Stock market manipulation.

Trump said US–Iran talks were “productive” → S&P 500 +$2T in minutes.

Iran denied any talks shortly after → market reversed −$1T.

Total swing: about $3 trillion in under an hour.

Source: KobeissiLetter (at X)

NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi says the United States and Israel are responsible for instability in the Strait of Hormuz and for attacking civilian areas.

He said Iran’s strikes on military targets are self-defense and criticized regional countries for allowing their territory to be used for attacks on Iran, in a call with Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.

Trump on Iran:

We have major points of agreement and we both want to make a deal.

We will likely talk today, possibly by phone.

I hope to meet soon.

Trump on Iran:

We are dealing with a man who I believe is the most respected and the leader.

It is not the Supreme Leader; nobody has heard from him, and we don’t know if he is living.

Trump on Iran:

I dont want the leader of Iran to be killed; nobody wants that job right now.

Trump on Iran:

We want the nuclear dust. We’re going to want that, and I think we’re going to get that.

We’ve agreed to that—yeah, we’re going to; we’ve agreed to that.

Trump on Iran:

We want no enrichment, and we also want the enriched uranium.

If this happens, it is a great start for Iran to build itself back.

Reporter: If the war is ending, do you still need $200 billion?

Trump: It’s always nice to have. It’s a very inflamed world, and the Democrats inflame it...

Reporter: If these talks go well and you reach a ceasefire agreement with Iran, do you believe Israel would abide by that agreement?

Trump: I think Israel will be very happy with what we have. I think they will be very happy.

Trump on Iran:

We were expected to blow up their largest electric generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build.

One shot—it’s gone. It collapses. Why would they want that?

So they called. I didn’t call—they called. They want to make a deal.

Reporter: How are you going to get the enriched uranium?

Trump: It’s very easy—if we have a deal, we will go and take it ourselves.

Trump on Iranian oil:

I just want to have as much oil in the system as possible. We don’t even know if Iran gets that money.

Any small amount of money Iran gets is not going to make a difference in this war.

Reporter: If you end up hitting Iranian power plants, how is that different from what Russia is doing in Ukraine?

Trump: I think it’s a lot different... I’m not a fan of what Russia is doing either, just so you understand, but it’s a lot different.

An Israeli official says the senior Iranian figure the U.S. is in contact with is Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

Source: Amit Segal

Trump on Joe Kent:

I am not a fan of the guy. If you look at his Truths, he was all for everything, and then he wasn’t.

His wife was killed; he remarried fairly quickly.

We gave him a job at the White House, and this is what he does to me.

Reporter: If you obliterated their nuclear sites last summer, then how can you argue it was an imminent threat now?

Trump: We obliterated them. But that doesn’t mean with the right equipment you can’t dig down and go get it. We don’t want that.

Trump on Mojtaba Khamenei:

He is unavailable; nobody knows what happened to him.

They haven’t seen him there either—something is going on with him.

I don’t consider him the leader.