The terrorist regime drew its red lines and dared Trump to blink.
He didn’t.
And then Trump said the five words that should terrify every enemy of America.
As Swamp Digest reports:
Iran and the United States continue to negotiate an end to the war and to open the Strait of Hormuz, which would lower oil prices and provide relief from inflation.
But Iran is drawing a hard line and refusing to come to the table on several of Trump’s key demands.
Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee, posted on social media that Iran will never give up its right to enrich uranium or its stockpile of highly enriched uranium from the nuclear program Trump ordered destroyed in Operation Midnight Hammer.
Azizi claimed Trump was desperate for a deal to get gas prices down before the midterm election.
“Iran will not back down from its red lines—such as the right to enrichment and enriched uranium, management of the Strait of Hormuz, and the lifting of sanctions—in the face of Trump’s rhetoric. Everyone now knows that Trump, to save himself from this strategic deadlock, resorts to the tool of threats one day and begs for an agreement the next!” Azizi wrote.
During a cabinet meeting, Trump told reporters he wouldn’t allow political considerations to overtake national security concerns and that if Iran thinks he will cave because of electoral pressures, they are sadly mistaken.
“They thought they were going to out-wait me, you know. ‘We’ll out-wait him. He’s got the midterms.’ I don’t care about the midterms. Look what happened last night; that was a prelude to the midterms. People understand it,” Trump stated.
Trump explained the real crisis isn’t poll numbers, but keeping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
“Well, I’ll tell you, the primary urgency, I’ve said this, it wasn’t covered properly, but the primary urgency is that we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump added.
Trump went on to say that in any deal, Iran would only get sanctions relief if it followed through on dismantling their nuclear program and turning over their uranium stockpiles.
“No, we’re not talking about any easing of sanctions or giving money. No sanctions, no money, no nothing,” Trump continued. “We have control of money that they claim is theirs. We’ll keep control of that money. And when they behave properly and when they do what’s right, we’ll let them have their money. But right now, we’re not doing that … One thing is not contingent on the other.”
Trump remarked that with his blockade and sanctions in place, he believed the U.S. had all the leverage to force Iran to the bargaining table and that if Iran refused to negotiate, restarting military operations was on the table.
“We’re not satisfied with it, but we will be. We will be. Either that or we’ll have to just finish the job,” Trump concluded.
