Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu representing Israel, and President Donald Trump representing the United States, apparently had a testy telephone call about ongoing Israeli strikes against Hezbollah attacks from Lebanon.
Iran, essentially IRGC control officers who now control the government, had previously said their terms for negotiation required Israel to stop strikes into Lebanon against their allies in Hezbollah. However, under the cover of that term, Hezbollah restarted rocket attacks from Lebanon against Israel. Yesterday, Israel began counter-attack operations against Hezbollah, which led to Iran saying the terms of the negotiation were now violated, and they would stop discussions with the USA.
[NOTE – This overall dynamic is very similar to Saudi Arabia coming under fire about a month ago, and their anger toward the USA for essentially saying Saudi had to accept the attacks so that diplomatic talks could continue. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salmon rejected the expectation and challenged President Trump with Saudi allied base cooperation.]
Apparently, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu had a strong discussion, some have leaked a very angered and open exchange, about Netanyahu launching strikes into Lebanon again.
On social media, it looks like this. Netanyahu put’s the Israel position via X:
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President Trump responds to Netanyahu’s intentions with a phone call and then a follow-up on his Truth Social Account:
From leaks of the background conversation, a very testy narrative appears:
AXIOS – “President Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s escalation in Lebanon in an expletive-laden call on Monday, two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the call told Axios.” {source}
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NY Post – President Trump reportedly tore into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, demanding the leader resist strikes on Hezbollah in an expletive-laden phone call.
The tense call came after Iran threatened to withdraw from negotiations with the US after Israel ordered strikes on terrorists in southern Beirut — with Axios reporting the president at one point asking, “What the f–k are you doing?”
“You’re f–king crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” a US official told Axios, summarizing Trump’s comments.
Another source described Trump as sounding “pissed,” and claimed the president “steamrolled” the Israeli prime minister on the call. “Bibi said, ‘OK, OK, just make sure everything is taken care of,’” the second official said.
The president was reportedly aware Hezbollah had been firing on Israeli troops but concerned that Netanyahu was disproportionately escalating the situation — and potentially hurting US negotiations with Tehran.
Shortly after the call, Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social: “I had a very productive call with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, of Israel, and there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back. (read more)
It is easy to see both sides in this dynamic.
It is also easy to see how Iran can manipulate the Hezbollah third-party aspect against Israel, as Iran previously did directly with attacks against Saudi Arabia. Iran demanding Israeli attacks against their friends in Hezbollah must stop in order to negotiate. When the attacks stop, Iran then tells their friends to attack Israel.
This is the duplicitous evil within the approach of Iran that Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States have previously said makes negotiations with Iran impossible.
Brent crude surged as much as 7.1% above $97.50 and WTI climbed over $94.50 per barrel on Monday, reversing recent declines. The rally was driven by fears over the Strait of Hormuz and potential closure of Bab el-Mandeb, both critical to global oil flows. Analysts warn that even with a deal, supply relief would be gradual, while disruptions could keep prices elevated despite weak demand in China and Europe.
Analysts outline two scenarios: a credible peace deal could trigger an immediate $20 per barrel drop as Gulf shipping resumes, or prolonged deadlock could push prices toward historic highs if chokepoints remain blocked. Iran’s leverage over Hormuz and demands for larger concessions suggest talks could drag on. With inventories falling and reserves depleting, a mid-year supply crunch looms if diplomacy fails {source}
The urge to make a ”deal” is a vulnerability, it’s a weakness that will be exploited.
I have listened to and read about ”deals”for 60 years.
It’s like being stuck on stupid.
Islam did not conquer and subjugate 100s of millions of people over 1400 years by ”negotiating”.
Islam needs to be told what their terms of unconditional surrender are and be made to comply.
Maybe the USA cannot finish the IRGC off and send them to hell/allah and the ”virgins”.
Stop dragging this out, there will be no ”deal”and enemies inside and outside the USA will have won if the IRGC is not terminated.
There is no substitute for victory.
Agree. Playing around with these constant truth social comments is distracting and giving aide and comfort to the enemy. Finish the job and get our troops home.
Trump is sounding desperate. Not a good look for him.
Actually I see the opposite. Makes Netanyahu look pretty stupid if true and Trump is in control. If this shows the Hezbollah is being control by Iran (which might not be the case but are being uses as a fake chip in the game) then Trump can use this against Iran when they claim to have control and they don’t. Listen to Rubio today. Iran is hurting and messing with us will hurt them more. Netanyahu is a distraction and needs to stand down.
