Not only has the assassination attempt taken over as the top story, priority is given to a revival of immigration enforcement stories, a military strike on a "narco-terrorist" boat, the chair of the federal reserve, and — hard news is such a drag — music, theater, and women's handbags.
If we scroll down to the bottom half of the home page, we do get to an Iran story, but the tone of the headline is dramatically different: "Iran and U.S. Sink Into Awkward Limbo of 'No War, No Peace.'"
It's not a dire emergency anymore. The war is over. We won. Iran just won't admit it, and we're not going to give them anything for holding out on admitting what is true. No, it doesn't say that. The article, analysis by Erika Solomon, goes with a "both sides" trope:
Over the weekend, an article published by a prominent conservative newspaper, Khorasan, and redistributed by several other Iranian outlets described the current moment as “a strategic limbo” with considerable risks.
“Both sides have stepped back from the costs of full-scale war but have not moved beyond the logic of force and pressure,” it said. This “may be more dangerous than short-term war itself.”
The halting efforts to restart cease-fire talks brokered by Pakistan reflect the dynamics since the U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iran ended in a cease-fire earlier this month. Both sides argued that they emerged with the upper hand....
The result is that neither side is willing to give ground that could allow talks to move forward....
As if it's a stalemate. But:
Iran’s most prominent economic newspaper, Donya-e-Eghtesad, has forecast that annual inflation could rise to 49 percent “in the most optimistic case” of reaching a deal. A state of “no war, no peace,” it warned, could push inflation closer to 70 percent over the coming months while a return to war might cause hyperinflation of more than 120 percent.
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Predictions are that Iran must begin shutting-in oil wells in the coming days due to lack of storage capacity and inability to ship the stuff out. Let's watch...
The core NYT market demands to inhabit a soft protective bubble. They refuse to leave the womb, and lash out when anyone takes away their illusion of superiority and bliss. No soup for you. No risk for you. No perspective for you.
NYT lacks the ability to discern Iran's unwillingness to pursue a peaceful settlement with America's willingness to step back from negotiations while blockading Iranian shipping. Their inactivity is not the same.
Iran is almost out of time wrt maintaining any ability to pay anyone. Let’s see what happens then.
No stories of the virtues of theft from Whole Foods?
…maybe there’s talk of the stealing in the workbag story? ‘Use your wirecutters to remove the dye lack as you steal the workbag!’ Why would lefties need a ‘work’ bag anyways? Something to carry out the stuff they’re stealing from Whole Foods?
…since we’re panicked about being to hard on Norah O’Donnell this morning I’ll make one up so nobody gets pushed over the edge before their morning Zoloft kicks in. Here we go: Burrata salad guy must me a war correspondent!
Yeah, immigration enforcement. The Dems want to abolish ICE or at least defund it. So they won’t fund DHS which means that the Secret Service hasn’t been paid in over two months.
Deport ever illegal alien tomorrow.
Rewrite! Federal Government Stops the Importation of Deadly Fentanyl Saving American Lives.
Was the guy eating burrata they stile from Whole Foods? I think I made the Whole Foods Persimmon Burrata Salad once but I paid for it..
One problem with using the "both sides" trope in describing negotiations to end this war, is that no one really knows who speaks for the other side. Is there any credible civilian government left? If they make promises will the IRGC be bound by them? What about the Iranian people themselves? I think that our side is realizing that there really isn't anybody left with the brains and power to negotiate and enforce an agreement.
In the lead story, who is "The man being held in connection with the attack at a Washington Hotel..." ? What an odd way to frame it-- was it someone just acting suspiciously, soon to be released for lack of evidence ?
Rasheed Wallace: Both sides fought hard.
Covering with a pillow
Time is not on Iran's side. The war has not stopped. Iran needs to move its oil through its constantly filling pipelines. It cannot just keep filling, flowing, if it has nowhere to go. Time is of the essence. Not only that, but they are dying economically. They have to move on this. We don't.
Anyway, my favorite header is "Security at dinner worked as intended, Experts say". Thankfully the experts chimed in on what seems to the world to be a massive shortfall in both common sense and actual security.
Not only was the hotel not secured- so that any professional assassin or terrorist could have had a field day (thankfully this guy was not a professional), but even as the 'security' around the magnetometer was there in numbers, they were all leaning against a wall, or sitting on a bench, just hanging out.
As it turns out, we have the same 'experts' on security as we do on everything else.
Silly old boomer
So long as America is still spending tax dollars needed at home to destabilize Israel's neighbors, the war is still on
They'll bleed us dry monetarily.
Dont worry your pretty head. Keep cashing your monthly checks and sharing your opinions, cutie.
You have nothing to worry about...
