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The "Iran Deal" Lie: The Mullahs Can't Be Trusted

(New York Post) Melanie Phillips - President Trump said he would much prefer a negotiated agreement with Iran over military action. But the regime is run by Shia religious fanatics. As the regime repeatedly tells us, it intends to destroy first Israel and then America and the West. There can be no meaningful negotiation with a regime that has such a non-negotiable and apocalyptic agenda. The Iranians are skillful and manipulative negotiators. They play multi-dimensional chess in which they identify the weaknesses of their opponents and then mercilessly play on them. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said the conflict over Tehran's nuclear program had "a real possibility of being solved diplomatically....I think anything can be solved with dialogue by clearing up misconception and miscommunication and disconnects between people." But this isn't an argument involving muddled messages. This is a crisis in which the world's most aggressive terrorist state and declared enemy of Israel and the West is poised to arm itself with nuclear weapons. Witkoff appears to be placing all his faith in "verification" that Iran would keep its side of the bargain. But the regime ran rings around the inspection program under the 2015 deal. Those who hold that all conflict can be ended by negotiation, compromise and peace processes arrogantly assume that everyone in the world is, like them, governed by reason and self-interest. They fail to understand the mindset of Islamist religious fanatics who believe they have a sacred duty to kill "unbelievers" in the name of God. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.
2025-04-27 00:00:00
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