Iran Just Beat Trump; Nothing Netanyahu Can Do About It

Trump wanted Iran’s surrender; instead he’s being handed the exit bill while Netanyahu screams about the terms. Right, so Donald Trump is now trying to sell a peace memorandum with Iran as if he has forced Tehran into a climb down, and the reported terms are already making his victory speech, his little lap of honour with a Big Mac waiting for him at the finish line look utterly ridiculous. He says the agreement is largely negotiated, he says the Strait of Hormuz will be opened, and he wants the applause that comes with ending a war he basically started. But the Iranian side is saying the first stage is not a nuclear surrender, not a handover of enriched uranium, not a return of Hormuz to the old rules, and not a free pass for Israel to keep bombing Lebanon while Washington pretends the region has been settled. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is reportedly worried about the same draft because the nuclear file is being pushed back and Lebanon is being pulled in. Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator who has spent years functioning as one of Washington’s most eager errand boys for Israeli escalation, is warning that any deal which treats Iran as a force that has to be negotiated with becomes a nightmare for Israel. But Trump’s view of this? Well he was happy to say it on camera Yes, Trump has gone and said Netanyahu will do whatever he tells him to do, which is quite a line from a man who has spent this war discovering that Iran is not doing whatever he wants it to do and the very reason he started war on Iran to begin with is because Israel finally found a US President, after 40 years of trying, stupid enough to do as they told him.