US military says it has launched new strikes on southern Iran
www.bbc.com
The strikes on Iranian missile launch sites and boats were taken in "self-defence", US Central Command says.
  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9·
    8 hours ago

    The latest little pump and dump? Yesterday they hype up the state of negotiations, buy oil futures, today they attack southern Iran, sell oil futures?

    • Naich@piefed.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 hours ago

      The oil markets opened so they can now sell all the expensive oil that they bought at cheap prices last week.

  • stumu415@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    52·
    12 hours ago

    Pure market manipulation.

    Trump / Rubio : we’re close to a deal. It’s pretty much done.

    Iran: we’re not close and Trump is just saying otherwise to manipulate the media.

    Media: Deal is close but doubts linger.

    It is interesting that I believe the Iranian news over the US regime.

      • stumu415@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
        17·
        12 hours ago

        It’s actually quite bizar that a lot of us went from ‘the US says so, so it must be true’ to ‘the US says so, so it must be a lie’, within a year.

          • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
            3·
            7 hours ago

            I stopped paying attention after George said it was all good in front of that Mission Accomplished banner. I assume the parades for the liberators were amazing though.

    • kobra@lemmy.zipEnglish
      25·
      11 hours ago

      I’m dumb so apologies but, what’s the manipulation? Stock markets have been closed all weekend including Memorial Day. How does re-igniting the war ~12 hours before it opens affect it?

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 hours ago

    I read something earlier where Iran said the deal wasn’t as done as Trump made it out to be, and they’re not really trustworthy of the whole process as they’ve already been bombed twice three times now during negotiations