Iran Duping Trump with IAEA Inspections. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
by Majid Rafizadeh • May 31, 2025 at 5:00 am
Iran knows exactly what it is doing. It is playing a game it has mastered for decades: stall, confuse, buy time, bring in the well-intentioned but toothless International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). All the regime needs to win the negotiations is to entrench enforceability and retain the ability to work in secret down the pike.
Iran could, at any moment, declare itself part of the nuclear weapons club. The mullahs could also negotiate a deal that grants them partial sanctions relief, re-entry into the global financial system, and access to international trade — all while keeping key parts of their nuclear program intact.
Giving Iran any daylight to enrichment is not diplomacy — it is surrender.
US President Donald Trump seems shocked that he is being duped by the superstar of KGB (now the FSB) whose entire purpose is to dupe Americans and the West: You mean he is not really my good friend Volodya? Russian President Vladimir Putin has not gone crazy; we were crazy for believing him. The same holds true for Communist China's President Xi Jinping.
Iran does not want "peace." Iran wants victory. Why don't we? The only "peace" Iran is interested in is one strictly on its terms. With nuclear weapons, there will be "peace," all right -- the Iranian regime's survival, power and domination -- that kind of peace.
Meanwhile, Trump's "deadlines" with Hamas and Iran have come and gone, thoroughly eroding his credibility with Putin, Xi, Kim, NATO and everyone else. There have been no consequences, no accountability and no results.
This is not about compromise or Munich 2.0. This is about survival. Ours, not theirs. Stop being played.
Once again, the United States has sat down with Iran for yet another round of nuclear negotiations — this time the fifth. And once again, we are told that there will be another round in the "near future." Sound familiar? It should. Iran's cat-and-mouse diplomatic theater is not a breakthrough; it is a rerun. Just as the past rounds, this latest episode concluded without any meaningful agreement, while Iran continues to advance in its nuclear program, intercontinental ballistic missiles -- not needed to attack Israel -- and rebuild its air defense.
Iran knows exactly what it is doing. It is playing a game it has mastered for decades: stall, confuse, buy time, bring in the well-intentioned but toothless International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). All the regime needs to win the negotiations is to entrench enforceability and retain the ability to work in secret down the pike.
