Iran is now signaling a desire to play "Let's Make a Deal" with the United States, acknowledging that they will "discuss" their nuclear ambitions of the United States eases back on sanctions. Bear in mind, this is the largest state sponsor of Islamic terrorism in the world, here, trying to get America to back off.
Iran is prepared to “discuss” its nuclear program if the US is ready to lift some of its crippling sanctions on the regime in exchange, the country’s deputy foreign minister said over the weekend.
Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Tehran’s deputy foreign minister, argued that the ball is “in America’s court to prove that they want to do a deal” and predicted the two sides will make progress if the US is sincere.
“We are ready to discuss this and other issues related to our program if they are ready to talk about sanctions,” Takht-Ravanchi told the BBC Sunday.
Takht-Ravanchi didn’t specify how much relief Iran would expect in order to make concessions on its atomic program.
How much relief Iran would expect is likely a complete and total cessation of all sanctions. But what Iran expects and what they get may be two very different things. It's not as though President Trump is going to authorize sending them pallets loaded with American currency, as one former president is known to have done.
It would seem that this is the time to squeeze Iran until it cracks, and that looks to be what the president is contemplating.
Trump, who claimed that the US “completely and totally obliterated” Tehran’s key nuclear facilities during the Operation Midnight Hammer bombing this past June, has refused to rule out military force if a deal is not reached.
“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday when asked about the possibility of regime change in Iran.
When asked if the US could target the Tehran regime’s nuclear sites again, Trump replied, “If we do it, that would be the least of the mission.”
We can very well guess what most of the mission might be, including the ruling caste of Iran being Maduroed.
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Here's why, and I'm going to tell you: Iran, as it is currently governed by a cabal of Bronze Age barbarians, is intolerable. If the mullahs and their minions agree to a deal, they will break it. If they say they will give up their nuclear weapons ambitions, they will be lying; they will simply hide their efforts somewhere else. If they say they will stop sponsoring, arming, and training groups like Hezbollah and Hamas, they will be lying; they will simply move the arms, ammo, and other equipment down a whole new set of ratlines.
These people cannot be trusted. Any deal they agree to isn't worth the paper it is printed on. Iran has been a blight on the planet for far too long, and the Iranian people, the ones who have been in the streets demanding change, protesting the mullahs even at the cost of their own lives, deserve better. Over 7,000 Iranians have died in these protests. That loss can't be for nothing. The mullahs have to go. Iran has to rejoin the community of civilized nations.
We can't do it for the Iranian people. But we sure can put a steel umbrella over their heads while they get the job done, and President Trump looks to be moving resources to the region to do just that.
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