Is the ceasefire over?

 

JEFFREY ST. CLAIR >

Q: Is the ceasefire over? Is the MOU dead?

Trump: I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re scum. Do you know what scum is? They’re led by sick people. They’re vicious, violent people. They’re liars. They’re cuckoo.

+ These are the same Iranians, I suppose, that only a day earlier Trump had exalted for being shrewder and more rational than “the first and second regimes” that he’d knocked off in airstrikes. They were even willing, Trump bragged, to let the US have some of their “dust, I call it dust.” He was referring to Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium…I think.

Then, only a couple of hours after calling the Iranian leadership “scum,” “liars,” “cuckoo,” and “sick,” “vicious, violent people,” he said they called him up (on his cell perhaps) to make up. They wanted to deal, Trump said. They wanted it “bad.” But maybe it wasn’t the Islamic Republic of Iran that had called. Perhaps it was the one in Japan.

Meanwhile, the missiles kept flying in both directions. Ships were set aflame in the Strait of Hormuz and the price of oil shot up again.