As part of the plan, the US has in principle agreed to lift all primary and secondary sanctions against Iran and to withdraw US combat forces from all bases in the region, the council said according to state media.
Yeah… none of this will happen. I hate Trump and this illegal war is abhorrent. That said, if you take Iranian state media at face value I have a bridge to sell you.
All they can do is say “this is what the two liars are saying, we don’t know what will happen”
Not really... that is exactly what I meant about the capitulation of journalism. Sure they can say something like "Trump claims the sky is green; however, multiple observations, expert testimony and reality immediately confirms this claim to be false"... instead, they just quote the lie and move on.
I get that they cannot really confirm everything, but they are not even trying anymore. There is no questioning, there is no challenge... they just echo what is posted on Tweets or whatever other garbage platform and call themselves journalists
At the VERY LEAST, they should always add the disclaimer that no evidence was provided whenever parroting a known liar
Ah, yeah I didn't think about this from a US media POV. Where I'm from, the local media reports on trump with what you said should be done, they say what trump said and then note that this is not true and theres no evidence. Because my countrys media doesn't have access to trump, they cant really ask him questions or challenge him. So the best they can do is summarize what was said and then point out the inaccuracies.
Sadly, because Finland is a bilingual country, our state media focuses on the Finnish and Swedish reporting, the English version is not very wide in their reporting, most of their stuff is summaries and focused on Finland from a international perspective. So that is not a good source for foreigners to find out about world events. The Finnish version is more comprehensive and deals with more topics. The Norwegian medias are a bit better on the English language stuff.
Yeah, none of that is at all possible, but I have to hand it to Iran saying it. They know Trump just makes shit up, so they made some shit up. Now the US can confirm, deny, or be silent. Confirm? Win. Deny? Nobody believes the US anymore. Silence is weakness and/or confirmation.
It's exactly a Trump negotiation tactic. Just state your wishlist as fact, let the other side sputter and deny, then call them names and walk all over them while they look weak and unreliable. Iran watched and learned.
Or do one even better and stay silent while also threatening any media outlets that report the terms. Now you get weakness, confirmation, and lying all in one package with a ribbon bow on top.
My thoughts exactly. There are multiple points in the plan that I just can’t see as being tenable long-term. The readiness the US accepted it sounds like a delay to either get the stock market back up or for those Marines to get across the ocean. I doubt the ceasefire makes it the full two weeks.
To a degree it's already happened. US forces retreated from a lot of bases when they started getting drone attacks. So they'd have to actively move back to the Iranian border regions.
The sanctions and the rest will be a whole bigger thing that probably won't happen in full.
I recognize that as some part of a saying indicating someone is gullible, but don't actually know the source. I know this is off-topic, but where does this come from?
Not really concerned about the sanctions, no one should be doing buisness with the US or US affiliated countries anyways, but the US withdrawing would be really swell.
This whole debacle was a rousing success. The question is for whom. It wasn't a victory for the US citizens writ large. It wasn't a win for any NATO allies. It wasn't a win for the vast majority of the people in the world.
There's a few people/groups we can assume did win:
The wealthy: they were given insider trading info and made billions
Iran's leadership: they have come out regionally stronger
Israel's government: they got to genocide more Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, and Gazans under the cover of a regional war.
The inside circle in the executive branch that weren't outright fired
It's mostly an insider trading game at the expense of lives, money, and the US' sitting on the geopolitical stage. This is all part of the smash and grab stage of this presidency.
All the military weapon suppliers who now get to restock the used supply. I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed this as a way to funnel money to them.
The state leadership did seem to have politically outmaneuvered the US and Israel, however. I think that was OP’s point. They definitely won the culture war and controlling the narrative…not hard considering they were not the aggressors.
Also, there was revolt or even an uprising at Tehran before the attack. This maimed any chances of getting a better popular organization. This attack on Iran saved the dictatorial regime.
