From Newsgroup: alt.politics.usa

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/trump-iran-war-israel-may-21

No deal had been reached with the U.S. as of Thursday, a
senior Iranian source told Reuters, while also claiming
gaps had narrowed.

Iran has been reviewing the latest peace proposal from President
Donald Trump as he warned that further military action remains
on the table.

The outlet also reported IranrCOs uranium enrichment and TehranrCOs
control over the Strait of Hormuz continued to be among the
sticking points.

This came as a member of IranrCOs ParliamentrCOs National Security
and Foreign Policy Committee told state TV that Tehran could
act first to break the ceasefire if it believed a U.S. base
was preparing an attack.

Fadahossein Maleki, a member of IranrCOs ParliamentrCOs National
Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told state TV, rCLAnything
is possible.rCY

. . .

Iran keeps escalating threats too - acts like it has
a bunch of nukes already.

MIGHT have a few ... betcha they had all the PARTS
ready, just hadn't assembled them.

In any case, all the 'negotiations' have gone to shit.
Iran's fanatics won't budge - indeed every "deal" is
worse than the previous.

SO ... within a few days ... Trump IS gonna bring down
the hammer again - seriously. If the mil can't be
entirely defeated then the whole country has to be
totally bankrupted.

Trump likes to act over week-ends, so the financial
markets have a few days to absorb the news.

Clearly Trump is NOT entirely going along with what
Xi suggested/demanded. He IS gonna bomb Iran into
the 4th world, he IS gonna keep arming Taiwan. He will
NOT give in to threat, even 'political consequence'.

The Dems will scream "WAR-MONGER" - but Trump HAS given
very ample, some say TOO ample, time for "diplomacy"
in Iran. He hasn't been in a hurry to destroy the
country, pretty civil actually.

As for the uranium ... THAT'S an almost impossible
issue. Thousands of troops would have to clear a
25km radius around the sites to deal with artillery
and shorter-range missiles. Then it'd be MONTHS of
serious digging. The fanatics WOULD be attacking
every single day even if it kills them and massive
numbers of civvies.

Alt ... bring back the B-2s and double/triple bomb
the main uranium sites - bring down much more of
the mountain on top of them. That'd keep it all
bottled up for a good decade for sure.

Anyway, this is dragging on TOO long now. It's
breaking Europe (KIND of their own fault for
being wimps and 'protection'-payers). Not good
for most everybody. If Iran won't give, then it
has to be kinda RUINED for a long time.

The US is ready. Israel is ready. The EU/UK are
just kind of pissing their pants. If there's a
good future for The West then it will be the
USA and, unexpectedly, Israel, that provide it.

Oh, ONE advantage in 'delay' - every time Iran thinks
there was going to be an attack they move people and
stuff around. Our satellites and spies TAKE NOTE.
AI analyzes. We now know more about what's where.

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