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Vance: Iran will get no cash from deal with US

The Trump administration is pushing back against reported details regarding the proposed deal with Iran, with Vice President Vance insisting Tehran would not be “receiving any cash” under the agreement. Vance on Friday morning reupped President Trump’s dismissal of details leaked by Tehran about a possible memorandum of understanding between the two sides.  “I’m seeing…

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Vance: Iran will get no cash from deal with US

The Trump administration is pushing back against reported details regarding the proposed deal with Iran, with Vice President Vance insisting Tehran would not be “receiving any cash” under the agreement. Vance on Friday morning reupped President Trump’s dismissal of details leaked by Tehran about a possible memorandum of understanding between the two sides.  “I’m seeing…

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Iran denies Trump’s claims of a peace agreement to the end the war

Is the war in Iran over? On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump made yet another of his sudden about-faces — and one of the most dramatic — regarding the war in Iran. Hours after announcing that his forces would launch a new round of attacks — the third in three consecutive nights — he proclaimed on social media that he had canceled that decision because the two adversaries had already approved a memorandum of understanding that only needed a few final touches. He later noted that the pact could be signed as early as this weekend, perhaps in Europe, with the United States represented by Vice President J.D. Vance. But Iran insists that, although most of the document is already finalized, the United States “continues to change its positions.”

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People walk next to a symbolic mock-up of an Iranian missile in Tehran, June 11.
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El nuevo mundo de Peter Thiel

La velocidad a la que van las cosas, la irrupción de la inteligencia artificial que lo está transformando todo, la delirante segunda presidencia de Donald Trump, las guerras y, en medio de todo eso, el empuje de una nueva espiritualidad que tiene en el cristianismo uno de sus arietes. Es como si se estuviera habitando una monstruosa crisis que no va a dejar títere con cabeza y que anuncia que viene algo radicalmente distinto, donde la democracia va a tener poco que contar. En ese escenario, Peter Thiel es uno de los protagonistas. Es el dueño de Palantir, la empresa que lidera el sector de la tecnología de guerra gracias a la inteligencia artificial, fue quien apoyó a Donald Trump para que llegara a la presidencia e iniciara su primer mandato —y del que se apartó porque no había llegado demasiado lejos—, y está detrás de la carrera de J. D. Vance, el político que enarbola su catolicismo como una seña de identidad.

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Peter Thiel, tras una reunión con Javier Milei en la Casa Rosada el 23 de abril.
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