Trump is "looking for a negotiating partner in Iran akin to interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez," but Israel says Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf isn't the guy: "[T]he plan may largely be a rehash of something that Iran did not accept a year ago" ... ... and in any case, Iranians say "that they have now been tricked twice by President Trump and "we don't want to be fooled again": "[T]here is no indication that the war will let up imminently; Israeli officials have said they expect it to continue for weeks" ... ... and the U.S. "is preparing to deploy up to 3,000 paratroopers to supplement some 50,000 troops already present in the Middle East" ... ... and the Secretary of State has set out on a mission of literal "war-mongering": Israeli (and U.S.) war crimes continue ... ... while Gulf state diplomats say "that Tehran was acting like a 'runaway horse,' warning that attacking another Arab country crossed a new red line and would not be tolerated": The "Iraqi government says it plans to deliver ‘formal notes of protest’ amid recent strikes tied to US-Israeli war on Iran": Iran denies launching the missiles, but if it did, their "failure may indicate that Iran is attempting to operate these systems at distances they are not reliably capable of": "Iran’s parliament is preparing to introduce new regulations ... to reciprocate the actions of countries that supported the US sanctions against Iran, and ... to shift transactions from the US dollar to alternative currencies”: Speaker Johnson "can only afford one GOP defection on an otherwise party-line vote. That doesn't even factor in House Republican leadership's attendance concerns": "Has the level of your inner ?struggle reached the stage ?of you negotiating with yourself?” -- Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for the unified command of Iran’s armed ?forces:
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