During a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, at the White House, President Donald Trump told reporters Iran is “negotiating on fumes” and accused its leaders of relying on delay tactics to outwait him, Fox News reported.
On the other side, an Iranian parliament member stated his country will not back down on “red lines” in negotiations, including uranium and Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Gary Bauer, of the Campaign for Working Families, told American Family News he is confident Trump will accomplish a peace deal over the Strait and Iran’s nuclear program after destroying Iran’s military and crippling its economy.
“It will be good for the United States. It will be good for energy prices,” he predicted. “And it will not hurt the election results this coming November."
On the issue of regime change, which has fallen out of public conversations from the White House, Bauer said he would “love” to see Iran’s radical Islamists removed, but he disagrees with those who says it’s necessary.
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is among so-called “hawks” calling on President Trump to abandon the peace talks and resume military attacks.
“Further pursuit of an agreement with Iran's Islamist regime risks a perception of weakness. We must finish what we started. It is past time for action,” Wicker wrote in a May 22 X post that has accumulated 3 million views.
“It is not easy to remove a government of a country,” Bauer countered. “We tried that several times in the Middle East, recent decades, and it always ended badly.”
Other senators who are urging Trump to resume bombing are Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), according to a Times of Israel story.
Their statements urging Trump to take military action are carefully written to blame White House advisors for urging the president to continue diplomacy, the Times article said.
