According to the publication, the reasons for Pete Hegset’s likely resignation may include the deadlock in the conflict with Iran and a barrage of negative media reports, as well as the situation aboard the aircraft carrier ‘Abraham Lincoln’, whose crew is facing food shortages and poor sanitary conditions.

The SCMP noted that US President Donald Trump was angered by the lack of a ‘decisive breakthrough’ on the Iran issue.

The US administration has already said this many times and in many different ways. We suppose President Trump wants the world to know that talks with Iran are really really over this time, and the gloves are coming off (again):

US President Trump told top administration envoys to halt their conversations with Iran, according to CNN citing a US official

The strike came a day after Kushner met with Netanyahu and agreed Israel could continue bombing Gaza despite the Hamas disarmament deal

By Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

Reports are circulating all over Social Media claiming the United States and Iran have agreed to extend the 60-Day ceasefire.   Entities making those reports are either liars, or just too stupid to see it's a lie.

Most rational people believe this is nothing more than a brazen effort to keep oil prices lower.

By LAUREN ACTON-TAYLOR, US NEWS REPORTER,  dailymail.co.uk

The president's son-in-law and political advisor Jared Kushner admitted that a peace deal with Iran is 'not there yet' and warned Trump not to rush amid 'good dialogue.'

Iran will soon join the New Development Bank, the development lender established by the BRICS group of nations, ‌central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said in a state media report published ‌on Wednesday ahead of a BRICS finance meeting in India.

Iran remains under sweeping U.S. and international ​sanctions, and it has yet to reach a peace deal to end the current conflict with the U.S. and Israel, giving Tehran added incentive to seek alternative financial channels outside the dollar system.

By Tyler Durden