Jun 2, 2025
Neocons Win This Round of Iran Talks
Iran is expected to reject a U.S. proposal aimed at resolving a long-standing nuclear dispute, an Iranian diplomat said Monday, calling the offer a "non-starter" that does not accommodate Tehran’s interests or ease Washington’s position on uranium enrichment.
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If you see any house on the right or the
left, you see any politicians on the right
or the left being against this deal.
They don't work for us. Okay.
They have another country's
best interests in mind.
Neo cons one.
Neo cons one. That's it.
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That's it.
On Truth Social,
Trump just posted the split
between the America First MAGA Republicans
and the neo cons in the Republican Party
grows wider as President Donald
Trump is allegedly poised to sign a new
Iran nuclear deal that would allow Tehran
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to enrich enough uranium
to provide their country with power,
but not to develop a nuclear weapon.
Now, Iran is an oil producing country,
some might argue.
Why would Iran need nuclear power
if they have oil?
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Well, their entire economy
is reliant on exporting that oil,
and they use nuclear energy in order to
provide their citizens with electricity.
And so in the original Iran nuclear deal,
There was an allowance for Tehran to
produce enough enriched uranium in order
to provide electricity for their people,
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but clearly not enough
to build a nuclear weapon.
So the nuclear deal proposal,
a proposal the U.S.
Gave Iran on Saturday,
would allow limited low level
uranium enrichment on Iranian soil
for a to be determined period of time.
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And guess what?
Believe it or not,
the white House isn't denying this.
So white House Press Secretary
Caroline Leavitt said in a statement
that President Trump has made it clear
that Iran can never obtain a nuclear bomb.
Special envoy Wittkopf has sent
a detailed and acceptable proposal
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to the Iranian regime,
and it's in their best interest to accept
it out of respect for the ongoing deal.
The administration will not comment
on details of the proposal to the media.
Now, on Sunday, interestingly enough,
Wittkopf had submitted what was described
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as preliminary Luminary ideas to be
discussed in the next round of talks.
So under the proposal,
Iran would not be allowed to build
any new enrichment facilities
and must dismantle critical infrastructure
for conversion and processing of uranium.
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The proposal also states
that Iran would have to halt new research
and development on centrifuges.
Now, the Iran deal will create
a regional enrichment consortium
that meets several conditions,
including the fact
that Iran won't be allowed to develop
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domestic enrichment capabilities beyond
those necessary for civilian purposes.
After signing the agreement, Iran will
have to temporarily reduce its enrichment
concentration to 3%. This period
will be agreed upon in negotiations.
Iran's underground enrichment facilities
will have to become non-operational for
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a period of time agreed by the parties,
and the enrichment activity
in Iran's aboveground facilities
will temporarily be limited to the level
needed for nuclear reactor fuel.
According to International
Atomic Energy Agency guidelines.
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So look, there are Democrats
who are criticizing this,
I think stupidly, because they're like,
well, this was this sounds like Obama's
nuclear deal that Trump ripped up.
Listen, Trump did rip up the Iran
nuclear deal that was accomplished
during the Obama administration.
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And that was a bad move, something that we
harshly criticized Trump for doing.
That being said, we are living in a new
era where there are two options before us.
One of them is to go to war with Iran,
which is a far superior military power
than Iraq,
and we would do so on behalf of Israel.
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That would be a disaster.
We should want to prevent
that from happening.
So if there is a possibility
for a new nuclear deal,
even if it's the same as Obama's deal,
we should be in favor of that.
We should be celebrating that
rather than playing this ridiculous,
you know, Partizan hack tribal BS
that I keep seeing online.
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Yeah, like I get it. Trump bad.
He ripped up the Iran nuclear deal.
Yes, that is true.
There's a possibility for peace.
We should be in favor of it and not go
in the way of the neocons who are trying
to discourage Trump from doing this.
And we'll get to the neocons in a moment.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to get to them
in a sec, because I think I'm going to say
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some very harsh things
about anyone opposed to this deal.
So first,
let me just clarify my views on it.
Just like Anna said, they cannot enrich
uranium for military purposes anymore.
That means they will not have nukes.
They won't be able to process
any uranium in Iran going forward.
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That's an amazing deal.
The uranium gets processed
outside their country
and brought in only for energy purposes.
And by the way, if you don't know
uranium for energy, civil energy purposes
is a very different than one
that is weaponized for a bomb.
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Very, very different.
That is why many countries have it
and we're not freaked out by it.
Okay. So now, so it's a great deal.
It means that they will not have nukes
and we will have peace.
What do we give up?
- Absolutely nothing.
- We loosen sanctions on Iran.
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Yeah, yeah, we loosen sanctions.
Who cares?
We were sanctioning them. That's like.
It's not like we were getting the money.
It's not like there's any downside for us.
We're just removing some of the sanctions
we have on a different country.
Doesn't cost us anything.
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The only thing that it does
is it prevents war.
We were saying to Iran,
we're going to attack you,
we're going to kill you, destroy you, etc.
Now we won't.
