Warning To Trump: This Is Why Negotiating With Iran Is A Fool's Errand

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Negotiating with Iran is a fool's errand. The malignant regime has never kept promises and is not about to start.

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[00:00:20]President Trump should cease trying to strike a deal with the Iranian terrorist mullahs. It weakens US credibility. More critically, it is leading to a major US strategic defeat. The evil regime has survived significant attacks from the US and Israel. This gives it a perverse prestige and it means it can continue its malign agenda in the Middle East and elsewhere. Moreover, it will have won a significant prize, de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz.

[00:00:51]If there'd been no ceasefire, the war would have been over by now. The Iranian threats to hit critical water desalination plants in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere would have been neutralized.

[00:01:03]Now, Iran has more missiles and drones with which to attack its neighbors.

[00:01:09]Will the way we have behaved in this war give Xi Jinping second thoughts about pursuing his goal to have China become the world's dominant power? Not to mention making moves to undermine or even attack Taiwan? Will South Korea, Japan, and Europe feel reassured the steadfastness of purpose that we exhibited during the Cold War is still with us? To ask such questions is to answer them. The US and Israel should immediately resume the military operations that were prematurely interrupted by that ceasefire. Iran has used the respite to strengthen itself militarily and politically.

[00:01:50]In addition to hitting the targets that remain on the original list, we should take out the oil facilities of Kharg Island.

[00:01:57]That would shut off Iran's biggest source of revenue.

[00:02:01]Combined with destroying the overland routes Iran has been utilizing to get supplies and ship oil, such an operation would choke off the regime's ability to sustain itself entirely.

[00:02:14]The reason anti-regime elements in the Iranian military, not to mention a citizenry that overwhelmingly despises their tyrants, don't take direct action is the fear that the US will once again pull the rug out from under them and cut a deal that allows this government to stay in power and rebuild itself.

[00:02:35]Opponents know this would mean more massive massacres and arrests.

[00:02:40]But relentlessly hitting Iran, including the personnel and assets of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which keeps the regime in power now runs it, would enable opponents to overthrow it. But the thugs running Iran think they have the US on the run.

[00:02:57]Right now, we're not even discussing the permanent dismantling of their missile and drone manufacturing capabilities or ceasing their support for their proxies, mainly Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, not to mention scores of terrorist cells and local militias.

[00:03:13]The mullahs feel that any enforcement procedures on enriched uranium, not to mention other bad activities, can eventually be circumvented. History's on their side with that belief. The victors of World War I thought the provisions in the Treaty of Versailles would make Germany permanently weak militarily.

[00:03:34]A little more than a generation later, Germany came close to destroying Western civilization.

[00:03:40]With oil revenue and assistance from China and deal-seeking governments and businesses, Iran's recovery will be far swifter.

[00:03:49]Having virtual control of the Strait Hormuz, getting gradual access to frozen funds, and escaping any immediate agreement on missiles and proxies all give the criminals running Iran the feeling they're emerging stronger strategically.

[00:04:05]Any deal with the government that never adheres to inconvenient agreements won't be worth the paper it's written on. I'm Steve Forbes. Thanks for listening. Do send in your comments and suggestions and look forward to being with you soon again.

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