I have no idea what the Iran Deal will include beyond the 14-point MOU included below. Stop being the global sponsor of terror, give up an armed nuclear future, and allow actual inspections. It’s not complicated. You have a right to your own sovereignty but not the right to hold the world hostage. If you renege or screw up, we end back here, where we were before the MOU.
Finer points are to be worked out over the next 60 days. In the meantime, Europe is sending something or someone to help clear all the mines from the Strait of Hormuz. Oil will flow, including from Iran, and gas prices will drop. The Demorrhoids will find plenty of reasons to hate this, not the least of which might be a 180 on Israel. Israel isn’t happy, and Trump doesn’t care – which messes with the Jew Hating dems, and Candace and Tucker a wee bit. Don’t lose sleep over that; they’ll find their stride.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich isn’t the worst booster for your thing.
“A lot of people on the right and left have already criticized the upcoming agreement — even when they have never seen it,” Gingrich wrote. “It is hard to understand what they thought the alternative should be.”
Gingrich argued that Trump successfully navigated between what he described as the Obama-Biden approach toward Iran and a costly military invasion, while preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
“President Trump steered a course between the Barack Obama-Joe Biden appeasement model and strategy which would have required a huge ground invasion,” Gingrich wrote. “He used our technological strengths in airpower and intelligence capabilities to bludgeon the religious dictatorship into positions far distant from where they were under Obama and Biden.”
Trump prevented Iran from holding the world hostage, and oil and gas are about to get cheap again. But never forget. Biden said Americans would have to endure high gas prices for as long as it takes (Ukraine laundromat DBA a war) in the name of stability and security “in that region.”
Russia was never going to be the threat that Iran was, and even Russia would agree that this benefits them. But there’s always a lot not to like about anything, and whatever the final Deal with Iran turns out to be, two things are clear.
First, it only holds if Trump and/or a predecessor ensure it does. The progs have never shown an interest in using Iran as anything but a way to launder money to themselves, in part by keeping the region in constant conflict or in danger of that. The globalist cabal doesn’t want peace in the Middle East.
Second, they will all try to forget or ignore everything else that happened over the past few months as a result of the shortest Middle East war since the 7-day war.
Just count up the benefits we already know about. The Iran operation ended OPEC— within two months! It got all the fractious countries over there on the same page, made a joke out of the Useless Nations, starved China of oil, put America on top of global energy for the first time in history, pressured the Europeans, et cetera. None of our previous Middle Eastern adventures did anything helpful at all; they just made everything worse.
OPEC is functionally over, or at least its power over energy prices is. The Cartel is bleeding members. It no longer has production domination. It can’t control price without hurting its own revenue flows. The US is now the global leader in energy export, and we’re not slowing down. We control Venezuela’s oil too.
Imagine a world that answers to America on the question of hydrocarbons. We’re not a hostage anymore, nor is our economy, to capricious second and third-world interests.
Regional “allies” are building or extending pipelines to take away any future Hormuz bottleneck. No one trusts Iran. The current 60-day MOU, as well as final deal negotiating time, give them an opportunity to plan and build, hopefully without the threat of more Iranian drone strikes.
And several more Arab states appear ready to sign the Abraham Accords.
Trump just realigned the world, and he used “preventing Iran from holding us all hostage” as an excuse.
To borrow from Jeff Childres, one more time,
If anyone dares me to defend the terms of some Trump-Iran deal that corporate media and Team Candace call horrible, here is what I will do. Remember, I warned them. I will say that’s fine, please compare it to all the other Middle East peace deals that other presidents have negotiated.
Trump has changed the board so dramatically that Russia and China would be better off if they aligned with us as allies than as enemies. I’m not saying that will change their posture, but diplomacy has changed. Trump bypassed the UN, the EU, and his own State Department beginning with the Tariff dashboard. What used to take years happens in weeks or months. World leaders are dealing with Trump, Vance, and Rubio (and a few close allies in the Admin) instead of career bureaucrats at State.
We’re not sending pallets of cash to Iran as appeasement; we are controlling the terms by which Iran can regain access to revenue and resources that belong to Iran.
