Posted on 06/16/2025 8:06:16 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to press U.S. President Donald Trump to use his influence on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire with Iran in return for Tehran's flexibility in nuclear negotiations, two Iranian and three regional sources told Reuters on Monday.
Gulf leaders and their top diplomats worked the phones all weekend, speaking to each other, to Tehran, Washington and beyond in an effort to avoid a widening of the conflict as longstanding enemies Israel and Iran intensified their attacks in their biggest ever confrontation.
Iran is willing to be flexible in the nuclear talks if a ceasefire is reached, one of the Iranian sources said.
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No.
Ceasefire in exchange for actual results. Talk in exchange for talk. The fact that Iran is asking their Sunni enemies to mediate indicates that Israel now has air superiority over Iran.
“Flexibility” is no tangible, you want a cease fire to agree to abandon all nuclear ambitions.
“Flexibility” is just a fancy way of trying to still have your way.
You missed that boat and it is beyond insulting to insist it return to port now that you are stuck at the dock as it burns under you.
The only thing that will help the people of Iran is to get rid of the religious zealots running the country.
Personally, I think Israel should keep going until there is regime change in Iran, you can’t the Ayatollah back in charge and expect a different outcome.
If that happens, there will be a cease fire, Iran will negotiate a deal and in time violate every aspect of that deal and go about building up their nuclear program again, this time maybe they import readymade nukes from North Korea or Pakistan.
In order to have a real deal you need regime change.
Hand over all your nuclear weapons material and you can have a ceasefire, just like you could have avoided all this as Trump tried to negotiate with you. Now? Absolutely no ceasefire in an attempt to ship in a resupply of arms.
” air superiority over Iran”
Unchallenged Air Dominance.
Israel will eventually break through Iran’s nuke bunkers and the mullahs know it.
Khameninis head on a silver platter.
Yaa this is the classic Islamic tactic of feign talks / surrender even only to regroup and stab you in the back harder the next time.
There is NO HONOR in Islam.
This is just my own personal, correct, opinion, but the ceasefire should occur once their nuclear capability is state-of-the-art stone-age technology, the Supreme Leadership is at room temperature and the proud Persian people are back in control of their country.
Let it be....
Nope
They want to stop being blowed up, to live to fight another day.
Nope, Israel has air supremacy, blow them up real good.
They must know the regime is capable of being toppled right now. PUSH HARDER!!! DO NOT TAKE THE KNEE OFF OF IRAN’S NECK!!!!
Israel just took out the Iranian Broadcasting Authority. The Iranian theocracy isn’t long for this world. Israel’s game plan has been brilliant and stupefying. This will end in regime change. The US will have a lock on oil and the important transport routes. This will place China into a corner. The dollar will remain the world currency. The Golden Age indeed.
Agree.
I was listening to Bannon and Tucker a few minutes ago and I can’t believe they are so blind to reality.
If Iran has been shouting “Death to America and Israel” and working on the munitions to make it happen, do people think that they’re kidding? Does anyone think that the crazy mullahs in Iran aren’t dead serious about this? They believe in the 12th imam and the takeover of the world to islam, and that now is the time.
I honestly don’t think these two sides should be fighting. America First seems to say no wars at all cost, while others realize that anti-war means avoiding war, but doing what is necessary to defend your country.
If Israel (aka Little Satan) is willing to do the threat removal with America’s help (supplying munitions), the world should be applauding them. America First screaming about war is rather ironic. If Iran is left to complete its mission, America (aka Great Satan) will be nuked as well. Not much worry about jobs and paying for groceries when your nation is glowing from Iranian nukes.
Supporting regime change in Iran and the destruction of the nuclear facilities IS America First. Godspeed to Israel.
Mediate? the Arabs are too busy celebrating, they hate the Persians.
LOL Absolutely not. The terms are simply no nuke program with intrusive inspections to make sure.
From Israel's side, I'm not sure that's enough, given Iran's missile program.
The U-235 and the centrifuges have to be surrendered up.
That’s not negotiable.
To have a ceasefire for negotiation over non-negotiable issues would be absurd.
Somehow, the Monty Python Black Knight scene comes to mind.
I think the list of concessions is gunna be a bit different than a month ago.
Israel right to exist.
Leadership change.
No nukes, no Uranium.
No ballistic missiles.
Reparations for cost of war.
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