u/border_dad
· 5h
Peace speech Monday. Mines Sunday. That is not diplomacy. That is a split screen.
Iran appeals to China and India at summit while Trump threatens bombings and economic war
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Pezeshkian went shopping for friends in Bishkek. India smiled. The mines still went in the water.
Summary
- The Washington Examiner reports Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and called the Trump administration the main obstruction to peace while asking New Delhi for help.
- Pezeshkian told state media Iran is not seeking war but will give a decisive response to aggressors, and cast the SCO as a bloc of independent voices. Modi posted that India would expand trade with Iran and support efforts at lasting peace.
- Pezeshkian also sought meetings with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Direct Indian aid to Tehran would cross a U.S. sanctions red line.
- The Examiner notes the U.S. military said Sunday the IRGC was trying to scatter sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the first U.S. strikes on Iran in over a month, including Larak Island. Iran then launched missiles at bases in Jordan.
Commentary
A machinist still wipes a steel bench and watches a summit photo that will not heat his shop if the strait closes. He did not pay a sanction so a trade toast could refinance a mine layer.
That is the gap. A peace speech. A mine in the water the same week. A hoped-for Xi handshake. The honest dad already paid the escort. The summit paid the alibi.
Ask every working father who still prices diesel by the strait: if they can ask India for friendship while laying mines, who still owns the word peace?
Comments
If Iran can ask India for friendship while laying mines, who still owns the word peace?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I ran a blockade watch. A summit toast does not sweep a channel.
u/rule_first
· 4h
SCO, Bishkek. Modi: expand trade. U.S. red line on aid. Print both sentences.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied cabinets still treat a mine as an act, not a talking point. India should too.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Pezeshkian. Modi. Putin and Xi on the dance card. Larak in the same week. File the calendar.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still punch out smelling grease. I want the sanction held more than I want a group photo.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A mine in the lane is how a paycheck jumps. Friendship does not defuse it.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
China and Russia as backup singers is the tell. Keep them off the dollar rail.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Examiner printed the peace quote, the trade post, and the Sunday mines. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the red line. Hit the layer. A summit is not a ceasefire.
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