(old meme. Last count is about 50 times)
Posted on 06/20/2026 1:34:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When Donald Trump signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran earlier this week, the accepted narrative was that it was an abject failure of US foreign policy. What had begun with the dramatic assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei in the opening seconds of the war had concluded with America’s hands tied.
But this rhetoric fails to align with the reality within Iran. Beneath the noise, the regime, with its nuclear capabilities and ballistic stockpile severely downgraded, is also in a vulnerable position – perhaps the most weak it has been in its 47 years. I fled the regime myself 28 years ago, and have coordinated protests from within and outside the country, including the bloodiest ones in its near five decade history earlier this year which saw tens of thousands of my fellow countrymen slaughtered. Despite relentless IRGC propaganda, the regime is on the brink.
The war has exposed deep divisions within the government. While the less radical part of it (a relative concept) understands they have no choice but to accept demands dictated by the US if they want to survive, there is no shortage of those that remain ideologically committed to a fight to the bitter end. This has fuelled nightly street protests, with each side accusing the other of betrayal and acting as agents of Mossad and the US.
An under-explored aspect of this conflict is the tension within the regime and the possibility that the two sides could turn their weapons on each other. Two hardliners thirsty for power are consolidating their power bases and engaged in a vicious briefing war: the current commander of the IRGC Ahmad Vahidi is pitted against Mohammad Bagher-Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament and lead negotiator for the regime.
Looming over this volatility is the continuing absence of the supposed...
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Trump has said it is over many times now.
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You don't believe him?
Bkmk
Ask the socialist snowflake in the far-left “media”. Those princesses will tell you.
As long as the IRGC dictatorship is willing to kill every domestic threat that challenges their authority - they will not lose power.
The enemy is still in power and soon to be $300 billion richer so no.
I always like to check out the author’s background.
Vahid Beheshti is a journalist and human rights activist who has been on hunger strike, protesting and camping out opposite the Foreign Office until the IRGC is proscribed. The strike is part of a protest to encourage the UK Government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation.
Plenty of what the President says is tactical or diversionary.
We have an MOU. We don’t have a DEAL.
It will be quite a while before we know whether the effort ‘worked’ or not, or when it’s really over.
(The people who want to tear down Trump don’t seem to care how stupid they make themselves look in the process.)
(old meme. Last count is about 50 times)
Trump is the best President since George Washington. I support him 100%. 80% of what he does is fabulous. 20% is various degrees of suck. But it don’t get no better than that.
I do believe calling balls and strikes is necessary. Trummp course-corrects when he gets feedback from the right people.
I just want to be among those urging course-correction.
Oh you so smart. Much smarter than Trump. How clever.
So Trump is infallible, like the Pope?
How funny a CNN inspired meme.
How funny a CNN inspired meme.
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Not so funny. It WAS accurate. Now the number of times Trump has declared victory is far higher.
But I guess we can blame CNN for that?
the MOU reads like a farce in some paragraphs and a capitulation in others. A total disaster for USA as written.
our great USAF/USN were within just a couple days of achieving at least 3.5 of President Trump’s announced goals for this engagement. But this MOU thing snatches Defeat from the very jaws of Victory.
It is very very sad.
Give him a call. I’m sure your advice is superior to that of all those surrounding the President, and he will be anxious to benefit from it.
If it’s classified how do you know?
BS
It’s not classified
What did he address?
You don’t even know when the war started.
One thing I am sure of is it started on a day of your choosing and the rest of history does not exist.
It's what you do.
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