(03-23-2026, 11:38 AM)CriticalStinker Wrote: I can’t find a single statement out of Iran that confirms there are talks. Almost everything I’ve found has been on the contrary. Though, the caveat is it’s much harder to verify things that come to me through western channels and are translated.

It’s starting to look like Trump was bluffing to calm the markets. Some reports also suggest a single account went long on the S&P500 some 1.5b dollars shortly before the truth social post, which caused one of the biggest candles on the chart this year.
https://x.com/adamscochran/status/203607...zLwcRvUqtg

I’m willing to take all this with a grain of salt until the dust settles… but if it turns out there were no peace talks and the war is no different than last week… It’s going to look a lot like open corruption to me, which unfortunately would only add to the list.

Seems like posting deceptive messages in order to manipulate markets has been a repeating pattern since the beginning of this administration

(03-23-2026, 12:04 PM)cherokeetroy Wrote: Seems like posting deceptive messages in order to manipulate markets has been a repeating pattern since the beginning of this administration

Agreed.

(03-23-2026, 11:18 AM)CriticalStinker Wrote: Reza has no pull with the Iranian government. I believe Trump has said multiple times that he doesn’t even think he would have a leadership role in a new government.

I don’t see a connection to him and any talks… if the talks are even real.

I didn't say Reza had pull with anybody in the Iranian government; Stinker and I implied Trump doesn't think he has enough backing either.

I said rumors were that Reza told Trump not to hit the power plants, as that would severely endanger the public ...no more, no less.

When I said perhaps, that indicates my speculative thoughts.

Reza may have been given 5 days to rally an opposition group.

Anything else is your own imagination

The situation in Iran is fluid at the moment; definitive statements are pure bullshit speculations from all sides involved. Typical Middle Eastern negotiations same verbiage is used over and over only the names change.

Iranian "officials" are spouting the same shit Saddam did before he crawled into his cubby hole, shitting in a 5-gallon bucket.

Quote:https://x.com/sangtarash_azad/status/203...6918696174

sangtarash_azad
How is it possible that the IRGC commanders of Isfahan and Khuzestan are hit during the twelve-day war, but the Mashhad IRGC remains unharmed? How is it that in this war, Qaani and Ghalibaf, who are both from Mashhad, are alive while Larijani is killed? How is it that Mashhad is not harmed? How is it that no one finds the hideout of these two, but the Leader's hideout is leaked? During whose tenure as mayor were the CCTV cameras leaked? Bravo, this very Ghalibaf. Furthermore, his children's names are also Jewish: Ishaq and Elias.
Quote from: sangtarash_azad
I heard that Qalibaf has put the corpse of 'the Master' (Supreme Leader), Mojtaba's two severed legs, and Shamkhani's head on a tray and offered them to the Americans, and he wants to surrender. Don't the 'Arzashis' (regime supporters) want to confront this sedition?
Translated from: Persian
Source
https://x.com/sangtarash_azad/status/203...6918696174
Translated from: Persian•Today at 1:08 PM

Quote:PahlaviComms
In the transition period, the energy sector is a measure of the ability to govern the country. The priority is the continuity of vital services, risk management, maintaining stability, and reconstructing an efficient, reliable energy system based on Iran's national interests. Dr. Aydin Panahi, energy expert and one of the authors of the emergency phase booklet of the Iran Prosperity Project. https://fund.nufdiran.org/fa
Source
https://x.com/PahlaviComms/status/2036135952976859305
Translated from: Persian•Today at 1:40 PM

(03-23-2026, 12:28 PM)putnam6 Wrote: I didn't say Reza had pull with anybody in the Iranian government; Stinker and I implied Trump doesn't think he has enough backing either.

I said rumors were that Reza told Trump not to hit the power plants, as that would severely endanger the public ...no more, no less.

When I said perhaps, that indicates my speculative thoughts.

Reza may have been given 5 days to rally an opposition group.

Anything else is your own imagination

Why would Trump then go on to imply there are talks with the Iranians about ending the war just because Reza asked him to not hit energy sites for 5 days? What benefit would that have for Trump when we’re at war?

Im not trying to be rude or mean, I’m simply asking questions.

I don’t think Reza has any stature other than being a face for Iranian diaspora.

Edit:

Quote:Iranian "officials" are spouting the same shit Saddam did before he crawled into his cubby hole, shitting in a 5-gallon bucket.