I guess that we are going to find out who can suffer more, because the last tankers that got out of the Persian Gulf are unloading right now. On the one side we have spoiled Westerners fighting a war of choice to take another country’s oil, and on the other we have a nation that has been suffering for fifty years, ever since they overthrew the brutal Western puppet, the Shah, and took their oil back, including when we backed Saddam, giving him chemical weapons.
Time will tell, maybe we can crush their spirit and get control of their oil again, i would not bet against it.
From a certain point of view, it worked as intended
If the shah had not been gravely ill he would have dealt with ruhollah and his gang
AntICE are accessories to the illegal aliens' crimes.
Iranians are short of Mullahs to sponsor Hamasidols.
The US is making a lot of money selling oil to the world.
Everyone knows that this is over and we have defeated China and Europe.
They just don't want to let Trump gloat over actually putting America first.
Iran is being held in a chokehold that will leverage internal dissension toward regime change.
imTay said...
I guess that we are going to find out who can suffer more, because the last tankers that got out of the Persian Gulf are unloading right now. On the one side we have spoiled Westerners fighting a war of choice to take another country’s oil, and on the other we have a nation that has been suffering for fifty years, ever since they overthrew the brutal Western puppet, the Shah, and took their oil back, including when we backed Saddam, giving him chemical weapons.
Time will tell, maybe we can crush their spirit and get control of their oil again, i would not bet against it.
Why are you still in this country? We are such awful people we don't deserve to have someone as pure and good as you are.
You should go somewhere where people are better than us like Europe or China. Europe and China never hurt people in other countries. They are so good they deserve someone like you amongst them.
Heck maybe if you are good enough the Mullahs or the Palestinians might let you join them and fight for their righteous cause.
You might have to shit some more strawberry ice cream though.
It read better in farsi
The NYT's always has to walk a fine line. On one hand they're zionists, albeit reasonable ones. So they support the sneak attack and unprovoked agression against Iran. On the hand, they hate Trump, so they can't give him credit for anything. Or push any issue that would make Liberal/leftists even warhawks and zionists like him.
So, lets put the Iranian war on the backburner. Sure its sending fertilizer and oil prices through the roof, and is going to cause large scale inflation down the road. But hey, if you're a well-to-do reader of the NYT's what do you care if hamburger and Gas go up 20 percent?
And all those dead Iranians and people suffering in Africa or East Asia from lack of oil matter even less. Better to talk about Handbags or whatever.
They are still owned by the sulzbeegers who supported jim crow stalin and ho chi minh n that order
Flathead friedman is their representative
They cheered for arafat ruhollah ortega straight down the line
"I guess that we are going to find out who can suffer more, because the last tankers that got out of the Persian Gulf are unloading right now. "
Funny, I read that same claim a month ago. And it was probably true back then.
That's right. The media is so stupid. They don't realize that Trump is starving the Iranians of money and food. Due to their incompetence, the Iranians are already depriving themselves of drinking water resources. I think they call this the rule of threes. A human can't survive past 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, 3 minutes without air and 3 seconds without hope.
To bolster the point, I give you the wisdom from Professor Jagger of the London School of Economics:
Time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is
Now you all were saying that you want to be free
But you'll come runnin' back (I said you would baby)
You'll come runnin' back (like I told you so many times before)
You'll come runnin' back to me, yeah
Nate Smith is on the NYT front page??
Nice.
priority is given to a revival of immigration enforcement stories, a military strike on a "narco-terrorist" boat...
NYT prioritizes narrative subjects that Dems are saying justify assassination.
Nothing is more important to the self-important than…
I wonder if the shooter lost his Hilton points?
Trump is going to blockade them into dust. He is playing Persian rug merchant with them. He is in absolutely no hurry. But Congress may yet snatch defeat out of victory. Which Iran is hoping their allies in the democrat party and their media partners can pull off.
What does it mean to say, "We won"? Is there any agreement about what our goals were or about what the real situation in Iran was before the war or is now?
Trump is not going to let the Iranians draw the peace negotiations out endlessly. He's not going to let them keep dragging his people all the way to Pakistan for nothing over and over again.
He said, the Iranians can call me if they want to talk. He's not going to haggle with them like a tourist buying a rug. He doesn't have to haggle. He can just take their all their rugs if he wants them.
Remember how Zelensky kept coming to meet Trump then reneging on agreements the administration thought they'd already reached? Trump's not going to play that game.
The war will be resolved this week. Iran is out of storage and does not want to shut down wells, possibly setting themselves back years. Patience is paying off. They dragged a 30-year-old decommissioned tanker to Karg so they could store another 2M barrels. It's the geopolitical equivalent of checking the couch for change when the mortgage is due.
Sigh. I'll just continue my habit of ignoring the NY Times. I'm interested in news and analysis, Grok and X are better sources for that. The NY Times is incurably infected with politics and spin.
