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Is Trump negotiating the U.S. into war with Iran?

May 26, 2025 AIMN Editorial, By Walt Zlotow , https://theaimn.net/is-trump-negotiating-the-u-s-into-war-with-iran/

Trump administration negotiations with Iran over their imaginary nuclear weapons program are disjointed beyond imagination. Trump swings back and forth between threatening massive bombing if no deal is reached, to claiming a deal can easily be reached. He hints Iran might be able to continue nuclear enrichment for peaceful purposes, then demands zero enrichment because their massive oil resources make enrichment unnecessary and unacceptable.

Iranian diplomats seeking end to US sanctions and recognition Iran is not building nuclear weapons are discombobulated by Trump’s unhinged negotiating style. They are stuck in negotiations with the guy who blew up Obama’s top foreign policy achievement, the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement which had potential to end America’s delusional obsession with Iran’s nonexistent nuclear weapons program.

Iran has good reason to distrust Trump’s negotiating tactics. His team negotiated Hamas’ release of an American Israeli hostage in return for resumption of food, water, medicine aid. Upon release Trump reneged on that promise to keep the genocidal ethnic cleansing on track to speed up his planed Gaza mega real estate project.

Complicating the negotiations is Israel’s decades’ long lust to destroy the Iranian regime and render Iran powerless to oppose Israeli hegemony in the region. Rumours are flying that Israel is prepared to attack Iran if a deal comes close to allowing any Iranian uranium enrichment whatever.

Regarding Iran, Trump has rewritten the rulebook on delicate foreign policy negotiations.

1. Start by publicly threatening annihilation
2. Claim success is at hand
3. Promise nothing in return for everything
4. Have negotiators offer contradictory views and statements on the negotiations
5. Display duplicity in negotiating promises
6. Allow a small country committing genocide to dictate negotiating terms
7. Blame inevitable failure on one’s predecessors or the other side

Is Trump negotiating the U.S. into war with Iran? It’s beginning to look like it.

May 26, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, USA