Iran Brags "WE TRICKED TRUMP"... Then Their WHOLE WORLD EXPLODES

Iran is asking Trump to make a deal which means their regime A senior Trump administration official tells CBS News the Iranians have in principle agreed to a deal that would include the disposal of highly enriched uranium and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for the world's energy supplies.

So we have what I think is a pretty solid thing on the table in terms of their ability to open up the straits, get the straits open, enter into a very real, significant, time -limited negotiation on the nuclear matters.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the plan has support in the region.

We thought we might have some news last night, maybe today.I wouldn't read too much into it.Takes a little while to hear back.

Complicating matters.CBS News has learned U .S.intelligence shows Iran's supreme leader is holed up in a secret location with little access to the outside world.

In fact, Nobody's even seen him, but allegedly he supports giving up Iran's nuclear ambitions.But look at who's joining forces to try and stop this deal.CNN says that this deal might be almost as quote -unquote divisive as the war itself, whatever that means.MSNOW, they say the whole thing's up in the air amid GOP blowback.From people who aren't president, we're talking Mike Pompeo and Lindsey Graham of all people.And that's how you know this thing is very close to being over.

I'm begging to make a deal.I hope we don't have to do the work, but we may have to give him another big hit.

President Trump working overtime this holiday weekend to hammer out a deal with Iran, saying there can be no mistakes.

That's right.The president posting this morning, saying in part, quote, the deal with Iran will either be a great and meaningful one or there'll be no deal.

Okay.there are still some final details to be addressed.on a call yesterday with reporters, a senior administration official indicated the memorandum of understanding may take several days to reach because the Iranian system doesn't move as fast as the United States would like.The official added that the current plan is to formally end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz without tolls, before eventually dealing with all enriched nuclear material in Iran and not permitting further enrichment.Now Iran will receive billions of dollars worth of assets on frozen, along with oil sanctions waivers.U .

S.officials say that will only take place if they uphold their end of the bargain.

Ah, so the thing they want.The sanctions relief, the reopening of the strait is directly tied to the thing the United States wants and that's how you make a deal.Yet some people don't want to see that happen.

In a social media post Sunday, President Trump wrote he ordered his team not to rush into a deal and that time is on our side.Yes, it is.Some senators are expressing concern with reports in Iranian media suggesting Tehran may keep control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Yeah, well that's their media.The president should have stuck to his campaign pledge of keeping us out of war and focused on bringing down prices, he's done just the opposite.

Any agreement with Iran that isn't subject to ratification by Congress is going, I think, going to be doomed to fail.this thing started, but look

in terms of their ability to open up the straits, get the straits open, enter into a very real, significant, time -limited negotiation on the nuclear matters, and hopefully we can pull it off.It has a lot of support in the Gulf.It has a lot of support globally.Every country that we've walked through it understands it's not just very reasonable, but it's the right thing for the world to get done.

Everyone supports this deal except people in the United States who either think it can't happen or who either think it's going to be worse than what President Obama gave Iran, which propped them up and got them to where they were before this thing started.

The president said he's not in a hurry.He's not going to make a bad deal.

Right?Right, why is it so hard?People don't want to understand it.

Yeah, that's a forever war scenario.

Yeah, right, so how do they criticize it?So how do we have people like Mike Pompeo, who should probably stay inside for a while, coming out of nowhere and saying, this is the worst thing ever.That guy wants to be president.It's frustrating.They don't know what's in it.They're on the outside looking in.

They're worse than the mainstream media.

Now, a military advisor to Iran's supreme leader also spoke about the negotiations overnight, saying this.

about negotiation the islamic republic has put the least costly path before you the islamic republic is telling you that if you continue the war we will make the american people miserable and the american economy miserable iran is here for a fair negotiation okay Yeah, they're just threatening.

The Iranians will have to make serious concessions as it relates to their nuclear program in the Strait of Hormuz or they are not going to receive any sanctions relief whatsoever.The president reiterating today he's either going to have a good deal or no deal at all.

