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Henry Kissinger signed the petrodollar pact with Saudi Arabia on June 8, 1974. This Sunday the United States and Iran will sign its replacement. Fifty-one years and eleven months later, at the same Strait. Eight Muslim heads of state called Trump with the same message: sign. The two American negotiators have four billion dollars in private Gulf investment. The mountain won. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain consulted the President from the Oval Office on Saturday. So did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu was the only leader urging war. Vice President Vance was recalled from Ohio. Secretary of Defense Hegseth was recalled from West Point. Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir met Pezeshkian in Tehran and left with what Pakistan called encouraging progress. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, was in India. The lead American negotiator was a real estate developer named Steve Witkoff. His cryptocurrency firm World Liberty Financial received a two billion dollar stablecoin investment from a United Arab Emirates-linked entity. The co-negotiator was the President’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, whose Affinity Partners received two billion dollars from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. The United States version of the deal, according to two American officials cited by the New York Times, includes the removal of approximately four hundred forty kilograms of sixty-percent enriched uranium from Iranian territory. The Iranian version, according to a senior Iranian official cited by Reuters on Sunday, includes no such commitment. Nuclear matters will be addressed at some unspecified later date. Trump said the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened. Iran’s Tasnim News Agency said Sunday it will not return to pre-war status. Iran will continue to control passage. Both versions are the same memorandum of understanding. The uranium is believed sealed inside the Isfahan tunnel complex. Three portals backfilled with soil through February. Roadblocks added in April. The IAEA has been denied access. Reuters reported Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei ordered the stockpile to remain inside Iran. Iran’s nuclear deterrent is not a weapon. It is a mountain. The United States is about to sign a deal that leaves it there. Trump told Axios the chances were “fifty-fifty” and without one he would “blow Iran to kingdom come.” He called Netanyahu “torn.” He skipped a family event to remain at the White House. On Friday Justice Clarence Thomas swore in Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair. Trump hosted, the first such ceremony since Reagan and Greenspan in 1987. Republican critics including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the agreement a return to Obama-era policy. Iran’s army downed an Israeli surveillance drone over Hormozgan on Sunday. Gunshots near the White House triggered a security lockdown Sunday morning. The framework: sixty-day ceasefire, Hormuz reopens, Iran sells oil, blockade ends, assets unfrozen, thirty days of nuclear talks. Eight Muslim heads of state agree. The Israeli Prime Minister does not. Republican leadership cancelled the War Powers vote this week. Iran’s Parliament Speaker approved the draft. Iran’s Supreme Leader issued a directive that uranium stays. The Secretary of State is in India. The lead American negotiators have four billion dollars from the Gulf states demanding the deal. The President of the United States will sign the deal that Iran wrote. The mountain won. Both sides are performing peace while preparing war. History will record this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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