{"id":1654,"date":"2026-06-09T23:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:10:13","slug":"trumps-advisers-are-letting-tehran-play-him-for-a-sucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s advisers are letting Tehran play him for a sucker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack,\u201d President Donald Trump announced Tuesday of Iran\u2019s shootdown of a US Apache attack chopper over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

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Central Command soon launched \u201cproportional strikes,\u201d which don\u2019t sound like enough: The prez needs to show he\u2019s serious, or Tehran\u00a0will keep trying to play him for a sucker\u00a0as it has every president going back to Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n

Consider: Trump\u00a0told the press\u00a0just hours before that attack, \u201cWe\u2019re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

A country that\u2019s \u201cvery close\u201d to sealing a deal in good faith doesn\u2019t escalate against its negotiating partner.<\/p>\n

This leaves us wondering which presidential advisers are leading him down this garden path to\u00a0likely\u00a0humiliation.<\/p>\n

By one count, he\u2019s said \u201cnearly there\u201d\u00a038 times\u00a0<\/em>since he announced\u00a0that \u201calmost all\u201d of the points of contention \u201chave been agreed to\u201d and that a \u201ctwo-week period\u201d should allow the deal to be \u201cconsummated.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019re now 10 weeks into that \u201ctwo-week period,\u201d and everything\u2019s going\u00a0backward.<\/em><\/p>\n

Back then, those final issues were: 1) setting verifiable procedures for the end of Iran\u2019s nuke program, and 2) securing permanent free passage through the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 with any benefits to Iran (beyond the end of US-Israeli bombing) to come later.<\/p>\n

Now, suddenly, getting to the deal somehow has Washington telling Jerusalem it can\u2019t respond to Hezbollah\u2019s missile attacks out of Lebanon.<\/p>\n

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Bare minimum, Trump\u2019s public\u00a0bragging about ordering Israel\u00a0around sure makes it\u00a0look<\/em>\u00a0like he\u2019s appeasing Iran\u2019s outrageous demands.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what the Iranians do:\u00a0Claim<\/em>\u00a0they could give us what we want, stall on actually delivering it (in this case, on any way to hold them to a no-nukes promise) by never giving an inch unless they take it back a day or three later \u2014 meanwhile ginning up side issues and\u00a0manipulating\u00a0the other side into delivering\u00a0in advance<\/em>\u00a0on those demands in the foolish belief that a final deal will then be possible.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s negotiators are falling into the same old trap as Carter and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Are they telling him the blockade will force the regime to bend? Sorry: Iran\u2019s leaders are perfectly willing to let the people suffer. (Heck, they proved in January that they\u2019ll slaughter civilians in the street!) The elites can keep on living the high life, just as they do in impoverished North Korea.<\/p>\n

A sign Trump\u2019s getting terrible advice is his assertion Monday night that if \u201cwe spend another two or three weeks bombing, they\u2019ll have nothing left whatsoever,\u201d but then \u201cyou won\u2019t have the Strait open for months.\u201d<\/p>\n

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How\u2019s\u00a0that?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And why is just reopening the Strait not a legitimate military aim to take away the regime\u2019s leverage?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why is it The Stone Ages or bust?\u00a0<\/p>\n

We, the American people, deserve an explanation.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve flattened Tehran\u2019s air force and sunk its Navy; our forces have since then repeatedly shown they can take out any Iranian site that launches missiles or drones. The enemy is playing diplomatic rope-a-dope with you, Mr. President: Quit these farcical talks, open the Strait and leave them to rot.<\/p>\n

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Trump needs to show he\u2019s serious, or Tehran\u00a0will keep trying to play him for a sucker\u00a0as it has every president going back to Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s advisers are letting Tehran play him for a sucker - Metro Transit Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1654\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s advisers are letting Tehran play him for a sucker - 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