This morning, President Trump proclaimed "a whole civilization will die tonight."
By this evening, some 10½ hours later, Trump had given the Iranian regime yet another lifeline and accepted their 10-point proposal as "a workable basis on which to negotiate" via Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir. In the meantime, there is to be a 2-week ceasefire.
Portions of this 10-point plan include giving Iran $2 million for every ship which passes through the Strait of Hormuz, ending all sanctions against the Iranian regime and all military action against Iran's allies in the Middle East including Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.
This is every bit as deranged as telling the whole world that "a whole civilization will die tonight." The Iranian regime now has something it did not have before, and we can thank President Trump for it. Yet there is nothing for which to be thankful.
Needless to say, there is no proposal from Iran about ending its nuclear program, its desire to annihilate Israel or extending more freedoms to its populace. Of course, the Iranian regime isn't interested in these things, and neither is Donald Trump. The Iranians know Trump is looking for a way out and they knew he would take anything they offered him.
Last week, the Iranian regime had rejected a 15-point proposal from the Trump Administration. One of its chief problems was that no one knew what the hell was in the proposal. Not that it mattered much due to Trump's eagerness to accept their own proposal.
Now don't get me wrong. Trump's rhetoric concerning "a whole civilization will die tonight" was certainly unhelpful and made him come across as more maniacal than the Iranian regime.
Yet when one reads Trump's statement, it his third sentence which is the dead giveaway.
However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen.
In a subsequent Truth Social post, Trump made reference to an official statement from Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Araghchi has been Iran's Foreign Minister since August 2024 and was previously the chief negotiator of the Iran nuclear deal from which Trump saw fit to withdraw in 2018.
Where exactly is this Complete and Total Regime Change to which Trump is referring?
Last month, Trump claimed there had been regime change in Iran "because the leaders are all very different than the ones that we started off with."
Yet as I pointed out at the time, "Oh, there might be some new faces, but the regime is exactly as it was before."
The only difference now is that Iranian regime is stronger now than it was before. They are grinning ear to ear because of Trump's bravado and desperation. Perhaps the Iranian regime will name a sewer after him.
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