Gen Jack Keane 'skeptical' that Iran ceasefire will hold, warns Tehran will 'delay and obfuscate'

foxnews.com ^ | April 8, 2026 | Taylor

[V_TWIN]

Retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane expressed doubt that the Iran ceasefire will hold, arguing Tehran is exploiting the pause to delay and ease pressure while testing whether the U.S. has "the stomach" to restart the fight.

"I am skeptical about where we’re heading with the Iranians because I flat don’t trust them, and I don't like taking the pressure off them by going to a ceasefire, which is what they want in any event to force the United States to stop the war," Keane said Tuesday on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

"We have done that, admittedly only temporarily, but we've got to see what's in that deal."

He warned that Tehran has a long track record of using negotiations to buy time, calling Iranian leaders "experts at obfuscating and delaying deals" who "lie and promise and don’t deliver."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: iran; keane

[V_TWIN]

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I tend to agree....I don't believe Iran has any intention of negotiating in good faith.

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[V_TWIN]

Itsn will continue to push the envelope to see what President Trump will tolerate......even after all the damage that has been they will never capitulate.

[Beowulf9]

Iran is a growing monster.

[Bulwinkle]

Iran will use 10 days to prepare to attack and will attack before the two weeks are up

[Texas Eagle]

There was a fight?

[BHI2025]

This keane guy is a real Nostradamus.

[nuconvert]

He also said that Iran’s sole intention of closing the Strait was to get a ceasefire and they got that.

[Salvavida]

That’s funny. The 6-year old across the street from me said the same thing.

[nuconvert]

He’s talking to the uninformed general public

[ComputerGuy]

I’m afraid we’ve been snookered. I don’t trust Muslims. Any Muslims.

[Blueflag]

Let’s go there.

Iran thinks they can re-arm, move stores and munitions around.

Go back to the old Iran for a bit, and get ready to lash out some more.

Iran seem to misunderstand how good our overall ISR, SIGNINT, IMINT, ELINT and HUMINT is. EVERYTHING they move, say ... we’ll know.

If they so much as sneeze, militarily, we’ll know.

Trump is a realist. HE is being the nice guy. LEt Iran ruin the ceasefire.

Well now our teams get a rest to fix red-lined aircraft, rest crews after an insane sortie rate, eat some good food, restock fuel and munitions.

This is NOT a bad move on our part.

Ease up, everyone.

[Codeflier]

I think we are tricking them by delaying, to catch them off guard when they don’t have forced human shields in place at some targets.

[bert]

You should pay attention.

That is so badly wrong it is funny.

[fruser1]

You can look to Hamas as an example of what’s to happen -

The “ceasefire” there was to include them disarming, which they are refusing to do.

So, per Iran, they will be continuing their nuclear and missile work.

[nuconvert]

Gen. Keane is not happy. Neither is Larry Kudlow, a big Trump supporter. They both want Trump to finish the job. Unconditional surrender.

[Magnum44]

I hate what ‘news’ has become. It’s endless ‘expert opinion’

[Libloather]

Big Mo is on his last leg, so to speak. Time to pick up the pace.

[Vaduz]

Exploiting the pause to delay and ease pressure while.

Arming something we didn’t know they had?.

Shuffling the uranium out of the country?

[Eli Kopter]

Two weeks gets the past the period that Trump needs congressional approval to continue, so they think they can rel on their partners in congress. And they might be right. Tomorrow is the critical day and we should see if they have learned any discipline. In the meantime, all the women and children human shields have moved off.

[odawg]

“Iran will use 10 days to prepare to attack and will attack before the two weeks are up”

The United States will use 10 days to prepare to attack and will attack when Iran does.