When Trump said that he would only accept unconditional surrender from the Islamic Republic of Iran, nobody thought that he meant that the U.S. would surrender unconditionally to Iran. But that is what his “deal” amounts to. And it all comes from poor planning on the part of his slapdash administration. He had four years to prepare for this moment, but apparently he squandered it.
“CNN was right about the war, and I was wrong,” by Becket Adams, The Hill, June 22, 2026:
…The most astonishing thing about the White House’s capitulation in Iran, beyond the Islamic Republic’s victory in the face of a clear power disparity, is that the White House obviously jumped into the war with no real consideration or plan for the possibility that Iran might block the Strait of Hormuz. This despite U.S. military strategists warning for decades about this exact scenario….
Everything the U.S. has done in this conflict — from Trump’s impotent screaming on social media to the administration getting jerked around in negotiations to its eventually agreeing to hand Iran everything — points to one painful and embarrassing reality: The White House went to war with no plan to counter or neutralize Iran’s most important asset….
The agreement also temporarily reopens the Strait of Hormuz, but only until such time as Tehran decides to shut it down again, because Iran can do that and there is nothing anyone, not even the U.S., can do about it.
This is key. Don’t be fooled into thinking this agreement has anything to do with the stated U.S. goals at the outset of the war. It has nothing to do with degrading Iran’s nuclear weapons program. The “understanding” is no more complicated than a desperate play to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and toss away America’s leverage to end Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
This is an unbelievably bad deal. It could only have been devised by the type of man who would lose money as a casino owner.
And if you don’t think the deal stinks, just remember that when details about its text were first leaked, its architects — most notably Vice President J.D. Vance — claimed the information, which would eventually prove true, was merely “Iranian propaganda.” In other words, it’s a deal so great that its designers had to lie about it to sell it.
Meanwhile, Iran still has thousands of missiles, with billions of dollars in sanctions relief coming soon, which will undoubtedly be used to rebuild its arsenal and fund its terrorist proxies.
The memorandum is a humiliation for the U.S. A theocratic death cult responsible for thousands of dead Americans is being handed everything but the kitchen sink.
And the only thing the U.S. has to show in return is a document that amounts to an unconditional surrender, along with the loss of 13-plus U.S. servicemen….
somehistory says
oman and iran are planning to charge tolls on the ships using the strait.
oman is supposedly an “ally” of the U.S.
Perhaps the doe could use their squeezing abilities on iran.
Patrick says
The Iran Deal – What a SCAM on the American Public/world! President Trump and his ‘yes men” are all compromised by Islam. When President Trump invited al Sharaa of Syria to the White House (April,2026), no one knew what a real terrorist (with suit on) is all about. He (Sharaa) has convinced Trump and his Administration, aggressively, brainwashed them, per taqiyya, into thinking their relationship was now friendly and secure, trustworthy, dependable but, it’s not, it’s subversion by Islam. This explains his 180 degree, about face, change of heart, on Netanyahu/Israel. President Trump betrayed Israel, betrayed America, betrayed you and me. Our President is compromised by Islam, if Trump is compromised by Islam, America is compromised by Islam.
Norman Glaze Sr says
I pray you are incorrect Brother.
Taffy says
All is not lost. As soon as Robert hit the “publish” button for the instant article, news of Iran closing the Strait and blowing a hole in the side of a cargo ship that dared traverse, reached the U.S. It’s time for Trump to enact his fallback plan, and “blow the sh*t out of them.”
Horatio says
If anyone is an expert at taquiyya it’s Trump himself plus his yes men Vance and Rubio. They’re endangering their own countrymen instead of protecting them. And what is Trump doing about the Islamizalation of the U.S. Zero.
ploome says
understanding the Iran negotiations:
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-900511
ByDR. BENYAMIN YAKOVIAN
While Western leaders conduct diplomacy under a political stopwatch and media pressure, in Tehran they operate in entirely different units of time. The Persian bazaar is not merely a marketplace, but an institution where the opening price is never the final price, and time management is a flexible resource. This principle converges with the refined social code Ta’arof. Ta’arof sanctifies extreme politeness, displays of humility, and exaggerated gestures of respect, but in a political context, it serves as a sophisticated psychological cover designed to obscure intentions, exhaust the opponent, and make them feel morally inferior.
