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Disgraceful. Inconceivable.

He literately gave an address to the Iranian people declaring that their hour of liberation was at hand. This is revisionist history straight out of the Vance playbook.

I acquired a copy of the White House talking points on the Iran MoU and it reads like an accidental confession memo written by a fifth grader. It took the White House four or five days to produce this — and they still have not released the actual MoU. They are trying to claim total victory while admitting there is no final deal. Now look at their top five points. 1) “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.” That is not a term. That is an aspiration. It is also only one of the objectives the administration laid out at the start. The stated goal was not merely “no nuclear weapon.” It was to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons capacity, ballistic missile production, and terror proxy network. So where are the missile provisions? Where are the proxy provisions? Where is the enforcement mechanism? 2) “President Trump ended the fighting on every front, including Lebanon.” Are we supposed to be this dumb? If Hezbollah is still attacking Israel as they are tonight, the fighting is not “over.” What this really means is that the White House is tying Israel’s freedom of action against Hezbollah to Trump’s Iran deal. That puts the U.S. right back in the Obama role: restraining our ally to preserve a deal with our enemy. It also throws Lebanon under the bus — at least the part of Lebanon not controlled by Hezbollah. 3) “The Strait of Hormuz is open again, free of charge.” This could be the most absurd talking point in the whole memo but there are just so many contenders. Iran threatened the world’s oil artery, then gets relief for reopening what it had no right to close. That is not “performance.” That is hostage-taking with a tariff schedule. And if the Strait needed to be opened, the United States had the military power to open it. Instead, Trump is treating Iranian blackmail as a deliverable. 4) “Iran’s rewards come from its own unfrozen money, not American taxpayers.” Spare us. Sanctions are leverage. Unfreezing Iranian funds gives the regime resources it otherwise would not have. Money is fungible. Whether it comes from U.S. taxpayers or frozen accounts, the strategic effect is the same: Iran gets cash and we know how they'll use it. I'm just waiting for Vance to literally repeat John Kerry verbatim. If Iran’s nuclear program is “in ruins,” its military is “gutted,” its economy is “collapsing,” and the regime had “no other choice left,” why are we rewarding it, rebuilding it, and negotiating with it at all? 5) “Obama never even got a signed document. President Trump did.” Really? That is point five? I had to re-read that several times. Who cares if the document is signed? Is Trump planning to sue them in court? Is that a deliverable? Obama at least released the awful JCPOA text in 2015, while hiding several annexes. Trump’s team is bragging about signing an MoU they will not show us yet, for a deal they haven't delivered. On Hannity, JD Vance was asked why they will not release it. His answer was that it would come Friday because of protocol nonsense reasons reasons reasons. Seriously? We have a president who claims he can declassify anything, anytime he wants — but somehow the Iran MoU is trapped in paperwork? The reality is that the administration’s own talking points give away the game. They are asking us to trust slogans because they do not want us reading terms. The terms that Vance and Trump discuss publicly should be unacceptable to anyone who cares about national security. Right now, what we have is a hidden MoU, a bunch of chest-thumping, and the JCPOA playbook with less transparency. The White House says Trump negotiated from strength <-- they keep repeating that word like we're imbeciles. Fine. Then show us why he squandered it.

This is breathtaking. Trump has lost his mind.

Getting Lebanon included in the Vance peace deal was an Iranian objective, not the U.S. - and one the U.S. initially resisted when the ceasefire was announced. To spin this as an American achievement is Orwellian.

🔴 JUST NOW - Mind-boggling. Trump states that he put Jolani in Syria and Jolani should be the one sorting Hezbollah out in Lebanon and not Israel. “The man that is running Syria now is a man that I put there” “He’s done an amazing job at pulling it together. He’s not a boy-scout” “I suggest to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah because to be honest with you I think they’d do a better job at doing it”

Iran’s foreign minister just handed America a masterclass in diplomatic sleight of hand. The Iranians aren’t chastened — they’re already three moves ahead. Hezbollah is Tehran’s attack dog. Iran can unleash it on Israel anytime, watch Israel respond, then declare the deal dead — citing an “Israeli violation” they engineered. Israel was not even invited to the negotiating table but they are central to a trip wire that Iran has built and holds exclusively.

All the figures who are part of the #Iran regime today were part of previous iterations of the Islamic Republic. Same people, slightly different positions. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf was on the same Supreme National Security Council that issued the live fire order against Iranians protesting. These men are willing to kill to save the regime and they're fundamentally no different from their predecessors. Offering them investment deals and an outstretched hand won't change their ideology. It's not for sale.

