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"He has assured Trump that the jump in oil prices will be temporary, although most observers disagree.
Judd Legum of Popular Information notes that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) controlled by MBS invested $2 billion in the private equity firm of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, one of Trump’s volunteer Iran negotiators, before the war."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
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"On Tuesday, March 24, Julian E. Barnes, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt of the New York Times reported that MBS [i.e., bin Salman] sees a 'historic opportunity' to remake the Middle East and so has been pushing Trump to continue his war against Iran. MBS, the journalists report, has urged Trump to use troops to seize Iran’s energy infrastructure and drive the regime out of power."
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
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"that Trump initially launched the strikes on Iran at the urging of MBS and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the assessment of U.S. intelligence that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. and would not for at least a decade."
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
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"Trump is aligning himself with international oligarchs like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), and China’s Xi Jinping. ...
On February 28, Michael Birnbaum, John Hudson, Karen DeYoung, Natalie Allison, and Souad Mekhennet of the Washington Post reported" (continued in /12)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #war #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #Israel #Netanyahu
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
March 26, 2026
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore’s minister for foreign affairs, Dr.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The 'cool' thing is that he got $2 billion from the Saudis to launch his fledgling equity firm, Affinity Partners, six months after his father-in-law left the White House."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"'You get to choose which adventure you’re a part of.'
Among those 'really smart people' he got to meet with was Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince who oversees his country’s sovereign wealth fund and who green-lit the operation that led to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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"Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared on stage yesterday at a global investors’ conference in Miami. He explained why he likes leading a multibillion-dollar global investment firm.
'The cool thing about the investment business is you’re meeting with really smart people all the time,' Kushner said."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #JaredKushner #Iran #war #profiteering #Israel #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #AffinityPartners
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The Grifter's War
Jared Kushner is egregiously exploiting American lives to further enrich himselfSteven Beschloss (America, America)
"According to a major NBC exclusive, Trump is apparently not being fully briefed on the war. Instead, his team is compiling short highlight reels. Two-minute clips that show successful strikes, explosions, and what they frame as wins. None of the devastation. None of the losses. That is what he is watching. That is how he is being 'informed.'”
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/18
"Iran, meanwhile, mocked the 15-point framework plan for peace that Donald Trump has claimed is being discussed, with an Iranian military spokesperson saying on Wednesday that the Americans were negotiating only with themselves."
~ Clea Skopeliti
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/18
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…
First Thing: US reportedly poised to send airborne troops to Middle East
Iran has targeted Israel and Gulf states while denying Trump’s claims that any negotiations are taking place. Plus, Democrats flip seat in district that includes Mar-a-LagoClea Skopeliti (The Guardian)
"On one side, there is a constellation of voices and interests pushing for escalation or, at the very least, continuation. On the other, there is the blunt reality of rising oil prices, economic anxiety, and slipping approval numbers that are beginning to impose their own limits. What is emerging is not a coherent strategy so much as a pressure system with no obvious release valve."
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/17
"The most revealing thing about the current Iran conflict is not happening on the battlefield. It is happening inside Donald Trump’s own political orbit, where competing incentives — financial, apocalyptic, and political — are colliding in ways that are becoming harder to contain."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Iran #oil #gas #Israel #SaudiArabia #StraitofHormuz #war
/16
saltypolitics.substack.com/p/i…
Inside Trump’s Iran Meltdown: Saudi Money, Holy War Rhetoric, and an Economy That’s Starting to Crack
Trump's competing incentives are colliding in ways that are becoming harder to contain.Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
"The New York Times reports that Saudi Crown Prince and murderer Mohammed bin Salman has been urging Donald to continue the war against Iran, describing the conflict as a historic opportunity to reshape the Middle East. According to people briefed on the conversation, bin Salman has argued that Iran’s government must be dismantled, saying it poses a long term threat to the region, unlike Saudi Arabia."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Iran #SaudiArabia #MohammedbinSalman #war
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"On Tuesday, the New York Times published a bombshell report. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been aggressively lobbying Trump not to end the fighting. ...
Oddly, the New York Times story does not mention that Trump’s chief negotiator, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, is being paid tens of millions annually by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), which is controlled by MBS.
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“'I’m not going to start a war,' President Trump pledged during his November 2024 victory speech. 'I’m going to stop wars.'
Today, the United States has been at war with Iran for almost a month, with no clear objectives and no end in sight. Why is Trump, who promised to avoid foreign entanglements, allowing it to drag on?"
~ Judd Legum
#Trump #Iran #SaudiArabia #JaredKushner #MohammedbinSalman #war
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UPDATE: After sending billions to Kushner and Trump, Saudis lobby to escalate Iran War
“I’m not going to start a war,” President Trump pledged during his November 2024 victory speech.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
"Israel is not signed onto the plan. ...
Most of what the plan asks on nuclear questions is what Iran had already agreed to before the US attacked it."
#Trump #Iran #Israel #SaudiArabia #war #NuclearWeapons
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"The United States has sent Iran a 15-point plan to end the war, delivered through Pakistan. Fourteen of its points are now public. Iran’s military called it fiction. Iran’s diplomats are, very quietly, reading it.
The plan was confirmed Tuesday by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Haaretz, and ABC News."
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #Iran #Israel #SaudiArabia #war
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chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-…
The Rest of the World Report | Wednesday, March 25, 2026 — Morning Edition
The US sent Iran a 15-point peace plan. Most of it is what Iran already agreed to before the war started. ① The 15-point plan is public. Its nuclear core maps closely onto what Iran had already agreed to in Oman — one day before the US attacked.Rudy Martinez (A Chicano In Paris)