And here's the thing that everyone is missing here.What does a good deal actually look like for the United States?It means that all of the things this regime wants, the ballistic missile,the enrichment, the nuclear dust, without those things Iran stops being a regime that has the ability to project power and threaten its neighbors.And if it can't project power and threaten its neighbors, it's not going to be able to control the state of Hormuz.And collapse is really what this regime is looking at because all their power goes out the window once they make this deal.

They might think they can survive, but a good deal for the United States means they're on a path towards changing whether they like it or not.

Yeah, absolutely.Administration officials are using this line, no dust, no dollars.And it's an indication President Trump is going to get that highly enriched uranium out of Iran or the Iranians aren't going to receive any sort of sanctions relief.It's a very clear equation here, Lawrence.And when we look at the situation for the Iranians, they have to not only commit to not getting a nuclear weapon, but they also have to let excavators go in eventually and dig up that highly enriched uranium that was... if excavators from somewhere else Go into Iran and start digging around.

I think we're going to learn all kinds of things about this regime that they were lying about and that justify to an even greater extent the short, decisive nature of this entire operation.But there's more.Look at this.

In the aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer last summer, and then export it from the country.But the final part here is the advanced centrifuges that are used to enrich uranium at higher and higher levels.The Iranians have to dismantle all of this and make that commitment that they will never have a nuclear bomb or there isn't going to be an agreement.

We've taken out many of Iranian leaders.How has that impacted the dealmaking process and also the possible enforcement of a deal?

Oh, they're asking about who we're negotiating with.

There's a reason that the Iranians have changed their tone at the negotiating table, and it's due to the military pressure that was exerted on the Iranian regime.during Operation Epic Fury, where their military was decimated.Nearly the entirety of their navy was taken out in US and Israeli airstrikes.And then you had this economic blockade of Iranian ports enforced by the US Navy.

Here's the thing.Iran is now the weakest they have ever been.The reason they want the sanctions relief, the reason they want the US blockade to go away is because right now the regime over there has nothing.They can't project power.They can't threaten their neighbors.Their own people are living in a way that is more peaceful they have in years in Iran because the government is so weak.

You're looking at a silent form of protest when you see some of this footage taken from inside the country recently.And if they're not able to have the weapons and the ability to be a militant aggressor in the Middle East nobody's going to be afraid of these guys and if nobody's afraid of them well you can't be a despotic regime if nobody's scared of you.

of Iran.trying to determine what the timeline in all of this is going to look like, and polishing up those final details toward a broader deal.

There it is.We just heard there's going to be accountability.We just heard the sanctions relief.and the money doesn't happen unless the compliance with this deal happens so I don't see how the regime weasels out of this once they agree to it and every day they don't agree to it they just have further to go to get quote -unquote back on their feet which may never happen because once they get back on their feet they're not going to have the things they need to be a militant regime anymore you see.

You know getting closer and closer to finalization but it depends on whether Iran acts.There's a lot to unpack here.First, you could put me in the camp that would have chosen a second round of escalatory and very harsh strikes because we know the history.They've never negotiated in good faith and they've never complied with any agreement.But if President Trump feels that we've damaged them so badly, we've weakened the proxy networks, we know we're strangling them economically, he feels he has long term leverage.But we are in phase one.

What is the structure of the deal?Phase two is where peace deals go to die, because that's where they operationally and politically bleed out, because there's so many conditions here.What I would say ultimately matters, if we do get a peace deal, is the enforcement mechanism.consequences in one very large clock, a countdown clock, that if they don't meet the conditions in the timeline that we set, you hit them hard.So leave the blockade in place.I wouldn't release the sanctions or unfreeze assets because we want to keep that pressure.

And then ultimately, you know, we know the uranium has to be turned over.They have to dismantle any any proliferation or enrichment facilities.

what is it that's going to make sure that happens?The U .S.Navy and the blockade of the strait will remain in place until the agreement is finalized and the U .S.Navy is going to stick around to make sure everything here happens.

