Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. We are in about 160 days now of the so-called Iran war, and we’re 84 days out from the midterm elections, Nov. 3. What’s going on?
The administration has given some indication all week that they are close to yet another deal. This is the seventh or eighth time they said a deal was at hand.
But this time, people like [Treasury Secretary] Scott Bessent and [State Secretary] Marco Rubio confirmed [President] Donald Trump’s optimism. And the deal would be that there would be a cooling-off period of no kinetic activity, and they would open the straits, and then they would pledge to make a good-faith effort about the nuclear enrichment problem, etc.
In other words, we’ve seen all of these negotiations. I think there’s been eight iterations where they promise to either turn over their nuclear enrichment or tell us where it is, where it can be destroyed, or that they would ensure that the Strait of Hormuz was an international waterway, or that they would cut off their subsidies to Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Hamas, or they wouldn’t use their vestigial missile force to hit our allies in the Gulf.
And on every occasion, they’ve either denied that they said that, or they lied and said that we weren’t close to an agreement, or they’ve launched missiles at especially the [United Arab Emirates,] or they’ve tried to obstruct traffic. So, why are we doing this again and again now? And I can tell you why. Each side has a position.
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