Plenty can go wrong and will, but while Barry or Biden were content to give a speech, Iran knows that retaliation could be immediate if it tries something. Be it a Maduro or a Midnight Hammer.
The IRCG is not gone nor going away, but America can’t do much about that. Iran’s “government” lies as a matter of religious requirement. You can’t trust them, and no one does, but you have to ask if mission objectives up to this point allow the US to take the points, manage the clock, and wait to see if anything has changed.
Regime change? The People of Iran have to do that. We might be able to help. The Arab states could help. Israel would love to help start an internal civil war to free the Persians from the Mullahs and the IRCG infection, but that’s a separate problem that the current deal isn’t meant to resolve.
Surgical or tactical strikes to remove senior assholes are always on the table, and the living will celebrate their deaths as martyrs to the cause. But keeping Iran from having disposable income to cause mischief will always be a reasonable goal now or in the future.
If Iran is no longer a proxy capable of financing other proxies, stability becomes the new norm. Trump has inked deals to help the Arab states shift toward nuclear and technology while they invest in America. It serves their own best interest to keep Iran in check, and Trump has made that possible.
Russia and China could have made this a lot messier, but someone convinced them to let it play out, possibly to their future economic advantage. As in, it could be better, or we could make it more difficult. However that went, Trump managed, somehow, to make letting the US bat Iran around like a cat toy a better deal than whatever previous arrangements existed.
Will it all work out? Will it happen? Always emotion, the future, and the fanatics are still on the board, though fewer in number. Speaking of fanatics, the progressives and globalists will unravel every bit of progress given the chance. It undermines them, their global socialist agenda, and they hate that, but a strong America free from Democrat power will go a long way toward securing real peace all over the place.
Trump wants trade, not wars, but he’s not afraid to go to war to create the groundwork for real and lasting peace.
There’s no reason to believe it is within view until we see it, but the past four months may have changed the Middle East and the World for the better.
It might take a few decades for anyone to truly accept that this was the point and not just some happy accident, but we don’t get there from here without this, whatever it is.
MOU
The Iran deal text reads as follows:
- The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and other provisions of this paragraph.
- The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
- The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran commit to negotiating and achieving the final deal in maximum 60 days extendable with mutual consent.
- Immediately upon the signing of this MOU, the United States of America will begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. During this period, the traffic of vessels will be in proportion to the numbers of pre-war traffic being restored by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America further undertakes to remove its forces from the proximity of the Islamic Republic of Iran within 30 days after the final deal.
- Upon the signing of this MOU, Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days only from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, and considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles and demining by the Islamic Republic of Iran will be instated within 30 days. The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialog with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf or littoral states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.
- United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD $300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The mechanism for the implementation of this plan will be finalized as part of a final deal within 60 days. All required licenses, waivers, and permissions needed for the relevant financial transactions will be granted by the United States of America.
- The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions, i.e. a Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral US sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed-upon schedule as part of the final deal. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America acknowledge the critical importance of the sanctions termination issue above mentioned, and expressed their intentions to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
- The Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpile enriched material pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven, with the minimum methodology to be down blending on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear needs, based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal. The final deal will confirm the provisions of this paragraph. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran acknowledge the critical importance of the nuclear issues above mentioned and express their intention to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
- Pending the final deal, the United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran agree to maintain the status quo. The Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region.
- The United States of America undertakes that immediately upon the signing of MOU until the termination of sanctions, US Department of Treasury will issue waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.
- The United States of America undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Upon the implementation of this MOU, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during the negotiations. Such funds, whether retained in the original account or transferred, shall be made fully usable for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designed by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America undertakes to issue all necessary licenses and authorizations accordingly.
- The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree that an executive mechanism will be established to monitor the successful implementation of this MOU and the future compliance of the final deal.
- After signing this MOU, and subject to the beginning of the implementation of paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11 of the MOU, and the continuing implementation of these measures, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will start negotiations regarding the final deal exclusively on the other paragraphs.
- The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UNSC resolution.
