Saturday, April 18, 2026

So Iran Does Have Cards

U.S. President Donald J. Trump said in a phone interview this morning with CBS News that Iran has “agreed to everything,” and will work with the United States to remove its buried stockpile of highly-enriched uranium, though he insisted that U.S. troops would not be deployed onto the ground in Iran.

“No. No troops,” Trump said. “We'll go down and get it with them, and then we'll take it. We'll be getting it together because by that time, we'll have an agreement and there's no need for fighting when there's an agreement. Nice right? That's better. We would have done it the other way if we had to.” The President then stated that the material would be brought back to the U.S. once it was recovered, “Our people, together with the Iranians, are going to work together to go get it. And then we'll take it to the United States.”
Yeah, that didn’t happen. The “agreed to everything” part, I mean. Especially the part most important to the world:
Iran's joint military command said on Saturday that "control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state ... under strict management and control of the armed forces." It warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect.
Trump is still trying to preach “unconditional surrender,” when no such thing has happened. And Congress still refuses to declare the entire affair a violation of the War Powers Act, and insist it is now over (which, it seems, might actually solve the problem). 

And this is not exactly breaking news. This is from 15 hours ago:
SNAFU.

FUBAR.
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