**"On Sunday, Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff asserted in an interview on FOX News, conducted by Trump’s daughter Lara, that Iran is “probably a week away from having industrial-grade bombmaking material.” Witkoff did not offer any evidence for the claim and it flew in the face of years of U.S. national intelligence estimates."**
"Probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb making material" - sure, Stevie W.
And America is probably a week away from being made "great again"...
No war with Iran.
No regime change.
No interventions.
No black ops meddling.
No games of engineered social unrest.
I don't know what the malicious obsession is with Iran from the US. There are more productive ways to reconcile **legitimate** grievances than smashing things to pieces. That is of course, **if** such a desire exists in the first place. I think it's obvious that these "negotiations" are nothing more than a truly low-effort attempt by the US to legitimize yet one more illegitimate war in the middle east. They'll say Iran was unreasonable. I've seen this too many times.
When Witkoff makes a ridiculous statement about Iran being a week away from having bomb-making material, it shows that the US is not serious about the negotiations. Anyone who has been following the Iran nuclear saga knows that it's not true.
This is true. I'm just not comforted by the fact that here in America, those "following the Iran nuclear saga" are certainly a small, uninfluential group. Self included.
It is this administration's unmitigated greed for oil and Israel's bribing via AIPAC and blackmailing with their own Epstein files of US politicians that make war "necessary" and why Kushner is insistent Iran give up their missiles. I laughed when I read they won't capitulate "because they are Iran" and thought, "good for you." I wonder why our almost entire military is in the Gulf when our standing in the world is so weak and miserable. Anyone else feel like the US is vulnerable?
I hope this flexibility is not a form of capitulation. Iran needs to build the bomb and that is the only way they can protect themselves. Only this will stop the meddling and sabotage of Iranian nation.
"I hope this flexibility is not a form of capitulation."
Agreed.
"Iran needs to build the bomb and that is the only way they can protect themselves."
Am I the only one who admires Iran's principled reasons for not wanting a nuclear bomb? I only wish the rest of the world could see the wisdom of Iran's position: the solution to not beating each other with sticks lies not in having the biggest stick, but in collectively deciding not to pick up the sticks in the first place.
That hope was enshrined in the NPT treaty but the big powers have betrayed and destroyed that hope. This will leave weaker nations with no other choice to do what they need to do to protect themselves, else they are living in with false hope and a dream.
Israel, although not itself a "big" power, was a big part of that betrayal. Having obtained nuclear weapons surreptitiously, they refused to sign the NPT. Even today when they more or less openly admit to having nuclear weapons they still refuse to sign the NPT.
The refusal to sign the NPT is not part of the betrayal, the fact they get help from NPT signatory is the betrayal. This was one of the perks that was offered to encourage nations to join and those who had joined were supposed to receive help and cooperation and those who did not should have been shunned.
Iran must keep its ballistic missile program and not be left defenseless. The US should be ashamed of itself for showing its massive power against a smaller and weaker country. Here Lord Acton's dictum applies to trump: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Rev Dr Kenneth D Stephens
This reporting underscores the central contradiction driving this crisis: Iran is signaling flexibility within the framework of deterrence, while the U.S. is escalating militarily and rhetorically at the same time.
When Donald Trump says he’d “rather have a Deal” but pairs that with threats of devastation, that’s not diplomacy — that’s coercion. And when his envoy claims Iran is a week away from a bomb while also insisting last year’s bombing “obliterated” the program, the messaging collapses under its own contradictions.
What stands out here is not some cartoonish Iranian intransigence, but the basic reality that no sovereign state is going to voluntarily dismantle what it sees as its core deterrent — especially after being bombed by the U.S. and Benjamin Netanyahu. Demanding zero enrichment and scrapping ballistic missiles isn’t a negotiating position; it’s a surrender document.
The real issue is credibility. The U.S. withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action once already. Why would Tehran assume any new deal survives the next election cycle? As Robert Malley points out, reversibility cuts both ways.
If Washington’s genuine goal is preventing a nuclear weapon, there is a clear diplomatic path. If the goal is regime collapse under the guise of nonproliferation, then no amount of “unbelievable flexibility” will ever be enough — because the objective isn’t compliance, it’s capitulation.
