I assume it was just another market manipulation play?
And if it does hold, what is his next move to cause even more massive price shocks? They won't let prices revert to where they were - it's just normal now to have some shock event to raise prices
> Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said in a statement that the country had finalized a memorandum of understanding with the United States
> The agreement will be signed on Friday
> In a statement, Supreme National Security Council said the agreement called for an immediate end to military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon
But Israel is never going to reverse its invasion of Lebanon, its key to their Greater Israel[1] project. It's important to know that Israel is currently occupying parts of southern Lebanon [2]. Trump would have to force Israel to stop its illegal invasion, that's never going to happen.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel#Egypt,_Syria_an...
Should I read it as "immoral invasion"? Leaving aside whether it is or isn't, at least that framing makes sense, because you can meaningfully debate the morality of an invasion, but I can't understand how you could debate legality (except perhaps within the country's own internal framework of laws, like if a president declared a war without going through the proper legal channels).
Like common.
That's a rather strange way of describing evacuation zones which Israel announces to reduce civilian casualties.
> They made millions homeless.
When one starts a war, loses and then refuses to surrender or negotiate a peace deal...that's not exactly surprising.
I am in shock you wrote this.
You're shocked I'm against killing civilians?
Those who want civilian casualties are terrorist organizations like Hamas.[0]
[0] https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/11/middleeast/sinwar-hamas-israe...
Civilian deaths are in line with what would be expected for urban warfare with the enemy hiding amongst the civilian population. Obviously creating civilian deaths is part of the Hamas strategy.
I keep coming back to the first gulf war when Bush encouraged the Shiites to ride up against Hussain and then left them out to dry.
Its what gets done to the Palestinians over and over. And the Jews aren't the enemies you need them to be because if they were the Palestinians would have been long scattered.
Israel started that war, not civilians. I hope you are not suggesting what it implies.
In Gaza they literally pulverized entire cities [1], making them uninhabitable, this isn't even really a war on terror by the western mainstream's standards, its a war on concrete paid for with american tax payer bombs and bulldozers. They are replicating that same exact playbook in Lebanon right now [2]. How morally bankrupt or completely misinformed do you have to be, to support this absolute barbarism at this point.
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-217c6a28-4a90-4d47-...
[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/middleeast/lebanon-destru...
Obviously if there are terrorist attacks coming from a neighboring country then one would expect retaliation. You seem to be arguing terrorist attacks don't justify a response.
> In Gaza they literally pulverized entire cities [1], making them uninhabitable
That's not unexpected when there are military tunnels under the cities. How else could they be eliminated?
> this isn't even really a war on terror by the western mainstream's standards
The western war on terror also had plenty of casualties.[0]
Brilliant, any underground structure becomes a "terror tunnel", its wonderful you can level whole neighborhoods and afterwards claim it was justified because there were tunnels there. If that were true we would see gaps in the destruction in the satellite imagery wouldn't we? Or where they digging tunnels in grid patterns to every house in every neighborhood and under every street? What total moral bankruptcy to just blanked declare every civilian home and infrastructure as justifiable targets.
Anyway if we want Israel talking points uncritically parroted we can just read literally any newspaper so spare us your breath.
Some of us just haven't fallen for terrorist propaganda.
Of course it's not genocide(I assume you're referring to Gaza like most others who make this claim), there is a war against an organization(Hamas) that embeds itself within a civilian population(which is a war crime).
> Israel is not murdering innocent civilians on a grand scale, be that by directly killing or by indirect ways of starving them out?
There is collateral damage(due to Hamas embedding within civilian populations) and various degrees of food insecurity, but there is no evidence of any mass starvation.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165517
https://www.who.int/news/item/22-08-2025-famine-confirmed-fo...
https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/disasters-and-emergencie...
There were food distribution issues prior to the ceasefire but even the UN(which is highly biased for various reasons) is not claiming there is currently any famine.[0]
Publicly available data shows that sufficient food is making it into Gaza to avoid mass starvation.
[0] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-88077...