Iran also gets to charge every tanker that goes through the Strait $2,000,000 (they'll split it with Oman, who has the other side of the Strait), in order to rebuild everything that got bombed, but I'm sure that toll will go on pretty much forever. So gas supplies may slowly start to recover, but prices won't. We're going to be paying higher prices for gas, energy, any goods that need to be moved, anything made of plastic, and anything that needs fertilizer to grow, for a long time.
This was my first thought. It reminds me of the highway tolls in Illinois. They were originally announced to be temporary until they paid for the highways' construction themselves... in 1958. They discovered they like money and made them permanent.
The current leader of Iran did. He got to be head of state after an attack by the biggest military power in the world killed his predecessor. That's a much better origin story and base of legitimacy than a long ugly internal power struggle or simply inheriting the position after the other guy died of old age.
He can also spin the war internally as him standing up to the US and winning.
"United States to accept in principle its 10-point plan"
The "in principle" is importent here. Saying Iran won at this point is like saying you got a good deal before you finish haggling the price. Plus one of the points relies on Israel stopping it's attacks on Lebanon. Unless the US is willing to force Israel to stop, I doubt they will. Israel says" the ceasfire dosn't apply to Lebanon".
Went about as well as one would expect when a war is run by two massively-unqualified TV show hosts who paid smarter people to write their term papers.
As much as Trump is the most stupid person alive, I don't believe any word of this. Of course every side claims total victory. It's pretty clear the US lost in the long run and this war was a total disaster, but what is claimed here will never happen.
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Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 222 pts · 122d
I mean... Yeah. Trump caved in quicker than the titan submersible
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 122d
TACO now and forever.
Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 122d
TACO Titan
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 131 pts · 122d
Yeah… none of this will happen. I hate Trump and this illegal war is abhorrent. That said, if you take Iranian state media at face value I have a bridge to sell you.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 100 pts · 122d
That is a huge issue today... American state media and Iran state media are basically guaranteed to be lying.
If you add the complete capitulation of journalism in general, there is not a single source of information that can actually be trusted.
I guess we MAY see what actually happened based on what reality displays
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 40 pts · 122d
I mean how do you even report on this "truthfully"? :D
All they can do is say "this is what the two liars are saying, we don't know what will happen"
Jhex@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 122d
Not really... that is exactly what I meant about the capitulation of journalism. Sure they can say something like "Trump claims the sky is green; however, multiple observations, expert testimony and reality immediately confirms this claim to be false"... instead, they just quote the lie and move on.
I get that they cannot really confirm everything, but they are not even trying anymore. There is no questioning, there is no challenge... they just echo what is posted on Tweets or whatever other garbage platform and call themselves journalists
At the VERY LEAST, they should always add the disclaimer that no evidence was provided whenever parroting a known liar
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 26 pts · 122d
Ah, yeah I didn't think about this from a US media POV. Where I'm from, the local media reports on trump with what you said should be done, they say what trump said and then note that this is not true and theres no evidence. Because my countrys media doesn't have access to trump, they cant really ask him questions or challenge him. So the best they can do is summarize what was said and then point out the inaccuracies.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 122d
Well I do not know where you are from but your journalists seem to have stayed professionals!
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 10 pts · 122d
Sadly, because Finland is a bilingual country, our state media focuses on the Finnish and Swedish reporting, the English version is not very wide in their reporting, most of their stuff is summaries and focused on Finland from a international perspective. So that is not a good source for foreigners to find out about world events. The Finnish version is more comprehensive and deals with more topics. The Norwegian medias are a bit better on the English language stuff.
But I thought you might find this amusing: https://yle.fi/a/74-20219379
Jhex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
Time to learn Finnish it seems ahhahaha
Thanks for the link, refreshing to see actual logic and plain discourse in display
atropa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 122d
HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social · 2 pts · 122d
Yea
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 122d
Jhex@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 122d
Not a meme for those interested...
This piece of shit of a human actually complained about being fact checked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxF918BjWQ
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 122d
Vance and Trump's performances at the debates were the worst I"ve ever seen. By far.
