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Oil Falls 1% as Trump Contradicts His Own "Don't Care" on Iran Talks

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Oil Falls 1% as Trump Contradicts His Own "Don't Care" on Iran Talks

🛢️ PIVOT — Trump said he didn't care; now he says talks are ongoing. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Twenty-four hours after Trump signaled indifference to collapse, he's claiming active engagement — oil drops 1% as traders reprice. But Iran severed the message channel. If talks are "ongoing," through whom? Pakistan and Qatar are the only live wires. Markets are reading the contradiction as a de-escalation signal; the diplomatic architecture to deliver one doesn't yet exist.

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