WSJ reports the Trump-Iran MOU allows Tehran to immediately sell oil, and may waive banking and transport sanctions to facilitate transactions. If accurate, this is far more alarming than a narrow General License (like the one Treasury issued in March covering only crude already loaded on vessels). But if it's real, the administration is trading away its most durable economic lever before the hard part of the negotiation has even started. Broadening authorization to financial transactions would crack the core architecture of U.S. oil and financial sanctions against Iran, arguably the most powerful economic leverage the U.S. holds over this regime, absent the naval blockade. What makes this especially dangerous: if broad relief is offered upfront while negotiations drag on for months, it normalizes Iranian oil flows to China, India, and the UAE, and critically, normalizes the repatriation of Iran's oil revenue back to Tehran. Revenue that today sits trapped in Chinese bank accounts due to secondary financial sanctions. Once that normalization sets in, re-establishing today's level of leverage would take years, not weeks. wsj.com/world/middle-east/th…

McDonald’s is bringing back fried apple pies for the first time in more than three decades to honor America’s 250th birthday. -ABC

Those who knew must go to prison for a long time

Trump on Iran: The current Iranian leadership are very rational people. They are nice to deal with; they are strong and smart people. They are not radicalized, and they are looking to help their country.

$300 billion to Iran under any circumstances is a disaster. Like offered the Marshall Plan to rebuild Germany while the Nazis were still in power

The biggest cheat code is pretending that every person you meet has a sign around their neck that says, "Make me feel important". Everyone's spotlight is fixed on themselves. Make it about them and you'll get farther in life than making it about you.

After cheering their team on to a draw, Japan (@jfa_en) fans clean up the stands at Dallas Stadium.

🚨 Breaking: Israel eliminated Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah terrorist who kidnapped and murdered 5 American soldiers. You're welcome.

🔴ELIMINATED: Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah commander who held a series of 5 senior positions within Hezbollah. Daqduq played a central role in advancing terrorist attacks and combat operations against Israel and IDF soldiers. In 2007, he orchestrated the kidnapping and murder of 5 American soldiers.

What Trump calls the worst deal ever negotiated, and has identified for more than a decade as Exhibit A in the case against American loserdom, has now become the pattern of his own Iran policy — Obama's policy. I explain today in @tabletmag tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

Trump knew that Iran’s word meant nothing when Obama was in office. He still knows today. This turn of events indicates not that Trump changed his mind but that Trump simply felt it was more important to maintain the stock market back home than to put the Islamists out of business once and for all. Not all men are cut out for finishing what they started and Trump showed us that he loses interest quickly when money is on the line. This may not be the worst strategy — after all, he’s making sure our economic interests are primary. It’s simply a matter of understanding that when it comes to appreciating world security, even someone who talks a big game like Trump can’t always deliver on that concern. Thousands of Persians lost their lives this year waiting for help to arrive and it never did. I’m sorry for that. Maybe one day America will seat a President who will be able to deliver freedom from Islamic tyranny. Today simply isn’t that day.

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