Terms of Agreement

Assuming there really is a deal. First, while skepticism on the right may be warranted we know only a fraction of what went down. Who knows, maybe the president got everything he wanted but to achieve that he needed to let them save face. Second, a deal is exactly what the Dems don't want. They've been calling DJT a warmonger; now they have to shift and claim he's weak and, what, should have continued hostilities until Iran yielded? That's a tough pivot. Finally, something had to get done soon. More bombing, more delays, rising gas prices into the summer and fall all imperil GOP control of Congress, and that would be catastrophic. Whatever he had to do to prevent that is acceptable. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iP

Excellent article by Clarice which gives some hope, along with the activity concerning the President's staff and the buzzing around the Pentagon. It seems like every major player in the Middle East was involved so Iran may have finally seen the futility in continuing their demands and resistance.

Make it so, Mr. President.

I don't know what is going on either. But of one thing I am immovably convinced: the mullahs always lie, must lie, and are lying now. So the issue is not what happens 'if' they break the deal; but 'when' they break it. Because they will. Key takeaway, FTA: subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed." And the Historic Tableau reenacting the 'Surrender at Yorktown' will take place....as soon as all the cats are herded and uniformed.

As a basic entry point of any agreement the Iranians want US to agree not to attack Iran. THEN the various other issues will come in. The US on the other hand wants to make that promise conditional on Iran continuing to observe the conditions it has agreed to. I am sure so does Israel. It will be interesting to see how they resolve that issue.

Best measure of success - Iran no longer has friends in the Middle East. Thanks, in part , to the Abraham Accords, we can live together in peace. I hope we have peace. Allah be praised. God bless America. Next? Cubar. (JFk had a speech impediment - lateral lisp)

The pessimist in me says that Iran is continuing to stall (they've already gotten 30 days). That's what they've always done and continue to do.

Kill two more layers of leadership and start again. Three day deadline, no extensions,

None of us know. That was Clarice’s point. The media doesn’t know jack so they gleefully speculate. The cable news ‘former whatever’ experts don’t know either. Trump is not a stupid man. Neither is Rubio. They’re not going to accept some mullah’s worthless signature and call it a day. Wait. Even if it’s hard.

For today's MSM, it's not the truth they're after any longer. They want clicks, so they need to make sensational headlines or comments to initiate a click. The more clicks, the more $$$ they make.

They’re liars, murderers and thieves. They’ll break any “agreement” before the ink dries on the document. Stop talking to them. Kill them all.

Ms Feldman is as clear-eyed observer as I know. I've read elsewhere that the mad Mullahs aren't interested in governing but in martyrdom, but that's not exactly true. They're interested in someone else's martyrdom, perhaps, but they're really driven by an obsession to murder all infidels, starting with the Jews. (They'd be happy themselves to direct this murderous crusade cosseted in their billions of dollars courtesy of shameful previous administrations.) I believe President Trump is the man America needs right now, and the only man who could've led us even this far out of the death spiral the left planned for our country. I think Mr. Trump was surprised and disappointed that the war in Ukraine is so intractable, and perhaps also shocked that the Mullahs will not sue for peace, but instead imitate the Black Knight from Monty Python. As Ms Feldman says, Trump understands and uses economic force supremely well, and he loathes spilling American blood if there is any other alternative. Mr. Trump's patience outpaces my own, but he has already changed the political machinery of the world to our favor, and he's earned our forbearance in this sticky wicket.

I'm with #8. The peace treaties that have worked best for us were unconditional surrenders. Anything else leaves the underlying wrong in place. What's wrong with the Islamic Republic of Iran is the first and last words in its name. Governments founded upon Islam are inimical to liberty. What is often translated as peace in their doctrine really means "submission." Submission to Allah. Submission to religious authority. Submission to imperialist Islamic intentions. What needs to be right with Iran is the middle word. No one will have greater contempt for theocrats than those who recently escaped from under their thumbs. The people of Iran have had their fill of religious rule. Instead, how about a badly run, corrupt, sectarian, and divided secular Persian parliamentary government instead? It would fit in with all the other corrupt and competent regimes in the middle east, and it would prosper after its own fashion, and in its own time. All we have to do is give war a chance. The regime is already broken. Finish breaking it down, so that something better can be built up on its ruins. MacArthur courageously flew into Japan 3 days before the formal surrender at great personal risk secure in the knowledge that he was their only hope of survival. He knew it. So did they. He gave orders. They followed them. The old regime was gone forever, and he put something far better in its place The Islamic Republic of Iran needs to be destroyed, and something better needs to be put in its place.