LOS ANGELES (oc).-Foreign news servies all report that a deal to end the Iran War has become imminent with boths sides agreeing on the wordking to complete the agreement. President Donald Trump has said many times since the April 8 ceasefire went into effect that deal was close but never before had a confluence of news sources all confirmed the same thin. Iran has already claimed victory in the negotiations, something it was bound to do since Iran is all about face-saving, never admitting that its war with the United States and Israel decimated its military, air defenses, ballistic missile capability and its nuclear program. Trump was making a big deal in negotiations about getting Iran’s 1,000 pound stockpile of 60% enriched uranium, insisting he wanted to take custody of the near wepons grad fissile material but not knowing, with the U.S. and Isiraeli bombardment, whether it was accessible.
Whatever deal is reached today it doesn’t involve Iran’s nuke program, a key feature for any deal with Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But in the current arrangement, Iran has managed to decouple the nuclear issue, something that would be discussed duringa a 60 day post peace deal. Iran gets out the deal the right to charges fees to commercial shippers, something originally opposed by Trump, insisting the Hormuz Strait was a global waterway not subject to c ontrol by any one country. Whether Iran gets to charge fees to transit the Strait of Hormuz is anyone’s guess. Iran wants the U.S. to pony up 24 billion in frozen Iranian assets. When former President Barack Obama paid Iran for his Nuke deal in 2015, Trump was his worst critics, condemning the practice of buying off the Isralmaic Repbulics, apparently Trump does the same thing.
Iran’s Fopreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said on X that her’s never seen a deal with closer language that both sides can live with. For Iran, it wants complete sanctions relief , but, of course, where Trump ends his blockade on Iranian ports. Iran wants Trump to pony up the $24 billion, something bound to raise eyebrows because of Trump’s past criticism of OBama. Whatever the deal signed by Trump, you can rest assured that Iran wants a poind of flesh, knowing that Trump wants the war to end at athe earliest possible timr, despite saying he won’t sign a bad deal. What constitutes a good deal at this point is anyone’s guess. Trump has spent $40 billion degrading Iran’s military, trying to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Iran claims its uranim enrichement program is for peaceful purposes, despite enriching 1,000 pountds of fissile material to just below weapons grade.
Trump knows he must get Netanyahu to buy into the peace plan that involves ending his war with Hezbollah. How ironic that Iran wants its terrorist proxy group protected from future Israeli attacks. Netanyahu has said that its war with Hezbollah has nothing to do with the current U.S.-Iran peace deal. But Iran wants Israel to back off its aggression in Lebanon, something provoked by Hezbollah rocket fire. Whatever happens in Lebanon, Netanyahu will try to comply with Trump’s peace deal, even it it means delaying tit-for-tat attacks for the time being. Whether anyone admits it or not, Trump deal, whatever is given to Iran, shows that he’s capable of high-end world diplomacy to work with Pakistan, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey to finally end the destructive war that wreaked havoc on world energy markets. Trump knows what the Iran War did to U.S. inflation.
Whataever Trump hopes to accomplish on the nuclear front during the 60-day post peace deal period, he knows that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back years, something Iran refuses to admit. Iran used its nuclear stockpile as a deterrent even though they were not actively pursuing an A-bomb.sssssssssss. Once Trump cancelled former President Barack Obama Iranian Nuke Deal May 8, 2018, the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei order Iran’s nuclear energy agency to ramp up uranium prodections. After seven years of prodection, Iran wound up pwith over 1,000 pounds of 60% enriched fissile material, just under weapons grade. Trump’s advisors know that tow war in the last 12 months have all but destroyed Iran’s underground nuclear enrichement facilities. Iran will be digging out of the wreckage to its nuke industry for years to come.
Celebrating his 89th birthday bash at the White Houee June 14, Trump plans to send Vice President J.D. Vance to a European signing ceremonyshould the deal be completed. Trump know the consequencs of a peace deal on Wall Street, looking prepared to take off baring some unforeseen event that derails the bull market. Iran wants the deal more than Trump to help undo the damage from a two-moth long blockade of Iranian ports. Trump plans to geive Ayatollah Mojtable an early Christmas gift, reeasing billions in frozen Iranian assets. Democrats and the fake new will surely slam Trump for whatever deal he makes with Iran. But most people in the Mideast and Europe know that ending the war should pay rich dividends for world energy markets and future inflation. Trump can sit back and tell his critics he pulled off what most thoguth was impossible.
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John M. Curtis wirtes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
