Bill Maher Brilliant as always youtube.com/watch?v=KP-CRXRO…

Big picture of this deal between the U.S. and the regime in Iran

🚨 Axios: Ratcliffe is not the only member of Trump's senior team to harbor doubts. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have also voiced reservations and questioned the deal during internal meetings. Meanwhile, Vice President Vance and U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have supported the agreement, two sources said.

"Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the defection of KGB archivist Major Vasily Mitrokhin and Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa revealed “Operation SIG” — a 25-year Soviet intelligence program designed to sow global Jew-hatred under the respectable guise of antizionism. Yuri Andropov openly boasted that the Islamic world was a “petri dish” in which the KGB could nurture a virulent strain of anti-Western hatred, grown from the bacterium of Marxist-Leninist thought. They realized they had only to repeat the theme that Israel was a “fascist, imperial-Zionist country” bankrolled by rich Jews. This Soviet state propaganda was subsequently given academic gravitas through an intellectual pipeline of key ideologues: Fayez Sayegh, who formulated the “settler-colonial” framework to strip a refugee rescue movement of its moral legitimacy; Trofim Kichko, the Soviet state scholar who rehabilitated the rabid antisemitism of the Nazi publication Der Stürmer for the Kremlin’s antizionist campaigns; Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass, who revived classical blood libels under the veneer of scholarship; and Johann von Leers, Goebbels’ high-ranking Nazi propaganda official who fled to Nasser’s Egypt to continue his war against the Jews without changing his core ideological tenets. Today, this laundered narrative is platformed and subsidized by dark money networks..." See the full article below in comments. h/t Gregg Rosenberg

CIA telling Trump his deal is FOS

Islamic Regime’s Mayor of Tehran Alireza Zakani: "Our war with America continues and does not end with the memorandum of understanding. Our war with America is an existential war. The Islamic Revolution in Iran undermined the structural order America established after World War II." When they tell you who they are, believe them.

October 7th drew a clear line that will never be erased. There is no longer any difference between those who physically commit barbarism and those who justify, celebrate, or defend it. If you justify the massacre of civilians, the burning of families, kidnapping of toddlers, the rape of women, and the use of children as human shields, you are complicit in the crime, whether you carried a weapon or not. Blood, friendship, or ideology do not change this reality. You are either against barbarism, or you are part of it.

Qatar owns US ?

🚨 He added: We are not reducing forces in the Middle East for now - until an agreement is reached on the nuclear issue. If there is progress in implementing the agreement, we will be able to start doing that"

🚨 Senior US official: All unfreezing of funds, or the initiation of the establishment of the fund for 300 billion for the reconstruction of Iran, only after steps are taken on the nuclear issue. We will not pay them for photo-ops or for opening the Straits," said the senior official.

Somebody was talking of “free nvigation” and wanted to bomb Oman for this few weeks back ?

RT @Natsecjeff: Neville Chamberlain Plus of our time. Worst negotiator, even worse war time general.

🚨 A "source familiar with the details" told Fars News Agency that in the final moments of the negotiations, changes were made to the wording of the MOU, which explicitly and unequivocally emphasize the issue of Iranian and Omani sovereignty in the Strait of Hormuz. The previous version contained terms intended to ensure the realization of Iranian sovereignty and arrangements in the Strait, but now it states that "the future of the management of maritime navigation services in the Strait of Hormuz" will be determined by Iran and Oman

🚨 The explicit use of the term "maritime services" means that the US "acknowledges" that Iran will charge a fee for passage through the strait. According to the wording, Iran will allow ships to pass without payment for only 60 days. In other words, the US accepted the principle of fee collection and only secured a 60-day exemption period from Iran. After the 60 days expire, Iran plans to generate revenue from commercial ship traffic in the strait by providing "safety, navigation, environmental protection, and insurance services," and to use these revenues to promote the country's economic development.

🚨 Unbelievable….complete 180 from Trump: effectively allows Iran to enrich uranium and makes it easier for Iran to hide advanced enrichment.

Trump rushed into this confrontation aggressively without calculating the real cost. Now he’s rushing to get out of it without understanding the cost of backing down. He’s making the same mistake twice: first underestimating the enemy, and now underestimating how much credibility America is losing by appearing weak and desperate.

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job. At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO. He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air. He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death. His first child died at 10 weeks old. His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad. His second rocket exploded. His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone. Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown. Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve. He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him. His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress. The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world. He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse. He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs. He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him. He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years. He is the richest man in the history of the world. The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

President Trump either doesn’t care about long-term peace in the Middle East, or he doesn’t realize that the consequences of his decisions will backfire in the near future. There is no peace with the death-cult, eschatological Ayatollah regime. That’s number one. A former ISIS leader who puts on a suit will always remain a threat to minorities and non-Muslims, and the country he runs will become a terrorism hub. Hamas is the people of Gaza, not a group of people hated by the people of Gaza. Yes, you can sign a deal with Iran; Obama did it, no big deal, but the problem will return soon. Yes, you can create balance by installing an ISIS government in Syria, but only in the short term. Yes, you can stop the war in Gaza by letting Hamas survive, but only in the short term.