They might even get all sanctions removed.
I’m not even sure Iran realized they had this much leverage before they were forced to use it.
Why did the U.S. assassinate the leader of a country across the planet in the first place? Because Benjamin Netanyahu wanted us to because he needs our help to create instability in the region so Israel can expand further. That and the billionaire military industrial complex players felt like they wanted some more money.
Name it what it is. Immoral, racist, and a repetition of the same bullshit we’ve been doing in the Middle East for decades. Calling it a strategic failure gives it more value than it deserves.
Netanyahu literally threw a presentation up on a conference call to to persuade Trump to do this for him.
I’m having difficulty getting archive.is to work on my browser right now so here’s the plain link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-wa...
The view that trump went to Iran because “regime awful” does not seem to qualify
Apart from literal deaths, this has torched American military and diplomtic credibility across the globe. It was basically guaranteed to, with the only potential slim upside for America being a demonstration that their military might when applied ruthlessly might dramatically punish their victims as a warning to others. And it has so far failed at that.
Although, in this case, given recent news about prediction market plays, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the whole farce of a “ceasefire” was just prediction market manipulation. (Well, that and TACO Tuesday so Trump could get out of following through on his threat of genocide. One spot of sanity, if you can call it that, in a shit sandwich of the stupidest US foreign policy blunder since the war in Vietnam.)
And this is exactly the opposite of how trade works. Trade only happens if both parties have something to gain from it.