Trump says Iran deal ‘largely negotiated’, dispute over strait reopening
Trump posted on social media that the emerging agreement would reopen the strait, the vital shipping passage whose closure upended global energy markets after the conflict started in February when the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. — Reuters pic
Sunday, 24 May 2026 10:23 AM MYT
WASHINGTON, May 24 — A “largely negotiated” memorandum of understanding on an Iran peace deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump said yesterday, although the Iranian Fars news agency disputed that claim.
Trump posted on social media that the emerging agreement would reopen the strait, the vital shipping passage whose closure upended global energy markets after the conflict started in February when the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran. He did not say what else would be included in an agreement.
“Final aspects and details of the Deal are currently being discussed, and will be announced shortly,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
But Fars reported early today that the agreement would allow Iran to manage the Strait of Hormuz and that Trump’s assertion on the strait was “inconsistent with reality.”😂😂😂
Iran had said yesterday that it was working toward a memorandum of understanding on ending the war after its top officials met with Asim Munir, the army chief of Pakistan.
The Pakistani army said the negotiations had resulted in “encouraging” progress. Two Pakistani sources involved in the talks said the deal being negotiated is “fairly comprehensive to terminate the war.”
A post on the X account of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised Trump for his “extraordinary efforts to pursue peace.”
Sources have told Reuters the proposed framework would unfold in three stages: formally ending the war, resolving the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz and launching a 30-day window for negotiations on a broader agreement, which can be extended.
One of the Pakistani sources said that if the US accepts the memorandum, further talks could take place after the Eid holiday ends on Friday.
Trump speaks with Middle East leaders
The US president, whose approval ratings have been hit by the war’s impact on energy prices for US consumers, said on Friday he would not attend his son’s wedding this weekend, citing Iran among the reasons he planned to stay in Washington.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had a phone call yesterday with leaders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan. Axios reported that the leaders encouraged Trump to agree to the emerging framework.
A separate call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went “very well,” Trump wrote.
Pakistan has aimed to narrow differences between Iran and the US after weeks of war have left the vital Hormuz waterway closed to most shipping despite a nervous ceasefire.
Trump has repeatedly said that the US struck Iran to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons. Iran has denied it is pursuing nuclear weapons and says it has a right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes.
“The trend this week has been towards a reduction in disputes, but there are still issues that need to be discussed through mediators. We will have to wait and see where the situation ends in the next three or four days,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei.
Iran has demanded supervision of the strait, an end to the US blockade on its ports and the lifting of sanctions on Iranian oil sales.
Baghaei said the issue of the US blockade on Iran’s shipping was important, but that its priority was ending the threat of new US attacks and the ongoing conflict in Lebanon, where Iran-allied Hezbollah militants are fighting Israeli troops who have moved into the south.
Pakistan’s army chief Munir left Tehran yesterday after talks with Iran’s top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi.
Qalibaf said Iran’s armed forces had rebuilt their capabilities during the ceasefire and that, if the US “foolishly restarts the war,” the consequences would be “more forceful and bitter” than at the start of the conflict.
Despite weeks of conflict, Iran has preserved its stockpile of near-weapons-grade enriched uranium as well as missile, drone and proxy capabilities. — Reuters
Alberta, about to vote in a Referendum to remain in Canada.
ReplyDeletePlease become 51st state.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c809jg1gj9yo
Comparing proven oil reserves. Alberta alone holds about 166 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves—almost entirely in its oil sands—which dwarfs the United States' proven reserves of roughly 40 to 47 billion barrels.
Breakdown of Proven Reserves
Alberta: ~166 billion barrels (giving Canada the 3rd largest proven oil reserves in the world behind Venezuela and Saudi Arabia).
United States: ~40 to 47 billion barrels (primarily located in Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, and shale plays).
Wakakakaka…
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Ooop… golden hair's ego trick!
IT Forensics expert picked up this Fraud.......
ReplyDeleteTwo different boys. Two different videos. Two different locations.
But yet the identical scripts.
Word for word. Every word. Identical tears. Identical act…
And the entire world fell for it (including KT who will no doubt censor....)
H/T
@CatShoshanna
https://x.com/MorEdge_Insight/status/2058307291607167275?s=20
wakakakaka…
DeleteThe question is who imitates who, with its own twisted conjectures.
But, mfer, do u care?
Rumah Doktor Kot.
ReplyDeleteWhy IDF So Kejam, bom?
Lihat Betul2. Teliti.
Rumah Doktor ada Missile Launcher.
Semua Kena Tipu....
Israel’s UK spokesman Alex Gandler raises a legitimate question for the media. Surfaced by a former IC practitioner group
@MorEdge_Insight
is a still frame extracted from a video posted on TikTok by Risala Civil Defense, a Hezbollah-linked group. It clearly reveals a six-tube MLRS amid the damaged structure following an Israeli strike. The strike is being reported as one against the civilian home of a Lebanese doctor; however, this footage tells a different story -- one the media only ever perfunctorily mentions but refuses to seriously cover: Hezbollah’s systematic exploitation of civilian structures and humanitarian personnel in its war of aggression against Israeli civilians.
https://x.com/DanLinnaeus/status/2058266554475704454?s=20
so?
