remember that Russia is providing them with critical intelligence to locate targets, at the least. And China has blatantly said they will defy sanctions.

NEW: Irans National Security Spokesman Ebrahim Rezaei to President Trump: “The Best Course Is to Surrender” “As of today, our restraint is over. Any aggression against our vessels will be met with a heavy and decisive Iranian response against American vessels and bases. The clock is ticking against the Americans' interests; it is to their benefit not to act foolishly and sink themselves deeper into the quagmire they have fallen into. The best course is to surrender and concede concessions. You must get used to the new regional order.”

@Ironball_T @Osint613 Just listened to a podcast on the fall of the Aztecs. This is exactly how they fought right up until they were, rather simply, captured and beheaded.

@Osint613 Are all Iranian regime people blowhards full of nonsensical bluster? They all share the ridiculous trait. As if noisy bellicose rhetoric equals military capability. It's weird. Is it a cultural thing?

@Osint613 My advice is “crawl back underground. Really deep”.

@Osint613 🙄 It hasn’t sunk in yet. They seriously think, if you don’t yield you have won. No arms, no legs, just laying there taunting with no means to actually do anything like Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Iran’s response to the American proposal: Ending the war means ending the war on all fronts, including Lebanon. -JP

@FirstSquawk Iran stupidly pushing the Region toward a Gulf states, if not the entire Mid East, Treaty organization like NATO. WHO ever imagined Israel would be helping to protect UAE? Crazy.

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General: Iran's treacherous approach seeks to destabilize the region and security

@iriaosa5735 @FirstSquawk They’ve just killed 400X that of their own citizens and fired missiles at neutral Gulf neighbors. The regime is the worst on the planet and need to be exterminated like rats.

@FirstSquawk Gcc, Israel and USA are the ones that destabilized the region. I don't remember Iran triple tapping a childs school and killing their leaders

@spencer0420levi @Osint613 Anyone believing Iran, with its current leadership, should stay in existence is a complete loon. Finish it 💥

Iran is bleeding $80M a day just to keep its own people in the dark. That’s not "defense"—it’s a regime committing economic suicide in real-time! 📉🩸 The Mullahs are so terrified of the Truth that they’d rather bankrupt their nation than allow a free internet. 🤡🚫 In 2026, you can't run a modern country like a 7th-century fortress. While they burn $80M a day on blackouts, the Reset is draining their remaining reserves. The clock is ticking, Tehran! 🦅🛡️⚖️ Freedom is expensive, but Tyranny is costing you everything! 🎙️💥🇮🇷

Iran's internet blackout is bleeding $80 million a day in losses, a senior Iranian tech industry figure told the New York Times.

@Osint613 So what.

A recent photo shows an IRGC Aerospace Force pilot standing in front of a Shahed-129 drone equipped with satellite guidance and what appears to be either a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) pod or a SIGINT/ELINT collection system mounted on the side.

@MarioNawfal 😭

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Iran war just got its insider trading scandal, and it's a $7 billion one... A Reuters analysis found that traders placed up to $7 billion in well-timed bets on falling oil prices shortly before major Iran-related announcements by Trump and Iranian officials in March and April. The trades hit crude oil, diesel, and gasoline futures on the Intercontinental Exchange and CME Group. They occurred minutes before announcements on ceasefires, delays to attacks, and the reopening of Hormuz that triggered sharp oil price drops. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice are now actively examining the trades amid concerns they involved insider information. The pattern is highly suspicious. Someone, or several people, knew when major announcements were coming before they were public. They placed massive short positions on oil futures in the minutes before Trump's Truth Social posts and Iranian official statements that crashed prices. They did this multiple times across multiple platforms and multiple commodity products. $7 billion in bets is not a single rogue trader getting lucky on news flow. That's a coordinated operation with access to information that should have been confidential. The list of people who would have advance knowledge is small. Senior White House officials. Pentagon leadership. State Department negotiators. Iranian government officials and military commanders. Pakistani, Russian, Qatari, and Chinese mediators with direct access to the negotiations. Any of those individuals or their close contacts could have profited massively from knowing what was about to be announced. This is the Polymarket Maduro raid scandal scaled up by orders of magnitude. That case involved a U.S. spec ops soldier placing bets on a single operation. This involves billions of dollars across multiple events spanning two months of war. The investigative scope alone tells you the seriousness with which DOJ and CFTC are treating this. The political implications are explosive. If American officials profited from advance knowledge of war decisions, that's a constitutional crisis. The Iran war already made the U.S. energy industry the biggest commercial winner of the conflict. Now reports suggest a small group of insiders may have made personal fortunes profiting from advance knowledge of when the war would briefly pause and oil would crash. The American public absorbing $4.39 gas at the pump was funding their windfall. Source: Reuters

@GavinNewsom Not only is the MAGA king in your head, his feet are on the furniture, he’s tossing peanut shells on the carpet and farting into your sofa cushions.

Canceling elections. Silencing free speech. Deploying private police against your own citizens. History has a term for Donald Trump's behavior.

@gbrew24 When things go silent very bad things generally happen to the other side.

US originally said they expected Iran's response to the latest US proposal on Thursday. That didn't happen. Trump and Rubio then said they expected the response on Friday. Didn't happen. Iran is taking its time preparing a response. Meanwhile, silence. No Trump posts threatening Armageddon. No new deadlines. US seems content to wait.

@allenanalysis Two democratic presidents had access to the full files and did nothing. If he really said this, your boyfriend Ted is a moron.

Ted Lieu says the unreleased Epstein files show Trump r*ping children. That’s what’s being hidden. That’s why the files stay sealed. That’s why there are no arrests. Release everything. Or resign.

@FirstSquawk Yeesh. This site is fast losing credibility. We own the seas all the way to the ocean floor. Clown take.😵‍💫

IRAN MOVES TO TAKE CONTROL OF UNDERSEA INTERNET CABLES IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ FOREIGN OPERATORS MAY BE FORCED TO GET IRANIAN PERMITS, PAY TRANSIT FEES, AND FOLLOW IRANIAN LAW, ACCORDING TO FARS THE CABLES CARRY A LARGE SHARE OF GLOBAL DATA TRAFFIC BETWEEN EUROPE, THE GULF, AND ASIA IRAN ALSO WANTS ALL MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE HANDLED EXCLUSIVELY BY DOMESTIC COMPANIES THE IRGC HAS PREVIOUSLY WARNED IT COULD TARGET SUBMARINE CABLE INFRASTRUCTURE USED BY GULF STATES FOR INTERNET, BANKING, AND CLOUD SERVICES

@MeidasTouch Seemingly like most libs you stayed on your mother’s bosom too long didn’t you?

The humiliation for Donald Trump is playing out on the world stage. Iran’s foreign minister is now holding public talks with country after country—Japan, Saudi Arabia, India, Brazil, the UK, Italy, South Korea, and many more. Why? Because nations around the world are recognizing that Iran now holds enormous leverage over the Strait of Hormuz and global shipping. The U.S. Navy remains the most powerful naval force in history. Our service members are second to none. But under Trump’s chaotic leadership, allies are adjusting to a world in which America appears weakened and isolated.

@Rozz74637537571 @Osint613 You probably believe they are all destroyed along with the AI memes of our ships and aircraft getting sunk and brought down. 😂🤡

@Osint613 Trump probably thinks all the bases in the gulf are still untouched.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Bye bye, drones"