Iran just handed Trump ... foreign policy humiliation

Sunday, June 07, 2026

The conflict was supposed to force Iran to compromise. Instead, Tehran is negotiating from a position of surprising strength.

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For nearly two months, the Trump administration has insisted that Iran is on the verge of collapsing. The story coming out of the White House has remained remarkably consistent. Tehran supposedly wants a deal. Iranian leaders are allegedly making concessions. Diplomacy is progressing. A breakthrough is just around the corner.

And yet every time administration officials make those claims, Iranian officials respond with the diplomatic equivalent of a public eye roll.

#1 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-07 08:57 PM | Reply

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This cycle has repeated itself over and over again " the administration signals progress, Iran publicly rejects the characterization, Trump threatens additional military action, then the process starts all over again a few days later.

The pattern matters raises a question that has become increasingly difficult to ignore: If Iran is losing, why is it acting like its the one who gets to dictate the course of the conflict?

"But the problem is Democrats, the Democratic National Committee, and Democratic elected officials and candidates everywhere" - Posted by the clown

But not Trump & MAGA and the GOP. Also posted by the clown.

Amirite?

#2 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-07 09:04 PM | Reply

MAGA thrives on humiliation.

These people wore Maxi Pads on their ears like The Pope had decreed it was Maxi Pad Wednesday.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-07 09:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#3 Second verse, same as the first, Snoofy ...

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#4 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-06-07 09:16 PM | Reply

"For nearly two months, the Trump administration has insisted that Iran is on the verge of collapsing."

They're simply hoping Iran collapses before the United States does.

I don't really see that happening. The Iranian people used to hate the Ayatollahs, and still do. But in the past few months, all the lies the Ayatollahs told about the Untied States and Israel have come true, because of Trump and Netanyahu.

If one were to imagine The West is playing a long game, including the 1953 Iranian coup and installation of a Western Puppet Government, well, that would be the kind of thing that lends ironclad credence to the ideas being the Islamic Revolution.

Trump and Netanyahu are strengthening not just the Ayatollahs, but strongmen all over the world.
And this, is of course, their goal.
I wonder if history will call it Neo-Colonialism.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-07 09:22 PM | Reply

The Ayatollahs Never Lied about American or Israeli Intentions.

Assassinating most of the Leadership in a Sucker Punch attack was All Too IN Character.

#6 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-06-07 10:40 PM | Reply

I'm curious how the completely destroyed/decimated/obliterated Iran managed to shoot all those missiles at Israel today?

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-06-07 11:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Quit going after the leadership. Go after their families. After some have no heirs left to continue the bloodline, the others might reconsider their positions. We have to use the same Islamic tactics as the enemy. Kidnap and hold them hostage if possible. If you want to go really Islamic, take one of the hostages and behead them on video.

#8 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-06-07 11:39 PM | Reply

If you want to go really Islamic, take one of the hostages and behead them on video.
#8 | Posted by rf4b

Do you really think going after families makes the world a better place?
Or are you just ------------?

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-08 02:08 AM | Reply

He's Whackin' Off.

Big Time.

#10 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-06-08 06:56 AM | Reply

MAGA thrives on humiliation.
These people wore Maxi Pads on their ears like The Pope had decreed it was Maxi Pad Wednesday.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-07 09:11 PM | Reply

Don't forget when they were strutting around with gold "Trump" diapers on over their pants.

#11 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-06-08 09:29 AM | Reply

#8 | Posted by rf4b

Proposing war crimes to cover the abject failure this debacle is. Nice.

#12 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-08 10:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

If you want to go really Islamic, take one of the hostages and behead them on video.

#8 | POSTED BY RF4B

If you really want to go "Islamic" (and it sounds like you want to be more like them) you should just go join them.

Unless you are a coward, of course, and you don't really mean what you say.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-08 11:59 AM | Reply

Proposing war crimes to cover the abject failure this debacle is.

RF4B sounds like a frustrated Carter-era navvy guy that probably wanted to nuke Tehran in the '80s.