Vance crying about being fact checked.
Trump saying he has concepts of plans and rambling on about immigrants eating people's pets.
And then they were elected. The U.S. truly is a clown nation.
Krono@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 122d
Worse than Biden's "We finally beat Medicare"?
Biden's debate performance was so bad that it got Trump elected.
Brown5500@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 122d
NPR generally still does a good job of this, which is why Republicans worked so hard to defund them
frongt@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 122d
They could report what's happening on the ground first, and statements second.
Triumph@fedia.io · 15 pts · 122d
Yeah, none of that is at all possible, but I have to hand it to Iran saying it. They know Trump just makes shit up, so they made some shit up. Now the US can confirm, deny, or be silent. Confirm? Win. Deny? Nobody believes the US anymore. Silence is weakness and/or confirmation.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 18 pts · 122d
It's exactly a Trump negotiation tactic. Just state your wishlist as fact, let the other side sputter and deny, then call them names and walk all over them while they look weak and unreliable. Iran watched and learned.
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
Or do one even better and stay silent while also threatening any media outlets that report the terms. Now you get weakness, confirmation, and lying all in one package with a ribbon bow on top.
KnitWit@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 122d
My thoughts exactly. There are multiple points in the plan that I just can’t see as being tenable long-term. The readiness the US accepted it sounds like a delay to either get the stock market back up or for those Marines to get across the ocean. I doubt the ceasefire makes it the full two weeks.
Soulg@ani.social · 7 pts · 122d
Unfortunately Iran is less untrustworthy than the US at this moment, even though they're both definitely lying
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 122d
The announcement must have came via ai Lego diss track. People seem pretty enamored with those
justsomeguy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 122d
Win the meme battle, win the war.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
If the past decade has taught me anything it is that meme magic is real
mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 122d
In the olden days, meme magic was called propaganda, and yes, it works if done correctly.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 122d
leoj@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 122d
I read that as Lego DLSS track and was hella confused for a minute.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
To a degree it's already happened. US forces retreated from a lot of bases when they started getting drone attacks. So they'd have to actively move back to the Iranian border regions.
The sanctions and the rest will be a whole bigger thing that probably won't happen in full.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
Don't know if its true or not but I heard a lot of the bases have been bombed into oblivion at this point.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 122d
I recognize that as some part of a saying indicating someone is gullible, but don't actually know the source. I know this is off-topic, but where does this come from?
Vupware@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 122d
I love etymology, so I looked it up:
Per wikitionary
goosehorse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 122d
I'm sure the OED has the correct answer, but here's a a source about a similar aphorism.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 122d
Not really concerned about the sanctions, no one should be doing buisness with the US or US affiliated countries anyways, but the US withdrawing would be really swell.
venusaur@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 122d
Yeah. Dummies hate Trump so much they blindly believe and support anybody in opposition to him.
azimir@lemmy.ml · 112 pts · 122d
This whole debacle was a rousing success. The question is for whom. It wasn't a victory for the US citizens writ large. It wasn't a win for any NATO allies. It wasn't a win for the vast majority of the people in the world.
There's a few people/groups we can assume did win:
It's mostly an insider trading game at the expense of lives, money, and the US' sitting on the geopolitical stage. This is all part of the smash and grab stage of this presidency.
mech@feddit.org · 32 pts · 122d
Also, no one is talking about the Epstein Files anymore.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 122d
the what files? i too am completely distracted from the trump-epstein friendship files
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 122d
All the military weapon suppliers who now get to restock the used supply. I wouldn't be surprised if they pushed this as a way to funnel money to them.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 122d
Good analysis, agreed on all points.
Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 122d
Even the one about Iran's leadership. Like the top ones, the top contenders and generals who were all killed. Did they win.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 122d
Good point, and yeah no, they were murdered.
