Iran: A memorandum of misunderstanding

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Let me preface this by saying I am a huge (yuuge!) supporter of President Trump.

However, with the joint “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU), President Trump has effectively declared his -- and the United States’s -- unconditional surrender to Iran, time, and current conditions. This unilateral capitulation is the more depressing and devastating given Trump’s pre-war actions and words.

The events of the past couple of days are eerily reminiscent of 1938, with Neville Chamberlain Donald Trump waving around the MoU, essentially a piece of paper purportedly proclaiming, “peace in our time.” It will likely work out about as well as did the Munich Agreement.

After the previous bombings of Iran’s nuclear sites, roughly one year ago, Trump said Iran’s nuclear facilities were utterly destroyed, set back by decades. Yet, a short time later, he claimed Iran was within weeks of being able to deploy a nuclear weapon. Early on in the war he encouraged the Iranian people to overthrow the mullahs. Iranians looked to Trump as a savior. Yet, he recently stated, “I never cared about regime change.” Talk about throwing a people under the bus! Which was it? It couldn’t be both. And then he threw Israel, our most reliable ally -- and the only democracy in the Middle East — under the bus as well (must be a damn big bus!), hurling “F-bombs” at Benjamin Netanyahu as he did so.

And for what?

The MoU appears to unfreeze Iranian assets, grants them $300 billion to rebuild, guarantee the U.S. doesn’t meddle in their affairs henceforth, and removes its military presence. All for a promise to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and to, probably, maybe, agree at some time in the future to not enrich uranium to the extent needed to create a nuclear bomb.

And I guarantee you, the very first thing the Iranians will do after signing “The Agreement,” is to find little (or not so little) ways to break it, breach it, go back on it. To rub Trump’s nose in it. In fact, they already have. Iran is apparently saying that all ships passing thru the strait must carry insurance approved by the IRGC. And that it might, after 60 days, start imposing fees on ships traversing the formerly busy neckdown.

So, we’re going back to the pre-war status quo. Except the strait might be less open than it was. And Trump has divided his supporters.

Trump could’ve called victory and gone home after the U.S. military knocked the hell out of the Iranians in the first few weeks, further degrading its nuclear program. Or he could’ve kept on blasting them to smithereens until the job was finished. And it could have been. Instead, panicked by the upcoming midterm elections and the high price of oil/gasoline, he chose the third way. Which is no way at all.

What’s left of the mullahs and the IRGC will do whatever it wants, including executing any citizens known to have been sympathetic to the Americans. That unspoken guarantee is the only one they will uphold.

Understand that.

And that I still support President Trump despite this unfortunate episode.

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