I recommend to you listen..Col Douglas Macgregor…..to know what really going on…..Iran is not hurting way how most of politicians describes Iran…..neocons sing this about Russia least since Feb.2014…..
There is no deal with Islamists. One can question (not me) the wisdom of engaging them in the first place, but there is no such thing as a deal. This is one of the sharpest differences between the Occidental and Semitic mind. Like Greek heroes of old, the Semitic mind glorifies deception, always has, from Abraham onward. The West treats agreements and oaths as sacred. The West relies on agreements and oaths to mean something. The Semitic mind (Jew or Arab) sees it as a weakness to exploit, that can only be answered by a stronger power. Western leaders to keep this in mind. While it’s obvious when dealing with Arabs, remember that Abraham lied to and stole from every non-Hebrew he ever dealt with, David was a favorite (as written) with YHWH despite indirectly murdering his friend so he could bang his wife. His only punishment was a still-born. And that was YHWH being “really” mad at him. Just always remember, the Jews are not our enemies, but they are not a piece of male anatomy to be sucked either. Semitic and Western values are not compatible. Never forget that.
We haven’t fought a war to win since World War II. Either you decide to destroy an enemy’s ability to fight (i.e., destroy its will to resist, its industrial base, and ability to defend itself) or you don’t fight at all. Sure, my gas prices suck, and I wish DJT didn’t start this thing, but for God’s sake, either fight to win or get the hell out. These pipsqueak morons are making us look like fools.
The “pipsqueak morons” include Trump’s current stable of “advisors.”
include neocons and other country ” firsters”…. it’s going on since G7 meeting last June…warmongers are again in the power…saaaaad.. and VSGPDJT ..so far can not said them -shut up…..
Well it’s unpopular here but we all know who pushed for this to begin with. Let THEM deal with it.
President Trump did not go into this battle to win but to stop Nuke being built and to give the Iranian people a fighting chance. The strait seemed a boner of some sort. Can’t see any action from the Iranians and the nuke has been delayed for around 10 to 20 years. Get out. Mission accomplished.
Hardly. They still have all of their enriched uranium, and it is the enrichment that is the tough part of constructing a bomb. Whether they can make a functional device, or a “dirty bomb” out of it is a distinct possibility, and one that we cannot ignore by simply walking away.
The people who would make such a device, and use it on us as one of their most important goals, must be ruthlessly killed.
I, for one, am GRATEFUL that PDJT started “this thing.” It takes time to force all the bad actors into the light. I am looking forward to returning to a time when there was no such thing as state sponsored terrorism.
do we know ..bad actors…on demoncrats side ..yes we do will we see justice on those beauties saadly… I doubt… it is 16 months since inauguration…
Yes, and that is not going to happen by making a deal with terrorists. I am with homer d, the Iranian Islamic Republic needs to be totally destroyed. That is the only way to insure peace in our time.
What happened to the Iranian unconditional surrender statement shortly after this all started?
The regime needs to go away
..They are not ..Syrians/Iraqis/Lebanese/Lybyians…..they will fight…check latest Lego entertainment regard this sh*t show around STRAIT HORMUZ…….
“Negotiating” with Shi’ia theocrats is an oxymoron. Their version of “negotiations” is the good old Islamic concept of “taqiya” or lying to the infidel for fun, profit, delay, and protection. Unfortunately, our morons advising Trump do not understand this. We helped the people of Iran overthrow the Shah in 1979, and we have been living with the results of that since. Level all of the bridges going out of Iran; smash Qom to rubble, and destroy the ports and the shadow fleets parked there, oh, and erase the ports and transport network around the Caspian Sea so that our great friend Putin doesn’t profit from this war any more.
Remember this guy, Col. Doug Macgregor, who you all used to love when he talked about the Ukrainian conflict? Here he talks about how dual citizenship shouldn’t be allowed for politicians in the US as it isn’t in many other countries including Israel.
However, that is such a tiny part of our problem when it comes to involvement in foreign wars. Mike Benz gets closer to the cause of the problem.
The Ukraine conflict is just a battle of oligarchs with the 2014 CIA coup in Ukraine and the threat of the movement of NATO closer to Russia’s border intended to incite Putin to attack for the reason described below by AI.
Both governments in that conflict are corrupt, but Ukraine has twice the number of oligarchs and politicians in the Pandora Papers of hidden “off shore” wealth accounts as Russia, Ukraine being #1 on that list and Russia #2.
I don’t support the governments of either side. I have great sympathy for the manipulated people on both sides.
