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From the AP...
Live updates: Iran's 'potential new leadership' open to US talks, Trump is 'eventually' willing, AP source says
apnews.com
... A senior White House official says that "new potential leadership" in Iran has suggested they are open to talks with the United States after U.S. and Israeli forces launched a major attack on Iran, killing its supreme leader and other high-ranking officials.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal administration deliberations, said President Donald Trump says he is "eventually" willing to talk, but for now, the military operation "continues unabated."
The official did not say who the potential new Iranian leaders are or how they made their alleged willingness to talk known. ...
Trump Exposed as Hypocrite by His Own Iran War Doomsday Warnings
www.thedailybeast.com
... For years, Donald Trump publicly claimed that a military attack on Iran would reflect an inability to negotiate, scrambled electioneering, or a limp attempt from a president to "show how tough" he is. ...
"Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly - not skilled!" Trump said. ...
"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate," Trump said of President Obama in a shouty video clip in November 2011. "He's weak and he's ineffective. ..."
"Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin -- watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate."
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Iran's Khamenei Killed in Major Victory for Trump, Netanyahu
www.newsweek.com
... Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed in the U.S.- Israeli strikes on Iran, according to multiple reports.
The death of the Islamic Republic leader marks a major achievement for President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who both called for regime change and urged Iranians to rise up against the clerical government in the wake of the strikes.
Israeli officials initially said they saw "signs" that Khamenei was dead, but later said they had confirmed his death, saying his body had been found, Reuters reported. ...
Iranian officials declined to say with certainty Khamenei was alive, with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying soon after the strikes the leader was still alive "as far as I know."
Earlier, there were reports that Khamenei had been relocated to a secure facility according to Iranian officials. Hours after the strikes, Iranian media also broadcast that Khamenei would be delivering an address to the nation. But that did not happen.
Netanyahu in a TV broadcast claimed that there were "signs" of Khamenei's demise, with Iran continuing to deny those reports, saying the supreme leader was "safe and sound" and later that he was "steadfast and firm in commanding the field," according to British outlet Sky News. ...
Reuters now saying in their live updates ...
Israel says Khamenei is dead, Iran says he is 'commanding the field'
www.reuters.com
Update ...
Israel says Khamenei is dead, Iran says he is 'commanding the field'
www.reuters.com
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Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, senior Israeli official tells Reuters
Iran says leader is 'firmly commanding the field'
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Time will tell which is correct.
@#143 ... Iranian people dancing in the streets wrapping themselves in the real Iranian flag they've kept ...
US-Israeli attack triggers fear and panic in Iran
www.reuters.com
... Iranians fled cities in search of safety, rushed to stock up on food, and formed long queues at fuel stations as an attack on Iran by the United States and Israel spread fear and panic throughout the country.
When the strikes began on Saturday morning, explosions rocked Tehran and columns of smoke rose into the sky, shaking the city at the start of the Iranian working week. Israel said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been killed in the operation, but Iranian authorities have not confirmed his fate.
Residents reached by phone described scenes of chaos and alarm as they rushed to collect their children from school or made preparations to leave home for now. ...
@#132 ... What are they gonna do, exercise their Second Amendment rights? ...
Can you say... World Cup Games? I knew you could.
World Cup host cities are running out of time' with $625m in funding held up by DHS shutdown
www.theguardian.com
... Local and national officials expressed concern on Tuesday that the ongoing partial government shutdown in the United States could adversely affect planning and preparation for the 2026 World Cup, which is just over 100 days away.
In a hearing before the House committee on homeland security, representatives from Miami, Kansas City and New Jersey -- three locations that will host a combined total of 21 matches in the tournament, including the final -- said they are still waiting on federal funds to be released to their respective local agencies. Last July, lawmakers pledged $625m in federal assistance toward World Cup security via the Trump administration's "big beautiful" policy bill. ...
@#128 ... We'll probably see $100 bbl oil in the near future with the closing of the Strait of Hormuz. ...
Time will tell.
Found this ...
$100 Oil Is in Play
www.wsj.com
@#88 ... So far, oil futures have risen nearly 3% ...
#84 | Posted by LampLighter
That's good for the Investor Class.
More good news?
Stealing Iran's oil is Historically Precedented. ...
US strikes against Iran could see oil prices jump $10 to $20 or more with no deescalation
finance.yahoo.com
... Futures on Brent crude (BZ=F), the international pricing benchmark, had jumped by roughly 2.9% to close above $72.80 on Friday, while those on US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude (CL=F) had moved up by a slightly smaller 2.8% to trade above $67 by Friday's close.
Without signs of deescalation over the weekend, prices could surge upward by as much as $10 to $20 per barrel when the market reopens Sunday night, Jorge Len, head of geopolitical analysis at Rystad Energy, told Yahoo Finance.
"Given the scale of retaliation, most of the strategic initiative now lies with Iran," Len said. "How Tehran chooses to respond over the next 24-72 hours -- especially toward energy infrastructure or regional shipping -- will be the primary driver of near-term oil market dynamics." ...
@#89 ... Now I wonder how Mr. Putin is going to feel about this "regime change." ...
Russia condemns US-Israel strikes on Iran as 'unprovoked act of armed aggression'
apnews.com
From the article cited here: drudge.com
US sympathies in Israeli-Palestinian conflict have shifted
... The shift began even before the Israel-Hamas war turned the issue into a flash point within the Democratic Party. Palestinian militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the initial attack and took another 251 hostage, but the Israeli response has been widely seen as disproportionate, with Gaza health officials reporting more than 72,000 Palestinians killed, nearly half of them women and children, and wide swaths of the territory reduced to rubble. Many progressive politicians and activists now describe Israel's actions in the war as genocide " a charge Israel vehemently denies.
Democrats have expressed greater sympathy for the Palestinians than the Israelis since 2023 " in a Gallup poll that was conducted before the Oct. 7 attacks " but Gallup's surveys show their support in the conflict has been tilting toward the Palestinians and away from the Israelis since around 2017. ...
Chart showing Gallup sympathy for Israel polling numbe5rrs since 2001: interactives.ap.org
Per Bloomberg TV: Trump gambles new Iran strikes will save flailing MAGA agenda
democraticunderground.com
... The US-Israeli attack on Tehran on Saturday marks a turning point for President Donald Trump, who is wagering that a war - the kind of which he once vowed NOT TO START - will strengthen his second-term agenda.
In a break from his campaign promises to keep the US out of foreign wars, Trump decided to attack - despite what Arab mediators described as significcan progress in nuclear talks with Tehran, and in the face of polling showing MOST Americans oppos fresh military action.
It came less than two months after he order a high-states US military raid inside Venezuela, another signal that his second term has tilted toward muscular intervention abroad.
The Iran strikes are the biggest gamble yet for the US leader, whose approval ratings have plunged in recent weeks, with surveys showing Americans think he is concentrating too much on foreign policy and too litte on the economy. ...
Original [paywalled] article...
www.bloomberg.com
Upon first read of the summary, I though it was an Onion article...