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Posted on 04/23/2025 9:02:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) says the Trump administration should drop nuclear negotiations with Iran and finish off the country's nuclear facilities with a military strike.
"Waste that s—t," the Pennsylvania Democrat told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview on Wednesday. "You're never going to be able to negotiate with that kind of regime that has been destabilizing the region for decades already, and now we have an incredible window, I believe, to do that, to strike and destroy Iran's nuclear facilities."
Fetterman dismissed the foreign policy experts who warn that striking Iran would lead to the outbreak of a regional war. "And remember, all of these so-called experts were all wrong," he said. "You know, they've been saying for years and years Hezbollah was the ultimate badass that kept Israel in check, and we can't move on anything beyond that."
As it turned out, Fetterman said, the Iranian proxy group "couldn't fight for s—t. And Hamas, literally, are just a bunch of tunnel rats with junkie rockets in the back of a Toyota truck. And now the Houthis have been effectively neutered as well. So what's left? You have Iran, and they have a nuclear facility, and it's clearly only for weapons."
Fetterman's remarks come as the Trump administration barrels forward with negotiations over Iran's nuclear program that have so far been defined by mixed messages. Going into the talks, the administration said any deal would require Tehran to dismantle its nuclear program. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff later suggested a deal could allow Iran to enrich uranium up to a certain level. Then he walked back that walk-back, saying Iran must agree to "stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment" to ink a deal.
A deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium would resemble former president Barack Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which President Donald Trump pulled out of during his first term, describing the deal as "one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into."
The punishing sanctions imposed by the first Trump administration brought Iran to the brink of bankruptcy, and Trump announced a return to his "maximum pressure" campaign when he returned to office this year. The Iranian regime tried to have Trump assassinated before the 2024 presidential election.
In recent months, however, the administration has looked for an off-ramp in the form of a new Iran deal—and has been in talks with the Islamic regime for weeks.
"Years ago, I completely understood why Trump withdrew from the Obama deal. Today, I can't understand why Trump would negotiate with this diseased regime. The negotiations should be comprised of 30,000-pound bombs and the IDF," Fetterman said.
Witkoff, the longtime Trump confidant who is new to international diplomacy, has led the negotiations but has raised eyebrows for some high-profile missteps. In addition to the enrichment mix-up, Witkoff said in March that Hamas "duped" him during ceasefire negotiations.
Fetterman called the negotiating team "unimpressive and utterly bewildering."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the outreach, arguing that "the Iranians have shown a willingness to talk. We’re going to talk to them. If there is a chance of peace, we’re going to give peace and a peaceful resolution to this challenge every opportunity to succeed."
On Witkoff's enrichment flub, Rubio noted that "Steve subsequently followed up by clarifying that what he meant is that that would be the limit of what they would be allowed to import for their domestic program, and they do that now." Under such a setup, Iran could import enriched uranium for a civil nuclear program but could not enrich its own.
Israel has been lobbying Trump to partner on a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, the New York Times reported last week.
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It’s hard to find suits in XXXL size...............
I find it exceedingly strange how pro Israel fetterman is. Disturbingly so. And hell no on bombing them. If israel wants it they can do it. No more tail wagging the dog.
And a fleece lining. :)
Why didn’t this moron say that to Biden?
Do “Big & Tall” shops exist anymore?
Haven’t seen one in years. Maybe in the big cities.................
Bide wouldn’t know who he was...................
Iran has fine engineers and physicists and mathematicians that are quite capable of making an atomic bomb and perhaps a thermonuclear bomb with North Korean bomb technology from North Korea and Pakistan. This is stolen technology from the USA but a different subject.
In reality they have the atomic bomb and probably the thermonuclear bomb courtesy of North Korea.
That is the grim reality and must be addressed as the grim realli9ty it is. The choices are bad and worse.
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I myself do not believe that the Iranians have Thermo. Nevertheless, they have the potential for massive destruction even with a non thermonuclear weapon.
Quite frankly, my opinion is that there is no alternative but to attack and Destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. Should Iran actually stage an attack, the retaliation would kill hundreds of thousands of Iranian people, with whom we have no quarrel. That would be an immense tragedy.
It’s a world gone mad when the crazy man is sane.
Source: Jewish Insider
By Marc Rod
April 16, 2025
Israeli strikes scuttled; Trump rejected Israeli plan for
striking Iranian nuclear program: Jewish Insider report
The president reportedly chose to pursue talks with Iran over supporting Israeli strikes and told Israeli officials he would not back them while negotiations are ongoing
Faced with fault lines inside his own administration over Iran policy, President Donald Trump rejected an Israeli plan, which would have required American backing and potential U.S. involvement, to strike Iran’s nuclear program as soon as May, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The Times reported that Trump chose instead to pursue diplomatic talks with Iran, which began last Saturday and have fueled concerns among Iran hawks in both the U.S. and Israel that the U.S. may make concessions on key issues that would allow Iran to retain some of its nuclear program. He reportedly told Israeli officials he would not back a military strike while talks are ongoing.
NEW YORK TIMES — Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month but was waved off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating a deal with Tehran to limit its nuclear program, according to administration officials and others briefed on the discussions.
Israeli officials had recently developed plans to attack Iranian nuclear sites in May. They were prepared to carry them out, and at times were optimistic that the United States would sign off. The goal of the proposals, according to officials briefed on them, was to set back Tehran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon by a year or more.
Almost all of the plans would have required U.S. help not just defend Israel from Iranian retaliation, but also to ensure that an Israeli attack was successful, making the United States a central part of the attack itself.
For now, Mr. Trump has chosen diplomacy over military action. In his first term, he tore up the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration. But in his second term, eager to avoid being sucked into another war in the Middle East, he has opened negotiations with Tehran, giving it a deadline of just a few months to negotiate a deal over its nuclear program.
NY Times-—Israeli officials had their own plans to attack Iranian nuclear sites, back in May.
They were all prepared to carry them out, and were sure the United States would sign off.
Israeli plans would have required US help not just to defend Israel from Iranian retaliation, but also ......to finance...... and ensure that an Israeli attack was successful....... making the United States a central part of the attack itself.
Fetterman visited Israel to show his support just recently.
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I must say that I agree with Fetterman on this issue. I believe that Mark Levin is in this same camp.
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