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Friday’s talks between US and Iranian diplomats in Oman wrapped up with no agreement on anything, and none even remotely in sight, but the usual media bobbleheads are applauding because Tehran’s reps expressed willingness to continue with what they call “a good start.”
Bull: The regime will never truly agree to abandon its nuclear weapons program, end its support of global terror or stop murdering its own people when they march for change.
Of course the Iranians want to keep these meaningless talks going; figuring that as long as they’re “negotiating” US forces won’t be bombing their nuclear facilities, exfiltrating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a predawn raid or imposing treble sanctions on their oil exports.
This is their eternal strategy: Drag their feet, hem and haw and never agree to anything substantial.
It worked so well in the Obama years that Washington sent them pallets of cash to win nominal promises to delay (part of) their nuke program.
Diplomacy is grand if done in good faith.
But we know that Iran isn’t willing to concede anything important.
This government just slaughtered as many as 36,000 of its own citizens in a few days because they were protesting for basic rights; it’s not going to bow to American demands on any front that threatens its rule.
Washington needs to push Tehran harder, ideally ’til the regime breaks.
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Yes, the “how” is tricky: Having our armada offshore is great, but empty threats won’t do much.
Can our intel folks identify targets to bomb to weaken the mullahs’ rule?
Talking with Tehran’s professional prevaricators does nothing except perhaps reassure other rulers who fear chaos (or an outbreak of freedom) in Iran, or buy the regime’s bluffs about launching a wider war.
We hope Team Trump has other plans in motion: The Iranian people, having paid with the blood of their children, deserve an end to their half-century of suffering under the heel of the so-called Islamic Republic.