What a bunch of hypocritical nonsense! For decades we've rightfully mocked and criticized Obama after Pelosi said this before the vote for Obamacare: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” This is no different

Such a great deal it engenders threats if criticized.

Has he lost his mind?

America and the West are in much deeper trouble than America’s mediocre military performance in the Iran War. Except for Israel, no democracy today is willing to fight to defend its national interests. If America cannot blow up open a 21-mile wide strait whose closure is suffocating the U.S. economy, why are we funding this enormous armada? If the American military is to defend the homeland only, then cheap ballistic missiles and explosive drones can do the job, just like Iran did. Lessons from Iran War must go waaaaayyyyy beyond Iran or the Middle East.

It'd be a lot cheaper and safer to just go home and send the B-2s every time Iran tries to build a new nuclear facility or ballistic missile factory than anything we are hearing about this deal to negotiate a deal. Handing this regime $300B plus no sanctions is insane.

I don't know if this "deal" with Iran will hold for long. In fact, I'm not sure it will hold through the week, or even the day. Maybe. No one knows what's in the deal, but we're starting to get some contours, I think. In my opinion, it's a very bad deal built on a very fundamental misconception. I say this understanding the carrot/stick approach, the idea that there are things Iran truly wants and should want even in the best possible world and situation and that they're offered on what are allegedly strict, clear-eyed requirements of "good behavior." The problem with the deal is that the fundamental reality of the Regime has not changed and will not change. We are offering a lot of carrot-based nourishment to a Regime that needs to be nursed back to health and that permanently hates us for "religious" reasons (iykyk). If the Regime is smart (it's not, so this is likely moot), it will play ball by the deal for long enough to get rebuilt and simply return to the Islamic standby of the long-game strategy. Maybe it takes them 10 years to rebuild and get all $300B dollars, plus maybe a far stronger economy so lots more (oil) money in the meantime. Then it strikes when it is healthy and strong again. Maybe we can keep them from making or getting a nuclear weapon; maybe one of our other enemies finds a way to give them one; maybe they don't need it by then. The fundamental reality of the Regime, including the guy who signed the MOU, is "Death to America." That has not changed. That posture will not change. The strategy may shift in its time horizon or methods, just as it already has, but when it is nursed back to strength again, it will strike again. The fundamental reality of the "religion" that runs the "Death to America" show over there is that all Ignorant (Jahili) societies, especially America, are the obstacle that prevents an Islamic world, which is required for the blessings of God to come. There's no reconciliation. There's no welcoming the the world order. There's no amount of time that changes this. They could be good, productive, secure members of the world community for 1000 years, and "Death to Jahili (America)" never ends. That is the "religion." Everything else is methods, including playing nice to regain your strength on your enemy's dime. Even if it takes decades. Even if it takes centuries. The only real hope in this "deal" is that it causes the harder-liners in Iran to see the ones who made the "deal" as traitors strongly enough to act upon it rashly and soon, thus internally weakening things until actually sane people (without the "religion") can take over. That's actually possible because they are not exactly smart in the relevant way, but if they understand the long game, it will not happen. Those power struggles can happen quietly and slowly, internally, while maintaining strength against their own people. Again, I don't think they have the capacity for this restraint, and the thing is mostly a ruse or a game to try to get the "nuclear dust" out in the near term, drop gas prices for electoral whatever and global economic something something, and maybe create some regional accountability against the bad neighbor. I understand clearly the idea that engaged realist foreign/geopolitical policy, like Trump utilizes, recognizes that a global hegemon cannot really contain regional powers, thus a robust and aligned regional security program is necessary in each "Great Space (Grossraum)" of the world. Therefore I understand the strategy of recruiting the Gulf states to participate. I also understand the "religion." I understand "Death to America." I understand Jihad. I understand that the commitment to that is absolute and ultimate. Everything else can and will be subordinated to it. If I was the Iranian Regime, I would play nice long enough to get my hundreds of billions and then get right back on my bullshit again as soon as I'm strong. Hopefully, they lack the restraint.

Netanyahu: “Trump is the President of the United States, and I am the leader of Israel. The responsibility is mine, and I will do what must be done to defend Israel’s INTERESTS.”

PM Netanyahu: I plan on running in the next elections, and I plan on winning

Nobody is celebrating more than the Qatari Caucus.

Oh JD, you poor dumb bastard.

Netanyahu is now the only hope.

RT @IsraelIDFend: Trump and Bibi were RIGHT THERE. One decision from ending the IRGC forever. Bibi was ready to finish them. Trump said no…