There are days they wake up in a state close to wonderment. Friday was one of those days.
There was Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s real estate buddy and negotiator in chief, offering them a $300 billion international investment fund. The Ayatollah must have been rubbing his eyebrows or what’s left of them, wondering if he was dreaming. The Iranians had been demanding war reparations but never thought they would get them, and certainly not on this scale.
Will somebody please give Witkoff the cane? You have to wonder sometimes what he’s thinking.
And then you have the president, one day reassuring Americans that he won’t make a “crummy” deal, won’t make a bad deal, will only make a “great deal,” and if the Iranians don’t like it, he’ll turn it back over to Pistol Pete.
That was Thursday, at the Cabinet meeting in the White House. And then on Friday, the president says on Truth Social that the U.S. and Iran are close to a deal.
Iran must agree that they will never have a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb. The Hormuz Strait must be immediately open, no tolls, for unrestricted shipping traffic, in both directions. . . . The enriched material, sometimes referred to as “Nuclear Dust,”. . . will be unearthed by the United States in close coordination and conjunction with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the IAEA.
No mention of that $300 billion “sweetener,” as Witkoff reportedly called it.
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