In the final days of President Donald Trump’s excursion across the Middle East, Iran was clearly experiencing a serious case of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out.)
Tehran’s longtime allies like Syria and Qatar were cozying up to the American president with lavish celebrations and salutes and ponying up $1.2 trillion in U.S. investments, shifting them further toward an Arab-Israeli-U.S. alliance.
On Thursday, Tehran blinked.
Top Iranian official Ali Shamkhani said that his country is ready to make a deal with Trump. Under the deal, Iran would agree to never make nuclear weapons and destroy their existing stockpile in exchange for Trump lifting crippling sanctions against Iran.
The capitulation sent shockwaves around the globe, including in Congress.
“I don’t think that they bent. I think that they folded,” Rep. Brad Knott, R-N.C., a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, told Just the News on Thursday when asked about Iran. “There was nothing voluntary.
“President Trump came in. He immediately put diplomatic pressure. He immediately put financial pressure, and he basically had two barrels loaded, metaphorically, of course, at the Iranian regime, and said, ‘you can roll the dice, but you’re not going to have a country left, and you’re not going to have any ability to survive this if you keep playing this game.'”
