Wednesday, 17 June 2026

: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund,

 https://x.com/HormuzLetter/status/2066959386572960217

The Hormuz Letter
BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ. More than $150 billion of the fund has already been committed, directly contradicting Trump's claims that the US would not contribute to the $300 billion fund, per Reuters.

https://x.com/HormuzLetter/status/2066959386572960217

President Trump on Israel and Hezbollah: "Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed."

 https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2066859526981058809

Glenn Greenwald
These are remarkable comments from Trump about Israel. He's arguing that the "former" Al Qaeda commander al-Jolani would do a better job fighting Hezbollah than Israel is doing, because al-Jolani wouldn't constantly and recklessly blow up apartment buildings like Israel does.
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Trey Yingst
@TreyYingst
President Trump on Israel and Hezbollah: "Israel is fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed." "You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody. There are a lot of people in those apartment houses and they're not
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2066859526981058809

I am not sure if Trump realizes that he has screwed Israel, particularly Netanyahu, in a way that they can’t even complain about without admitting their own lies and hypocrisy.

 https://x.com/AmirAminiMD/status/2066926321599402021

I am not sure if Trump realizes that he has screwed Israel, particularly Netanyahu, in a way that they can’t even complain about without admitting their own lies and hypocrisy. For decades, Israeli politicians had carefully created a fictional Iranian nuclear threat, while Israel’s actual objectives always were Iran’s destruction as functioning country, through civil war and in the best case scenario: balkanization. And if that’s not possible, then at least the continued isolation and sanctioning of Iran, along with continued outside meddling, sabotage, and endless terror. The worst-case scenario for Israel has never been a nuclear Iran (sure, that would have prevented them from regularly attacking Iran) but an unleashed, unsanctioned and internationally accepted Iran, which never needed nuclear weapons in the first place to become a superpower. Netanyahu, in his hubris and with the sole goal of saving his own ass, started this catastrophe -and Trump, in his desperation to get out of this catastrophe to save his own ass, just absolutely nuked the entire Israeli agenda by giving them something they always claimed to want -in return for something they absolutely NEVER wanted.

https://x.com/AmirAminiMD/status/2066926321599402021