"Iran has agreed to never have a Nuclear Weapon! Also, the story that the U.S. is paying Iran 300 million Dollars is Fake News, put out by the Dumocrats!!!" - President Donald J. Trump

I've always wanted a journalist to ask Trump this question: "what were the terms of the JCPOA"? Huge indictment of journalism in the U.S. that no one has done that and his criticisms of the Iran Deal were treated as genuine positions.

For the bots, antisemites, and other crackpots here, just so you know, I support Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.  I have always opposed terrorists, fascists, and communists.  I hope this helps, but I doubt it.  This is what we red-blooded Americans believe.  Screw yourselves.

I can't tell you how many people, several of whom you'd know, who are contacting me out of grave concern.

I'm seeing a lot of fake information about a potential deal to reopen the Strait and end Iran's nuclear weapons program. First, the Iranians are not receiving any cash, and no funds are being released for simply signing a deal or attending a meeting. The deal is structured to ensure that the US and its allies concerns are prioritized, and that if the Islamic Republic of Iran meets its obligations, then economic benefits will flow to them and to the entire region. This deal has the potential to remake the region and lead to lasting peace. I've noticed a couple of bizarre things in the reporting over the last few hours. First, people who (rightly) said Donald Trump was a historic president a month ago now criticizing a deal based on unconfirmed media reports. Second, people who say you can't trust a word said by the IRGC who apparently believe anonymously sourced social media posts. The president is going to get us a good outcome, one way or the other.

This would be…a very bad sign.

Trump Becomes Obama It was a dark evening. The Islamic Republic of Iran struck Israel, and Trump told Netanyahu not to retaliate, saying that a deal was very close to being concluded. This was nonsense from the beginning. The idea that the Islamic Republic would abide by any deal it made with the United States was always based on a towering house of cards of false assumptions, including the idea that the Islamic Republic wanted peace at all, and that it would give up its jihad against America and Israel, and that it would ever stop pursuing whatever weapons it needed in order to destroy both of those enemies. Now it looks as if all that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and whoever else is leading Iran these days need in order to emerge victorious from this conflict is Donald Trump in the White House. Trump is so avid to be seen as the great peacemaker that he has turned against Israel, which is America’s ally, and embraced Iran, where the leadership screams “Death to America.” This is as craven and wrongheaded a betrayal of an American ally as Obama and Biden ever perpetrated against Israel, and Trump has done it for strikingly similar reasons, albeit with some important differences. Obama and Biden wanted to bring peace to the Middle East and the world by bringing the Islamic Republic of Iran into the family of nations as a partner of the United States and a rock of stability in the region. They would do this with Obama’s nuclear deal and other conciliatory gestures, including sending billions of dollars to Tehran. Meanwhile, the various constraints they placed upon Israel — opposition to the “settlements” during the Obama years, and Biden’s withholding of weapons shipments after Oct. 7 — were meant to appease Iran’s inveterate hostility to the Jewish state, while America’s continuing alliance with Israel at the same time deterred Iran from waging all-out war against Israel. Trump was a vociferous critic of the Obama/Biden appeasement of Iran, and promised toughness: the rescinding of the disastrous nuclear deal during his first term was a manifestation of that. But now he has decided that peace is the foremost goal of his foreign policy. He must be remembered as the man who ended wars. He must get that Nobel Peace Prize. And so as the Oct. 7 war dragged on, Trump hit on a grand solution: he would force Israel to make peace with Hamas before it had attained its oft-stated goal of destroying the jihad terror group. He would launch airstrikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran in tandem with Israel, but not in order to help the Iranian people (despite his repeated promises to do so) free themselves from the Islamic regime they detest and abhor. Instead, all he wanted to do was accomplish what Obama and Biden failed to accomplish by sending billions of dollars to Tehran: if their carrots didn’t work, he would use the stick to show the Islamic Republic that waging jihad against Israel was fruitless and not going to be tolerated. Nevertheless, he still wants peace above everything else, including Israel’s self-defense. So he has adopted what is essentially the Obama/Biden policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran: constrain and scold Israel while reaching out in friendship to Tehran.

Three times he saved them. Why is Trump so determined to protect the Islamic regime?

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“Both sides, Israel and Iran, are looking to do an immediate CEASEFIRE! Final negotiations on “Peace” are proceeding, subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way…” - President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump: I don't want to meet with the Ayatollah, but if I did meet him, I would be honored to meet him. I would be respectful.

U.S. arms sales to Taiwan have been “paused,” a senior U.S. military official said, fueling concerns among lawmakers and Taiwanese officials that President Trump’s support for the democratically governed island is wavering. wapo.st/4wLI6of

Dear Mr. @realDonaldTrump The regime in Iran is lying to you and your negotiators (period, stop!). Do not believe a word they say. I know you want to get out of this mess. All Americans want this unnecessary war to end. Keep in mind, as you have been told many times, Iran is still the leading state sponsor of terrorism (all anyone needs to say is Hezbollah, Hamas & Houthis, never mind IRGC-QF). None of these organizations are going away with this deal. How about getting them to first publicly apologize for killing American Soldiers and U.S. Marines many times over (especially on this Memorial Day weekend). Yes, we are all sick of it. And yes, the people of Iran must step up, but we need to signal to them, we will not concede their freedoms to the insane regime in Teheran. They deserve better. If we don’t, we will cause an entire population to be enslaved. For this, we have to smartly use our Middle East partners to support them along with our covert and clandestine operators. Trust me, if you support, this is very doable. Anyway, I’m watching everything (like most of the world is) and admittedly I do not have all the information. But if we pay tribute to the regime to the tune of $25B, I’m concerned they’ll use it for nefarious purposes down the road. No nukes in Iran may be a noble idea (an end goal for your administration) but the regime has blatantly lied to our faces before, why do you now believe they will tell you the truth? Give it some thought. Get some out of the box solutions, and rethink your position. The art of the deal tells you to do that from time to time. Now may be that time. @POTUS @SecRubio