President Trump's top negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are delivering a harsh dose of reality to anyone still clinging to fantasies about diplomatic breakthroughs with the Iranian regime: securing a meaningful nuclear deal with the terror-sponsoring mullahs is "difficult to impossible."
According to new reports, the seasoned Trump administration officials have concluded what conservatives have been saying all along - trying to convince Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions is like "trying to convince a hungry grizzly bear to give up a moose carcus."
This honest assessment stands in stark contrast to the Obama administration's disastrous 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, which handed billions in sanctions relief to the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism while doing virtually nothing to stop their march toward nuclear weapons capability.
Trump's Realism vs. Liberal Fantasy
While Democrats and their media allies spent years promoting the fairy tale that Iran could be negotiated with through weakness and appeasement, Trump has consistently taken a hardline approach. His "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign actually worked - crippling Iran's economy and forcing them to the negotiating table.
But even with America negotiating from a position of strength under Trump's leadership, Witkoff and Kushner are discovering what foreign policy realists have always known: the Iranian regime's entire legitimacy depends on its anti-American, anti-Israeli agenda. Giving up nuclear weapons would mean giving up their primary tool of regional intimidation.
"The Iranian regime doesn't negotiate in good faith - they negotiate to buy time while advancing their nuclear program," one administration source noted.
This realistic assessment proves Trump was right to withdraw from Obama's catastrophic Iran deal in his first term. While Biden foolishly tried to revive those failed policies, Trump 2.0 is approaching Iran with eyes wide open.
Patriots should be encouraged that this administration isn't falling for the same diplomatic theater that allowed Iran to grow stronger under previous weak leadership. Sometimes the most important diplomatic breakthrough is recognizing when the other side simply can't be trusted.