The whole world, especially the Middle East, will never find peace as long as the terrorist regime in Iran stays in power.
Any deal with them except "unconditional surrender" (which they'll never agree to!) is a total loss for President Trump and it'll damage America's dignity and influence.
It's a shame to see the only President who could actually make history — with the most powerful military in human history — lose the battle to a bunch of terrorists.
@RapidResponse47@VP@POTUS We'll never have peace as long as the IRGC's in power.
If you think they'll change their behavior just 'cause they signed some paper or said so, you know nothing about how cruel this regime really is.
As it signs a Memorandum of Understanding for “peace”, the Islamic Republic just executed two more protesters from January 8th and 9th.
This is the consequence of making a deal with this criminal regime. To do a deal with a regime that murdered more than 40,000 protestors in two days in January is morally wrong and strategically misguided.
Dealing with this regime will fail and we will all face the consequences. The regime’s 47-year war against the Iranian people continues. Just as it has never made peace with its own citizens, it will never truly make peace with the world.
The international community should back the people of Iran’s fight for freedom. Put them center in any negotiations and in their Iran policy. But let me be clear - with or without international support - this regime will fall. The people of Iran will liberate themselves from tyranny.
Nothing we do in terms of a deal will change the behavior of this enemy. If you don't believe that you do not know what we are dealing with. If you do believe that you know that for them deals are made to be broken.
Put aside all the idiocy and static about who loves whom and who does not. That's the game of online thugs and bots. We are dealing with an ideologically committed terror state that has slaughtered thousands of our fellow Americans, thousands of people in surrounding countries, thousands of Iranians and, as President Trump said, sought nuclear weapons so they could actually use them to kill us.
There was a time, not long ago, when we never negotiated with terrorists or terror regimes. Today, we've dealt with intermediaries and now directly with terrorists. And a senior administration official even declared some or many of them now believe their 47-years of murder, rape, torture, and terrorism was a mistake. Pretty shocking. This regime is still executing innocent young people at a record pace. You wouldn't know it during the last several days. They don't even come up anymore. The reporters don't even ask about them.
Exactly how has this regime changed? Yes, former leaders are gone, but the regime remains, the ideology remains, the IRGC remains, and as you can tell, they are not rolling over. We are much more accommodating than we were at the outset. Let's not fool ourselves. This is why all the pressure and berating of Israel and Netanyahu. They simply cannot and must not accommodate the enemy as we wish, and in ways we would never tolerate on our homeland, or in ways the Arabs or Turkey or Pakistan insist on.
We can't be browbeaten by online thugs into silence or sit ignorantly while all this is swirling around, and we wait for the actual language of the MOU. We want the information and we want to express our opinions. Again, this isn't about what team you are on or loyalty tests or whatever. This is a big damn deal and we, as a people and a nation, want to get it right. And as far as I am concerned, many of us are ardent supporters of the president and the administration and want to be helpful and provide our own input based on our experiences and knowledge. Indeed, not everyone in government has all the answers and too damn many of them leak and push their own policies and agendas apart from the president's.
I know for a fact that Donald Trump is a great and historic president. I know he is a decent and compassionate man who cares deeply about all of this. The same can be said about Benjamin Netanyahu, who lost his brother in war and was himself injured in battle. The Israeli ambassador lost his eldest son in the early days of the war against Hamas in Gaza. Neither of our nations are led by dictators or kings, like those that surround Israel. And we are dealing with a death cult that has seized control of Iran and has more blood on its hands than can be measured.
The Iranian regime has not and will never change its ideology. And therein lies the problem, as nearly half a century of evil behavior has demonstrated and their own religious and political leaders and books and preachings make clear. They are about a cause, a revolution. They will not rest until it is exported everywhere, as Allah is said to command them. That is the reality. We are the enemy and must be destroyed.
Those who insist a deal can be made and that it is preferable, then they have to prove it. That's the way our system works. I, for one, am glad about it.
@GuntherEagleman You can never trust a terrorist regime that murdered 42,000 of its own people in 48 hours and hit their neighbors with thousands of ballistic missiles! They're on the verge of collapse, so of course they lie and say anything to stay in power.
You have no idea what you're dealing with. You rushed into this war 'cause of Venezuela and got stuck. Didn't have the balls to finish the job, so now you're desperately trying to get out. This deal's no good for anyone except this monstrous regime.
If you really believe this evil regime can change its behavior, you don't deserve to be in a position to talk about foreign policy.
@Osint613 He doesn't get it.
Lots of folks like me aren't against the President — we just don't trust this regime. We know they lie, cheat, and say anything to survive! It's in their monstrous DNA!
Even Obama or Biden might have handled Iran better than this. JD Vance signing his dream deal with Tehran is like signing a PEACE DEAL with a SHARK and then acting surprised when it STILL BITES. God bless America. I respect President Trump, but I trust the Iranian regime about as much as I TRUST a CROCODILE to BABYSIT.
Trump shouldn't play business with Middle Eastern politics. In the Middle East, it's soccer-football. Israel knows the pitch better. The Islamic regime in Iran treats every agreement like extra time, KEEP BREAKING the RULES and HOPE the REFEREE NEVER blows the final whistle.
No deal is better than a bad deal. If Iran won't dismantle its nuclear and missile programs, stop funding terrorism, and keep the Strait of Hormuz open, then close this file the way you closed Obama's Iran file, and finish the job.
This deal just gave the
Islamic Republic a fresh
official license to butcher its
people & spread its poison
everywhere.
Same crimes, now fully legal.
What a joke. So why the hell
did we fight this war? 😂
Trump rushed into this confrontation aggressively without calculating the real cost. Now he’s rushing to get out of it without understanding the cost of backing down.
He’s making the same mistake twice:
first underestimating the enemy, and now underestimating how much credibility America is losing by appearing weak and desperate.