US President Donald Trump has demanded that gasoline retailers lower their prices.

“Gasoline Retailers must get their Prices down, IMMEDIATELY! They’re too high considering that Oil is now at $68 a Barrel, and heading south.

“The Retailers must quickly react to this statement, and do what they know is right — DROP YOUR PRICE FOR OUR GREAT AMERICAN PEOPLE!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday night, local time.

The cost of fuel skyrocketed during the Iran war.

While gas prices in the US have dipped on hopes that the fighting is winding down, they still sit at $3.86 a gallon on average, according to the AAA motor club.

When the war started, gas prices in the US were below $3 a gallon on average, the Associated Press reported.

President Donald Trump has promised American farmers they will soon be able to sell their crops to the “lovely country of Iran” now that he has signed a memorandum of understanding to end his war.

Speaking in the White House Rose Garden last Thursday, the president said: “After years of getting ripped off by other countries on trade, we’ve reduced the agricultural trade deficit, just this year, by 42 percent, opening markets to the American exports, and all over the world, we’re opening up markets for the farmers.

“And we have another one, a new market, coming up. And that’s called the lovely country of Iran. It’s a beautiful place. Would anybody like to go there?

“Uh, the Islamic Republic of Iran, uh, they’re having a hard time with food, and we’re gonna be taking some of their money and we’ll spend it, and we’re gonna be buying wheat, soybeans, and corn – a lot of it – and, uh, that process is gonna be starting pretty soon. It’s gonna be pretty big, too. I think it’s gonna be very big.”

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The ​United Arab Emirates will allow its nationals to travel ⁠to Lebanon starting on Monday, the state news agency WAM ⁠reported.

UAE ​citizens ⁠planning to visit Lebanon must ⁠register through an official ​service, ⁠an emergency ‌and support platform by the ministry of ‌foreign affairs, before ‌their departure, the agency added.

On April ⁠30, UAE banned its citizens from traveling to Iran, Lebanon and Iraq, and urged Emiratis in ‌those countries to leave ​immediately and ‌return home, ⁠citing regional developments.

US president ⁠Donald Trump told reporters on Monday ⁠that ‌the US-Iran meeting in ‌Qatar ‌this week ⁠will be "perhaps important, perhaps not."

It comes as US envoys fly to Doha for fresh peace talks between Tehran and Washington on Tuesday.

But earlier on Monday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said no talks between Iran and the United States are ⁠scheduled in the coming days.

He said that an ​Iranian ⁠technical delegation ‌will visit Qatar this week, but has ‌no relation to ‌US officials visiting the country.

No talks between Iran and the United States are ⁠scheduled in the coming days, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson ⁠Esmaeil ​Baghaei said ⁠in a statement on Monday, ⁠adding that an ​Iranian ⁠technical delegation ‌will visit Qatar this week, but has ‌no relation to ‌US officials visiting the country.

Tehran has ⁠not started negotiations for a final deal as these require the implementation of certain points of ‌the MoU, which ​is Iran's ‌priority currently, Mr ⁠Baghaei added.

Amirhossein Miresmaeili hears from unimpressed protestors within Iran who feel betrayed by Donald Trump’s promises of regime change:

Iran's president said that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets would be released by Qatar as negotiations with the United States were challenged by attacks across the Persian Gulf this weekend.

Masoud Pezeshkian 's mention of the funds appear aimed at selling the Iranian public on the interim deal, particularly as its grip on the Strait of Hormuz has been challenged by efforts to open Oman's territorial waters to both inbound and outbound traffic from the Persian Gulf.

Iran's attacks and threats stopped cargo ships and tankers from moving though the strait, in which about a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed in peacetime, creating a global energy crisis.

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A security deal between Israel and Lebanon risks entrenching a stalemate rather than resolving Israel's underlying conflict with Hezbollah by tying Israel's pullout from southern Lebanon to the Iran-aligned group's disarmament, a condition regional analysts and politicians say is unattainable.

At its core is a bargain few see as workable: Hezbollah has flatly rejected disarmament, and no Lebanese government has the power to enforce it.

With Hezbollah unlikely to disarm, analysts say Israel has political cover to keep an open-ended military presence in southern Lebanon, which it invaded after Hezbollah fired at Israel on 2 March in solidarity with Tehran over the war in Iran.

The deal leaves the Lebanese state trapped between obligations it cannot meet and sovereignty it cannot fully reclaim, the analysts say.

The framework deal also collides with Lebanon’s political realities, asking a fragile sectarian state to confront the most powerful armed faction in the country despite a post–civil war system built on power-sharing rather than coercion.

“This is not an agreement, it is an imposed settlement,” said a senior Lebanese politician who declined to be named.

The Lebanese army, ​he ⁠said, was neither structured nor equipped to disarm Hezbollah, and expecting it to do so ignored both the group’s entrenched military capacity and the fragile sectarian balance on which Lebanon's stability rests.

Political analysts say the imbalance is built into the agreement’s design, with sweeping obligations placed on Lebanon but no reciprocal ⁠guarantee of Israeli withdrawal.

“This agreement has put all the burden on Lebanon," said Michael Young, a Beirut-based analyst, adding that it “creates a structure that allows the Israelis to remain [in southern Lebanon] indefinitely.”

Fawaz Gerges, a Lebanese scholar at the London School of Economics ‌and Political Science, said the deal was “born dead” and is structurally flawed, hinging on a condition that is impossible to meet in practice.