The deal Trump has offered is to free Russian oil from sanctions on the condition that Putin direct the released oil flows to Europe away from Asia. This achieves two goals for Trump.  It lessens or removes the pressure on oil price and inflation from the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, thus negating an Iranian advantage in the conflict, and it prevents China from replacing Iranian oil lost to blockage of the Strait and curtailment of shipping insurance. Little doubt that Russia's incompetent central bank director is telling Putin to take the deal on the grounds that Russia needs the oil revenues to develop its economy.

In other words, if Putin will betray Russia's Iranian and Chinese allies, Trump will remove sanctions on Russian oil.

Think about Trump's proposal for a minute.  What does it tell us about Trump's opinion of Putin?  It tells us that Trump thinks of Putin as a man devoid of integrity and strategic vision who would sell out his allies and his country itself.

I agree with Gilbert Doctorow that by accepting Trump's call Putin revealed himself as a person of questionable character.  Trump had a few days prior conducted a dishonorable sneak military attack on Iran.  Putin should have refused the call.

If Putin aligns with Trump and Israel against Iran it means the end of BRICS and the New Chinese Silk Road and a cessation of Chinese trust in Russia.

John Helmer thinks it reflects badly on China that the country's leadership is entering into trade negotiations with Trump soon after Trump has begun a war with Iran that has adverse impact on Chinese economic and military power. I agree.

So, both Russia and China have shown that the Israeli-American attack on an ally has given them no wakeup call and they are both content to continue with business as usual. I can't help wondering if one motive for Trump's attack on Iran was to create divisions between the three countries and to isolate them from one another.

As I have emphasized several times and again today on Rasheed Muhammad's excellent program — https://www.youtube.com/live/K8AvMteLgiM — the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel means that the talk about mediating the Iranian conflict and restoring peace and stability to the Middle East is meaningless.  Israel's agenda is not consistent with peace and stability in the Middle East. Iran cannot be secure when Iran is in the way of Greater Israel.

The Iranian president still does not understand this and is making a fool of himself and his country by giving conditions for negotiations to end the war, but a more powerful figure, Ali Larijani, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, does understand. Larijani recently stated:

"Tonight, we received messages from U.S. President Donald Trump through the Omani mediator, asking us to negotiate a ceasefire.   Our response is that we will not accept any negotiations as long as an entity called Israel exists."

The Iranian Supreme Leader should say that Iran is willing to trade all nuclear ambitions for Israel's renouncing of the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel.  The only way the Middle East can contain both Iran and Israel is for Israel's agenda of Greater Israel to be deep-sixed. The first quarter of the 21st century has witnessed Israel use American blood and money to clear the Muslim Middle East of obstacles to Greater Israel. "Seven countries in five years."  It has taken longer than five years, but Iran is the last big obstacle.