I think some political consultants got to Trump and told him he had to focus on the midterms and get Iran out of the headlines for the next 140 days
Sixty days from the signing we’ll be told that negotiations are going so well that they need to be extended.
If so, that’s some bad consulting. This deal won’t magically erase Iran from the headlines. Only unequivocal military success would do that.
That was he iranian plan: delay and drag out “negotiations” as long as they could, counting on domestic political pressure to get DJT to cave. Each empty Trump threat and the his begging for a “deal” simply encouraged them. They played Trump’s ego like a fiddle.
Their plan worked like a charm.
Everyone complaining doesn’t give Trump any support while things are happening. They only complain at the end. The politicians have daily votes about Trump leaving and they hm and ah when they ask if he’s a war criminal. They think they are 2 weeks away and they talk like that is a fact when it’s clearly now. Trump is doing well and his silliness to strike over and over is noted.
That was my take.
“I think some political consultants got to Trump and told him he had to focus on the midterms and get Iran out of the headlines for the next 140 days”
The Senate was sure to be lost come the 2026 election.
Not that it matters, the Republicans didn’t even bother to use Trump’s $166 billion in tariff money to send $600 to each insured driver while the Trump tariff money was still in the Treasury.
Me too. I think he agreed to all of this just to get oil down for the start of summer, knowing Iran would flub and he’d get another shot at it.
My suspicion is that parties who stand to make a lot of money off this deal (or stop losing money if the war ends) had Trump's ear, possibly the Saudis or Gulf States, possibly Kushner and Witkoff (the dynamic duo of failed diplomacy in Trump's second term).
I think Trump felt pressured by the midterms. I think he also concluded that the IRGC was not going away, no matter how long it went on. Unfortunately the IRGC feels no pressure to agree to anything, while Trump was under time pressure.