US President Trump says Iranian leadership is unbelievably duplicitous

Full post: Iranian Leadership is unbelievably duplicitous! They ask for a meeting, some would say “beg,” talks begin, with more scheduled in the immediate future, and they say, openly and proudly, that they’re not having any discussions, that nothing is being talked about, and they’re only dealing with “Oman.” They then go on to give their usual blather in saying, the Strait of Hormuz will be operated powerfully by them, when it is already completely controlled by the United States Navy and our “Blockade” or, as some say, “The United States Wall of Steel!” Nothing gets through to Iran, unless we want it to, and nothing will get through, unless a Deal, or Total Surrender, is accomplished. Whether Iran wants to admit it or not, we are, in fact, talking of a solution to a problem that they have caused, for decades. It is very simple, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Rhetoric of this intensity from Trump on Iran has recurred often enough to have an established pattern: maximalist public pressure paired with references to ongoing or imminent talks, typically via intermediaries such as Oman, which has served as the standing back-channel between Washington and Tehran across multiple administrations. The distinguishing feature here is the simultaneous assertion of a naval blockade around the Strait of Hormuz and the claim that negotiations are under way, a combination that in past episodes has left crude pricing hostage to the next operational fact rather than to the language itself. The market distinction that has historically mattered is between rhetorical escalation, which tends to add a transient risk premium to Brent and WTI that fades absent physical disruption, and any actual interference with tanker traffic through Hormuz, where the transmission runs through freight rates, war-risk insurance and prompt spreads rather than flat price alone. The barb about Iran denying talks while talks proceed also fits the established choreography of both sides negotiating while publicly posturing, and such denials have not historically precluded eventual contact. Worth watching are follow-on posts or official confirmation of the claimed naval posture, any Iranian response through state media or the Oman channel, and whether tanker tracking or insurance pricing corroborates a blockade, since that is where words become barrels.