Neither did CSPAN or NewsNation.
Public information; you may want to consider investing in Chevron or Exxon stock. Both showed record profits last investor release.
We're all bots, it is just that some of us have a pulse.
Careful, if you roll your eyes any further back, you might actually find a brain cell.
Finally, Anon has been here long time and finally, finally, you post something that would actually indicate you do have a brain. Anon's we're making progress!
So disappointed in you Anon, all that progress wasted. It is incredibly frustrating to feel like progress has been lost, especially when you've been working hard toward a
working hard toward a goal.
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Former presidents push for public say on ending Iran war.
Calls by former presidents Hassan Rouhani and Mohammad Khatami to end Iran’s war with the United States have triggered a fiercer political confrontation after they invoked public opinion in support of diplomacy rather than continued fighting.
Both men have called for an “honourable” end to the war, but Rouhani has gone further, arguing that public opinion should be taken into account in deciding whether Iran continues down the path of confrontation.
“Tell them that our plan is to fight the great powers of the world for another 20 years,” Rouhani said at a recent meeting with former officials. “If the people say they accept this, very well, let us continue. But if the people do not accept it and show us another way, do we not want to accept it?”
The argument has provoked a sharp backlash from hardliners, who say questions of war and national defence cannot be reduced to public opinion while the country remains under attack.
Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of the hardline Kayhan newspaper, accused Rouhani and Khatami on Tuesday of distorting reality, saying their calls amounted to “dishonourable and humiliating surrender” and would deliver the United States and Israel what they had failed to achieve through two wars.
The dispute comes amid renewed military escalation, with the United States and Iran again exchanging attacks after a relative lull and diplomatic efforts failing to produce a lasting settlement.
President Masoud Pezeshkian has nevertheless repeatedly argued that Iran should end the conflict while it remains in a position of “power and dignity,” pointing to inflation, sanctions and a sharp decline in foreign trade as reasons to reach a diplomatic understanding rather than prolong the confrontation.
But Rouhani’s appeal to public opinion has taken the debate into more contested political and constitutional territory.
“We must, according to the overwhelming majority of the people, end the war with dignity so that we can build the country …so that we can have hope for the future,” he said.
Rouhani did not explicitly call for a referendum, but his remarks revived one of the most sensitive arguments in Iranian politics: whether major questions of national policy should be put directly to voters.
Article 59 of Iran’s constitution allows the exercise of legislative power on major economic, political, social and cultural issues through a referendum and direct consultation of voters.
No referendum under the provision, however, has ever been held.
Former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rejected calls for referendums to resolve major national disputes in 2023, arguing that ordinary people were not equipped to analyse complex political, economic and international questions.
That divide is now being reframed around the war.
Tabnak, a website close to Supreme National Security Council secretary Mohsen Rezaei, rejected Rouhani’s argument by recasting the choice itself.
“If a referendum is to be held, the question must be precise and honest: ‘Are the people in favour of defending the country against foreign attack?’ or ‘Do you allow the country to surrender?’” it wrote.
“The difference between these two questions is the difference between political analysis and playing with words.”
Tasnim, a news agency linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), similarly attacked Rouhani as a symbol of a political current that had “simplified complex issues such as negotiations, peace and war.”
It accused the group of “naivety and wishful thinking,” arguing that they believed “a few legal clauses and two signatures” could resolve decades of tensions between Iran and the United States.
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Kayhan argued that proposing a referendum during wartime would weaken Iran’s position and that turning the defence of territorial integrity into a factional issue amounted to shirking national duty and assisting the enemy’s pressure campaign.
The attacks have extended beyond the media. At a nightly gathering in a public square, one speaker said that with the Supreme Leader and the Supreme National Security Council in place, Rouhani had no right to take a position on the issue.
Hardline cleric and eulogist Mehdi Salahshour said on X that asking the public whether the war should continue or stop would “only destroy national resolve and sow seeds of doubt in the hearts of fighters on the battlefield and in the streets.”
The response has not been uniformly hostile.
Conservative news website Khabar Online noted that, with the exception of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has been largely silent in recent years, Iran’s other living former presidents had chosen to intervene at a critical moment.
“These days Khatami speaks of ‘honourable peace’ and Rouhani of a ‘dignified end’,” it wrote.
Moderate website Rouydad24 contrasted their interventions with what it described as the relative silence of reformists serving inside Pezeshkian’s government, arguing that Rouhani was articulating a position many Iranians had expected to hear from their representatives in government.
Mohammad Ali Sobhani, a former Iranian ambassador to Qatar, Jordan and Lebanon, also backed Khatami’s position, arguing that Iran could not leave the conflict suspended indefinitely.
“We must change the situation, bring the playing field towards dialogue and compromise so that the world supports us and we can impose peace on the other side,” he told Khabar Online.
Reasonable voices are in dangerous territory, might need to watch their back. They could well be charged with treason.
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Tis very true but historically volatile oil prices seems to be quite the benefit for those two. They can skim just a little bit more.
Nope, Germany didn't turn into a shithole until post 1989 after the fall of USSR and the merge took place. Angela Merkel and her party (Christian Democratic Union of Germany) are the most responsible. Just Anon's opinion.
To be fair, several European countries would be bankrupt were it not for Germany bailing them out. Merkel and the CDU party are the epitome of WTO Globalist.
Sure there is some manipulation but oil is a global commodity that is influenced by other global oil interest as well. The push by Trump to "drill baby drill" was for the purpose of making the USA not dependent on OPEC price fixing and creating market shortages causing oil prices to sky rocket because they refused to pump.
We don't have a shortage here right now but oil prices (based on quality) are still affected as a commodity. It isn't because we don't have it.
Anon doesn't know about Trump's oil investments.
Hehe. What part of "Nope" do you not understand.
>So are you agreeing or not?
>Its a yes or no Q?
Indeed. KeK
Lawmaker says Iran will soon break US naval blockade in Persian Gulf
Iranian lawmaker Amir Hayat-Moghadam said on Friday that Iran's armed forces would soon break what he described as a US naval blockade in the Persian Gulf, saying American vessels in the region would be within range of Iranian missiles and drones.
"Americans should know that their vessels anywhere in the region can be exposed to Iranian missile and drone strikes," Hayat-Moghadam, a member of parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee presidium, told ICANA news agency.
He said Iran's military strategy had shifted from what he called a proportionate response toward a more "deterrent and offensive" approach.
"The naval blockade by US forces will be broken," he said. "This will not take long."
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(You)
"It is likely, so to speak, I do not think is all. I am a fake is all so to speak; this is not the same thing, I can only imagine something that he is good at. He has more important things to do is all, Everything seems so fake, ok?"
Nite nite Anon. Prolly only 5-6 really here.
Tight End to be exact.
Well, you came out of your mama's arsehole, so there is that.
IRGC official says Iran has raised cost of military confrontation
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A senior Revolutionary Guards official said Iran's military strength had made the cost of direct confrontation too high for its adversaries, prompting them to rely more on information, psychological and hybrid warfare.
"Iran's current power has made the cost of military confrontation very heavy for the enemy," Mohammad Sajedi-Far, a senior official in the Guards' cultural division, was quoted as saying by Mehr news agency.
Sajedi-Far said Iran's missile capabilities could penetrate enemy defenses and argued that US President Donald Trump was acting cautiously toward Tehran because of Iran's military strength.