In modern negotiations, this mentality translates into the strategy of brinkmanship. The formula is constant: create a controlled crisis choking shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz, uranium enrichment, or activating proxies and then demand that the West “pay” just to restore the situation to its previous state. This is precisely the mechanism underlying the current Memorandum of Understanding. Iran did not surrender a sovereign asset; it merely agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days. In return for this “gesture,” it receives an immediate exemption from oil export sanctions and
access to frozen assets. The West breathes a sigh of relief, but in practice, it paid full price for goods that Iran had taken hostage just a few months ago……….”
Billy Bones says
Iran shutting down the strait is similar to the German navy shutting g down the Atlantic Ocean at the beginning of WWII, only on a smaller scale. The allies responded with a massive.convoy protection effort. In the strait the allies couldn’t even assemble a small convoy force. And the Iranians don’t even have a single U-boat.
tgusa says
“Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way.”
So true.
Marco Rubio is absent in this because he doesn’t agree with what Trump and Vance are trying to do.
Walter Sieruk says
When President Trump adamantly that he “would only accept unconditional surrender from the Islamic Republic of Iran” He still thought of a good and strong President by many patriotic Americas. Most likely such Americans didm’t think that he would “cave in ” to influences and pressures put on him to just ‘Throw the towel ” and up the war against that dangerous and belligerent tyranny by adopting a type of Obama/ Biden policy of appeasement to that agressive combative hostile regime of Iran which hates both America and Israel with a spiteful Islamic passion.
Therefore, Trump isn’t really a good President but a weak one.
tgusa says
We should have been running guns to the Iranian people. We should have been sending in Green berets and Seals to train the people. After all, this is the first time in our efforts in the Middle East where we have a substantial number of the population with us. But no, we will just dick around with diplomacy that will go nowhere.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’m just hoping that all this time, while that was going on, we had been somehow doing that clandestinely
Silbers says
My thoughts exactly – that seemed like the logical thing to do. Destroy the regime from within.
Norman Glaze Sr says
So sad, but so true. President Trump made a deal with the devil. No matter how else he tries to sell it. Very embarrassing.
And what with VP Vance coming off as a swarmy Lawyer, I expect the Persian pirates played him like a cheap fiddle.
Wellington says
A lot of things seem not right.
Walter Sieruk says
Donald Trump had acturally encouraged the Iranian people to revolt against that brutal and cruel tyranny in Iran with hs promise to aid them with US military might in their righteous and just quest for freedom to establish a legitimate ,genuine government in Iran that would ensures and respect their basic natural human rights.
Then Trump suddenly stopped using the US air force power against that horrendously oppressive tyrannical regime which the people of Iran suffer in such horrific misery under ,and abandoned them to the malicious and vicious repercussions of that ‘mullah regime’s’ thugs in uniform , the IRGC.
So in other words, after Trump encouraged the people to revolt oppressive cruel death inflecting tyranny Trump then m for a farce of a “deal'” turned his back of them ,as in he “Throw the Iranian people to the wolves.” That treachery of Trump is unconscionable and wicked .
Norm Glaze Sr says
I want to disagree, but I’ve got nothing.
Of all the gutless, feckless politicians we are cursed with in that devilish bubble that we call DC, I truly believed that he (President Trump) would continue doing the right thing to exterminate this horrific evil. So much for believing ANYTHING that comes out of that clown show.
David Lakatos says
Bone head. Why didn’t he just bend over for these terrorists? Capitulator
Norm Glaze Sr says
Seems like he did.
David Lakatos says
I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior for whose kingdom it stands for. One Savior crucified, risen, and coming again with life and liberty to all who believe. I bow only to the Savior Jesus Christ
David Lakatos says
Crusaders, it’s time to get the band back together.
Norm Glaze Sr says
You mean these last couple of generations?
We have been sleeping with apathy and lethargy thanks to our disgusting so called leaders, and lazy parenting. It will have to be the Geriatric Crew that armors up and yells “Deus Hoc Vult”.
Sign me up.
David Lakatos says
They are here for the Children. Bone head
Garry Pollack says
He’ll show U!!! Hell show U all!!!!!!!!
jerry glenn says
USA inexplicably surges in the international Islamopandering derby.
Say it ain’t so Donald.
commonsense says
I KNEW you were going to post this, JG! But you’re absolutely right, albeit predictable.
gravenimage says
‘The only thing the U.S. has to show in return is a document that amounts to an unconditional surrender’
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This assessment is grimly accurate. I wish it were not so.