Posted on 05/25/2026 11:55:53 AM PDT by ransomnote
Mehek Cooke
@MehekCooke
Trump just turned the Abraham Accords into an accountability trap for the Gulf states and Iran walked right into it.
Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey have never held Iran accountable is due to exposure. They share a neighborhood. They can't sanction, shame, or confront Iran while having zero security architecture binding them to the West or to each other.
The Abraham Accords change that math entirely. Once Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey are signatories, they aren't just recognizing Israel they are locking themselves into a collective security posture.
A breach of the Iran deal becomes their problem to call out, not just America's or Israel's. You can't sign a normalization framework and then look the other way when your new partner Israel is threatened by a nuclear Iran. The accords create skin in the game.
If Iran violates the deal, the Gulf states aren't just silent bystanders anymore. They're co-signatories of the broader peace architecture. The political cost of looking away just went from zero to enormous.
That's why markets are surging and oil is dropping. The world is pricing in something it hasn't seen in decades, a Middle East where the neighbors themselves have a structural reason to enforce the peace.
Genius.
ransomnote: Her image of Trump's Truth Social post at the link is a little hard to read so I will provide the link to Trump's original TS [pst and the text of his post below. His original post is in one paragraph - I'll add (awkward) paragraphs for readability.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116635193825443617
Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely! It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before — And nobody wants that!
During my discussions on Saturday with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of The United Arab Emirates, Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Minister Ali al-Thawadi, of Qatar, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, of Pakistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Türkiye, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of Egypt, King Abdullah II, of Jordan, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, of Bahrain, I stated that, after all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together, it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords.
Those Countries discussed are Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates (already a Member!), Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain (already a Member!). It may be possible that one or two have a reason for not doing so, and that will be accepted, but most should be ready, willing, and able to make this Settlement with Iran a far more Historic Event than it would, otherwise, be.
The Abraham Accords have proven to be, for the Countries involved (The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and Kazakhstan), a Financial, Economic, and Social BOOM, even during this time of Conflict and War, with the current Members never even suggesting leaving, or taking so much as even a pause. The reason for this is that the Abraham Accords have been great for them, and will be even better for everybody, and bring true Power, Strength, and Peace to the Middle East for the first time in 5,000 years.
It will be a Document respected like no other that has ever been signed, anywhere in the World. Its level of Importance and Prestige will be unparalleled! It should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit. If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention. In speaking to numerous of the Great Leaders mentioned above, they would be honored, as soon as our Document is signed, to have the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Abraham Accords.
Wow, now that would be something special! This will be the most important Deal that any of these Great, but always in Conflict Countries, will ever sign. Nothing in the past, or in the future, will surpass it. Therefore, I am mandatorily requesting that all Countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords, and that, if Iran signs its Agreement with me, as President of the United States of America, it would be an Honor to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition. The Middle East would be United, Powerful, and Economically Strong, like perhaps no other area, anywhere in the World!
By copy of this TRUTH, I am asking my Representatives to begin, and successfully complete, the process of signing these Countries into the already Historic Abraham Accords. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAGrok's evaluation of the post:
- Mehek Cooke's post analyzes Trump's Truth Social announcement calling for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain to join the Abraham Accords simultaneously with any Iran deal, framing it as creating shared regional accountability.
- The argument posits that normalization with Israel binds these states into a collective security framework, raising the political cost of ignoring Iranian nuclear violations or aggression compared to their prior non-confrontational stance due to geographic proximity.
- Markets reacted positively with surging equities and falling oil prices, reflecting bets on reduced Middle East risk, though replies highlight challenges like differing national interests and historical treaty unreliability.
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Moslems are not reliable.
“The Art of The Deal.”
Could you imagine how far advanced humanity would go if the Muslims just stopping being such animals?
Israeli engineers, Saudi energy and construction... That region would literally be the city of the future.
But no. Allah had to +-&$ a sheep and now a huge chunk of the planet behaves like this.
The author is delusional. Holding weak sheikdoms accountable under a multi-national security agreement is like having a third graded co-sign an auto loan.
This bloviating is getting tiresome.
Just like Unconditional Surrender was never going to happen, this type of wishful thinking is going on and on too much.
If the socialist bartender or Madmani ever win the top prize, all of this disappears.
The political cost of looking away just went from zero to enormous.
It’s a one for all and all for one not good odds for Iran.
“Could you imagine how far advanced humanity would go if the Muslims just stopping being such animals?”
You could say that about another group.
what other group?
“Could you imagine how far advanced humanity would go if the Muslims just stopping being such animals?”
Chicken/egg scenario.
President Trump is the master of manufacturing leverage and applying it judiciously yet ruthlessly.
I would not bet against the guy
You are the most miserable human POS on Earth.
Yell at clouds?
I LOVE TRUMP!
he tricked them into forming a Sunni/Shia Empire?
Yada yada yada. This is Trump’s person of premature withdrawal. Tidy up a treaty with peoples who religion tells them it s ok to lie to the infidel and then walk away.
I was a child but even then I knew we needed to and could have finished the job after Tet. A battle we won but allowed the press to make it a loss.
Iran just needs the final coffin nail. It should be delivered. It’s how a nuclear Iran in 10 years. Not our problem you say. We will have Iran ruling the Gulf and China ruling Asia. Not the multipolar world that we would function well in. Given the progressives infinity to murderous totalitarian government, we would finds ourselves ruled the same way as Iran and China.
The last I checked, Turkey wasn’t a Gulf State. Is someone trying to reassemble the Ottoman Empire?
what other group?
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TEENS
Agree! Too many players with ancient and religious hatreds!
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