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Trump seeks to sanction Tehran into submission rather than renew MOU, sources say
2026-08-28
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
has lost interest in renewing June’s interim agreement with Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and prefers to exert economic pressure to secure more favorable terms for ending the war, according to sources who spoke Thursday with The Times of Israel.

Trump himself told news hounds his new sanctions against Iran could extend to Chinese banks that do business with it, and said there were no talks at all between the US and Iran right now, even as Tehran’s top diplomat hosted his Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i counterpart, a key mediator, to discuss the Strait of Hormuz.

Former Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
chief David Barnea, an architect of the US-Israeli war against Iran, meanwhile hailed Trump’s new sanctions but said there would be no choice but to "intensify the economic, diplomatic and operational actions" against the Iranian regime until it falls.

The sanctions, which US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent presented on Monday, target Iran’s digital assets and technology, gold, aviation and shipping sectors. Potential secondary sanctions would affect entities in the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
that transport Iranian oil.

A US official who spoke with The Times of Israel said Trump thinks sanctions will lead the Iranian regime to capitulate to more favorable terms on curbing its nuclear program and reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Confirming elements of an earlier Wall Street Journal report, a senior diplomat from one of the mediating countries also said Trump was no longer interested in reviving the June memorandum of understanding, which fell apart within days over disagreements about the strategic waterway.

While mediators Qatar and Pakistain have sought to restore the MOU or negotiate a similar agreement, Trump has informed them he was no longer prepared to accept those terms because the Iranians have "burned" him too many times at the last minute, the diplomat said.

The US would need to be willing to wait out Iran for an extended period for Trump’s plan to work, the diplomat added, expressing doubt in the administration’s ability to wait that long, given the war’s unpopularity among American citizens.

Speaking to news hounds in the Oval Office, Trump said of Iranian leaders: "We don’t want to speak to them. We’re not looking to meet or anything."

Asked if he would punish Russia for continuing to do business with Iran, Trump said, "It depends. So far, I think Russia’s behaved quite well, having to do with the Strait of Hormuz, and you have to understand: for everything they do, we do also."

Then, when asked if he would sanction Chinese banks for doing business with Iran, Trump said: "Who said I’m not? You don’t know if I’m doing it... I don’t have to announce everything, do I?"
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