The tragedy is that the region has already seen what maximalist demands backed by military buildups lead to. Another war wouldn’t be surgical or contained. It would be regional, economically catastrophic, and almost certainly self-defeating.
Diplomacy requires more than threats with a deadline attached. It requires acknowledging that deterrence, dignity, and survival calculations apply to adversaries too — not just to Washington.
I think the Israeli Zionist government will push to ensnare the US in a major war ASAP because, once Trump is gone, they rightfully suspect that the citizens of the USA are going to demand an end by the party of the Biden administration and the party of the Trump administration to set governance priorities back to taking care of the country and its citizens rather than letting Israel shadow-govern this country and destroy its citizens' Constitutional rights.
After the insanity of MAGA passes, the pipe dream of a "greater Israel" holding the citizens of USA captive as a colony of "the promised land" must pass too for the good of the citizens of both countries. Citizens of the US and Israel deserve much better than they have gotten from their narcissistic political machines.
There is no way that Israeli control of the USA will end any time soon.
Sure, there are a handful of Representatives (maybe half-a-dozen ... out of 435) who make noises about representing Americans rather than the Netanyahu regime. And in the Senate, there are maybe 3 or 4 (out of 100 Senators) who say the same. That's already locked-down control. We don't have numbers for the Administration but the actions of all Administrations, of both parties, for the past 30 years at least, have been solidly behind the Zionists.
I have same opinion (https://barrygander.substack.com/p/will-israel-and-america-invade-iran/comment/218907092), but I think what makes this time different has been the extreme overreach from Netanyahu and the billionaire stooges of Zionist Israel who now openly advocate for curtailing Americans First Amendment rights, the massive army of occupation (ICE) that has less to do with controlling immigration than the Biden administration receiving marching orders to use police and military force to silence protests from Netanyahu, and both parties carrying water to let Israel determine what can be taught in American Universities, who can teach in them and who can administer them.
Finally, thanks to a few news outlets like Young Turks and investigative reports like Drop Site News, the shadow-governing of American citizens and the ties of Epstein of the Israel government are becoming known in spite of long years by stooge news like the NYT to successfully bury the information.
I think we have ICE and its network of concentration camps primarily because Netanyahu wanted it installed to use violence against political dissenters. The citizens are increasingly pissed as they begin to learn what is being done to them at the behest of a foreign government that looks more and more like a resurrected Nazi Third Reich in its invading bordering nations, occupying their lands, and promoting ethnic hatred, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and extreme surveillance seeking to ferret out dissent and opposition.
Only the fake religious facade justifying it has changed between the Reichs: from Lutheran-Catholic-Evangelical to Judaism. People aren't Nazis because they are Lutherans, Caholics or Jews. They are Nazis because Naziism attracts those who lack capacity for empathy and enjoy using their power to exercise cruelty. They get off on it.
From FDR up to Ronald Reagan, the main focus really was on governance and investing in the nation. And what/who in the hell constitute "inhabitants of the US’s genocidal zionist(sic) proxy?"
The statements from Witkoff are the same b.s. we have had to deal with about Iran for 50+ years. The one consistency from this administration is that it confuses transparency with accountability or evidence to justify its actions. The notion that Iranians will welcome American troops flies in the face of historical facts and U.S. involvement to deny self-determination in Iran. Around the world, all a country has to do is nationalize their resources to the benefit of its citizens. That is how this kicked off with U.S. via Kermit Roosevelt-CIA toppled their first democratically elected government and President. Iranians recognize that U.S. talk of freedom is empty. The constant false fear-mongering never ends. Iranians realize that U.S. intervention will only replace the current oppression with a puppet government that betrays the Iranian people for the benefit of other nations.
**"On Sunday, Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff asserted in an interview on FOX News, conducted by Trump’s daughter Lara, that Iran is “probably a week away from having industrial-grade bombmaking material.” Witkoff did not offer any evidence for the claim and it flew in the face of years of U.S. national intelligence estimates."**
"Probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb making material" - sure, Stevie W.
And America is probably a week away from being made "great again"...
No war with Iran.
No regime change.
No interventions.
No black ops meddling.
No games of engineered social unrest.
