JD Vance was supposed to be heading to Pakistan today to resume negotiations with the leaders of the Islamic Republic, but as of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, the whole thing is off, at least for now.
Just The News reported Tuesday that Vance “put off travel to Islamabad after Iran failed to respond to negotiating positions put forth by the U.S…. With no official response coming from Tehran, the diplomatic process is paused.” However, “while paused, the trip hasn’t been canceled. Iran has yet to announce a decision on whether it will participate in the scheduled talks, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmaeil Baghaei, said on Tuesday.”
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is disinclined at the moment to continue to allow the Islamic Republic to stall and buy time. The New York Post reported Tuesday that Trump “has rejected the idea of letting talks with Iran keep going if they run past tomorrow’s cease-fire expiration without a deal in place.”
Regarding letting the talks continue, Trump said: “Well, I don’t want to do that. We don’t have that much time. They have to negotiate. And, you know, the one thing I’ll say is this: Iran can get themselves at a very good footing. If they make a deal, they can make themselves into a strong nation again, a wonderful nation again.”
However, on Tuesday afternoon, Trump reversed course, writing: “Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our Military to continue the Blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the Ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted, and discussions are concluded, one way or the other. President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
Meanwhile, there is no indication whatsoever that if the Islamic Republic of Iran becomes “a strong nation again, a wonderful nation again,” it will also be a friend to the United States. It will simply be a strong and wonderful jihadi rogue state. The longtime supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead. His son and putative successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, may also be dead, or incapacitated. Yet there is no indication whatsoever that Iran’s Islamic regime has changed its orientation, or has any interest in doing so.
And that orientation is fundamentally anti-American. In a nationally televised address in November 2023, the late Khamenei explained, “The situation between America and Iran is this: When you chant ‘Death to America!’ it is not just a slogan – it is a policy. I have stated the reasons previously. For many years, from the 1940s to the 1970s – that is 30 years – the Americans did everything they could do against the Iranian nation. They hit Iran in any way they could – financially, economically, politically, scientifically, and morally.” And now the Islamic Republic is determined to hit us back, one way or another, in any way that the opportunity arises to do so.
If Mojtaba Khamenei and his minions, or whoever is now running the Islamic Republic of Iran, actually do at some point make a deal with Trump, it also must be remembered that it won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on. As The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran explains, the Islamic concept of taqiyya, lying to deceive one’s enemies, is a particularly Shi’ite concept, and the Islamic Republic of Iran is a Shi’ite nation.
The doctrine of taqiyya was formulated during the time of the sixth Shi’ite Imam, Jafar al-Sadiq, in the middle of the eighth century, when the Shi’ites were being persecuted by the Sunni caliph al-Mansur. Taqiyya allowed Shi’ites to pretend to be Sunnis in order to protect themselves from Sunnis who were killing Shi’ites.
This was necessary. Sunnis, in the majority almost everywhere, would not infrequently take it upon themselves to cleanse the land of those whom they referred to as Rafidites, or rejecters: those who rejected the caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman, the first three successors of Muhammad, all of whom were chosen over the man Shia believe Muhammad chose for the job, Ali Ibn Abi Talib. Until the conversion of Persia to Shi’ism, taqiyya was an important element of Shi’ite survival.
Faced with a threat of similar magnitude today, the Islamic Republic is likely to have recourse to the strategies that Shia have employed throughout history. After all, the implementation of Shi’ite Islam is the regime’s entire reason for being. That means, quite simply, that whatever agreement the mullahs would make with Trump would beyond any doubt involve the Islamic Republic lying until the heat is off.
Nowadays, of course, it’s bad form even to consider the possibility that one’s adversary might be attempting to deceive. But is it really so far-fetched, when it’s a cornerstone of the theology that is the official religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
Westman says
“Nowadays, of course, it’s bad form even to consider the possibility that one’s adversary might be attempting to deceive. But is it really so far-fetched,..”
