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Trump saying he'd be honored to meet the Ayatollah is just Trump thanking Iran for 50 years of loyal service.
Nothing less. Nothing more.
You don't honor an enemy you've spent five decades calling the head of the snake.
You honor a business partner when the contract expires gracefully.
People forget how the Islamic Republic actually got started. The Shah was America's man until he got too expensive to keep around, and the paper trail on how he was cut loose isn't hidden anymore.
In 1979 Carter sat down with the British, French and German leaders at Guadeloupe and wrote the Shah off between meals.
That same month he sent a general to Tehran, and the Iranian army that could have crushed the revolution simply stood down and declared itself neutral.
Khomeini ran the whole thing from a villa outside Paris while the BBC pumped his sermons into Iran so reliably that Iranians started calling it Radio Ayatollah.
BBC's own Persian service in 2016, reported that Khomeini quietly messaged Carter's White House in 1979, telling Washington he wouldn't be a problem, that the oil would keep flowing, and he hated communists every bit as much as they did.
The man they would spend the next 50 years selling you as the great America-hater opened the whole thing by promising he was safe to deal with.
Washington traded a loyal Pahlavi king for a screaming cleric for one boring reason. A friendly Iran is one arms contract, and a hostile Iran is 50 years of arms contracts on top of the bases, the wars, and the fear that makes every nervous Gulf monarchy buy American protection at full price without ever asking for a receipt.
Pahlavi intended to unite the region, which would kill the arms market, so they reopened it with a revolution that split everything down the middle, Sunni against Shia, Saudi against Tehran, and kept the register ringing for half a century.
The Iran-Iraq war killed close to a million people through the 80s while America armed Baghdad in public and sold missiles to Tehran in private, working both ends of a fire it lit. Iran became the standing excuse for the fleet in Bahrain and the ring of bases around the Gulf. It was the threat behind the $110 billion arms deal Trump signed with the Saudis in 2017, the same threat that walked out of that Paris villa in 1979.
And it was the story that paid for everything, Iran "two weeks from a bomb" for 30 years running, a clock that never goes off because nobody ever wanted it to.
Iran took the villain role they were handed and ran with it, pushed their reach across Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, won real popularity on the Arab street for backing the Palestinians, and across all those decades never once hit Israel in a way that mattered and never once took a hit that ended them.
Nobody keeps an enemy alive that carefully for 50 years.
So when Trump says he'd be honored, he's signing the leaving card. Iran is dumping its proxies, the Hamas and Hezbollah leadership wiped out through 2024 with Tehran barely raising its voice, and the whole operation is being walked quietly over to the Gulf and BRICS and a normal seat at a table that doesn't need a bad guy anymore. The job is finished, so they're letting the help go with a handshake.
You can call it a conspiracy if it helps. But I read 50 years of what these two governments did rather than 50 years of what they announced,
and what they did was need each other the entire time, one to move the weapons and hold the bases, the other to buy its own survival by playing a villain that was written for it in a French town in 1978.
You'll see it confirmed soon enough if all these theatrical wars weren't sufficient to convince you otherwise. I've said this since late 2024.
Sanctions will be quietly easing, the bomb talk going silent, region wide de-nuclearization, de-militarization, Gulf money flowing into Tehran instead of out of it.
This is a man being thanked for his axis, on his way out the door for 50 years of work nobody is supposed to admit he did.
COMPUTE PRICES RISE 50%
Google is paying SpaceX roughly $11.4 billion a year for roughly 150 MW of compute. That’s $7.6 billion per 100 MW
Just two weeks ago SpaceX just inked a 3 year deal with Anthropic for 300 MW for $15 billion a year. That’s $5 billion per 100 megawatt.
COMPUTE PRICES ARE UP OVER 50% IN JUST 2 WEEKS.
DO YOU THINK THAT IS BEARISH FOR COMPUTE LEASERS AND SEMICONDUCTORS?