On 28 May mews broke that a deal had been hammered out between US and Iran …..

It appears that a deal to formally extend the Iran-US ceasefire for another two months is tantalizingly close. Multiple outlets—including Reuters, Axios, and NBC News—say negotiators have hammered out a 60-day “memorandum of understanding” to open the Strait of Hormuz, extend the ceasefire, and lay the groundwork for more detailed talks on issues such as Iran’s nuclear program. All three outlets say the deal awaits Trump’s signature, with Axios quoting a US official saying: “The president relayed to the mediators that he wants a couple of days to think about it.” Neither the White House nor Tehran has formally confirmed the existence of a 60-day MOU.

“It was already closed in Doha three days ago, now everyone is playing a game of chicken and egg,” a senior Arab official tells NBC. On Wednesday, Trump reiterated to reporters that he is not in a rush to approve any deal. One snag could be the president’s wish that more Mideast countries join the Abraham Accords and recognize Israel. Under the MOU, Iran would reportedly remove all its mines from the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days and reopen the waterway to unrestricted shipping.

The deal awaits Donny’s approval before it can move forward….

Donny and his band of slugs slithered their way to the Situation Room to discuss the deal …..and as usual no decision was made by Donny….

President Trump held a two-hour meeting with top advisers in the White House Situation Room on Friday after posting he planned “to make a final determination” on a deal with Iran. But he left without revealing a decision, the New York Times reports. There was no word on why the president postponed the call. The meeting came a day after reports emerged that negotiators had hashed out a 60-day “memorandum of understanding” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and extend the truce, reports the AP. Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the US and Iran were “very close” to finalizing the MOU, though he stopped short of predicting what Trump would do, notes Axios.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, meanwhile, wrote Friday on X that his country has “no trust in guarantees or words,” only actions, and that “no step will be taken before the other side acts.”

A fifth round of talks to end the Iran war is underway, but there’s little sign of a breakthrough. The proposed 60-day ceasefire would give Tehran 30 days to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — but Iran, which has built a bureaucracy to charge transit fees, has little reason to hurry as the global economy strains.

A new round of negotiations to end the war between the Trump administration and the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran is dominating the news cycle. These negotiations now make the fifth such purported negotiation. None of the previous talks yielded anything other than more bloodshed, bombs, and bellicosity.

Many suspect that President Donald Trump is merely claiming his team is nearing a deal to manipulate markets, since the one metric Trump seems to care about consistently is the stock market. When it does well, he believes he is doing well. When it dips, he thinks he’s doing badly.

President Trump has stiffened his stance on a proposed agreement to halt the war in Iran, sending a tougher version of a peace framework back to Tehran. The exact revisions weren’t disclosed, but US officials said Trump is uneasy with provisions that would unlock frozen Iranian funds, the New York Times reports. He’s repeatedly blasted the Obama administration over the years for doing that under the earlier nuclear accord. Trump has also grown impatient with the speed of Iran’s response, one official said, despite negotiations being routed through intermediaries such as Pakistan.

Included in the new proposal are revisions related to the Strait of Hormuz and the removal of highly enriched uranium, per CBS News. Axios reports Trump asked for the changes in a two-hour Situation Room meeting on Friday. That kicked off another round of exchanges that could go on for days. Some in the administration consider the changes an attempt to pressure Iran into agreeing to a framework already under review, per the Times. The draft deal would trade an end to the US-Israeli bombing campaign for Iran lifting its blockade of the strait.

As Israel launched a new bombardment of Lebanon on Tuesday, its far-right security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, suggested that it was trying to derail ongoing peace negotiations between US President Donald Trump and Iran.

During a press briefing on Tuesday, the influential settler politician railed against the possibility of a deal to end the war as it neared the three-month mark and said the whole Israeli Cabinet was in agreement.

“I know that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and all of us members of the Cabinet… as the government of Israel, cannot allow this to happen,” Ben-Gvir said in Hebrew. “This is an agreement that can harm the state of Israel, and we will not allow this to happen.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ben-gvir-iran-ceasefire

“Will not allow”?

Now that tells you who controls things in Donny’s house.

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