{"id":67129,"date":"2026-06-08T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=67129"},"modified":"2026-06-08T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:50:13","slug":"talk-about-the-theater-of-the-absurd-oil-jumps-after-israel-strikes-military-targets-in-iran-ignoring-trump-pleas-not-to-strike-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=67129","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>TALK ABOUT THE &#8220;THEATER OF THE ABSURD&#8221;!!! Oil Jumps After Israel Strikes Military Targets In Iran, Ignoring Trump Pleas Not To &#8220;Strike Back&#8221;<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Despite Trump&#8217;s pleading to Netanyahu not to respond, Israel launched missiles at Iran striking military targets inside the country.\u00a0<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><strong>Iran fires missiles on Israel<\/strong>, after IDF unleashed deadly\u00a0<strong>airstrike on Beirut earlier Sunday<\/strong>.<\/i><\/li>\n<li><em>Despite Trump saying on Sunday that he would tell Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to strike \u200bback, an\u00a0Israeli official<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>warned that\u00a0<strong>&#8220;There will be a forceful response<\/strong>.<strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Sunday is\u00a0<strong>day 100\u00a0<\/strong>since President Trump launched Operation Epic Fury.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ghalibaf warns after IDF escalation in Lebanon:\u00a0<strong>US &amp; Israeli bases, assets in region are &#8216;legitimate targets&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Talks stuck on unfreezing assets:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Twenty-four billion dollars is not much for America if he wants to reach an agreement with Iran,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Iranian Gen. Mohsen Rezaei told CNN. &#8220;This is our own, not America&#8217;s money.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Defying Washington,\u00a0Iran has been collecting\u00a0<strong>$1.5 million to $2 million per vessel<\/strong>\u00a0passing through the Strait of Hormuz (Fars).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/iran-fm-blames-us-contradictions-stalled-peace-talks-tehran-slaps-million-dollar\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/iran-fm-blames-us-contradictions-stalled-peace-talks-tehran-slaps-million-dollar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67131,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67129\/revisions\/67131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}