by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:
Has Donald Trump made a decision that this is it? For weeks, he has been strongly encouraging Iran to make a deal to end the war. And to be honest, he has been willing to make compromises with Iran that others may not have been willing to make. But there were certain red lines that Trump was never going to cross. Unfortunately, the Iranians have gotten really greedy. They know that Trump really wants to end the war, and so they are playing hardball. The Iranians are telling us that they will never hand over their enriched uranium, they will never dismantle their nuclear facilities, and they will never give up control of the Strait of Hormuz. In fact, they actually intend to take things even further by imposing tolls on the very important undersea Internet cables that run underneath the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranians truly believe that they have won this war by taking the global economy hostage, and so they have no intention of giving Trump what he wants.
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I think that Trump has finally realized this.
On Sunday, he posted an ominous statement about Iran on his Truth Social account that ended with “they will be laughing no longer”…
The Iranians really did slaughter tens of thousands of their own people earlier this year.
And yet there are many in the U.S. that just continue to cheer on this extremely evil Iranian regime.
Later in the day, Trump posted another statement on his Truth Social account.
In that statement, he declared that Iran’s response to the U.S. peace proposal was “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE”…
If you follow my Substack, you already knew that the Iranian response was going to be unacceptable.
On the nuclear issues and regarding control of the Strait of Hormuz, there never was going to be agreement between the Iranians and Trump.
The Iranians are truly convinced that they are the victors, and so they believe that they get to dictate the terms of the peace.
And they simply do not care if Trump is not pleased by what they are offering…
A source cited by Iran’s state-linked Tasnim news agency dismissed Donald Trump’s criticism of Tehran’s response to the latest US proposal, insisting Iranian officials were not seeking Washington’s approval.
“No one in Iran drafts plans to please Trump,” the source said, according to Tasnim, adding that the US president’s reaction “does not matter at all.”
From the Iranian point of view, they have all the leverage because they have successfully closed the Strait of Hormuz.
Global supply chains are starting to break, and shortages are beginning to emerge all over the world.
Regime change would probably be necessary to end Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz, and there is no telling how long that would take.
The Iranians know that Trump absolutely does not want to put U.S. boots on the ground in Iran, and so they are telling him “to surrender and concede concessions”…
The spokesperson for Iran’s parliament’s Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, Ebrahim Rezaei, says that as of today, Tehran’s “restraint is over”.
“Any aggression against our vessels will be met with a heavy and decisive Iranian response against American vessels and bases,” Rezaei wrote on X.
“The clock is ticking against the Americans’ interests; it is to their benefit not to act foolishly and sink themselves deeper into the quagmire they have fallen into. The best course is to surrender and concede concessions. You must get used to the new regional order.”
Trump really is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
He can’t surrender and agree to the things that Iran is demanding.
But he can’t send U.S. troops into Iran either.
For now, Trump is conducting a blockade of Iranian ports, and the Iranians are warning that any further attacks on Iranian vessels “will result in a heavy attack on one of the American centers in the region and enemy ships”…
Iran has threatened to target US-controlled sites in the Middle East during ongoing peace talks – as experts flagged a potential loophole on their pathway to forming nuclear weapons.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard promised ‘heavy attacks’ on American bases and ships in the region on Saturday night, while the president still awaits an answer for ongoing peace agreements to end the war.
‘Any attack on Iranian tankers and commercial vessels will result in a heavy attack on one of the American centers in the region and enemy ships,’ the Iranian Revolutionary Guards said, per AFP.
The Iranians are drawing a line in the sand.
They are not willing to make the compromises that Trump wants, and they are willing to fight if Trump will not give in to their demands.
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