The state leadership did seem to have politically outmaneuvered the US and Israel, however. I think that was OP’s point. They definitely won the culture war and controlling the narrative…not hard considering they were not the aggressors.
anzo@programming.dev · 2 pts · 118d
Also, there was revolt or even an uprising at Tehran before the attack. This maimed any chances of getting a better popular organization. This attack on Iran saved the dictatorial regime.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 122d
Israel genocided Syrians? How devalued has that word have become?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 121d
Yes:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/17/syria-israel-forcibly-displaces-villagers-in-occupied-south
https://unwatch.org/item-7/claim/claim-18-israel-violates-human-rights-in-the-golan-heights/
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 122d
No other nation on this planet could be harming America more than Donald Trump and the Republican party.
They are traitors. Plain and simple. They are our enemy.
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
They will 25th him to have VP as potus for the next election. Incumbent advantage.
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 122d
Ah, TACO Tuesday.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 122d
i thought Iran cancelled this ceasefire and the Straits of Hormuz are closed again, because the shithead Israelis bombed and murdered more Lebanese.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 122d
Posts have a timestamp. This post is probably older than the more recent news about the massacres in Lebanon.
13igTyme@piefed.social · 14 pts · 122d
Something something art of the deal.
G3NI5Y5@europe.pub · 14 pts · 122d
Failed business man surprisingly fails as president. What a surprise.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 122d
"He'll run it like his businesses."
Yep.
aramis87@fedia.io · 12 pts · 122d
Iran also gets to charge every tanker that goes through the Strait $2,000,000 (they'll split it with Oman, who has the other side of the Strait), in order to rebuild everything that got bombed, but I'm sure that toll will go on pretty much forever. So gas supplies may slowly start to recover, but prices won't. We're going to be paying higher prices for gas, energy, any goods that need to be moved, anything made of plastic, and anything that needs fertilizer to grow, for a long time.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
This was my first thought. It reminds me of the highway tolls in Illinois. They were originally announced to be temporary until they paid for the highways' construction themselves... in 1958. They discovered they like money and made them permanent.
Damage@feddit.it · 12 pts · 122d
Nobody won here
mech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 122d
The current leader of Iran did. He got to be head of state after an attack by the biggest military power in the world killed his predecessor. That's a much better origin story and base of legitimacy than a long ugly internal power struggle or simply inheriting the position after the other guy died of old age.
He can also spin the war internally as him standing up to the US and winning.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 122d
Khamenei's father, wife and one of his sisters were killed at the onset of the war.
CurbCuts@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 122d
The "in principle" is importent here. Saying Iran won at this point is like saying you got a good deal before you finish haggling the price. Plus one of the points relies on Israel stopping it's attacks on Lebanon. Unless the US is willing to force Israel to stop, I doubt they will. Israel says" the ceasfire dosn't apply to Lebanon".
baines@piefed.social · 3 pts · 122d
even that is an obvious victory for Iran
either US is a lier or unable to even enforce a deal or Iran actually gets what it asked for
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 122d
Went about as well as one would expect when a war is run by two massively-unqualified TV show hosts who paid smarter people to write their term papers.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 122d
This is the best possible outcome, and humiliating for the USA
... it's too good to be true, in my opinion
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 9 pts · 122d
Have you heard that the straight of Hormuz is closed again after the latest round of bombing again?
They will get everything they want.
yesman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 122d
My prediction is that it'll come out that the Trump Administration was negotiating with Ahmed Chalabi the whole time.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 122d
Oh, wow, there's a deep cut! Love it.
mech@feddit.org · 1 pts · 122d
Or Ali G
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 122d
Art of the deal
gigachad@piefed.social · 5 pts · 122d
As much as Trump is the most stupid person alive, I don't believe any word of this. Of course every side claims total victory. It's pretty clear the US lost in the long run and this war was a total disaster, but what is claimed here will never happen.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 122d
Unless the US comes out and denies it, there is no reason to doubt it. They're boastful enough not to let Iran claim total victory
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
What a loser.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 122d
Press X to doubt but this is just so believable...