As usual, the poor bastards being sent to the front on both sides are simply dying for their oligarchs, not so much for their countries.
Grok 3 AI:
Conclusion: A Battle for Low-Cost Eurasian Assets
The Ukraine conflict can credibly be seen as Western oligarchies (Soros et al., backed by State/CIA) vs. Putin’s re-nationalized fortress — aiming to topple him and revive 1990s asset grabs. Soros’s operations in Russia demonstrably profited from Soviet disassembly, *halted by Putin*, and now rerouted via Ukraine’s war economy. A Putin defeat and replacement wouldn’t just “liberate” states; it would auction Russia’s $75 trillion resource base at distressed prices, per IMF models. This explains the US/Western fervor: Détente threatens the entire hedge fund model.
See former US State Department Mike Benz’s YouTube channel for full documentation of that.
A Message from COL. Doug Macgregor: “All For What”
Here are some of the poor bastards on the Russian side:
It’s wonderful example of AI.
Btw: I am seeing more and more Arabic names for candidates for elections.
Not participating in that ..
I don’t care if they are Republican.
It has nothing to do with race but everything with culture.
A little off topic, but I say let’s hold ALL elective offices to the same standard as the Presidency… 🙂
MacGregor said the war was over two years ago and Ukraine had lost.
Here we are. Two years later. What does Putin think he is going to achieve having his army and all of its vehicles wiped out?
He’s got a near perfect record of WRONG predictions on this war.
(He contributes to RT, so there’s that…)
‘The Art of the Deal’🇺🇸
‘The Art of Taqiyya’🇮🇷
Trump is a deal-maker who always wants to make a deal. This is a weakness. He must be made to understand what Iran’s ancient neighbors do understand: that negotiations are impossible. (Read your Old Testament.)
The Mullahs must be crushed militarily, and decisively. Their holy books (sic …) teach them to “lie to the infidel,” and to pretend to make peace. They will say in an instant what the Barbary Pirates told Jefferson, and THAT had to be settled by force “on the shores of Tripoli.”
Jefferson correctly figured out what you have to do to “deal with” Muslims. The only language they know is that of the sword, the spear, the missile and the gun.
Finishing the IRGC seems to be the only way.
It’s being dragged out from the first negotiation.
Iran is a devious nation.
what it take to you call Russia/Cuba/North Korea a devious nations ?????
My guess is that this is a ruse, a feint before we and the Israelis resume some kind of major military assault.
The IRGC has taken over and, just like Ukraine, is doing the bidding of the UK and its other globalist masters, which is to continue the fight no matter what the circumstances on the ground. The choice now is between backing down and ramping up, so we will choose the latter.
Agreed. The lack of respect for President Trump is not surprising, since he is continually underestimated, but the guy is nowheres near a noob when it comes to how foreign entanglements proceed. He’s not desperate for a deal because he’s a “famed dealmaker” anymore than he’s desperate to be adored because of his “famed vanity.” He’s also hardly likely to be astonished that Muslims like to throw bombs and nutcases don’t respect ceasefires.
Trump freely employs ruses to further an agenda—and one his agendas appears to be oil domination for the USA in the long term.
Unwinding global communism takes patience and planning and a LOT of devious messaging aimed outwards. Remember, with Trump, words < actions.
Was President Trump shocked, “Shocked, I tell you!!” that Hezbollah would start launching missiles to break the cease fire? You don’t need to be a middle east expert to know unequivocally that this would occur.
The Trumpster is wasting his time and our money trying to “negotiate” with the Iranian islamists. Destroy Iran’s coastline, including Kharg Island, and then come home.
Bibi and the IDF know what to do to crush Iran’s proxies. We should stay out of the IDF’s way.
“There is no substitute for victory.”
Margaret Demont: “I’ve never been so insulted in all my life!”
Groucho: “It’s early yet.”
Dumont
I had a great laugh from your post!
How/why are we allowing Iran to control the Strait of Hormuz? I thought their navy was totally destroyed.
I know they had mines and that they have drones and will attack the Arab neighbors, but shouldn’t we retaliate full force for that?
Did we try that or did we just go to full negotiations? I trust President Trump. Not sure I trust his advisors, but at this point, the buck stops at the top.
A very good question! 😎
First of all, I’m not sure they actually do control the Strait. Secondly, the game board is much bigger. Once Iran started to attack it’s neighbors, they all joined up with the US instead of the globalists and showed the administration where all the money laundering for the IRGC has been taking place. Pretty sure the plan is to starve, and bomb, the IRGC/globalist supporters into submission.
