The Empire Backs Down, For Now

0:00The empire backs down for now. Trump has announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran after previously threatening to exterminate their entire civilization, citing a ten-point proposal from Iran as the reason for the climb down. Trump and his cronies are spinning this as a colossal victory for the United States and framing Tehran's ten-point plan as a major capitulation to the president's threats. But some reporters are noticing that Iran has had the same terms on the table for weeks, which would mean that it is in fact the White House who is backing down. Hours before the president's announcement, drop sites Ryan Grimm posted a TikTok video arguing that Trump could save face while walking back from his apocalyptic threats by simply accepting Iran's ten-point peace plan and acting like it's a new proposal the Iranians only just put forward. Trump argued that Trump could get away with this because the Western media have been

1:00completely ignoring Iran's stated terms for a ceasefire this entire time. Interestingly, this appears to have been precisely what Trump wound up doing. After previously rejecting Iran's proposals as not good enough, the president turned around and framed the Iranian offer as a brand new response to the pressures his administration was able to impose upon them. All the way back on March 28th, drop site news reported the following. Among Iran's terms for prominently ending the war are a long-term guarantee that the U.S. and Israel will not attack Iran again, and that any ceasefire also applies to Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine, reparations for the damages done to Iran during the war, sanctions relief, and that Iran retain control over the strait of Hormuz. These are the same terms Iran is claiming it pressured the U.S. to accept today. Iranian state media outlet press TV cited Iran's Supreme National Security Council as saying quote, Iran achieved historic victory by forcing criminal U.S. to accept its ten-point

2:05plan. U.S. has accepted Iran's total control over strait of Hormuz and Richmond Wright removal of all sanctions. The New York Times reports the following. Two senior Iranian officials speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations said the proposal included a guarantee that Iran would not be attacked again and end to Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon and the lifting of all sanctions. In return, Iran would lift its de facto blockade of the key shipping route through the strait of Hormuz. Iran would also impose a fee of roughly $2 million per ship that it would split with Oman, which sits across the strait. Iran would use its share of the proceeds to reconstruct infrastructure destroyed by American and Israeli attacks rather than demand a direct compensation according to the plan. So as things stand right now, this certainly looks like a humiliating defeat for the empire. Iran gets a lot of things it didn't have before the war, including tolling the strait

3:07of Hormuz and relief from U.S. sanctions that have been crushing its economy for years. While the empire gets to resume its shipping for a hefty fee, and pretend it just rescued the world from a nuclear Iran. Quite the turnaround from a White House that just last month was saying there will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. Quincy institutes Treadaparcy, who always has great insights regarding Western war-mongering toward Iran, writes the following. I cannot emphasize this enough. A new dynamic will be at play when the U.S. and Iran meet in Islamabad to negotiate a final deal based on Iran's ten-point plan. Trump's failed war has eliminated the potency of American military threats in U.S. Iran diplomacy. The U.S. can still issue threats, but everyone will know they no longer carry much weight. Essentially, war with Iran was tried and failed. As a result, negotiations will have to be based on genuine compromises from both sides,

4:12rather than coercion from either side. There are of course many, many reasons to be pessimistic. The U.S. and Israel have demonstrated time and time again that they will attack Iran during negotiations. And even if the U.S. holds up its end of the bargain, we can always see Israel sabotage the deal with its own aggressions. By now, Iran has to know that the only way to protect itself from Israel is to impose costs for Israeli aggression on the entire Western world. Tehran will have us all heating our homes with trash fires and growing carrots in our backyards if the West can't find a way to reign in Israel. For what it's worth, Zionist Twitter is an absolute meltdown right now, with notorious Israel apologists like Laura Lumer, Eve Barlow and Eli David rending their garments an outrage that the killing has ended with Iran positioned as it is. I'm as skeptical about this ceasefire as anyone, but the fact that the world's worst

5:13people are in meltdown about it right now does provide a faint glimmer of hope. We shall see.