Bit different that, we occupied their country. Also it fails to tell the story of what happened for us after, it wasn’t all rainbows and friendship bracelets on the ground. That’s important to note, because the relations we have with the other gulf states are relatively new when you zoom out. Their regimes, while still oppressive have made some small improvements to normalize their societies into the global community. Things like women can drive lol.

If things continue to go poorly while they get pummeled, how long before they side with their Muslim brothers over the US and Israel? That whole peace in the region things is kind of gone at that point.

One thing we’ve learned from US homogeneity is that eventually other poles will form in the world, and that’s pretty natural. That too can exist in regions. You can’t just decide that we get to have all puppet states in a region because it was said to be so.

https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2036108...47420?s=20

(03-23-2026, 12:52 PM)cherokeetroy Wrote: https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2036108...47420?s=20

[Image: https://i.imgur.com/3cTHxRY.jpeg]

That’s who the reports said we were negotiating with for anyone keeping track.

Barak Ravid: Axios and Israeli Channel 12 correspondent:

Quote:An Israeli official told ne the mediating countries were trying to convene a meeting in Islamabad — with Ghalibaf and other officials representing Tehran, and Witkoff, Kushner and possibly Vice President Vance representing the U.S. - possibly later this week

https://x.com/barakravid/status/20360941...zLwcRvUqtg

Problem with trying to keep the market from bleeding with lies or half truths is it makes the correction or bear market that much worse.

If you bleed 1% here and there with sideways days or Green Day’s in between, people don’t overreact. If it’s shown the emperor wears no cloths then you can see massive overcorrections that get momentum out of fear.

edit: also, not sure it’s been posted. Extending out a reduction in hostilities by 5 days means our offer is on the table till markets close for the week.

(03-23-2026, 12:31 PM)CriticalStinker Wrote: I don’t think Reza has any stature other than being a face for Iranian diaspora.

I agree with this as well.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...sions.html
 

Quote:Trump's closest advisers in standoff over Iran as secret divisions spill out.
 
Rather than leaning on his formal Cabinet, President Trump appears to be taking cues on Iran from outside forces, leaving his immediate advisors in a state of relative silence.   
Some of his closest advisers reportedly view his campaign as 'misguided.'
Privately, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and several conservative voices urged Trump to strike Iran, according to sources familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to Bloomberg.
But within Trump's Cabinet, some of the people closest to him were reportedly quieter about military engagement with Iran and deploying American soldiers to fight the war.
Those advisors include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
Direct dissent was virtually non-existent; rarely did anyone label the plan as misguided to the president's face, even if they disagreed with the direction he was taking the war. 
While Wiles focused on clarifying the President's strategic alternatives, Vance pushed for blunt honesty from senior officials, reportedly interrogating the logistical realities and long-term mechanics of a potential conflict.
 
State Department spokesperson Tommy Piggot responded to reports of a rift, saying it's 'an old familiar story of people not knowing what they are talking about, pretending that they do. There is no division. President Trump is making the world safer, and the entire administration is lockstep in that effort.'
'What he wanted for his advisers in his second term was people who were more amenable just to saying, 'Yes, sir' when he wanted to do X or Y, as opposed to people who said, 'Have you considered this or that or the other thing,' said Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton.
As the conflict crosses the one-month mark, the weight of the President's decision is becoming clear. His administration now teeters on the edge of a systemic crisis, grappling with alienated allies and volatile energy prices—all while Republican strategists eye a darkening horizon for the November midterms.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...dates.html
 

Quote:Update at 16.17 UK time.

Iran tells Trump 'we have special plans for you tonight'

Iran has ominously warned Donald Trump that it has 'special plans' for him and the US's allies in the Gulf, after the American president threatened to attack the nation's power plants. 
A source told the state-run Fars News Agency: 'Tonight, special events are planned for Tel Aviv and some regional allies of the US and Israel that will completely remove the hope of negotiations from the minds of the aggressors.'
The threat came following Trump's suggestion the Strait of Hormuz could be jointly run by himself and the Ayatollah when it fully reopens to the world following talks to end the Iran war.
The President also claimed Tehran may agree to give up its nuclear ambitions in any deal to put an end to the conflict in his first remarks since announcing a halt on strikes to Iran's energy infrastructure earlier today.
Trump said if upcoming talks go well the war could end within a week, before later adding: 'Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out.'

(03-23-2026, 01:54 PM)Kurokage Wrote: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...dates.html
 

It's all going so well, he's winning or won.

They're ready to do a deal.

Oh wait, they aren't.

Cheers, Trump.

I will reign in my TDS and disassociate my self from some who call him an Orange Sh#tgibbon.

That's just wrong.  

Apparently....