Chain Yanked.
Over the weekend Trump threatened to massively raise the stakes by bombing Iranian energy plants if the Strait of Hormuz (which had been closed for 24 days and counting) wasn’t open by Monday night, alarming Asian markets and US stock and bond futures. Just three hours before markets opened in the US on Monday, however, he posted that there were direct negotiations going on between an unidentified “top person” in Iran and the US that had been productive and he was postponing such attacks by five days since Iran “is begging to make a deal”.
News that any peace talks were happening at all was a…
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