Iran expresses willingness to negotiate with Trump amid military tensions.
After all the saber-rattling, all the threats and boasting and screams of “Death to America,” as the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier nears the Islamic Republic of Iran, now suddenly the mullahs want to talk. Well, will wonders never cease.
Fox News reported Monday that, according to President Donald Trump, Iran “appears to be looking to negotiate with the U.S. amid a growing military buildup in the Middle East.” Trump said, „They want to make a deal. I know so. They called on numerous occasions. They want to talk.“
Talking, however, is one thing, and actually coming to an agreement is quite another. Trump doesn’t appear inclined to offer the mullahs an Obamaesque sweetheart deal, or send them billions, as did Old Joe Biden’s handlers. Instead, “any potential agreement would need Tehran to remove all enriched uranium, cap its long-range missile stockpile, a change in support for regional proxy forces, and cease independent uranium enrichment, terms Iranian leaders have not agreed to.” Nor are they likely to do so.
However, their backs are against the wall, and that can make the impossible suddenly seem readily attainable. Trump observed that the situation was „in flux“, and noted that there was now „a big armada next to Iran. Bigger than Venezuela.“ Was Trump suggesting that Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, could go the way of Nicolás Maduro? Stranger things have happened.
