This is the danger with Trump.
Trump would strike a deal the moment one becomes reachable. If he can be convinced that the Islamic regime will never acquire a nuclear weapon, he would lift every sanction, end all pressure, and sign an agreement. For him—and for much of the outside world—the atomic bomb is the only real concern. Once that threat is neutralized, Iran’s internal horrors become someone else’s problem.
He brandished the threat of overwhelming force—“if one Iranian gets shot, the missiles are ready and locked” as leverage to force the mullahs to give up on their nuclear ambitions. When that failed — and only after 45,000 people were already shot and several sessions of negotiations with the regime officials—he struck. After assassinating the hardliner leader, eliminating senior regime officials, and devastating Islamic regime’s military infrastructure, he quickly engineered a ceasefire. The shooting stopped, but the pressure did not, the objective being to surrender the regime without more military operations.
At this moment, the regime continues to execute Iranians—at least one young man per day and these executions are the ones proudly publicized by the regime. Many more are going on, but the news is suppressed by the regime. Yet Trump presents this outcome as a form of “REGIME CHANGE”.
In reality, he does not care whether Iran remains under the iron rule of the Islamic Republic, so long as the mullahs lack nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching the West. The only optimistic note in this grim picture is that the regime itself appears unwilling to abandon its nuclear ambitions. That stubborn obsession may be the last barrier preventing a grand bargain that would leave the Iranian people permanently subjugated.
