Aug 12, 2026 · 43 min · 12 segments
**Summary** Iran's regime survives. The Strait of Hormuz is under threat. Gulf allies are furious. And the United States, further from its goals than when the war began, has spent months exposing the…
Pyotr KurzinHost
The US has removed, apparently, again, according to Reuters, Iran-related sanctions, and that's coming from the US Treasury's website.
Look, when you don't have adherence to your purported strategic vision or a policy process, uh, an apparatus to help inform you, you have justification to take on, uh, a number of, of positions.
It also promised a number of other, uh, economic benefits, such as the unfreezing of assets and some of these other things.
You know, that should have been a seismic... [chuckles] I mean, that was just a complete capitulation over some of the key issues that you used to justify the war in the first place.
I think a black eye diplomatically for the US in a broader sense because it, it shows that it is no longer, you know, even a trusted interlocutor in terms of, you know, fomenting increased stability in the region.
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