With the Iranian Regime’s Islam there is no rational alternative, proven time and time, again. If their lips are moving they are lying in either conversant or braggadocio mode.
somehistory says
Does a serial killer honestly negotiate with his victims? “I’ll let you live if…..”
muzzies lie. They have a whole list of terms for the different times, ways and *reasons* to lie All of them further the growth of islime.
Whatever the iranians in charge say, everyone should take it with the whole of the Salt Sea, the Dead Sea. and then call it by its real name: a big fat lie.
OLD GUY says
Will they lie will they cheat, but of course it is built into their religion.
Horatio says
While all this blather is going on Iran has continued a reign of terror against dissidents including threatening to hang 8 young women. For this reason alone they should be shown no mercy and bombed off the face of the earth
Walter Sieruk says
“No deal ‘ That is best policy to have with those remaining chiefs, top dogs, of that horrendous Islamic tyranny which has the title of The Islamic Republic of Iran”. The heads of that Islamic regime would have no intention of keeping and of the promises that they might to make .In this Robert Spencer exposed about the doctrine of Islam called “Taqiyya” which the teaching that “the lies and deliberate deception is a good thing to do if its done for the advancement of Islam.” Therefore, any so called “deal” made with them even worse than a “fool bargain” it would to disaster. . Even attempting to have reasoned productive worthwhile negotiations with them is both a fools quest and an action of futility.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s really would have been foolishness and folly of President Trump he actually did attempt to have a genuine negotiate peace deal agreement with To Illustrate ,,according to the Bible in Genesis chapter 3 Eve talked with Satan through the serpent . The result of that was terrible disaster for her and her husband Adam and for all future humankind. Likwise, President being willing to negotiate with the sons of Satan, meaning those villains in power in that Islamic tyranny , will only result in awful terrible disaster for America, for Israel ,for the Iranian people and for the world.
Walter Sieruk says
Those in power in that Islamic tyranny of Iran are just as demonically controlled, as were Hitler and his top dogs in the Third Reich of Germany
Therefore. President Trump should remember the history of World War II . For those tyrants of that Islamic are every as evil regime II since America is winning the war with that ‘mullah regime” of Iran to try to have any kind of “deal ‘with those villains who are the dictators of Iran. That is would be wrong and foolish. The heads of that Islamic regime are just as evil and Hitler his other higher ups in Nazi Germany.
Walter Sieruk says
Another good title of this article would be “No more Deals with Devils.” There’s also the old saying that is that “It’s wise to have no dialogue with the devil” As Eve in this the third chapter of Genesis. .She talk with Satan through the serpent” The result of such a dialogue was awful and tragic
Likewise, Neither President Trump nor any members of his administration should have in any s no “dialogue” with the representatives, that tyranny, sons of Satan, of that Islamic tyrannical Islamic regime they would only speak half- truths and outright lies.
Only a fool would “dance with the Devil” That must mean that President Trump is a fool?
As it has been, truly , said “If you dance with the Devil you’re going to get burned.”.
The absurd situation of folly of meeting with and having “talks” with those murderous mullahs and tyrants of the brutal cruel oppressive tyrannical oppressive death -inflecting \Islamic regime of Iran will only result in the treachery of deceit and disaster.
Walter Sieruk says
Having “no deal ” at all is most wise policy possible with those murderous liars of that “mullah regime” of Iran.
For they are the sons of Saran , who is himself a liar and a murderer. Therefore, those top dogs of like their spiritual father, the Devil are liars and murderers. This statement is Biblical, John 8:44.
The point being they should not be negotiated with , but they along with their diabolical regime should be completely be eliminated, then the Iranian people will have a chance to establish legitimate,genuine , government with respects the basic natural human rights of its citizens.
Walter Sieruk says
“No deal,” Yes, that is right,there no type of as “deal” with that abomination of a regime of Iran , Neither should be any kind of recognition of that evil entity, as a genuine government or state.
For the Iranian people do have every righteous and just right to rise up to overthrow that brutal cruel oppressive malicious murderous tyrannical Islamic of Iran, then the might be able to establish a legitimate government which ensure the basic natural rights of its citizens