Iran Refuses Second Round of US Negotiations Unless . . . . Conditions are met

Source: Hal Turner

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ran has informed the Pakistani mediator that it will not enter a second round of negotiations with the US unless five minimum “confidence-building” conditions are met.

The reported conditions include:

• ending the war on all fronts, especially Lebanon

• lifting sanctions on Iran

• releasing blocked Iranian funds

• compensation for war damages

• and recognition of Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

Sources inside Iran say Tehran views the continued naval blockade in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman, even after a ceasefire, as further proof that the US cannot be trusted in negotiations.

Perhaps most tellingly, Iranian sources claim Washington’s 14-point proposal attempted to obtain through diplomacy what it failed to achieve militarily during the war.

Hal Turner Flash Analysis

So Iran does not seem to have changed ANY of its requirements from the start of negotiations and the US does not seem to have changed ANY of its requirements.  As such, it seems to most rational people that these were not "negotiations" where two sides talk WITH each other, they were posturing where the two sides talked AT each other.

For anyone who has been paying attention to the situation, it was evident the "talks" were a failure weeks ago.  With Iran's position tonight on not entering a second round of talks, the negotiation ARE a failure.

So, where does that leave all of us?

The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.   Most crude oil, petrochemicals, and natural gas, are NOT flowing.

Crude oil, fuel, and LNG reserves and supplies will continue to shrink worldwide.

Markets, which are already actually, factually, delusional, willfully ignoring the ferocious reality coming at them,  may or may not wake up to reality and begin pricing-in the reality.

By the end of June, reality will smash the United Kingdom because there will have to be fuel rationing.  By July 4 or so here in the United States, reality will also smash-through the financial markets delusions, and suddenly, we will have a "crisis" on our hands.

By then, it will be too late for the average Joe to prepare.

This sort of reminds me of something I heard our lowly, sniveling, government public servants tell each other: Never let a good crisis go to waste?  

Here it is for all to see coming.   But only those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

Most of the general public will deny the reality until it comes up and bites them in their ass.