That's how a peace deal works, okay?
Now, the people opposed to it.
Anna's right.
Some are Democrats who go,
oh yeah, this is like the Obama deal, man.
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They're great.
You should be in favor of it.
End of question period.
If you thought Obama deal was was great,
which I think it was great.
And you think this is similar
to the Obama deal, great.
Then you love it, right?
Or are you actually Deranged.
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Like it's a real question.
Like, do you want to go to war with Iran
just to spite Trump?
Yes, some people do.
Like, okay, literally,
you'll see them all over the internet.
Right now it's amazing.
It's literally amazing.
I don't care about the two parties at all.
Okay.
I'm so past the partizanship because I
see deep flaws with both parties.
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I know that's going to offend a lot of
people, but it's just how I feel about it.
So at this point,
we got to make do with what we've got.
And right now, the president of the United
States, whether people like it or not,
is Donald Trump.
If he is inclined to pursue a peace deal
or a new nuclear deal with Iran
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that prevents war,
then we should be happy to see it.
Now, do I believe that he's going
to go in that direction?
For sure? I don't.
You never know which direction
Trump is going to go in.
This is a very sensitive situation, and
I'm terrified that he will be swayed by
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the neocons to go in the wrong direction.
Yeah. So I want to get to that as well.
First of all, I Annie, no,
you're definitely not alone.
The Democratic Party is polling at 19%.
Yes, there's something deeply wrong
with both parties.
If you're in the Blue Anon camp,
where you still think
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Democratic leadership are geniuses
and honest and and are and angels.
Hey, listen, man, look, mental
health facilities need customers too.
- So God bless you.
- Okay, well, we don't have.
Okay.
So like like angels, you really think
that people taking $1 billion from donors,
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the people who lost
to Donald Trump twice are geniuses?
Oh, come on, come on.
Please stop embarrassing yourself.
We got to hold on.
I know, hold on. I'm getting there.
So now look, in terms of direction,
if you say, well, I don't trust Trump,
I don't know that he's going to get there.
What do you want to do then?
You want to encourage him
and his base to move in that direction,
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not against that direction.
So if you go, well,
I'm a little skeptical.
I mean, I really like the deal.
It's like the Obama deal,
but I'm a little skeptical.
So why don't I just call him a racist?
No, wait.
What? Why?
Why?
I'll just call him a Nazi. Why?
Why?
If he's going in the right direction,
you encourage that.
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You don't discourage that.
Unless, again, you're a moron.
So okay, so I'm going to get
to the neocons and as well go ahead.
And by the way, who wants to be
in the same room as the neocons?
- I don't yeah, tons of Democrats do.
- Okay.
Because a lot of the Democrats, the ones
we're talking about, yes, some are
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politicians, some are real people, etc.,
the people who are desperate to make sure
this deal doesn't happen, that are
politicians, they don't work for America.
They work for Israel.
Yeah, I said it
and I'll say it two more times.
Anyone any politician opposed
to this deal,
Republican or Democrat, is a traitor.
They don't work for America.
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They want to have us go
to war with Iran on behalf of Israel.
Okay.
Go ahead, go ahead.
This deal is excellent.
It makes no sense to oppose it unless
you got an order from your babysitter,
as Thomas Massie puts it,
Israeli agents who, like,
literally shepherd every congressperson
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and tell them you will vote no.
You will vote for war.
Send Americans to die instead of us.
And they go, yes, sir, yes, sir.
Go ahead, go ahead.
I dare you be against this peace deal.
Go ahead.
And so Barak Ravid, who reported
this story for Axios, hilariously wrote
that by making this offer,
the Trump administration is risking
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backlash from its allies on the Hill.
And in Israel,
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu's government and dozens
of Republican senators have pushed the
administration to maintain red lines
on nuclear enrichment and the full
dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program.
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Oh, we've gotten orders from Israel. Wow.
I didn't know that.
I guess we should all bow down
to a different country who would like us
to lose our lives and our fortune fighting
their wars, just like they did in Iraq?
Oh, okay.
We don't care at all If you see any
house on the right or the left,
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you see any politicians on the right
or the left being against this deal.
They don't work for us. Okay.
They have another country's
best interests in mind.
So look, all of the neoconservatives of
the Bush era, they didn't just disappear.
I mean, they're still here.
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Okay, they were lurking in the shadows
for a while because there wasn't a war
that they could rally support for.
But now all of a sudden, they're coming
out, and it's very reminiscent
of all of the calls to war we were hearing
in the lead up to the 2003 Iraq invasion.
So let me give you some specific examples.
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You have Mark Dubowitz, who is the CEO of
the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
He writes on X, President Trump,
all of his top officials, 52 GOP senators
and 177 House Republicans demanded
zero enrichment capability and full
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dismantlement of Iran's nuclear program.
Now, the U.S.
Is offering a deal
that lets Iran keep enriching.
My understanding is the enrichment
would happen off site out of the country.
- Right.
- Yeah.
So let me explain what that group is.
