“The first time you cheat on me, it will be your fault; the second time, it will be my fault.”
Arabic proverb
“I would say that he [James D. Vance, vicepresidente] is philosophically a little different from me. I think maybe he’s less enthusiastic about going [a la guerra de Irán]but he is enthusiastic. I think it’s something we had to do, I felt like we had no choice. If we hadn’t done it, they would have done it to us. I felt that based on the negotiations he had Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Marco [Rubio] and pete [Hegseth] and we all thought that they [Irán] “They wanted to take advantage of us before attacking…” said the US president, Donald J. Trumpon March 9, 10 days after he and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu-or Netanyahu and he- will start the Iran war on February 28, 2025.
Last Saturday, the 21st, after the exchange of attacks between Israel and Iran on the respective nuclear reactors in Natanz (central Iran) and Dimona (Southern Israel), Trump threatened to bomb Iran’s electrification system within 48 hours if Iran did not open the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf to navigation. Trump He feared a negative reaction, chaos, according to information that circulated on Wall Street, the financial markets and the oil price, on Monday, March 23.
But on Monday the 23rd he took a Copernican turn – with many of his friends betting on what this insider war has become – and said that he had held “very good and productive conversations about a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East” for which he had given instructions to suspend for five days “military attacks against electricity plants and energy infrastructure for a period of five days, depending on the success of the ongoing meetings…”
Either because his military staff explained to him that the apocalypse could not be unleashed in 48 hours, or because he had impulsively announced an operation in panic due to chaos in the markets and they warned him that the cure was worse than the disease, Trump a “white” lie was invented. The Iranians denied the existence of talks and denounced the retreat as a lie of Trump to deceive the markets.
Among the lies, they even invented that they had an interlocutor. Come on, they had found a character who could play Delcy RodriguezVice President of the Government Nicolás Maduro that facilitated the operation to change the Government in Venezuela after the North American attack on January 3, 2026, the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, and the appointment of Rodríguez as the interim president of Venezuela.
Now the character was the president of the Iranian parliament Mohamed Bagher Qalibaf. The 64-year-old pilot and former commander of the Revolutionary Guard.
The reality: the men of Trumphis son-in-law Jared Kushner and his billionaire friend Steve Witkoff sent messages to Calif inviting you to hold a meeting.
Calif has publicly denied the entanglement.
The truth is that the assembly of Trump It consists of using the efforts that several countries are taking to seek a way out of the war, including Pakistan, to get on the horse. And, at least, open an expectation for several days in which the war has continued as before the threat of the bombing of the power plants. The Pentagon, at the same time, has sent forces to the Middle East, some 1,000 soldiers, from the 82nd Airborne Unit, paratroopers, and infantry from Unit 101.
But Iran, after denouncing the lies (Trump is negotiating with Trump), decided to test the American president:
“If the negotiations are going to have any result, it is the vice president J.D. Vance the one who must participate. With Witkoff y Kushner nothing will be achieved,” the Iranians made known.
Witkoff y Kushner -the Israeli lobby that surrounds Trump– They aborted the negotiations that in June 2025 led to the 12-day war. And both were in Geneva on Thursday the 26th when the mediators from the Sultanate of Oman and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had put in writing the bases of an agreement that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Al-Busaidi was rushed to make public and which went practically unnoticed, because Witkoff, Kushner, Netanyahu y Trump They formed the gang of four that caused the war. Therefore, the Iranians are applying the Arab proverb.
Trump has accepted Iran’s condition. Out Witkoff y Kushner.
Vance He has not spoken publicly about the war but has always expressed his disagreement with a warlike foreign policy.
A few days after Trump said that he was “less enthusiastic” than him, Vance was asked about his position in White House cabinet meetings.
“I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not going to stand up here and, in front of God and everyone else, and tell you exactly what I said in that classified room,” he told reporters in North Carolina. “Partly because I don’t want to go to prison, and partly because I think it’s important for the president of the United States to be able to talk to his advisors without them leaking information to the American media.”
Trump It has therefore accepted Iran’s condition, which is like accepting that it is losing the war. Of course, his Secretary of War, Pete HegsethHe clarified: “We negotiate with bombs.”
Will anything come of the weekend meeting between Vance and the Iranians in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan? In any case, it is to be expected that Netanyahu put the potential interlocutor in your sights Vance and pull the trigger.
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