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Trump Tells the Truth About Iran
The Wall Street Journal ^ | July 8, 2026 5:46 pm ET | The Editorial Board

Posted on 07/08/2026 5:52:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

‘My whole life, all I do is deals,” President Trump said Wednesday, but Iran’s regime “is from a different school,” he had to admit. “They’re liars, they’re cheats, they’re sick people.” Mr. Trump cited the tens of thousands of Iranians slaughtered by the regime in January and explained how its word has proved worthless. “I don’t want to deal with them anymore,” he said.

The President is so mercurial that it’s impossible to know if he’s serious that the cease-fire is “over,” as he said. He could declare it back on tomorrow. But he’s right that Iran’s regime has been wasting his time. It’s the best in the world at that. Twenty days into the memorandum of understanding’s 60-day negotiation period, nuclear talks have hardly begun.

Instead the regime has worked to conquer the Strait of Hormuz while exporting billions of dollars’ worth of oil. New satellite imagery suggests Iran is continuing construction at its underground Pickaxe Mountain site—a violation of its commitment in the MOU to “maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program.”

This is why the up-front U.S. concession on oil sanctions was a mistake without requiring the revenue to be held in escrow. Mr. Trump revoked the oil-sales license on Tuesday after Iran struck three commercial tankers in the Strait with missiles and drones.

In June Mr. Trump called Iran’s new leaders “very rational people” who were “nice to deal with.” Vice President JD Vance, the lead U.S. negotiator, insisted that even the thugs atop the Revolutionary Guard Corps want to “turn over a new leaf” with the U.S.

This Age of Innocence lasted all of three weeks. Perhaps Mr. Vance will tell us why he believed that and whether he still does. Asked on Wednesday what changed his view of Iran’s leaders, Mr. Trump answered...


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1 posted on 07/08/2026 5:52:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just wipe them out. All of them and their families.

L


2 posted on 07/08/2026 5:55:13 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. LOL l)
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To: dfwgator
They’re liars, they’re cheats

Just like the Brits.

3 posted on 07/08/2026 5:55:35 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You tried. More than most.

But they have their heads up their...high aspirations of taking over the world.

No deal.


4 posted on 07/08/2026 5:56:37 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Lurker

The trouble is that they hide in bunkers and among civilians.


5 posted on 07/08/2026 5:57:50 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Lurker

Just wipe them out. All of them and their families.

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Apparently, we don’t have the conventional weaponry to wipe them out and going nuclear would seem like something a nutjob would propose.

We’ll bomb and use missiles until our already strained munitions arsenal depletes further. Then more diplomacy & negotiations........rinse & repeat.


6 posted on 07/08/2026 6:02:19 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WSJ advocating for perma-war. Water is wet.


7 posted on 07/08/2026 6:03:06 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“My whole life, all I do is deals,” President Trump said Wednesday, but Iran’s regime “is from a different school,”

Yeah they are real world terrorists. No surprise here.


8 posted on 07/08/2026 6:05:07 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just catching on…?


9 posted on 07/08/2026 6:07:32 PM PDT by wny
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To: butterdezillion

So did the Nazis.

L


10 posted on 07/08/2026 6:07:45 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. LOL l)
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To: unclebankster

“ Apparently, we don’t have the conventional weaponry to wipe them out…”.

Do you have a source for that?

L


11 posted on 07/08/2026 6:08:41 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. LOL l)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Mr. Trump”


12 posted on 07/08/2026 6:09:31 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: butterdezillion

“The trouble is that they hide in bunkers and among civilians.”
There will be dead civilians.
Just like there were dead civilians in previous wars.
The psychomullahs are a death cult.
Asymmetric warfare includes them lining up their women and children to die.
They surpass Hitler in lunacy by far.
But we can’t allow that be a deterrent because they have proven that they would nuke us if they had a chance to do so. They wouldn’t care about dead US citizens in the least.


13 posted on 07/08/2026 6:09:59 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Lurker

Yes. Make the next 3 or 4 generations tremble when they hear the word ‘America’. This crap will never end until it gets really ugly.


14 posted on 07/08/2026 6:11:26 PM PDT by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If we didn’t stop the bombing to begin with, this would have been over by now.


15 posted on 07/08/2026 6:11:27 PM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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To: Lurker
Just wipe them out. All of them and their families.

You can kill all the people in the cities, most of whom have nothing to do with the Taliban/Mujahadin/ISIS/ISIL/IRCG or whatever we are calling them today.

Iran is 2.5 times the size of Texas, and 53% mountain fortress with hundreds of subterranean bases scattered throughout.

All they have to do to keep the strait shut down and hold the global economy hostage is launch a missile or drone at a ship once in a while from one of their wack-a-mole bases.

They have no central command. You can pretend that you have killed their leaders for about 15 minutes until the new layer shows up.

Reality is such a bummer.

16 posted on 07/08/2026 6:15:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Israel über alles.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Leadership in the Persian world has a thousand year record of lying, cheating, murder, deception, terrorism funding and supplying non state, proxy terrorist groups, shakedown racketeering, counterfeiting, and much more.

Any agreement they sign, word they give, hand they extend, is only to stall and obstruct. The people may be nice, but at this point they are the product of multi-generational theocratic lunatics conducting psy-ops and forcing state run propaganda on them. They are broken minds.

Imagine 10,000 General Rippers, with a devotion to radical Islam instead of a focus on Commies and Ruskies....

17 posted on 07/08/2026 6:17:36 PM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: butterdezillion

No trouble!
Everybody is now a target...

Dig up General Curtis LeMay, and firebomb Tehran and every other major Iranian city just like he did to Tokyo...


18 posted on 07/08/2026 6:22:23 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Lurker

Do you have a source for that?

**************

Nope.

Don’t need a source, pausing our military campaign is “all I need to know.”

Munitions grow on trees BTW./s


19 posted on 07/08/2026 6:23:01 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They lowdown, they dirty, they some snitches. I jus hate em.


20 posted on 07/08/2026 6:27:11 PM PDT by Theophilus (I'm all out of attention to this matter...)
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