So it's not like the blockade is going to end.The ships are all still going to be there.The enforcement mechanism and the potential consequences of that mechanism will remain.

But if theyany of those conditions.That's why we need the military in the blockade in place, so you hit them hard.And right now, call me cautiously optimistic that they will comply with any deal.No dust, no dollars.Does that work?

It does.And that requires inspections, that requires the IAEA on the ground, the unprecedented access to whatever material they have or enrichment capabilities.And then somebody has to take either a transfer of custody.so that we get it out of Iran and we know that they in fact cannot get to weapons grade nuclear materials or any nuclear capability whatsoever.

You know, it's going to be pretty easy to make sure that things are progressing because the second energy inspectors show up, to start looking around and get told no, I mean the deal just ended.So Iran is going to be on thin ice here if they agree to this, which if they do puts them on the right type of pathway for countries like the United States who don't want to see a threat like this on the map anymore.But this is not good enough for some people.There are some people who think this entire situation is spiraling out of control.and you're not going to believe how they're looking at this.

by closing the Strait of Hormuz, which - Oh, so they didn't know that before?

So Iran didn't know that if they were to close the Strait of Hormuz militarily, that it wouldn't have grave impacts on the whole world's economy?Of course they knew.They were just afraid to do it, and now they've done it, and it's backfired on them because Trump blockaded them.

Do it anytime, it would appear, even if it now reopens in the wake of this deal.So what's the latest you've heard as to this?And we should know, President Trump is so obviously desperateto get out of this war.He says he's not.He continues to like over promise.

He says he's got plenty of time.Or 10th time or 15th time where he said the war is at its close.But Iran gets a vote, and we have not heard from Tehran yet that they've agreed to these conditions.

Well, we have, but perhaps this went out before this.Jonathan, it appears now this is actually just an extension of the ceasefire.I think when we use the word deal, that seems to indicate there's some kind of finality to it.It doesn't look that way.But yesterday on social media, you saw this kind of apocalyptic meltdown from those who are supporting the war.

Right.because there are people who don't want to see this thing end.And if the people supporting the war, the people who might want to see it go on for longer for some reason and don't think a peaceful solution is actually possible, if they're melting down, it means it's about to end, which is the thing that people are saying it's never going to happen.This is just so maddening to hear from both sides on the left and the right that just don't want to see peace for some reason, and are busy criticizing a deal they don't even know about.They're not part of this.They have no idea what's in there.

They have no idea how it's even going to work, yet they know how to criticize it for some reason.

Those who are in the Republican Party, and clearly President Trump and his allies are pushing back right now.But I think the way to frame this is to take a look at or just ask several kind of key fundamental questions.First and foremost would be, is Iran, has their nuclear ambitions been thwarted?And the answer to this right now looks to be no.Think about their conventional military capabilities.You know, were they hit hard by the US military?

Of course they were.But do they still have ballistic missiles and drones?And the answer is yes.

OK, so if they still have one ballistic missile, If they still have one drone, we're supposed to believe that they are still a massive threat to the entire region.I'm sure they have some equipment left that hasn't been destroyed yet.Everybody said that they have some left and that not all the targets were hit.Yes, but that doesn't mean they're a massive threat to the region.That doesn't mean they're a threat to their neighbors like Israel and the UAE who they've been attacking.That doesn't mean they have the ability to be stronger now that this war has gone on knowing that, oh, gee, we could threaten global shipping and cause chaos for the globe.

Like the idea that they just figured that out.is ludicrous.The idea that Trump is trying to get out of this as fast as he can directly conflicts with his statements that say time's on our side.We've got all the time in the world.I'm not going to rush to make a bad deal, which is why the ceasefire has gone on for so long.Now, I understand there are some of us watching this who think, you know what, there's just absolutely no way this thing is ever going to go down peacefully.

But I think we're going to find out very soon if there is a deal or if all of this negotiating is just a smokescreen for a future military operation that the right time to execute has not presented itself yet.What do you think about that?I will see you in the next video.