I don't know what the malicious obsession is with Iran from the US. There are more productive ways to reconcile **legitimate** grievances than smashing things to pieces. That is of course, **if** such a desire exists in the first place. I think it's obvious that these "negotiations" are nothing more than a truly low-effort attempt by the US to legitimize yet one more illegitimate war in the middle east. They'll say Iran was unreasonable. I've seen this too many times.
When Witkoff makes a ridiculous statement about Iran being a week away from having bomb-making material, it shows that the US is not serious about the negotiations. Anyone who has been following the Iran nuclear saga knows that it's not true.
This is true. I'm just not comforted by the fact that here in America, those "following the Iran nuclear saga" are certainly a small, uninfluential group. Self included.
I agree!
It is this administration's unmitigated greed for oil and Israel's bribing via AIPAC and blackmailing with their own Epstein files of US politicians that make war "necessary" and why Kushner is insistent Iran give up their missiles. I laughed when I read they won't capitulate "because they are Iran" and thought, "good for you." I wonder why our almost entire military is in the Gulf when our standing in the world is so weak and miserable. Anyone else feel like the US is vulnerable?
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are both zionist Jews.. Thats how Israel operates using the US for its own advantage.
He will also announce the details of the healthcare plan in …. wait for it … Two weeks!
I hope this flexibility is not a form of capitulation. Iran needs to build the bomb and that is the only way they can protect themselves. Only this will stop the meddling and sabotage of Iranian nation.
"I hope this flexibility is not a form of capitulation."
Agreed.
"Iran needs to build the bomb and that is the only way they can protect themselves."
Am I the only one who admires Iran's principled reasons for not wanting a nuclear bomb? I only wish the rest of the world could see the wisdom of Iran's position: the solution to not beating each other with sticks lies not in having the biggest stick, but in collectively deciding not to pick up the sticks in the first place.
That hope was enshrined in the NPT treaty but the big powers have betrayed and destroyed that hope. This will leave weaker nations with no other choice to do what they need to do to protect themselves, else they are living in with false hope and a dream.
Israel, although not itself a "big" power, was a big part of that betrayal. Having obtained nuclear weapons surreptitiously, they refused to sign the NPT. Even today when they more or less openly admit to having nuclear weapons they still refuse to sign the NPT.
The refusal to sign the NPT is not part of the betrayal, the fact they get help from NPT signatory is the betrayal. This was one of the perks that was offered to encourage nations to join and those who had joined were supposed to receive help and cooperation and those who did not should have been shunned.
Fair point.
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It’s Iraq all over again. With Israel in the foreground dictating US foreign policy and creating turbulence and death on all its neighbours.
I don’t think the USA is interested in peace. My guess is that the USA will attack Iran during or after the State of the Union speech.
Timing seems to be rather peculiar… I thought the same thing
Iran must keep its ballistic missile program and not be left defenseless. The US should be ashamed of itself for showing its massive power against a smaller and weaker country. Here Lord Acton's dictum applies to trump: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Rev Dr Kenneth D Stephens
The problem is the US is under the Zionist Israeli thumb.
This reporting underscores the central contradiction driving this crisis: Iran is signaling flexibility within the framework of deterrence, while the U.S. is escalating militarily and rhetorically at the same time.
When Donald Trump says he’d “rather have a Deal” but pairs that with threats of devastation, that’s not diplomacy — that’s coercion. And when his envoy claims Iran is a week away from a bomb while also insisting last year’s bombing “obliterated” the program, the messaging collapses under its own contradictions.
What stands out here is not some cartoonish Iranian intransigence, but the basic reality that no sovereign state is going to voluntarily dismantle what it sees as its core deterrent — especially after being bombed by the U.S. and Benjamin Netanyahu. Demanding zero enrichment and scrapping ballistic missiles isn’t a negotiating position; it’s a surrender document.
The real issue is credibility. The U.S. withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action once already. Why would Tehran assume any new deal survives the next election cycle? As Robert Malley points out, reversibility cuts both ways.
If Washington’s genuine goal is preventing a nuclear weapon, there is a clear diplomatic path. If the goal is regime collapse under the guise of nonproliferation, then no amount of “unbelievable flexibility” will ever be enough — because the objective isn’t compliance, it’s capitulation.
