Despite having won it seventy-three (73) times already, according to fucking Trump, we’re not gonna win this Iran thing, are we?
Put this one right on top of the stack of things I don’t understand.
.@SecScottBessent: “We have zero tolerance. We are going to economically asphyxiate this regime.”
“My job is to make sure that they want to have a deal, and they will want to have one.” pic.twitter.com/47jKGqsofj
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)
Clue to the willfully, obstinately clueless: THEY DO NOT WANT A DEAL, THEY WILL NOT ABIDE BY ANY “DEAL” YOU DO FINALLY MAKE WITH THEM, AND THEY REGARD YOUR CRAVEN CRAWLING TO THEM BEGGING FOR SOME KIND OF STUPID-ASS DEAL AS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS, YOU STUPID FOOLS. Which it, y’know, IS, actually.
SO, in other words, exactly the same as they’ve been doing for the last, oh, round about fifty fucking years, then.
Bessent has been almost frighteningly effective in fulfilling his promise to collapse Iran’s currency, the rial. As he reminded Fox Business in that clip, the rial stood at 800,000 to the dollar last spring, but as of last week was down to two million.
That’s created real-world hardships for the regime and the Iranian people.
“Small protests occurred outside petrochemical plant and a sugar cane factory where workers were made unemployed but received no salary for last six months,” Peter Baum reported on X today. “One person killed by IRGC outside the sugar cane factory.”
Furthermore, “Academic staff at numerous universities on strike as they too have not been paid for months.”
The trick is to keep asphyxiating the regime until Tehran can’t afford to pay the thugs who keep the people in line with beatings and mass murders as required.
And these are the same theocrats Bessent thinks he can make “want to have a deal?” And that after we let go of their throats, they’ll stick to it?
What I had thought back in March might be a days-long campaign to hurt the regime has gone on too long for a deal — and the stakes are too elevated.
Once you grab somebody by the throat, you’ve got to keep squeezing until the job is done.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: so long as an entity still exists in the Middle East called The Islamic Republic Of Iran, with a bunch of Mad Mullahs firmly in charge of said entity, we have “won” neither Jack nor Shit.
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