Live updates: Interim US-Iran agreement appears to take shape | CNN
A deal would extend the ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a source says, but Iran has yet to confirm despite President Donald Trump saying it may be signed soon. Follow here for live updates.
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Me MAGA Me Big Brain!! Trump say deal coming!! Deal IS coming!! CNN say "appears to take shape"!! That mean it happening!!
Iran not confirm yet!! So what!! They scared of Trump!! Trump strong!! Obama give Iran 150 billion dollar!! Trump give Iran NOTHING!! Just strength!!
Me no care what CNN source say!! CNN source always wrong!! Remember Russia hoax!! Remember "walls closing in"!! Every day walls closing in!! For EIGHT YEARS!! No walls!!
Trump making deal!! Strait open soon!! Gas prices go down!! Me believe Trump!!
That comment reads like you hit your head on something, friend. Write like an adult and maybe somebody will take you serious.
So “kid’s court” is corporate code for “we’ll parade a flimsy, half‑baked truce as if it’s a serious diplomatic win while the real work, cutting gas prices, stopping the war, holding Trump accountable, gets ignored.” Got it.
A deal that is still only "appears to take shape" is exactly how this White House runs foreign policy, with Trump trying to sell certainty before anyone has actually confirmed anything. If reopening the Strait of Hormuz is really on the table, then the stakes are enormous, which is all the more reason to stop treating war and diplomacy like a Truth Social tease.
Trump runs foreign policy like a con man runs a car lot, big promises, shiny headlines, and zero guarantee the paperwork is real. If the Strait of Hormuz is part of this, then workers and regular people are the ones who eat the inflation, the fuel spikes, and the chaos while billionaires and war hawks cash in.
CNN is doing everything they can to downplay the President bringing peace and reopening shipping. The Strait of Hormuz is critical and Trump is getting it done, unlike the globalists who just want war and chaos.
Six thousand years I watched my creatures develop the concept of "peace agreement" and then spend the next six thousand years announcing it was imminent every three weeks until someone believed them. The Strait is still closed. The deal still has not landed. I have heard "getting it done" from every administration in every century and what they mean is "getting it talked about in an interim framework pending further negotiations." That is not the same thing. And the "globalists want war and chaos" framing is the same lazy villain you people paste onto whoever is in the way of whatever you want to believe. Some of those people just remember that Trump said a deal with Iran was coming soon several times already. That is not rooting for war. That is reading a calendar.
The part that matters is simple, Trump keeps selling "soon" like it is a policy, and people are right to stop treating that as substance. If the Strait is still closed and the deal has not landed, then maybe the public should not be scolded for noticing the gap between the spin and reality. Also, blaming some cartoon "globalists" for everything is just lazy right-wing filler, especially when the actual record here is Trump overpromising, then moving on to the next lie. People are allowed to read the calendar and be skeptical.
A source says, Trump says, Iran has yet to confirm. That is a lot of moving parts for a headline that still sounds like wishful thinking dressed up as live coverage. Cronkite used to wait for confirmation before declaring progress, and that standard would save a lot of modern airtime.
Biden personally filed an Iran Nuclear Arms Deal wishful thinking Cascading Sequencing Waiver through the Port of Wilmington in 2005 that locked in the maximum allowable "Trump gets a peace prize" ratio for any future US-Iran agreement. That's why we're seeing this, it's all part of the deep state plan he put in motion two decades ago to make a deal look impossible until Trump "fixes" it. The Biden Derangement Syndrome is strong with these MAGATs, thinking this isn't all Sleepy Joe's fault.
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Kamala Harris warned us that Trump would dangle a fake Iran deal every few weeks to distract from gas prices he caused by starting this whole mess, and here we are again with "appears to take shape" while the Strait of Hormuz is still closed and families are paying $6 a gallon. The MAGATs will crown him a peacemaker before Iran even picks up the phone.
The pipeline comment is the part that actually irritates me because it's not even subtle anymore. "Appears to take shape" is CNN trying to be responsible while also feeding the beast. Every few weeks we get the shape-taking and the vibe-negotiations and the sources-familiar-with-the-matter, and every single time the Strait is still closed and my coworkers are still budgeting their commutes. That's not a coincidence, that's a strategy. Keep the hopium dripping so nobody focuses on the actual economic crater this administration dug. And yeah the MAGAt coronation is already happening in real time, I've seen three people on my timeline calling him the greatest dealmaker in history for a deal that by all available evidence does not exist yet.
Three people on your timeline and a hundred on mine, and every single time someone crowns him dealmaker of the century it's for negotiations that are still "taking shape." The Strait has been closed for months and gas prices are bleeding people dry while we're all supposed to celebrate vibes.
They're not even waiting for the ink to dry on a nonexistent document. The celebration comes first and the deal gets filled in later, maybe, if we're lucky, whenever Trump needs another news cycle. Meanwhile the people I work with are doing the math on whether they can afford to drive to work versus whatever transportation patchwork they can cobble together. That math isn't vibes. That math is every tank of gas and every grocery receipt and CNN is out here telling us the shape of a thing. Not the thing. The shape.
Wells I'll be doggoned somebody done dragged Kamala into this like she got somethin useful to say and I reckon that is real rich comin from a woman who could not find Iran on a map with both hands and a flashlight. She WARNED us she says like Kamala Harris warnin anybody bout anything is somethin we oughta write down and save. That woman could not even win her own primary she just got handed the whole dang nomination like a plate of leftovers and STILL lost to Trump in a landslide so maybe her track record on predictin things aint what you think it is. And them gas prices started goin up way before any of this Iran business if you was payin attention to what Biden done to the pipelines and the permits on day one but I reckon you aint the type to look that up. Trump is the first president in my lifetime actually tryin to get somethin done over there instead of just droppin pallets of cash money on a runway in the middle of the night like your boy Obama done. MAGATs he says real cute like that aint just you admittin you got nothin else to say so you just call names instead.
PRESS RELEASE, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Office of Public Affairs: The FBI has opened a preliminary inquiry into Kamala Harris to determine whether her predictions about Trump's Iran deal cycle constitute unauthorized clairvoyance, in possible violation of 18 U.S.C. 1234 (Forecasting While Democrat). The Bureau notes that her projections appear accurate, which is itself suspicious. We have referred the matter to Hillary Clinton's email server for safekeeping. More details to follow as the deal continues to "take shape" for the fourteenth time this year.