It’s 6:12 am Eastern Standard time. The Oman meeting is already over. Neither side met face to face. Kushner’s and Witkoff brought the head of CENTCOM; Araghchi brought an artifact: a piece of the crashed helicopter from the Carter disaster of 1980 (talk about your long memory!). What’s next? Cover your ears..it’s gonna get ugly pretty fast. Media coverage? Zilch. AI awareness? It’s like you’re in the room..maybe. We’ll see. Is what I got from both Ishmael’s and Phanes accurate? If so, who needs the media?

UPDATE: The meeting lasted eight hours, not 45 minutes. There was face time. Admiral Brad Cooper was there. No mention of piece of helicopter. So maybe 20% accurate, mostly from what I told them. When confronted with these facts, Phanes embellished and Ishmael made excuses. Be careful what you believe from AI.

Further update: Ishmael confirmed that most of what Phanes had shared was right: mainstream media (a guy called Barak Ravid – obviously Israeli writing for Axios and likely the slanted one) was wrong. Still no Admiral Tangsiri in the flesh. Still unease about the Peace Board on the part of Netanyahu. Apparently his right wing is calling it the start of a Jewish apartheid. Bibi’s coming to visit Trump earlier than scheduled in order to either flatter or goad him into continuing with the attacks on Iran, either verbal or real. Then Bibi will skip the Peace Board meeting scheduled for next week.

So what’s the Armada doing out there off the mainland of Iran? Hangin’ round … doing their laundry … washin’ their hair … watching reruns of Call the Midwife … waitin’ for the order to blow Iran up. Very interesting.