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Sunday, February 22, 2026

US President Donald Trump is questioning why Iran has not yet "capitulated" in the face of Washington's military build-up in the Middle East, the US president's special envoy Steve Witkoff has said. Witkoff told Fox News on Saturday that Trump was "curious" about Iran's position after he had warned of a limited military strike if a deal was not reached on Tehran's nuclear programme.

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In his interview with Fox News, Witkoff said: "I don't want to use the word 'frustrated'... because he [Trump] understands he's got plenty of alternatives, but he's curious as to why they haven't... I don't want to use the word 'capitulated', but why they haven't capitulated." "Why, under this sort of pressure, with the amount of sea power and naval power that we have over there, why haven't they come to us and said, 'We profess that we don't want a weapon, so here's what we're prepared to do?'"

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PEDO DONNIE is insane

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-23 01:14 AM | Reply

Sea power AND naval power? Oh my!

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-23 01:14 AM | Reply

What would Alphonse Capone do?

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-23 01:15 AM | Reply

What would Alphonse Capone do?

Get busted for tax fraud?

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-02-23 01:17 AM | Reply

The nutjobs running Iran are true hardliners. They are prepared to die for their terrible beliefs

#5 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-23 05:42 AM | Reply

Trump was "curious" about Iran's position after he had warned of a limited military strike if a deal was not reached on Tehran's nuclear programme.

Posted by REDIAL

Iran just butchered 25, 000 of its own citizens.

It will sit out "limited strikes".

Donald Trump will have to go big, with a full-fledged war, or he will have to go home.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-23 08:15 AM | Reply

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