The War Trump Can’t End

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Washington needs a deal, but Tehran needs an enemy.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 07:43 AM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

"The main principle of bargaining is practice: repetition, repetition, and repetition," [Iranian foreign minister Abbas] Araghchi [, Scion of an Isfahan rug merchant empire and author if. Book on negotiating,] wrote, "so much that the other side of the deal, as they say, gets numb' and gives its consent." Up until now, Tehran's negotiating style has not numbed Trump into consent but agitated him into conflict. Yet conflict, like negotiation, has not resolved the fundamental problem that has confounded every American president since 1979: The United States needs a deal, but the Islamic Republic needs the United States as an adversary. America seeks resolution. Iran is committed to revolution.

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Islamic Republic has never been willing to trade its revolutionary principles for prosperity [Sadjadpour argues]. As recently as May 26, Mojtaba Khamenei used the hajj"Islam's most universal gathering"as an occasion to warn that the "terrorist" U.S. military was no longer safe in the Middle East, and that the "cancerous tumor of Israel" would soon experience the "final days of their wretched existence." And the Trump administration appears to have little illusion about Iran's priorities. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during a recent state visit in India that "Iran would rather invest in the rapists and murderers of Hamas" than in its own people."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-05-30 07:46 AM | Reply

"US Secretary of State Marco Rubio bleated during a recent state visit in India that "Iran would rather invest in the rapists and murderers of Hamas" than in its own people."

Everybody surfing the global internet has seen Dummkopf Trumpf invest in "rapists and murderers" by pardoning the 6 Jan insurrectionists against the US government.

Most of the world does not see Hamas as "rapists and murderers" but as a resistance movement against Israeli genociding Palestinians and stealing their land, like 19th-century colonists in Africa or America's "Indian fighters."

Most of the world has recognized the State of Palestine.

Idiotic, childish comments like this are why nobody on the planet takes Empty Suit Marco Rubio seriously.

And Iran has achieved 95% of its universal healthcare initiative for all its citizens, soon to be 100% like Mexico will have in 2027.

WTF do we have here in the US?

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-30 08:18 AM | Reply

The war Trump's mental illness won't allow him to end.

The war Trump's mental illness caused him to start.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-30 08:20 AM | Reply

*** Is The US Back to the 'Forever Wars?' Vermont ARNG Deploying 500 Soldiers to Middle East ***

FTA:

"[The VTARNG Soldiers] are heading to USCENTCOM, a large military region that includes the Middle East. The mission, dubbed Spartan Shield, includes securing bases in that area. It was planned a year and a half ago, but now it coincides with the illegal US war against Iran being fought by US forces to benefit Israel.

Sources say the unlawful US war against the people of Iran is not part of the VTARNG mission, but since there are now boots on the ground in that region, it's possible these citizen-soldiers could be called on to support the unconstitutional and economically bankrupting war effort."

Link: www.wcax.com

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-05-30 08:37 AM | Reply

And Iran has achieved 95% of its universal healthcare initiative for all its citizens, soon to be 100% like Mexico will have in 2027.
WTF do we have here in the US?
#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS

NW as hell.

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-05-30 08:48 AM | Reply