Iran media says Trump proposed oil sanctions waiver till final deal; US stock futures rebound

MSN republished NDTV ^ | 05/18/2026 | Khushi Maheshwari

[thegagline]

The United States has prosposed temporarily waiving off sanctions on Iranian oil, as per reports by Tehran's Tasnim news agency on Monday.

To ramp up its pressure on Iran from the economic front, Washington had introduced restrictions on trade of Iranian oil. While primary sanctions included barring American companies from trading in Iranian oil secondary sanction threaten to penalise non-American entities, banks, and foreign governments that purchase Iranian petroleum.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blockade; sanctions; waiver

[thegagline]

And it isn’t even Tuesday.

[alexander_busek]

President Trump is really bending over backwards here. Proffering the carrot rather than the stick.

Not criticizing him - just stating my impression.

The Iranians better be on their extra-special good manners after this - or expect another wave of devastating bombings.

Go, Team Trump!

Regards,

[Alberta's Child]

Get used to it. It’s pretty clear that this military campaign against Iran was a disaster from the start. It’s been obvious to me for two months that the people in charge of this fiasco put about as much thought into it as they’d put in planning a weekend of golf and fundraising at Mar-a-Lago.

[R_Kangel]

... Damn .... it is beginning to appear that Iran is incrementally getting what it wants!

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[Raycpa]

How is oil being purchased if there’s a blockade?

[wny]

…for nothing in return…..

[Brian Griffin]

Apparently, The True Art of the Deal will initially be published in Farsi.

[Brian Griffin]

“…for nothing in return…..”

I suspect someone is beating Paul Pelosi at stock options.

[Sacajaweau]

Your Tagline: If you leave here, I will be grateful. We're a hell of a lot safer from the Rage of Iran..."Death To America" than we were under Biden.

Gee...you are anti-Trump...who would have guessed.

[libertylover]

It’s been obvious to me for two months

Yeah, but you're an idiot, as evidenced by this post.

[libertylover]

President Trump is really bending over backwards here. Proffering the carrot rather than the stick.

Yep! Democrats don't like to admit it, but Trump is a peace-monger.

[Miami Rebel]

Iran has been studying Muhammed Ali’s rope-a-dope tactic.

[silverleaf]

“ Iran media” and some players are manipulating the market with teaser announcements

Iran does not even have an agreement-capable governing leadership

[dfwgator]

Somebody’s making money on all this.

[woodbutcher1963]

Yesterday, Tousi was saying we were getting ready to invade Iran.
I was going to dump my stocks on the open.
Mostly, because everything has been up so much in the last month.

Now, I am not sure what to do.

[pierrem15]

The admin seems incapable of realizing that whether it's Iran, Russia, or China, every act of goodwill is read as weakness.

So rather than getting peace, they're just setting the stage for another, bigger war.

Trump doesn't seem to realize that the currency of international relations is often not money but positional goods like perceived military prowess, honor and glory. If Xi has to condemn 50 million Chinese to lives of poverty and unemployment to get Taiwan and be the historical figure who "reunified" China, he'll do it. If Putin has to kill another million Russian soldiers to reestablish the Russian Empire, he'll do it. Same for the mullahs in Teheran. There is no monetary "deal" that can compensate for those goods. The only effective deterrent is the prospect of military defeat. Only once that deterrent is achieved can some economic "deal" that might last be achieved.

I expected Trump II to be both parsimonious and decisive regarding military action and foreign affairs. But he seems to be neither.

[canuck_conservative]

How is oil being purchased if there’s a blockade?

Iran still has working oil pipelines to Russia, and Pootin has already publicly said he considers Iran a "great friend" that Russia will do anything to help

Pootin, America's great friend and Trump's buddy!

[silverleaf]

Ya and read the gullible fool comments above swallowing this Iran media swill as US policy …

[Sirius Lee]

The hilarious thing of it is , if he joined in 2000 then he’s most assuredly a Gen X geezer just like us.

[usafa92]

No, actually he is very correct. This was an ill conceived and poorly planned operation. We are on 8 weeks of the original 2-3 weeks that Trump said. The level of gaslighting though by the Administration is quite impressive. We’ve won the war 34 times already and obliterated them 51 times but yet we are still negotiating a “deal” with someone we’ve already obliterated and defeated many times over. We’ve also closed a Strait that didn’t need to be closed, but maybe it did need to be closed. But maybe it’s open today but not quite open. Trump has repeatedly proven himself to be something of a paper tiger over the years and excels at the rage tweet without actually accomplishing much. Rinse and repeat here.