Posted on 05/02/2026 7:30:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
On Saturday, President Donald Trump told reporters he would be looking at a new offer from Iran to end the conflict.
"I'm looking at it [on the plane]. I'll let you know about it later,' he said. "They told me about the concept of the deal. They're going to give me the exact wording now."
He said that they didn't necessarily have to make a deal with Iran. But if the U.S. would leave right now, it would take Iran 20 years to rebuild. However, he said something very important, "We're going to do it so no one has to go back in two years or five years."
That sounds like a commitment to trying to get it right now, while they have Iran on the ropes, so we don't have to revisit the issue at a later point.
Trump also chastised a reporter for asking him if he would restart military strikes. He then made it clear that it could still be on the table if he thought it was necessary, if they [Iran] "misbehave" or "do something bad."
"It's a possibility that could happen, certainly," he said.
He later made a post on his Truth Social acount questioning whether their offer would be good enough.
He posted that he "can’t imagine that [the deal] would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years."
That's a couple of different offers in just a couple of days from Iran. That says to me, they're hard up and they're trying to figure out what will get the blockade lifted. So, it's a question of how quickly they will crack, and the clock is already ticking.
Miad Maleki, a former senior sanctions strategist and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said In a recent interview on Fox News' "Fox Report, that U.S. sanctions and military blockades are working.
He noted the U.S. has a level of leverage not seen since 1979, with the regime facing pressure comparable only to the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
While the Iranian dictatorship has historically ignored public opinion, Maleki warned that the regime is running out of time, facing imminent oil storage issues and gasoline shortages.
To suppress domestic uprisings, the Iranian government has shut down the internet for nearly two months, costing the economy roughly $50 million daily. In addition, the U.S. blockade is draining an estimated $435 million per day in lost imports and exports.
"They might be able to continue in a matter of days and weeks, but I don't think they can continue to stay in this kind of situation more than a month or two," Maleki said.
This is a developing story. We'll provide updates as more information becomes available.
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He posted that he “can’t imagine that [the deal] would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years.”
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Good to see Trump say this.
Get the U-235
Nothing else matters.
Squeeze the Mullah’s with blockade until they turn purple.
We should take out all bridges that allow transport to occur over land borders, too.
Iran suffers from what has been called “Dutch disease”. They have had so much oil revenue for so long, that other industries have languished.
They depend heavily on imports for many types of manufactured goods (like cars and electronics), as well as essentials, like refined gasoline and pharmaceuticals. Iran is a huge net importer of food.
The blockade will produce all kinds of shortages, in addition to financial disaster.
>Nothing else matters.
I don’t have time or space here to list all of the mullahcracy’s hideous deeds, many of which were done to native Iranians. Yes, the pursuit of nukes is the capstone of their evil but not the only one.
I am not a subscriber to the leftist-led, modernistic horse-blinder mentality that says that only the most recent thing an evildoer did should be considered, and since their prior crimes were not punished they’re moot.
(I don’t think you are either; I know your posting here, just using this as leverage for the post).
I am 100% behind removing the mullahs’ capability to wreak harm at all. This absolutely includes that they may never have nuclear weapons or the means to make them, but I’d prefer a lot more than that including the removal of their utility to PRC as a tentacle of their own evils. If the Iranians who have suffered already take more pain, well. I’m not thrilled, but there were lots of perfectly nice Germans who bought the farm in our bombing campaigns; there were probably very kindly Carthagineans once too. Nonetheless, after a certain point it becomes necessary to permanently remove a threat to the world.
As people keep trying to remove Trump (and then us) I am also 100% behind action while we can. If not now, it’ll be another generation or more, or ever, before we get the opportunity, capability, and will together.
t this point the only solution is regime change.
We simply cannot leave the IRGC in charge of Iran.
Whatever Iran offers, it will be a lie.
I hope Us and Israel are working on that exact solution right now...
Iran really needs a good de-Islamification....
Dissolve their Constitution. Ask Egypt or Saudi or Tunisia or similar to occupy and bring forth new government.
For how many years have we been told that the sanctions are working and Iran will inevitably comply with all requirements?
It is a country that is 95% Shiite and is run by the Shiite leadership. Why do people think this is shocking? Isn’t the Vatican run by the Pope?
Iran proposes to but out Spirit Airlines..but only with a name change: Allah Airlines.
Politically, short term, yes. Iran also possesses significant quantities of plutonium in the form of spent nuclear fuel from Bushehr nuclear power plant that they could reprocess into weapons grade plutonium. Enough to potentially make hundreds of weapons. With a little help from Russia, China or North Korea, a reprocessing program could become operational very quickly. Without help, a couple years. Considering they already have a uranium enrichment program and a quantity of uranium enriched to 60%, that is their easiest path to, a weapon, but not the only path.
Iran’s sweetener includes all US negotiators can have delivery their choice of a new IKCO Samand sedan or the new Reera crossover. Good luck getting parts. (kidding)
Good time for psychologists and social workers to investigate the effects of sudden social media withdrawal on the people there.
The nuclear dust.
It’s supposedly sitting under millions of tons of rubble, right?
You want to go grab it?
Carthage Delenda Est.
...Carthago...
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