Well, President Donald Trump said he will decide today on the potential agreement with Ira n. However Iran's Foreign Ministry said today that the nuclear issue was not negotiable . Plus, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency indicated what Trump is saying is a mixture of truth and lies. And what about Lebanon? Stock market? Stocks rose in afternoon trading on Wall Street Friday, adding to the all-time highs they set a day earlier. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% Friday. The index is coming off six gains in a row and is headed for a ninth straight winning week, which would be the longest such streak since 2023. Jeff Bezos' Blue Horizon exploded on its pad in Florida yesterday . Watch the explosion . No injuries or deaths, but a costly loss, for their only pad has been destroyed. Amazon was expecting this rocket to take 48 satellites into space on the next launch. That's now cancelled. Did you know that there are...
As I begin this posting, I look to my right and see.....a rainbow. Next, the Iran War: Yesterday, President Donald Trump warned Oman not to work with Iran to jointly manage the Strait of Hormuz . Oman has been a close strategic partner of the U.S. for 50 years, and has been involved in peacemaking. That article hinted that Trump was confused, as he has been recently, and misspoke in even mentioning Oman. As you can see, Iran and Oman are the two countries through which the strait passes, so a cooperative agreement actually makes a lot of sense. The strait is only 21 miles wide at the choke point, and you can see Iran from Oman. Yesterday, again, the U.S. struck Iran's Bandar Abbas. However, today the news is that the the U.S. and Iran reached a tentative deal to extend the ceasefire . What does this mean? First of all, this so-called deal is unofficial, as the agreement has no yet been approved by the leadership of either country. And where is Israel, still actively striking...