"..It's not a dire emergency anymore. The war is over. We won. Iran just won't admit it, and we're not going to give them anything for holding out on admitting what is true..."
BUT! today is late April.
Dave Begley PROMISSED US that it would be done by April 1st.
this is 26 days later.. THAT is The Definition of a FOREVER WAR
It is remarkable that, after Vietnam, Afghanistan, and decades of U.S. military failures since 1945, some serious analysts claim America “won” this war simply because it dropped a lot of bombs.Trump is flailing around, he has no idea how to get out of this mess.
Oh noes...anyways
here's a fun thing..
since back when i was in junior high (1975), the loud people in the media have been claiming that EVERY THING the US goverment does in the world is:
A WAR FOR OIL!
but not now; you just don't hear people stating that
"Venezuela was ALL ABOUT OIL!"
or
"Iran is ALL ABOUT OIL!"
closest you get is loud people saying: "this will increase the price!"
isn't that ODD?
according to the loud people, it was all about oil..
But NOW;
when we're fighting wars that obviously ARE all about oil,
the loud people are quiet. why IS that?
is it because we are winning? it's because we are winning..
isn't it?
The United States is now in control of MOST of the world's oil.
you'd think that would make the news?
Breezy said...
Iran is almost out of time wrt maintaining any ability to pay anyone. Let’s see what happens then.
4/27/26, 5:50 AM
They don't strictly have to pay their population anything: China has a rail route to Iran and could easily keep the country from hunger without any military intervention. It's very likely that the notion of an imminent Iranian economic collapse is about as trustworthy as a Gordon Chang article.
Which doesn't mean Iran will "win," by any means.
Good point doctrev. It seems like a fairly simple operation to disable those railroad lines from both Russia and China.
Howard said...
Good point doctrev. It seems like a fairly simple operation to disable those railroad lines from both Russia and China.
4/27/26, 10:08 AM
The problem is that you're either talking about dropping precision munitions on the railway, which hasn't really stopped Russia or Ukraine for very long, or risking more American jets being shot down.
And that's not even considering China's reaction to attacks on their assets. Sending missile stocks Iran could extend this war indefinitely, if it's not happening already.
The tone has shifted. The war was originally targeting the idea of a repressive, theocratic government, the face of Iran presented to the world. That overlay was gone after the second day, blown away in the wind like a desiccated husk, with followup strikes hollowing out the Basij, the theocratic militia / morality police that make life miserable for the citizenry.
The second, more difficult target has been the military-based economy of the IRGC, which controls half of the nation's GDP - or did. The country's practical defense, also the IRGC, has been decimated, and now the economic lifeblood is under siege, strangling the petroleum cash flow in Iran and abroad.
Now it's almost strictly an economic war. Trump is right to prosecute with vigor, right to the end. I'd love to know what the clandestine side of this is, helping to bring regime change.
Trump has said he'll blow up their bridges. Railways have bridges.
This war has always been primarily about China, not Iran.
Australia fuel reserves improving
I've been watching Australia closely for over a month; first because I was in Australia and needed petrol to move around and jet fuel to get home. Now that I am home, because Australia is acutely sensitive to the situation. They foolishly closed almost all their own refining industry such that 80% of their refined products are now imported. Compounding the problem, unlike most countries their stockpiles are only about 1 month of use (most countries have about 3 months). From the beginning of the war the media and the out-of-power political party has warned of dire fuel shortages just down the pike. So far, that's not the way it's playing out.
Seems to me, the only obstacle we have to winning this war is the democrats. If the war is off the front page, that's not good for Iran.
MJB Wolf - Iran has another option - they could keep pumping - right into the sea. The Left won't accuse them of environmental crimes. CC, JSM
There's a correlation between governments with abusive COVID-19 policies and those with utopian Pollyannaish energy/green policies. Same people, same wishful thinking, same defensiveness, and similar ineffectiveness.
The world desperately needs a leadership Dream Team of Justin Trudeau, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, and Jacinda Ardern.
Legume farmers are using the rise in gas prices to sneak in their own price hikes. So they're chanting "No War, No Peas!"
I'll see myself out....CC, JSM
I just heard the Sunday print edition didn’t have the assassination attempt on the president of the United States. Although it happened before the presses started going.
And I also heard there was a goof in the Sunday edition crossword puzzle. Unforgivable stuff.
Lem, was it 23 Down: 4 letters, starts with K and ends with L: "what all NYT readers want to do to Trump?" CC, JSM
The Iranian foreign minister met with Putin today. Much talk about freedom of the seas. Regardless of the rail traffic, they are definitely feeling the pinch.
It's not like the entire NYT's readership wants to kill Trump. Many of them just want someone else to do it for them. Call them the 'Be Better Assassins' Democrats.
