Iran Makes Another Offer - Trump Isn’t Impressed

President Donald Trump weighed in on the situation with Iran and Operation Epic Fury on Friday.

Trump explained that he could go in and blast the hell out of them, but he preferred a deal.

.@POTUS on his briefing with the @CENTCOM Commander: "There are options. Do we want to go and just blast the hell out of them and finish them forever or do we want to try and make a deal?... on a human basis, I'd prefer [a deal]." pic.twitter.com/Ycsm8e8txW
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2026

It sounds like he is prioritizing American lives. He may have to go in and get the highly enriched uranium ultimately, but if he can get it by a deal, he would prefer it. He also explained how disjointed the Iranian regime leadership is at this point.

The regime apparently transmitted its latest offer through Pakistan on Friday. What it contained was not clear from the reports. But Trump was not happy with it.

.@POTUS: "We just had a conversation with Iran. Let's see what happens, but I would say that I'm not happy... They've got to come up with the right deal. At this moment, I'm not satisfied with what they're offering." https://t.co/5WDUtIk1i5 pic.twitter.com/UoOYeRwIaM
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 1, 2026

"We just had a conversation with Iran. Let's see what happens, but I would say that I'm not happy," Trump explained.

"Their leadership is very disjointed, argumentative, with each other. They're very confused."

Bottom line? "They've got to come up with the right deal. At this moment, I'm not satisfied with what they're offering," Trump said.

Likely, it didn't cover the uranium, and that's what Trump wants to get.

The regime is starting to realize they may have miscalculated when it comes to their strategy and Trump. They thought they'd have him backing off and giving in, with the American people wavering. Instead, they have to deal with their own problems.

As Ed Morrissey at our sister site Hot Air observed, citing the Wall Street Journal, it sounds like reality might be setting in for some of them.

The moderates believe in holding fire and negotiating a favorable deal with President Trump, whom they view as eager to get out of the messy war as soon as possible. They worry Iranians are growing tired of the conflict after an initial nationalist uptick. ...
A growing camp of hard-liners believe Iran has to take the military initiative and start a shooting war again to send oil prices soaring higher and increase the pressure on Trump. They argue that the blockade goes beyond the sanctions Iran has faced down in the past and amounts to an act of war that must have a military response.

As the hardliners argue that, you have the Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who tried to bluff that they can fluff off the blockade, that it's really not hurting them, while his statements conflict with those of other officials.

But the blockade is biting hard.

That shut down Iran’s network of shadow ships, which for years defied U.S. sanctions on Iran’s substantial oil exports by going dark at sea before clandestinely transferring their cargoes to China. The tankers have been unable to breach a cordon of U.S. warships that have chased them all the way to the Indian Ocean. ...
Alternative trade routes won’t be sufficient. Iran has been working to send some of its oil by rail to China and to import foodstuff by road from the Caucasus and Pakistan.

If the U.S. thought the rail option was any real option, they could also bomb it.

The regime shut down the internet to cut off the communication between the people and put down protests, but then that's coming back to bite them too, on top of what the blockade is costing them (about $450 million a day), as Morrissey observed. That doesn't just hurt communication; it hits businesses that operate via the internet.

Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA quoted a deputy minister of communications and information technology, Ehsan Chitsaz, as saying the cut to the internet cost Iran between $2.8 to $4.3 million each day.
But the true cost for the Iranian economy could be far higher. The internet monitoring organization NetBlocks estimates each day of an internet shutdown in Iran costs the country over $37 million.

They're being pummeled into submission. They also have to be concerned that it's the weekend, and Trump just put a thumbs down on their offer. So while he may prefer to get a deal, he's made it very clear that if they don't come across, he will act.

Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.

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