Trump’s Iran War Is Going Backward – Mother Jones

On Saturday, a senior Iranian national security official issued a set of demands that the US must meet before a key waterway for oil shipping can be reopened—a statement that further suggests a lasting ceasefire will not be in the cards anytime soon. 

Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, called for the US to lift its sanctions and naval blockade on Iran, “completely compensate” Iran for war damages, “unconditionally” release frozen Iranian assets, and end all attacks on Iran’s allies in the region…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trumps-iran-war-is-going-backward/

 

Trump got bent over man. #isaiahmartin #democrat

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4XwbXToF9HI

 

Trump says he does not make bad deals, but even Republican hawks doubt that now

The US has apparently had to agree to unfreeze billions of Iranian assets for a regime more hardline than before the war…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/24/trump-says-he-does-not-make-bad-deals-but-even-republican-hawks-doubt-that-now

 

‘Witkoff needs a psychiatrist’: Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets – POLITICO

For months European Union officials have been trying — and failing — to work out a way to use around €140 billion of immobilized Russian state assets held largely in Belgium to support Kyiv's war effort. The cash is desperately needed as Ukraine is at risk of running out of money early next year… 

But the United States' new 28-point blueprint for a ceasefire includes a rival idea for using those same assets for American-led reconstruction efforts once a truce has been agreed. The U.S. would take "50 percent" of the profit from this activity, the document said…

https://www.politico.eu/article/steve-witkoff-needs-a-psychiatrist-europeans-fume-at-donald-trump-plan-to-profit-from-frozen-russian-assets/