๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ท Tucker says what no one in Washington will:
"Like it or not, Iran is uniquely standing up for Palestinians and the people of Lebanon.
The rest of the world is watching this in horror and no one else is doing anything about it."
Tucker keeps saying things that get harder to refute.
Strip away the framing and look at the record: when Israel's ministers proposed flattening the Dahieh, Iran threatened direct retaliation and the strikes on Beirut paused.
When the Gaza flotilla was seized, Gulf states issued statements.
Iran is the only country whose threats changed Israeli behavior.
Source: @tuckercarlson, @infolibnews / Writer: Daniel
๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ท 38 times Trump said the deal was close
Since late March he's stood in front of cameras, posted on Truth Social, and worked the phones with reporters to sell the same line, Iran's desperate, the agreement's basically done, just give it 2 weeks.
CNN sat down and actually counted them. 38 separate times.
It kicked off March 23 with "major points of agreement," even as Iran flatly denied any talks were happening at all. By late March Tehran was "begging to make a deal," by April 17 they'd supposedly "agreed to everything," and by April 30 they were "dying" for one.
Then on April 7 he announced a ceasefire that was meant to run 2 weeks while they wrapped the whole thing up.
Today, fresh off the NBA Finals, he was right back at it, this time promising the Strait of Hormuz, the oil chokepoint the whole world watches, would reopen the second a deal got signed.
Trump: "It'll open up immediately upon signing, which could be in two or three days."
The 2 weeks never end. The deal never lands. Meanwhile the ceasefire he keeps pointing to fell apart over the weekend, with Iran and Israel firing at each other again.
Here's the analytical read. The more he talks about the finish line, the further away it seems. Tehran clocks that his patience is the soft spot and plays every fake deadline for more leverage, while markets, allies, and his own public slowly stop flinching at the next big announcement.
That's the real cost. Credibility is the one thing you spend once, and he's been spending it in 2 or 3 day increments since March.
Maybe he believes it, maybe he's trying to keep oil and a nervous economy calm, maybe he figures saying it enough drags it into reality. After 38 swings and zero contact though, "two or three days" stopped meaning anything, and everyone standing outside that podium already knows it.
Source: CNN / Writer: Daniyal