#14 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-06-08 12:27 PM | Reply

#14

Close. United States Marine Corps, 3rd MAW, MAG-11, VMFP-3. No nukes, just wanted to nip the Islamofascist dictatorship in the bud.

#15 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-06-08 06:59 PM | Reply

nukes, just wanted to nip the Islamofascist dictatorship in the bud.
#15 | Posted by rf4b

You voted for the guy who sold arms to the Ayatollah, right?

You voted for the guy who Cut N Run after the Marine Barracks bombing in Lebanon, right?

Bless your heart!

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-08 07:42 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

"40,000 pro-Israel online operatives target Americans 24 hours a day, seven days a week with PSYOP."

#17 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-08 07:54 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#16

Wrong and wrong, as usual.

#18 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-06-08 08:58 PM | Reply

"We're negotiating now, and they want to make a very good deal. They're willing to give us everything, they're willing to give us no nuclear weapon"

"I think we are winning that battle, but you're really going to win it over the next two weeks when we declare total victory, it'll be a total victory, it'll happen very soon, and oil prices will come tumbling down,"

~Lewzer (again)

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-06-08 09:16 PM | Reply

When asked if Netanyahu defied him by firing at Iran on Sunday, Trump said the missiles were "already on their way" when he spoke with the Israeli prime minister. He added, "if I tell him to do something, he does it."

LOL.

#20 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-06-08 09:38 PM | Reply

Wrong and wrong, as usual.
#18 | Posted by rf4b

You didn't vote for The Gipper?
Is it... is it because your short brown ass wasn't a citizen yet?

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-08 10:41 PM | Reply

#21

Your abject stupidity never fails to amaze me.

#22 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-06-08 11:59 PM | Reply

I'll put my ASVAB score against yours, if that would help.

Anything that could bring joy to your life would be a blessing.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-09 12:10 AM | Reply

Iran is negotiating from strength due to it's geographic location and the world's dependency on goods shipped through Hormuz.

Every president before stinky listened to the experts who said, you can't win because they will shut down the straight and wreak havoc on the world.

But he is a sociopathic narcissist who thinks he knows better than everyone else with a penchant for being a bumbling dolt and ------- up everything he touches stayed true to form and ------ everything up.

He is a dullard who thinks he is a genius and the world is paying the price for his staggering never ending stupidity.

#24 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-06-09 10:01 AM | Reply

Trump has Operation Barbarossa Syndrome (OBS). Happens to every psychopathic dictator (or wannabe).

#25 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-06-09 10:51 AM | Reply

"I'll put my ASVAB score against yours, if that would help"

In 1977 my Dad was part of a working group that analyzed and reinterpreted ASVAB scores. I think he mentioned that the test was found to overvalue the mental acuity of some (the idiots) and underestimate the acuity of others (the gifted), and so he was charged to help fix it. R5D4's probably one of the former who got in before the corrections were made.

#26 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-06-09 11:10 AM | Reply

"R5D4"

I got that reference!
That little dude deserves his or her own spinoff.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-09 11:22 AM | Reply

I remembering scoring decently on the ASVAB when I enlisted last century in the "all volunteer army."

The top scorers had more MOS available to them, like aviation mechanic, parachute rigger, or military intelligence analyst, but not cooks from what I remember.

And military cooks should be in the top tier when you think about it.

#28 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-09 11:26 AM | Reply

And military cooks should be in the top tier when you think about it.

Does the military even cook their own food any more?

I do not believe it does. They are entirely reliant on commercial suppliers and private contractors to procure, package, and even serve meals.

The military used to be entirely self sufficient. We did not need no stinking contractors. We peeled our own potatoes and washed our own pans. Not any more. But that's dating me.

Semper Fi.

#29 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-09 12:00 PM | Reply

"The military used to be entirely self sufficient""

It started outsourcing mess hall ops around the same time the US government started outsourcing its foreign policy.

#30 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-06-09 12:27 PM | Reply