Mullah McStumpy appears to be the turd in the Wadu Basin.*
* A Wadhu Basin is the footwash thing muslims use to clean their feet and I put out my cigars in.
Posted on 06/12/2026 8:02:56 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan
Reports emerging from the region suggest that Iran’s leadership may be divided over a proposed deal with the United States, raising new doubts about whether an agreement can be finalized.
According to the reports, Iranian negotiators had signaled that the deal was ready to move forward. However, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has reportedly refused to approve the proposal. The reported rejection comes after claims that senior Iranian officials, including Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, had presented the agreement as essentially ready without securing final approval from Khamenei.
If accurate, the development could point to a serious internal split inside Tehran’s leadership at a critical moment in the negotiations.
It also raises questions about whether mediators were given an incomplete or misleading picture of Iran’s actual position. While parts of Iran’s political leadership may have been prepared to move toward a deal, the final decision appears to remain in the hands of the supreme leadership.
For Washington, the question now is whether Iran’s negotiating team had the authority to finalize an agreement, or whether the talks advanced further than Tehran’s supreme leadership was willing to accept.
For Tehran, the dispute exposes a deeper dilemma: whether to accept a deal under American pressure, or reject it and risk another round of escalation.
At this stage, the reports remain unconfirmed, and Iranian officials have not issued a clear final statement confirming Khamenei’s rejection. But if the claims are accurate, the proposed U.S.-Iran deal may be facing its most serious obstacle yet, not from Washington, but from inside Iran itself.
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* A Wadhu Basin is the footwash thing muslims use to clean their feet and I put out my cigars in.
“For Tehran, the dispute exposes a deeper dilemma: whether to accept a deal under American pressure, or reject it and risk another round of escalation.”
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We’ll keep hitting them until there’s little to nothing left of their evil regime. That’s awesome.
FAFO is going to happen tonight. The Mullahs are begging for it now!
Looks like more regime change needs to be done.
Bibi,
Please take care of this guy.....within the hour
Thanks
Donny
I'd prefer to joke that yeah: They're divided...
"Body temperature" & "Room temperature."
But I no longer have confidence in an effective outcome.
Or the ~secular government needs to leak where Mullah McStumpy is hiding so the Israelis can kill him.
I’m actually glad McStumpy is holding firm.
We’re not done breaking the will of the regime.
Don’t waste the time of JD. Flights to nowhere need to have a price.
Sounds like Stumpy wants to join his father.
Assuming this reportedly is accurate, this is why a deal will never be reached.
Either they are this discombobulated that there is no consensus as to which is in charge or this is just another coordinated stall tactic.
My money is on the latter.
I don’t believe there is a secular government as all elected officials are carefully vetted for being islamic lunatics.
The "Supreme Leader" (if he is even still alive) does what the IRGC tells him to do.
Perhaps the IRGC leadership is indeed divided on what to do. There have been so many new replacements from different factions. We have no way of knowing who speaks for the IRGC, or if anyone can speak for the IRGC.
The real negotiations are demonstrated by who is attacking and how much damage they cause.
There’s likely no deal. 🙄
“Sounds like Stumpy wants to join his father.”
I’m sure Bibi can arrange that for him. Someone in the government will out his rat hole.
“I don’t believe there is a secular government as all elected officials are carefully vetted for being islamic lunatics.”
Hence “~secular”.
I suppose I could write it “secular” with square quotes, but I like to be creative.
Perhaps it's time we took a page out of the leftist playbook... It's called fighting while negotiating.
This seems to be a description of American institutions of politics and national agencies, as much as it is of Iranian leadership. Apparently we have much in common.
Start with bridges and railways systems, then power stations, then water systems.
FAFO is going to happen tonight. The Mullahs are begging for it now!
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Been hearing this since April.
But this time is different. Charlie Brown really will kick that football.
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