Posted on 02/11/2025 11:05:22 AM PST by Red Badger
President Donald Trump said in a Monday interview with Fox News that Iran is terrified after losing almost all its air defenses amid last year’s Israeli aerial attack and is now seeking to make a deal with the Untied States.
“Iran is very concerned. Iran is very frightened, to be honest with you, because their defense is pretty much gone,” Trump said of the October Israeli airstrikes. US intelligence has described that several Russian-supplied S-300 anti-air defense systems were destroyed.
“Maybe they are trying to get new defense as we speak but their defense is largely gone… Iran is very nervous. I think they’re scared. I think Iran would love to make a deal and I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them,” Trump added.
The remarks came days after Trump restored “maximum pressure” and fresh sanctions targeting Iranian oil exports, which reflects the policy of his first term, when he pulled the US out of the JCPOA nuclear deal with Tehran.
“Everybody thinks Israel with our help or our approval will go in and bomb the hell out of them,” Trump said while noting that Israeli would need approval from Washington in that scenario.
“I would prefer that not happen. I’d much rather see a deal with Iran where we can do a deal, supervise, check it, inspect it,” the president continued.
That’s when Trump made one of the more interesting and provocative comments of the interview…
There’s two ways to stopping them: With bombs or a written piece of paper.
I think Iran is very concerned, scared & would love to make a deal. Their defence is largely gone.
I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them.
He stressed there are essentially two paths forward: with bombs or striking a new deal. “I would love to make a deal without bombing them,” Trump said.
But earlier the same day Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian charged that the US is not “sincere” about negotiations with Iran following last week’s new sanctions.
“If the US were sincere about negotiations, why did they sanction us?” Pezeshkian posed in a speech in Tehran commemorating the 46th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic revolution.
On February 5th Trump had revealed his thinking further in a post on X: “I want Iran to be a great and successful Country, but one that cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Reports that the United States, working in conjunction with Israel, is going to blow Iran into smithereens,” ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED,” he wrote.
The US is now increasingly worried that given last year’s tit-for-tat exchange of major strikes with Israel, Tehran leaders are more incentivized than ever to secretly develop a nuke.
However, the CIA has long assessed, even recently, that Iran’s leadership has not yet ordered the pursuit of a bomb. The Ayatollahs throughout the decades have also condemned atomic weapons as ‘unIslamic’.
Did you see the outreach for dialogue while Trump was signing his EO on Iran? The Iranians don’t want nukes. The Iranians want to do business. Trump will make a deal. What came out the meeting with King Abdullah today?
“The US is now increasingly worried that given last year’s tit-for-tat exchange of major strikes with Israel, Tehran leaders are more incentivized than ever to secretly develop a nuke.”
,,,,or President Trump is right that they are so scared they are desperate to make a deal. I’m going with our president on this one.
Wow so this is what it is like to have a President
King Abdullah has personal reasons for not taking in Palestinians.
They tried to kill his dad.............
Let’s try the bombs first, and see if that gets us the piece of paper we want.
Democrat Joe Potato 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
His son was fried 🍟🍟🍟🍟🍟🍟🍟
As a negotiating tactic, dipwad. Does this idiot think Trump is going to open negotiations with a concession? Where do they get these people?
Two ways, a bomb, or a written piece of paper wrapped around a bomb.
Time for negotiation with Iran is over. They will use negotiation’s to stall
for enough time to get the Bomb.
It’s time to take their Nuke Facilities out.
How do we get bombs through their air defense systems....oh wait....never mind.
Bombs will work, I don’t know about the paper.
The Don needs to have some subordinate give the chief camel jockey an offer he can’t refuse. Luca Brazil isn’t available, but I am sure that an adequate substitute will be found.
Donna Brazil is available................
I love Trump’s way of breaking things down to the essentials. Reminiscent of Reagan’s foreign policy: “We win. They lose.”
So is he saying that throwing planeloads of cash at Iran doesn’t stop them? Didn’t expect that result. /sarcasm
Bombs is the only sure way.
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