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Several days into a five-day pause in U.S. military bombings on Iranian energy infrastructure, President Donald Trump has described negotiations with the regime as “strange.”
“The Iranian negotiators are very different and ‘strange,’” President Trump wrote early Thursday morning.
He continued, “They are ‘begging’ us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only ‘looking at our proposal.’ WRONG!!!”
The president warned Iran to “get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!”
It is unclear who the administration is negotiating with in Iran, as much of the Iranian regime’s masthead has reportedly been killed over the past several weeks of Operation Epic Fury.
During a cabinet meeting on Thursday, the president gave several remarks on the developing situation in the Middle East, arguing that Iran was “begging to make a deal – not me.”
He said the Iranians were “lousy fighters” but “great negotiators.”
On the prospect of a potential deal, the president remarked, “I don’t know if we’ll be able to do that. I don’t know if we’re willing to do that. They should’ve done that four weeks ago, they should have done that two years ago, or they should have done it when we first came into office.”
As reported by RSBN, the U.S. military continues to fortify its presence in the Iranian region, including the reported deployment of thousands of U.S. troops in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and Marine units, stoking fears about an expanding conflict with potential U.S. boots on the ground.
The U.S. military has struck over 10,000 targets so far in Iran, according to the U.S. Central Command. And overnight, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the death of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – Navy Commander Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, in an Israeli strike.
US CENTCOM has advised Iranians serving in the IRGC-N to abandon their posts and return home so that they may be spared in the future.
