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Some Real Talk About the Iran Deal

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Posted By: sagman, 6/22/2026 9:31:46 AM

It’s time to take a hard look at the memorandum of understanding (MOU) and to think about it objectively. On one hand, it is not the utter catastrophe that a lot of people – people who largely agree with my position that we should be actively destroying these goat-molesting, pagan semi-humans – think it is. On the other hand, it’s a crap sandwich, and there’s no need to take a bite and announce that it’s “Yummy.” It is not yummy, but it might be the best we can hope for today.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bpl40 6/22/2026 10:03:00 AM (No. 2119515)
The Iranian Nuclear program is blown to bits. And will stay in bits forever. So Trump can and will extend the '60 day' negotiation well up to and beyond the November election. In the meantime the farce of the 'Summit' in Lucerne will continue. The critical issue is to fire up the economy and have it chugging come November. Remember, every argument against the MoU and the negotiations is exactly trying to derail that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 6/22/2026 10:57:04 AM (No. 2119523)
Yep, this is right, and coming from someone who hates the Muslims as much as I do.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Quigley 6/22/2026 11:03:47 AM (No. 2119529)
I particularly enjoyed the final paragraph. It is possible that regime change is already preordained at this point, but will take time to unfold. I would imagine that the other Gulf States would prefer the Mullahs to decamp to seventh hell as their permanent forwarding address. No one is standing still, but the Mullets are crawling. Something tells me that they will have big problems crawling out of the woodwork every day which will eventually swamp them. They are under siege and they are not going to re-achieve their life before February 2026.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird 6/22/2026 11:26:03 AM (No. 2119535)
I agree 100% with OP.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Vaquero45 6/22/2026 12:40:16 PM (No. 2119564)
Exactamundo. Everything in this assessment is a cold, hard fact. If the Iranians want the mullahs and their henchmen gone, that’s going to be THEIR job. In the meantime, we should bide our time until November and string them along - and after the elections, turn Iran into rubble. Once they're bombed back into the 19th century, we can start smuggling weapons to a few of the more serious people in that country, so they can start taking it back. It will take at least a decade to rid that place of Muslim thought and doctrine, along with the lives of several million Iranians, but that’s THEIR problem.
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