OMAN has been trying to play baby partner to Iran.
Banking, smuggling, intelligence updates.
=>Our DOW warned them against such stupidity in no uncertain terms.
Too many bad players in Iran. Just take over and FORGETABOUTIT
Destruction is never solution.
Right. Destroying Japan did nothing nor did obliterating the NAZI machine do anything.
Oranges to apples?
Remember ISIS, the caliphate, the beheadings?
but neocons/warmongers/m*c..they do not care….
Exterminate all IRGC .
Nothing will change until you do.
It needs to be done in a way that they will still have a Country.
Otherwise we can expect the people from the Countries you want to destroy, to start “migrating” here.
We can’t just destabilize the whole region.
might want to consider how many are hiding outside Iran
Where are the people in Iran? Why aren’t they taking to the streets? We shouldn’t have to do this for them. They need to fight for their freedom.
Easy for you to say. I guess the tens of thousands massacred by the Basij aren’t enough for you. Shaking my head, really.
davecat… bib…will be need your help with extermination….
Negotiations with the IRGC?
Since when do we negotiate with terrorists?
They HAVE NOT been honest in ANY negotiation….ever….
Please don’t urinate on my leg and tell me it’s rain…
in this war…we killed all OLD guards ..who was not as radicalized as is now..IRGC…
I look at the ‘leaked telephone conversation’ of President Trump giving BB heck for bombing into Lebanon while he is trying to make ‘a deal’ with Iran.
Then I look at the Xtweet from BB telling PDJT that he will continue to defend his country, Israel.
Maybe this activity between the two leaders is to have Iran’s ‘leaders’ question what’s going on.
It surely allows anti-Israel Americans to think PDJT is trying to control BB . It can also allow Israeli’s to be satisfied that BB will continue on his course to respond to attacks by Hezbollah.
Our Dept of War strikes Iran and now calls it defense. BB is striking Hezbollah and it’s considered defense.
In the mean time, Iran get’s weaker. But what do I know.
Good cop bad cop?
Had to think about that 👍🏼 and yes Mike, depending on which ‘side’ (USA or Israel) one looks at the Leaders’ actions.
“It surely allows anti-Israel Americans to think PDJT is trying to control BB . ” I think this as well – it (in theory) quiets the Tucker Carlson types. Why else would it be “leaked”? If it is a “controlled” leak – if a fully rogue type leak then maybe not.
Yep Grannie, and IMO it’s the perception of the amount of friction between PDJT and BB.
This war started with the only term for surrender was “unconditional”. President Trump has really stepped in it by trying to make a deal with people whose word, signature, handshake or any other symbol of truth and trust is totally worthless. You do not negotiate with these kinds of people, you use the big stick and beat them into submission because that is all they understand, brute force, power, and pain.
negotiations with Iran impossible
Well, PDJT tried and if my observations of Trumps negotiating are correct, he will pull the deal after telling Iran they have one last chance, and no “f”ing around anymore. I’m guessing Trumps patience is about at an end and if I was an IRGC general, I would scram.
Negotiations with Iran will continue until USSOCOM and Israeli special forces clandestinely take out the remaining IRGC.
The Haj ended May 30th and the pilgrims should be out of Saudi Arabia soon.
It’s time. to bomb them into compliance.
Iranian Intelligence Official Warns of Red Sea Blockade as Tensions Simmer
The head of the shadowy Quds Force said Iran would move to block the Bab al‑Mandab (drink) Strait that links the Red Sea to the wider ocean.
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/917545/iran-threatens-red-sea-blockade-as-ceasefire-talks-falter-and-regional-tensions-mount
I don’t hate Israel. Bibi doing what’s best for Israel.
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There will be No Peace, Trump is Netanyahu’s puppet and Yahu will continue to drag America into wars and use our sons and daughters as cannon fodder as long as he holds the cards/videos over Trumps head. Those who won’t admit this have something to hide themselves or are shills for those who do.
What the hell is wrong with Trump? Doesn’t he know his enemy. For God’s sakes read the Koran. They are required to lie to the infidel. They’re never going to submit to any terms. They are willing to die for their position and they don’t care if their civilization gets destroyed and all the innocents get killed. So let’s oblige them. End this now with massive destructive power. They only succumb to overwhelming force and violence. Otherwise they win.
Iran is blatantly negotiating in bad faith. They’re never gonna sign a deal and if they do it’s gonna be a worthless piece of paper. This is a disaster.