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Know-nothing gullible chilli mah
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Court of Appeals reinstates sanctions against U.N.'s top Hamas terrorism supporter. For now, U.S. may “implement and enforce the designation of Francesca Albanese as a designated foreign national under Executive Order 14203.”
ReplyDeleteYou celebrated too soon,
@FranceskAlbs
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https://x.com/HillelNeuer/status/2058250175815049440?s=20
Yes KT, this comment is Biased......Biased Towards The Truth.
ReplyDeleteHistorical Truth.
Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah....
On This Day — May 23, 1960
In one of the most dramatic moments in Israeli history, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood before the Knesset and made a stunning announcement:
“I must inform the Knesset that not long ago the security services found one of the great Nazi war criminals — Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible, along with other Nazi leaders, for what they called the ‘Final Solution’ to the Jewish problem — that is, the extermination of the six million Jews of Europe. Adolf Eichmann is already under arrest in Israel and will soon face trial in Israel.”
The man who orchestrated the logistics of the Holocaust — the trains, the ghettos, the death camps — had been hunted down by Mossad agents in Argentina and brought to justice in Jerusalem.
This was the Jewish people, just 15 years after the Holocaust, declaring to the world:
We will not be victims forever.
We will find you.
We will bring you to justice.
From the gas chambers to the defendant’s dock in Israel — that is the arc of Jewish history.
The defenseless, scattered exiles became a sovereign nation that reaches across continents to settle its accounts.
And we still do.
Am Yisrael Chai.
https://x.com/CptAllenHistory/status/2058332146272534899?s=20
the key question remains un-answered!
DeleteWHY THE HATRED FOR THE JEWS R SO DEEPROOTED AMONGST THE OLD EUROPE?
I certainly don't mind cheaper RAM for DIY PC...
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BREAKING: Memory prices could COLLAPSE as China rapidly floods the market with DRAM and NAND chips.
China's CXMT RAM is selling for $150, while the global average price is around $300 to $400.
Chinese memory giants CXMT and YMTC are aggressively ramping production, threatening the dominance of Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron.
CXMT now controls 7.7% of the global DRAM market and YMTC already holds 11 to 13% of the global NAND flash market.
CXMT revenue already exploded 719% YoY in Q1 2026 to 50.8 billion yuan ($7.4B), swinging from losses to massive profits.
Chinese memory chips are often priced 15%+ below competitors, making them highly attractive for consumer PCs, servers, and storage devices.
Corsair already testing DDR5 modules using CXMT chips, while other brands like Acer and Asus asking suppliers to source Chinese memory.
China’s strategy is simple - flood the memory market with cheap DRAM and NAND chips, undercut competitors and capture global market share.
Samsung adviser Kyung Kye hyun already warned memory prices could fall back toward low levels by 2028 if supply expands too quickly.
https://x.com/i/status/2058131778938736961
Chinese memory maker CXMT has broken into the global consumer market, with its DRAM chips now appearing in Corsair Vengeance DDR5 modules.
The 16GB DDR5-6000 sticks (CL36) spotted by leaker @wxnod show strong compatibility with both Intel XMP and AMD EXPO profiles.
This shift comes as major suppliers like Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron focus on high-demand AI memory, creating shortages and higher prices for regular DDR5.
Interesting realtime, real world dynamic related to subject of Operational Research, a subject in college...
DeleteHype, constraint, cost, too soon, too fast, speed bump blah-blah...
Will AI continue on?
https://x.com/i/status/2057531661785628841
🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.
My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.
This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.
Hedgie🤗
Hmmm...share as is. Fascinating comment.
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CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
Pope Leo XIV first encyclical is on the topic about AI, scheduled for release on 25 May, 2026 Vatican. He had already send out advance thought via a letter on AI last Sunday, Day of Social Communication (a kind of theme celebrated within the Catholic Church).
ReplyDeleteIs AI a danger to humanity? Is it worthwhile to debate it? Peter Thiel does not think so.
Who is Peter Thiel and what keep him awake at night?
Is he the only one? Are there others? Sam Altman, Elon Musk are in the crowd on artificial intelligence...
https://x.com/i/status/2058744366328398319
In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel revealed he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI.
Calling Leo XIV the “woke American pope,” he also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist.
Now, Pope Leo XIV is releasing what’s expected to be an historic encyclical addressing AI tomorrow morning.
Btw, penny for a KT's thought on AI according to KT universe...
Deletelike fire and nukes, AI can be a good servant but a bad master - it enables fakes, frauds and friggs but helps in many other ways
DeleteThey, some online commentators, claimed that, SA is a supergrade psychopath, that EM currently having a big beef in court...
DeleteBefore long, may not be easily post link without having to pay a ransom at KT blog's comment...
Seems like no different from those WEFfer that pontificate about air, water being chargeable for use...what else we haven't metered it?
Shaking the sand off the sandal at these people...
https://x.com/i/status/2059058179955380493
SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”
https://x.com/i/status/2059240459222868479
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.