President Trump continues to stand by his claim that the United States strikes completely quote obliterated his word Iran's nuclear program. Though there's been widespread dispute over that claim. This week the CIA assessed that the nuclear program was quote severely damaged which doesn't back up Trump's narrative of complete obliteration.And then there's still the big question of what happened to Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium. Now, here's what Trump had to say about that in a Fox News interview airi ...

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Are you interested in restarting negotiations with Iran. And if so, have they received. So, are people Marco could answer this, but our people are um not I'm not The way I look at it, they fought the war's done and you know, I could get a statement that they're not going to go nuclear.We're probably going to ask for that, but they're not going to be doing it, but they're not going to be doing it anyway. They've had it. They've had it.Now, maybe someday in the future we'll want that. But, uh, I've asked Marc ...

We're with them all the way. If you take a look at the numbers, we're with them. And they're very big things to announce.And I don't know if you've taken the vote or you're going to take the vote, but I've been asking them to go up to 5% for a number of years and they're going up to 5%. That's a big from 2%. And a lot of people didn't even pay the 2%.So I think it's going to be very big news that it is going to become very strong with us. And I appreciate doing it. Perhaps you want to jump.Yeah, absolutely. ...

Have you been answered questions about uh whether you are moving closer or you believe the US is moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities? Where's your mindset on that? Can't say that, right? You don't seriously think I'm going to answer that question. Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component? And what time exactly, sir? Sir, would you strike it? Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch? I mean, you don't know that I'm going to even do it. You You don't know. I may do it. I m ...

12 Jun 2025 15:07:47 ET │ 11 pages Oil Monitor Ongoing geopolitical tensions provide a selling/hedging opportunity V i e w p o i n t | CITI'S TAKE We are bearish on oil prices from current levels of $68-70/bbl Brent, expecting them to fall $60-65/bbl over the coming months, as oil fundamental pointing to a significant surplus during 2H'25, driven by OPEC+ returning its spare capacity to the market. We recommend producers take the opportunity to hedge into rallies related to any Israeli or US military action ...

This makes Washington look pretty feckless, right? Because one of two things is true. Either Donald Trump did not want this to happen. Wanted Steve Wickoff to go there this weekend and Israel bombed Iran and killed the person that was overseeing those negotiations with Steve Wickoff. Or Donald Trump when he went to the Gulf Arabs a few weeks ago lied to them in saying that he won an Iran deal. Neither of those is a particularly good look for the United States. Either we're being duplicitous about matters as ...

than a percent. Getting back near the recent all time highs. And that leads back to today's major geopolitical story.Those strikes and counter-strikes between Israel and Iran. The latest Israel's defense minister saying Iran crossed red lines with its strikes against Israeli cities. Joining me now is Fred Kempe, president and CEO of Atlantic Council and a CNBC contributor.Fred Israel's positioning this moment, it seems to be an existential threat to the Iranian regime. Is it. >> Look.>> We have someone work ...

more hours left in this and much more to go before we know exactly what's going on. >> All right, Megan, thanks very much. Megan Cassella, let's turn now to Michael O'Hanlon.He's director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution. Michael. And so we are hearing from different analysts that they think this could actually be a rather drawn out affair.That's going to kind of put that on one side of the equation. On the other side, are those pointing out that the market reaction here is not outsiz ...

The Trump administration initially emphasizing overnight that it was not involved in these attacks, saying Israel had taken unilateral action here. But then President Trump this morning standing strongly by Israel in a few posts saying in the last few hours that he gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal, but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn't get it done. He went on to say that there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attack ...