"Iran offered a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war with the U.S., but negotiations on removing its stockpiles of enriched uranium would be postponed under the agreement."
Yeah, no.
GUNS.
GUNS.
GUNS.
The Iranian people need GUNS, hundreds of thousands of them.
Total victory would be in Trump's lap in a matter of weeks if he armed the Iranian public. It would be a bloodbath, of course, with the deaths of hundreds of thousands on each side, but the people outnumber the Muslim clergymen and Revolutionary Guardsmen and Basij religious-police thugs by about 80 to 1 (40 million citizens vs. 500-700k religious fanatics). With enough guns, it would not take more than a month or so to hunt them down and slaughter each and every one of them, paying them back tenfold for all the protesters they killed.
The Iranian people are quite willing to risk their lives to regain their freedom. It might even be the end of 1200 years of Islamic oppression of Persia, which would be something to celebrate.
Merz Says U.S. Has No Convincing Strategy and Is Being Humiliated by Iran ~ WSJ
I think it would be more accurate to say that Donald Trump is humiliating the US. Iran is merely the lens through which that is happening.
Merz. LOL.
Merz is the guy at the helm of Germany's self-implosion. They let the greenies and nuclear-freeze utopians of the 1970s and 1980s take over. They let in too many 'servants' who hate them.
Merz and the Europeans are holding back because their internal immigrant populations could hold them hostage at a moment's notice.
Trump's only way to 'lose' here is to walk about without a deal.
A lot of people are mad at Merz for saying this, but where’s the lie? It’s really easy to get into a conflict. Getting out cleanly is a whole different animal.
The US military has been exemplary on the tactical level. Whoever planned this though had literally no idea what they were getting themselves into and this was novice level, at best, military planning for the end game... there is literally no end game.
If there was a strategy going in, it was that the Iranians would rise up and overthrow the existing regime. Theoretically possible, but very unlikely to happen. Most Iranians either more or less get through life or actually support the social/religious approach of the regime. That is, not enough reward to risk one's life.
Trump likely will let this stew for several weeks and see if any better option arises. I'm not convinced he feels any hard pressure to do anything that looks like a defeat. If no progress by mid-summer, he can always fall back to a deal that allows Iranians to keep nuclear program, with some appearance of outside monitoring. He will then walk away. He really doesn't care about the mid-terms; he's not running.
Just to remind everyone that the Trump administration:
• Sacked a large component of its Iran experts a month before starting this war:
https://newrepublic.com/post/207263/kash-patel-fired-iran-experts-donald-trump-war
• Sacked all the people who knew about the oil markets and oil installations and oil companies in the Middle East just before the war: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oil-gas-experts-fired-doge-iran-war-b2940511.html
• Sacked the Pentagon's intelligence chief during the war for an honest assessment of how the bombing campaign was going: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dj217z2w6o
If you are absolutely determined to ignore all the people who know about something and warn you of potential problems, don't be surprised when you have problems.
"A lot of people are mad at Merz for saying this,"
Mad? I'm amused he thinks his views are relevant.
The President of Iran and the Parliment are elected by the people. Almost everyone can vote. The people of Iran don't need "Guns" - except to shoot at Israeli and USA bombers.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
Just to remind everyone that the Trump administration:
You waste a lot of words convincing everyone you are a retard.
You could shorten your posts up quite a bit and save yourself the time.
RCOCEAN II said...
The President of Iran and the Parliment are elected by the people. Almost everyone can vote. The people of Iran don't need "Guns" - except to shoot at Israeli and USA bombers.
LOL!
Trump now finds himself entangled in a conflict that many observers argue is driven far more by Israel’s strategic agenda than by any clear American interest. Critics maintain that Trump aligned himself so closely with Netanyahu’s hard‑line approach that U.S. policy effectively became an extension of Netanyahu’s priorities, with little regard for the long‑term consequences.
That strategy has backfired. Netanyahu has retreated into silence while Washington is left carrying the political and military fallout. The result is a serious blow to America’s global standing and to Trump’s own credibility.
From this perspective, Trump is now locked into a confrontation that offers no realistic path to success only escalating costs, diminishing influence, and a growing sense that this is a fight America should never have been drawn into.
RCOCEAN II said...
The President of Iran and the Parliment are elected by the people. Almost everyone can vote.
Yes, they can vote for whichever candidate they prefer, as long as the candidate has been approved by the mullahocracy.
Having mastered coronavirus epidemiology, mRNA vaccine design, Russian history, toilet paper supply chain logistics, bridge design, submersible dynamics, balloon aeronautics, and large language models, Middle Eastern history, and elementary Farsi, I'd like to offer my thoughts on how the closing of the Strait of Hormuz will impact Brent crude...~ Achilles
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