ColdAsIce

🚨After receiving a briefing from a Senior TRUMP Administration Official on the status of the Iran negotiations (someone in the know & not just speculating), I can tell you the following: -USA IS NOT GIVING IRANIANS MONEY FOR NOTHING. All speculation and propaganda to the contrary is false. Some hardline elements of Iran’s govt (IRGC) have pushed fake stories & propaganda to try to kill this negotiation. -Iran deal is NOT done (95%, but still haggling over some language). No deal being signed today. May be a few more days before this is done. -Iran will NOT get any money or sanctions relief up front. -Iran must turn over nuclear stockpile to get anything. USA position is that failure to meet deal commitments means Iran gets nothing. -Long term USA objective is preventing Iran from having nuclear weapon. -Initial deal point is to re-establish free flow of commerce by reopening Strait of Hormuz. Deal should have 2 phases: Step 1 - Open Strait of Hormuz. Give world economy breathing room. Iran agrees to give up enriched uranium. Step 2 - Get the nuclear material turned over. Only then can Iran get sanctions relief. Bottom line: goal is to make a deal that lowers costs for Americans, calms world energy markets, and guarantees that Iranians cannot have a nuclear weapon over the long term. We aren’t there yet. Iran takes forever to get you a response on even small things. But we are close although it still could be a few days. “If we get what we are demanding, this is going to be a historic deal,” SAO says. SAO sounds prepared to do no deal at all if all Iran will do is a “bad deal.” SAO admits deal could fall apart yet. But if a deal is reached, SAO expects very senior USA admin officials to take part in a signing ceremony of some sort. Iran has agreed in principle to the framework but there are still a couple points USA isn’t satisfied with. 95% done. But literally changing words sometimes requires days in Iran’s system. Haggling over language. But USA feels like we have a commitment on nuclear stockpile and on opening Strait of Hormuz. If IRAN doesn’t deliver on commitments, they get nothing. “Iran’s ability to project power is a lot more limited than it was two months ago,” SAO says. “Their industrial base for building ballistic missiles has been substantially destroyed.”

A note on the possibility of Lebanon being “included” in the agreement between the U.S. and the Islamic regime: any deal that includes Lebanon at all is a strategic failure. Lebanon and Israel are both sovereign countries that aren’t involved in these negotiations. Furthermore, the U.S. is not involved in a conflict in Lebanon. Both the U.S. and the Islamic republic are in no position to be dictating to either Lebanon OR Israel what will happen with the fight against the regime’s terror proxy Hezbollah. To include Lebanon is to tacitly accept the Islamic regime’s colonialist behavior and regional interference.

One of the chief arguments against a peace deal with Iran is that we already had one under Obama. Speaking with a senior admin official, I’m hearing any viable deal would have to be much tougher: no pallets of cash, of course, but also no more stockpiles of enriched material, and no permission for further enrichment. Alongside the near-total obliteration of ballistic missile production, such a deal at this stage—if a deal is reached—would put U.S. strategic interests in a much stronger position than before.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announces free universal healthcare for 130 million citizens starting next year.

🚨 NEW: New York has filled over 250,000 potholes in April alone.

Thank god she’s not our President.

If the President must be natural born, so should members of Congress. No more foreign-born candidates on the ballot. Americans should run America.

Spencer Pratt is power washing a stencil into the streets of LA that says “imagine if the streets were this clean”. Genius.

It’s 9:30 PM on a Saturday night and President Trump is still in the Oval Office working hard for the American people. He’s simply one of one.