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They changed their name
to Defense of Democracy because they
wanted to pretend that it was,
oh, Israel and America are in it together,
and we're protecting democracy together.
Nonsense. That's the Israeli lobby.
So that's AIPAC and other groups
that their whole job is
to control America on behalf of Israel.
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That's literal.
That's the only reason they're formed
so that America follows Israel's orders.
So there is no other reason for AIPAC
or anyone in that group.
So that's why he's lying there.
Iran will not be able to enrich
uranium at home going forward.
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And in terms of bringing it down to zero,
tons of countries have nuclear energy
with low enriched uranium.
Just because it's the same word
doesn't mean that it's the same concept.
It is completely different
to enrich it at a much, much,
much higher level for weapons.
And we are all aware of that.
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And that is why the international
community does not mind sending having
Iran, having a nuclear energy program like
tons of countries in the world right now.
Mark Levin, my favorite, neocon
who thinks even uttering
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the word neocon is anti-Semitic.
Says speaking is anti-Semitic.
Unless you agree with Mark Levin and bow
your head to Israel, Mark, you should.
You know what?
If you love Israel so much,
why don't you go?
I mean, you'll get to kill vote
for killing a lot more Palestinians.
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So. Oh, right.
The money's here, and you need
to send the money over there, I got you.
Okay, so he writes. Can this be true?
We will know very soon.
Senate must use its
treaty power either way.
In other words, f the executive branch.
We should have Congress
do what it needs to do.
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That's really important because that's
Mark Levin saying I give up on Trump.
He might actually want peace.
So all you bought bitches in Congress,
all the ones we Be purchased.
By the way, out of the 535 people
in Congress. 502.
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Take money from AIPAC
and affiliated groups.
You didn't purchase them for no reason.
This is Mark saying I'm now activating the
Israeli agents inside the US government.
You better vote for war and go.
And if you're a Republican,
we don't care about even what Trump says.
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You'll lose your goddamn job
if you need to.
Okay, but you work for Israel,
not America.
All right.
One guy from Red state says if you spent
a decade trashing the JCPoA, that was
the original Iran nuclear nuclear deal.
And we all did because it was garbage,
then don't be the clown that supports this
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just because it's your side.
No, there is definitely a faction within
the Republican base, the so-called America
First MAGA Republicans who don't want war.
I know it's hard for the neocons to accept
that there's a huge portion
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of the Republican base
that doesn't want to go to war with Iran
on behalf of Israel, but they exist.
And honestly, it's one of the more
positive developments
I've seen within the Republican Party.
I have a tremendous amount of respect
for those particular voters
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who can see clearly, who know what's
going on here, and flat out reject
the neoconservatives of the Bush era,
probably because the neoconservatives,
the Bush era, sent their family members
to war in Iraq, multiple deployments
to Afghanistan as well.
And what do we get for it?
Taliban still in control of Afghanistan.
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We lost over 4000 soldiers in Iraq.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians
in Iraq died as a result of that war.
- Complete disaster.
- Yeah.
So, look, if you're back
to the tribalism inside the US,
if you're on the Democratic side
and you say, nope, nope nope nope nope.
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I just I hate Trump, I hate MAGA,
and I have a closed mind.
I don't want to hear it.
You're totally wrong.
It's not a little portion of manga.
It's a big portion of manga
that is anti-war.
So I know a lot of people
don't want to hear that.
No, I don't want the truth.
I don't want reality.
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- I like hating so much.
- Neo cons one.
Neo cons one. That's it.
That's it.
On Truth Social, Trump just posted
the Autopen should have stopped Iran
a long time ago from enriching.
Under our potential agreement, we will
not allow any enrichment of uranium.
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Okay. That's it.
So he got bribed.
So this was all a matter
of just getting bribed.
Congratulations, Donald Trump,
by the way, I was just giving.
I was in the middle of giving MAGA credit.
Now let's see if they earn it.
Okay, so are you now going
to switch your position entirely
and go, well, daddy, Trump got bribed.
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So Israel first,
Mark Levin is probably just ecstatic.
Now I told you we were going to buy him
and we bought him.
Right?
So now, by the way,
prepare your sons and daughters for war
because Israel demands us to go to war.
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And by the way, and I want to get to Biden
because Biden, what did you do?
Did you put us back
in the Obama peace deal.
That he promised to do?
And it's the easiest thing in the world.
You were his vice president.
Why don't you put us back in?
No, because you work for Israel.
And now Trump says, just kidding.
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I'm not the president of America.
And I don't believe in America first.
I believe in America dead last.
And whoever the hell bribes me
way above them.
Now, you see, right in the middle of the
story, as the story breaks, do you see me
in favor of Trump or opposed to Trump?
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It depends on what he does.
Please care about policy.
Please stop being egomaniacs
on both sides.
So now I turn around my criticism to MAGA.
Go ahead. MAGA.
Go ahead. Show me who you are.
Are you actually antiwar or are you?
Oh, no.
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Trump got bribed by AIPAC.
We're good, we're good.
Show me who you are.
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an angel gets his wings.
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