And administration figures need to stop lying about it.
J.D. Vance, playing point man for the deal with Iran, has been not so much defending it as attacking anyone who objects to it and claiming that there’s lots of ‘misinformation’ about the deal.
There’s certainly plenty of ‘misinformation’ about it.
After being told for days that the version floating around the media wasn’t the real MOU in official statements, it turned out for the most part to be the real deal. The agreement includes dropping sanctions, $300 billion for Iran (the current hedge is that the money will be coming from ‘investors’, not the government) and no meaningful Iranian comments except to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The MOU is a litany of Iranian demands and American commitments with no Iranian commitments except to reopen the Strait. Anyone can look at the wording and see that clearly for themselves.
There’s no other way to view this except that Iran shook down our government into dropping sanctions and pretty much everything else by closing the strait. It’s an unquestionable defeat.
Tactically speaking that already makes it worse than the Obama deal.
But the Iranians are sharp negotiators and we had no one repping us in the negotiations, just Steven Witkoff, who was there repping Qatar which means that, much as in the Kerry era, ‘our negotiators’ were really the enemy’s negotiators.
The current fallback from defenders of the deal is there’s stuff ‘we don’t know’ . And there apparently is because Vance admitted that much like the Obama Iran deal, there are secret side deals in place.
J.D. Vance is being very cute by calling them “gentleman’s agreements”. That assumes Islamic Jihadists who captured and tortured Americans and chant “Death to America” are gentlemen.
What are those side deals? Once again we’re not being told. I’ll make the same point that I made during the Obama Iran Deal, our government isn’t hiding this information from the Iranian, who already know what’s in those agreements, it’s hiding the information from us.
The same folks who lied to us about the MOU are now hiding the side deals.
Now the next step is that after Iran rolled us on the MOU, the expectation is that the $300 billion and the sanctions relief will act as leverage to get Iran to agree not to develop nuclear weapons and to live in peace with everyone else.
That’s a fantasy up there with the Taliban deal and will end the same way.
Long before that however Iran will be extracting as much as it can, not just financially, but by escalating the fighting in Lebanon, while pressuring the Trump administration to force Israel not to respond. This, as I’ve described before, is how terrorists negotiate, by taking the negotiations hostage.
The good news, as I’ve said before, is that Trump, unlike Obama, isn’t ideologically committed to this garbage, and can change his mind, and has made this move largely because of oil prices. That’s a political tactic and it’s still early in the administration. The administration has the right to make the case for the deal, but politicians like J.D. Vance should be honest about it, show Americans what’s in the deal and stop lashing out at everyone who correctly notes that it’s a one-sided win for Iran.
somehistory says
They have closed the strait
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Iran says it closed Strait of Hormuz as fighting flares again in Lebanon”
The WSJ
somehistory says
Jerry Reed sang a song: “She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.”
James Lincoln says
Great song, somehistory.
Jerry Reed – who played a country “hillbilly” – was an absolute top tier guitarist.
He could actually “hold his own” with Chet Atkins on a lot of songs.
somehistory says
Thank you, James. He was also funny, a true Southerner.
He was a fellow Floridian. As were Mel Tillis and Johnny Tillotson.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Maybe turns out to be even more accurate than Daniel maybe imagined: Iran has announced that it’s again blocking the straits
I wonder which crow dish is JD Vance’s favorite?
Patrick says
Can a Peace Deal be screwed up so bad, favors only the enemy, funds the enemy, rebuilds the enemy? What morons assembled this disaster? Why did President Trump send idiots on Islam, to debate an Islamic peace deal. I believe, this scam weakens America as a global power!
Walter Sieruk says
Yes That’s right. for that belligerent contentious confrontational regone of hates the United States with a very strong spiteful Islamic passion. So much so that its theme “Death to America”not just as its slogan but also as its policy.
Trump by this farce of a “deal” with America’s enemy of the United States is a betrayer of his Presidential Oath of Office , of America and the American people.
Larry Estavan says
Oh well, look on the bright side – at least Trump isn’t controlled by Netanyahu
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I just wish Netanyahu would act like he wasn’t controlled by Trump either!
tgusa says
Netanyahu controlling Trump. Trump controlling Netanyahu. Who is controlling who? They have the entire leftist media going back and forth on that.
Meanwhile, are the two in fact working together? Yeah, maybe.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
tgusa
That’s what I think: those 2 have agreed to stage public disagreements to shore up their respective support w/ their own populations. I just hope that in that case, no MOU or anything else signed b/w US & the islamic regime is legally binding on US at least
tgusa says
I believe Trump knows the deal will fail because he knows Iran can’t control themselves and will never abide by it. Why else would he sign the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) in Versailles? I would think that Versailles would be the last place anyone would choose. Is this just more trolling coming from our President?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Interesting observation on the venue
Dov Berrol says
If you want to understand why Trump has turned on Israel, just look at Qatar and the money and gifts it has promised the US. Trump just flew his first flight on the new floating White House jet gifted to him by Qatar. And the latest so called “peace talks” to end the war against the Islamic Republic are being held by three jihadi states against one infidel state: the US up against Iran, Pakistan and Qatar. As Mohammed said: war is deceit.
ploome says
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2026/06/20/iran-claims-it-is-closing-strait-of-hormuz-over-israeli-strikes-on-lebanon/
Trump tells Iran how to get the best during negotiations
…….squeeze Israel and as a bonus, drive a wedge between Israel and USA
Trump on Netanyahu: ‘If I tell him to do something, he does it’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/trump-on-netanyahu-if-i-tell-him-to-do-something-he-does-it/
worse than disgraceful…humiliating Israel, disrespecting his most faithful and vital ally
OLD GUY says
Iran will NEVER abide by any treaty or agreement. They will use it to their advantage. And then continue their attacks either directly or through a proxy. I believe that Trump and Vance are vary aware of that and will use it in negotiation and act with strong retaliation against Iran.
Nan says
Yes. And I believe that there will NEVER be peace in that region of the earth. Ever. There is too much ingrained hatred that has moved so far into the bodies of the people that it is now in their DNA.
Nan says
Is there some reason why you cannot write “representing us” instead of “repping us”?
Walter Sieruk says
The American/Israel alliance of military might to use force against that dangerous hostile menacing tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran ,which always hates and wants to destroy both the US and Israel. Now after all the progress in this war ,President Trump wants to “throw in the towel ” in this fight the enemy for the sake of a hoax of a “peace deal ” with that “mullah regime of Iran This is both madness and folly.
Walter Sieruk says
Just to think about Donald Trump has either “caved in” out of weakness, or has become beguiled by disinformation given to him which had led accept that farce of a “deal” with that “mullah regime” of Iran then comes down hard on Israel and not that hostile America hating Islamic regime of Iran Either way that doesn’t say much for him.
VP Vance likewise follows suit in all this folly. The point is that Vance might be nominated in about two years as the next Republican candidate for the Office of the Presidency.
Democrat chose for President ,we may be sure, will be even worse than Vance. All this about two years
Speaking only for myself, taking all this into account, concerning the not too far in the future. As things are now heading for America, Therefore I am glad that I’m no longer a young man and I’m very sorry for the children of this country.