Fox News’s Bill Hemmer expressed some hesitations regarding President Donald Trump’s deal with Iran.
While the Memorandum of Understanding may seem like a light at the end of the tunnel for Americans who have been hit hardest by inflated grocery and gas prices, Hemmer is worried that pressure to end the Iranian conflict may have resulted in the United States being “suckered” into a bad deal. He voiced his worry to retired Army General Jack Keane on Monday’s episode of America’s Newsroom.
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“This 60-day period, sir, if we reach it, this is precarious. It’s tough stuff because Iran’s history is to get to that table and just drag this thing out — month after month and eventually year after year. What do you think about us getting suckered back into a long, stalemated negotiation?” he asked.
“Well, certainly, what we’ve just gone through is an indicator of just that, and I’m sure that’s why you’re raising it. We went through a ceasefire because the discussion was that they would open the Strait of Hormuz in two weeks’ timeframe, and here we are now, 60-plus days, and finally, that is going to happen. So, they had two objectives when they shut the Strait down. One, stop the war. Two, drag out the negotiations. They did drag out negotiations,” Keane responded. “Our negotiators are certainly clear-eyed about what they’re dealing with here. They know full well that what the Iranians say and even what they sign may be different than what they actually do. Why? Because we’ve been watching them for 47 years, and they cheat, and they lie. And we know that’s what they’re up to. That is why we cannot have just open-ended negotiations, in my view. Privately, we can tell them, we don’t necessarily have to do it publicly, but this is what we want to see, and these are the timelines we want to see it in terms of these agreements going forward.”
“They’re banking on the fact that the closer we get to the midterm elections, the less likelihood that President Trump would ever re-initiate military operations. Well, he just did it last week. That’s an indicator to me he’s dead serious about it. And he said he’s willing to do it again, so that is a lever that we have to watch to stop them from dragging this out, as you indicated, because that has been their history. What they say, what they sign, and what they actually do and implement, history tells us are two different things. And we have to bake into this deal enforcement and compliance, and certainly, the threat of military operations is a part of that,” he added.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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