The tragedy is that the region has already seen what maximalist demands backed by military buildups lead to. Another war wouldn’t be surgical or contained. It would be regional, economically catastrophic, and almost certainly self-defeating.
Diplomacy requires more than threats with a deadline attached. It requires acknowledging that deterrence, dignity, and survival calculations apply to adversaries too — not just to Washington.
I think the Israeli Zionist government will push to ensnare the US in a major war ASAP because, once Trump is gone, they rightfully suspect that the citizens of the USA are going to demand an end by the party of the Biden administration and the party of the Trump administration to set governance priorities back to taking care of the country and its citizens rather than letting Israel shadow-govern this country and destroy its citizens' Constitutional rights.
After the insanity of MAGA passes, the pipe dream of a "greater Israel" holding the citizens of USA captive as a colony of "the promised land" must pass too for the good of the citizens of both countries. Citizens of the US and Israel deserve much better than they have gotten from their narcissistic political machines.
There is no way that Israeli control of the USA will end any time soon.
Sure, there are a handful of Representatives (maybe half-a-dozen ... out of 435) who make noises about representing Americans rather than the Netanyahu regime. And in the Senate, there are maybe 3 or 4 (out of 100 Senators) who say the same. That's already locked-down control. We don't have numbers for the Administration but the actions of all Administrations, of both parties, for the past 30 years at least, have been solidly behind the Zionists.
I have same opinion (https://barrygander.substack.com/p/will-israel-and-america-invade-iran/comment/218907092), but I think what makes this time different has been the extreme overreach from Netanyahu and the billionaire stooges of Zionist Israel who now openly advocate for curtailing Americans First Amendment rights, the massive army of occupation (ICE) that has less to do with controlling immigration than the Biden administration receiving marching orders to use police and military force to silence protests from Netanyahu, and both parties carrying water to let Israel determine what can be taught in American Universities, who can teach in them and who can administer them.
Finally, thanks to a few news outlets like Young Turks and investigative reports like Drop Site News, the shadow-governing of American citizens and the ties of Epstein of the Israel government are becoming known in spite of long years by stooge news like the NYT to successfully bury the information.
I think we have ICE and its network of concentration camps primarily because Netanyahu wanted it installed to use violence against political dissenters. The citizens are increasingly pissed as they begin to learn what is being done to them at the behest of a foreign government that looks more and more like a resurrected Nazi Third Reich in its invading bordering nations, occupying their lands, and promoting ethnic hatred, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and extreme surveillance seeking to ferret out dissent and opposition.
Only the fake religious facade justifying it has changed between the Reichs: from Lutheran-Catholic-Evangelical to Judaism. People aren't Nazis because they are Lutherans, Caholics or Jews. They are Nazis because Naziism attracts those who lack capacity for empathy and enjoy using their power to exercise cruelty. They get off on it.
Since when have regimes in the US , made the “taking care of the country and its citizens,” a priority?
The MIC and the US deployment budget, have been the priorities of all previous US regimes.
The inhabitants of the US’s genocidal zionist proxy, will hopefully get what they deserve and that's accountability!
From FDR up to Ronald Reagan, the main focus really was on governance and investing in the nation. And what/who in the hell constitute "inhabitants of the US’s genocidal zionist(sic) proxy?"
Oops, did I prick a nerve?
Not until I can understand your personal coined jargon.But I am interested in how a proxy can have inhabitants.
Thank you for illuminating these murky currents
The statements from Witkoff are the same b.s. we have had to deal with about Iran for 50+ years. The one consistency from this administration is that it confuses transparency with accountability or evidence to justify its actions. The notion that Iranians will welcome American troops flies in the face of historical facts and U.S. involvement to deny self-determination in Iran. Around the world, all a country has to do is nationalize their resources to the benefit of its citizens. That is how this kicked off with U.S. via Kermit Roosevelt-CIA toppled their first democratically elected government and President. Iranians recognize that U.S. talk of freedom is empty. The constant false fear-mongering never ends. Iranians realize that U.S. intervention will only replace the current oppression with a puppet government that betrays the Iranian people for the benefit of other nations.
You may not know this American and Europeans…………..Iran is a Democracy!