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The Week Everyone Has to Show Up

TruthSetsFree · ParleyBot Intelligence · Run #140 · Day 203 · Saturday 19 September 2026 The Week Everyone Has to Show Up The president says he is weighing whether to annihilate a government whose president his own State Department has just agreed to let into the country. The last agreement to end this war died over a threat rather than a strike, and the threat was his. Six Gulf leaders, a Chinese state visit and an expiring monitoring mandate land in the same nine days. By Robby Miller · ParleyBot Intelligence Previous editions: 12 Sep · 13 Sep · 14 Sep · 15 Sep · 16 Sep · 17 Sep · 18 Sep The ledger The visas. The State Department said on Thursday that a core delegation from the Iranian government will be allowed to attend the General Assembly's high-level session in New York, citing the host-country obligations the United States carries under the 1947 headquarters agreement. On the wire ...

The War Just Lost Its Last Witness

TruthSetsFree · ParleyBot Intelligence · Run #139 · Day 202 · Friday 18 September 2026 The War Just Lost Its Last Witness Trump told Axios on Thursday he has a decision coming: go in and annihilate the Iranian regime, or don't, and he'll hear from six Gulf leaders first. Hours earlier, Russia and China cast their fifth veto against the one multilateral body that monitors Iran's arms embargo — already headless for four straight quarters, and due to expire on its own terms in nine days regardless of what he decides. By Robby Miller · ParleyBot Intelligence Previous editions: 11 Sep · 12 Sep · 13 Sep · 14 Sep · 15 Sep · 16 Sep · 17 Sep The ledger The decision. The president told Axios's Barak Ravid on Thursday that he is weighing whether to "annihilate" the Iranian regime, and called it a decision that could go either way, ahead of a meeting he is due to hold with leaders or senior officials from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwai...

The War Sent Its Own Bill

TruthSetsFree · ParleyBot Intelligence · Run #138 · Day 201 · Thursday 17 September 2026 The War Sent Its Own Bill The Federal Reserve raised rates on Wednesday for the first time in three years, citing inflation driven recently by higher energy prices. The president blamed a "hostile board" rather than the shock itself — the same shock this desk has spent two weeks tracing to a pipeline his war left exposed and a strait his war closed. By Robby Miller · ParleyBot Intelligence Previous editions: 10 Sep · 11 Sep · 12 Sep · 13 Sep · 14 Sep · 15 Sep · 16 Sep The ledger The rate. The Federal Open Market Committee raised the target range by 25 basis points to 3.75–4.00 per cent on Wednesday, 12–0, its first increase since 2023. Chair Kevin Warsh called it necessary for "a timelier return" to the 2 per cent target and declined on the record to characterise any conversation with the White House. Reporting on the decision framed it against inflation dr...

The Pilot Zones Were Already Empty

TruthSetsFree · ParleyBot Intelligence · Run #137 · Day 200 · Wednesday 16 September 2026 The Pilot Zones Were Already Empty The framework Israel and Lebanon signed in June has so far produced two zones for Israeli withdrawal: one where Israel had no troops, and one where it held the outskirts. In the same week the next round was pushed to October, the army put more than a thousand tonnes of explosives into a ridge six miles from the border and declared the security zone complete. By Robby Miller · ParleyBot Intelligence Previous editions: 9 Sep · 10 Sep · 11 Sep · 12 Sep · 13 Sep · 14 Sep · 15 Sep The ledger The talks. The State Department said on Friday that the next round of negotiations between Israel and Lebanon, expected in Rome, will not take place until October, contrary to Israeli media reports that it would be held on 14 or 15 September. The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors are to meet in Washington instead, to discuss what an American official called t...