Posted on 05/28/2026 3:03:34 AM PDT by dennisw
The Iranian Tasnim News Agency reported on Wednesday that a senior National Security Council official in the country claimed the first round of peace talks with the United States did not address the country’s enriched uranium stockpile.
The official, National Security Council Deputy Secretary Ali Baqeri, claimed instead that the talks were focusing on reopening commercial transit in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian terror state has effectively made normal commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz impossible since March, threatening to attack random ships to disrupt the global economy.
Baqeri’s claim that enriched uranium is not part of the conversation with American negotiators directly contradicts comments from the White House, including from President Donald Trump himself, insisting that Washington will not sign onto any peace agreement that does not include long-term limits on Iranian nuclear development and the confiscation and destruction of enriched uranium.
President Trump launched Operation Epic Fury in Feb. On its first day, Operation Epic Fury killed the country’s “supreme leader,” Ali Khamenei, and has since eliminated dozens of senior leaders. Trump agreed to an indefinite ceasefire in April and negotiators from both countries have been discussing a long-term peace agreement since then, aided by mediators in Pakistan and Qatar.
According to Baqeri, those talks are yielding some slow progress, but do not have anything to do with Iran’s stockpile of fissile material. The official insisted that enriched uranium was “not on the agenda of the talks” at all in his comments made during his participation at the First International Security Forum in Moscow, Russia.
Baqeri added that agreement on some issues did not guarantee that talks would culminate in a solid deal.
“Until we agree on all issues, we consider that we have not agreed on anything,” Tasnim quoted Baqeri as saying.
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This is part of their major malfunction. They can’t see what the problem is because they’re too close to it. It’s another one of those mind viruses and it’s been around for a long time now.
Well, someone is lying. I sure hope it isn’t Trump.
Iran is playing a version of rope-a-dope here. Meaning they’ll take the hits and hope that the United States will eventually get tired of the whole thing.
Throw in a little taqiyya (lying to infidels) too.
It’s a good strategy from their point of view.
National Security Council Deputy Secretary Ali Baqeri = Next Target
Time to resume kinetic operations. This regime will never negotiate in good faith. They merely utilize delay for their own purposes.
They wouldn’t lie, would they?
> Time to resume kinetic operations. <
That would work when dealing with a rational opponent. But Iran’s leaders are not rational. They are religious fanatics, something like the Japanese leaders were during WW2.
Conventional bombing wrecked Japan. But it did not move the Japanese leaders in the least. The same will probably be true with Iran.
The wild card is the Iranian people. Will they rise up and overthrow the mullahs? That doesn’t seem very likely at this point.
“Iran is playing a version of rope-a-dope here. Meaning they’ll take the hits and hope that the United States will eventually get tired of the whole thing.
Throw in a little taqiyya (lying to infidels) too.
It’s a good strategy from their point of view.”
Yes, exactly this. That’s the strategy. First, put pressure on their Allie’s, the democrats, to try to invoke war powers act. Make conversations, and whenever a deal is close, make a public claim that they never agreed to anything. Trying to drag it out, hoping it goes away. They are hoping that with oil not moving, that the world pressure on Donald Trump would force him to make a bad deal.
I am certain Trump knew this going in. He is also playing a long game. Iran can’t pay the terrorists, their own military, and the economy is collapsing. As time goes on, people won’t care about Iranian oil. When it’s over, they won’t be able to sell cheap without disturbing all oil producing nations, even if we leave them with production capacity.
The Iranians are using the old playbook, and Trump is gaming them. The longer it goes on, the better Trumps position will become. The Mullahs control, without income, will begin to slip both domestically and abroad. Eventually, the Iranian military, not the Quds, not the Republican guard, will decide the issue.
The Mullahs and the Democrats took the wrong path here. The Democrats should have enough disposable Congressional crossovers to support war. Then it would be a Donald Trump getting troops killed in a never ending war. Now, it’s just going to be a long drawn out disintegration of Iran, the Mullahs, and the Democrats for supporting them.
“Conventional bombing wrecked Japan. But it did not move the Japanese leaders in the least. The same will probably be true with Iran.
The wild card is the Iranian people. Will they rise up and overthrow the mullahs? That doesn’t seem very likely at this point.“
What we find from interviews of two key conflicts and intense bombing. Japanese was closer to surrender than anyone realized before the atomic bombs were dropped because of the firebombing by LeMay. In Linebacker II, under Nixon, North Vietnam and Ho Chi Men had all but decided on surrender when Americans stepped in to help them at the peace tables. Potentially both of these ‘bombing’ incompletions would have been successful if the signaling had been different. That signaling would be that the bombing doesn’t stop until an agreement is reached, and potentially escalates during negotiations.
In fact, your post actually made me re-evaluate my positions.
Trump should not invade. He should restart bombing. If the Iranians want to negotiate, then bombing should escalate during negotiations. If Iran backs away from negotiations, then a new infrastructure industry is targeted. Eventually including urban areas and firebombing. This should continuously cycle until the conflict is resolved. He has two years left in his term, that should be enough time to test the strategy. I am certain Pakistan and China will welcome the refugees.
Bombing them into submission is not an option. If the people don’t rise we’ll have to bomb them. By that I mean every bridge, power plant, cell tower.
What’s surprising is the few boats we’re sinking. Who’s dumb enough to go ahead with those missions knowing it’s certain death?
we decapitated their leadership and continue to snipe them
Iran is spitting teeth and communists are using their utterly made up BS to sew FUD to the masses willing to lick it up like it’s real.
If you believe a work Iran has to say, you are a moron.
> Japanese was closer to surrender than anyone realized… <
I don’t know about that. Perhaps it depended on what the terms were (peace before the atomic bombs). I doubt if Japan would have accepted an Allied occupation of their mainland.
There was considerable resistance to surrender even after the second atomic bomb dropped. Some Japanese army officers even attempted a coup to keep the war going. It failed, but not by much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
By the way, I agree with your assessment of the Vietnam situation. To which I’d add: the American people were experiencing war fatigue. That played a part. I fear it will play a part with the current Iran situation as well.
If losing the first 2 levels of leadership hasn’t caused them to surrender, then I’m sure killing one more won’t matter.
If we don’t that, the people will never rise up. My hunch is out of defiance to the US enough of them ( not all) will rally behind the fanatics… who already have millions who already support them.
Trump doesn’t have long to end this thing or the crazy Dems will win control of both houses of congress. History will remember this as Trumps biggest blunder.
The fact that we are in the uncomfortable position of wondering who is telling the truth here says it all.
“That would work when dealing with a rational opponent. But Iran’s leaders are not rational. They are religious fanatics, something like the Japanese leaders were during WW2.”
The Japanese obeyed the Emperor who was descended from divinity according to Shinto their state religion. The Japanese only really surrendered when emperor Hirohito surrendered to Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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