Patriot,

A major reason the American people re-elected Donald Trump to serve as President was to put out the fires of conflict that Joe Biden had, at best, failed to prevent.

Trump famously said he would end the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 24 hours. He said he would bring peace in the Middle East.

Not only has the killing and carnage in both places continued unabated to this day, but the neocons and Israel have lobbied President Trump for an unnecessary, unprovoked war with Iran, the consequences of which could be disastrous beyond imagining.

As I discuss in my latest column – read it below – the choice could not be clearer. Iran has the right under international law to peaceful nuclear energy and is willing to abandon high-level enrichment to avoid a war.

Trump needs to take the deal. If he allows the neocons to wreck these negotiations, his presidency will be a failure.

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For Liberty,

Ron Paul

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Take the Deal, President Trump

Deal-making is said to be President Trump’s specialty, yet after five rounds of indirect talks with Iran – most recently just days ago – we seem as far away from an agreement as ever. The fifth round ended last Friday with no breakthrough, but at least no breakdown. However, each day that passes without a document signed on the table is another day for the neocons to maneuver the U.S. president toward an attack on Iran.

One way the war party does this is to continuously move the goal posts and change the rules of the game. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, under great pressure from the neocons, has himself signaled at least three position-shifts: from no enrichment at all, to low-level enrichment for civilian uses, back to no enrichment at all.

The neocons know that Iran will not give up its right to the civilian use of nuclear power and that is why they are applying maximum pressure to force Trump to officially adopt that position. They know if that becomes the U.S. “red line” then they will win and they will get their war.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, in league with U.S. neocons, has been warning us for 20 years that Iran is “months away” from a nuclear weapon – even though our own Intelligence Community recently re-affirmed that Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon at all.

Of course this is the same Netanyahu who promised Congress in 2002 if the U.S. would just invade Iraq, peace and prosperity would break out in the Middle East. “If you take out Saddam, Saddam’s regime,” he told Congress in March of that year, “I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region.”

We know how that worked out.

Poll after poll shows that the American people are tired of intervention and tired of Middle East wars. President Trump himself recognized this in his scathing rebuke of neocons and interventionists during a recent speech in Saudi Arabia.

But rebuke in a speech is not enough. President Trump must actively turn away from the neocons – many of whom are prominent in his own administration.

The recent U.S. debacle in Yemen – where billions were wasted, civilians killed, and U.S. military equipment destroyed – is just a taste of what the U.S. would be in for if the neocons get their way and take us to war with Iran.

The Iranian foreign minister laid down in the simplest terms how the impasse could be solved, posting on X that, “Zero nuclear weapons = we DO have a deal; Zero enrichment = we do NOT have a deal.”

My own preference is non-intervention and I do not believe Iran has the desire or the ability to militarily harm the United States. I share President Trump’s view that it would be far better to re-establish relations with Iran and begin mutually beneficial trade with the country. But if a mutually acceptable nuclear deal is the best way to take the neocon war with Iran off the table, then a deal is worth supporting.

President Trump should make his position clear to his negotiators: no more waffling or contradictions, get this agreement signed and put one in the “win” column.




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