Recent reporting from the Financial Times reveals it was President Trump, not the Iranian government, who was begging for a ceasefire.

FT reports that the Trump administration had been privately pushing for a ceasefire for weeks to alleviate the economic strain caused by Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, and depending on Pakistan for mediation. Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir was communicating with Iranian officials, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance, and Trump himself even after the president threatened to wipe out Iranian civilization on Tuesday.

According to the five people familiar with the diplomatic back channel, Trump had been asking for a ceasefire since as early as March 21, when he first threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants.

This contradicts virtually everything the Trump administration has claimed about Iran—that Trump’s constant bombings and threats of extinction caused a wounded, demoralized Iranian regime to limp to the negotiating table, desperate for a deal with the U.S.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      I remember seeing the new, prequel trilogy as a kid, and thinking… the over arching political plot here fundamentally relies on too many people being just too naive and stupid for this to be believable.

      Welp.

      • Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        i remember seeing this as a kid and comparing it to the gorbachev and the fall of the ussr and the how these similarities echo through most of history and were perhaps used as inspiration of the plot and the physchology of the id and ego and whether freud was right and the greater implications this had for not just psychology but geopolitical tensions through out the life i was only getting to begin to experience