Donald Trump: Iran Has ‘Within’ Two Weeks to Negotiate

[mystery-ak]

Donald Trump: Iran Has ‘Within’ Two Weeks to Negotiate

Nick Gilbertson 19 Jun 2025

President Donald Trump issued a message Thursday that Iran has “within the next two weeks” to negotiate with the United States.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt read a statement from Trump on Iran at the top of the press briefing a day after he said he “may” or “may not” order a strike on nuclear sites in Iran.

https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1935753412856967261

“Regarding the situation in Iran, I know there has been a lot of speculation amongst all of you in the media regarding the president’s decision-making and whether or not the United States will be directly involved,” she said.

“In light of that news, I have a message directly from the President … ‘Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” she said.

Correspondence between the United States and Iran has continued, according to Leavitt, and any deal would be centered on no uranium enrichment and Iran not being able to produce a nuclear weapon.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/06/19/donald-trump-iran-has-within-two-weeks-negotiate/

[mystery-ak]

This is how Iran negotiates...stall stall stall!

[Bigun]

This is how Iran negotiates...stall stall stall!

and lie! Lie! Lie!

[jafo2010]

President Donald Chamberlain Trump is sending a message of weakness to Iran, not strength.  They are dishonest to the core, should not be trusted in any degree.  Trump gave them two months, made that timeframe a clear schedule to them.  They thumbed their nose at him because he projected weakness.

I say quit jerking off in the corner and be a leader.  Destroy the Iranian Republic so nothing is left, and the people can emerge to seize their government.  To assume the people will rise up while the people in charge remain in charge is doing the same stupid things that have been done for decades.  And guess what, nothing changes.  I say kill every mullah that has had anything to do with the leadership of the country.  Every last one of them.

And kill as many in the military as can be killed.  Only with the elimination of these people will there be a chance for a different Iran.  The EXILED prince of Iran was on Fox today saying everyone needs to back off so that the people would rise up.  Nonsense!!!  They have tried four times and been put down brutally by the genocidal mullahs.  They don't care who they kill, even their own people.  That is what total power is all about. 

No, I say destroy everything in Iran that has anything to do with the military, their ability to produce ballistic missiles, and the nuclear production facilities.  And Trump is right to up front to demand unconditional surrender.  In that single statement, he has made clear his expected outcome.  But they haven't had their teeth bashed in sufficiently to accept such terms, so end the appeasement to these genocidal maniacs and kill every last one of them.  Once the entire leadership and military have been eliminated, only then might the people seize their government and attempt to redirect the future of Iran.

Ending Iran as we have known it for nearly 50 years will be the key milestone to bringing true peace to the middle east.  Dragging your feet is not leadership.  Hell, Israel has already done 80% of the work.

[Right_in_Virginia]

President Donald Chamberlain Trump is sending a message of weakness to Iran, not strength.  They are dishonest to the core, should not be trusted in any degree.  Trump gave them two months, made that timeframe a clear schedule to them.  They thumbed their nose at him because he projected weakness.

Trump may have given Israel the gift of time and Iran the rope needed to hang themselves.

And kill as many in the military as can be killed.  Only with the elimination of these people will there be a chance for a different Iran.  The EXILED prince of Iran was on Fox today saying everyone needs to back off so that the people would rise up.  Nonsense!!!  They have tried four times and been put down brutally by the genocidal mullahs.

The people must lead this counter-revolution, not well-meaning Westerners.  Have we learned nothing from our abject failures at nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Ending Iran as we have known it for nearly 50 years will be the key milestone to bringing true peace to the middle east.  Dragging your feet is not leadership.  Hell, Israel has already done 80% of the work.

When Israel has finished its military incursions into Iran, it should be over.  Give Israel a parade, throw some money toward Tel Aviv and that's that.  Anything that happens in Iran after the bombs stop falling that includes our involvement is nation building ---- and we closed that office in November 2024.

[jafo2010]

Right_in_Virginia...

Have we learned nothing from our abject failures at nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Who is talking about nation building?  You don't get it.  I AM TALKING ABOUT NATION DESTRUCTION.  COMPLETE TOTAL ANNIHILATION.  KILL ALL THE MULLAHS, ALL OR AS MUCH OF THE MILITARY, and then let the people attempt to create their own new government.  We need not be involved, at all from that point forward.

They have enough income from their oil to rebuild without the USA being involved.

[Bigun]

Who is talking about nation building?  You don't get it.  I AM TALKING ABOUT NATION DESTRUCTION.  COMPLETE TOTAL ANNIHILATION.  KILL ALL THE MULLAHS, ALL OR AS MUCH OF THE MILITARY, and then let the people attempt to create their own new government.  We need not be involved, at all from that point forward.

They have enough income from their oil to rebuild without the USA being involved.

Just pointing out that Iran had a functioning Monarchy that lasted from the 13th century until Jimmuh CaaaTa brought the Mullahs back.

[jafo2010]

Jimmy Carter was the biggest idiot running this nation until the three amigos came along, Bush, Obama and Biden.   These three make the Three Stooges appear to be geniuses.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Who is talking about nation building?  You don't get it.  I AM TALKING ABOUT NATION DESTRUCTION.  COMPLETE TOTAL ANNIHILATION.  KILL ALL THE MULLAHS, ALL OR AS MUCH OF THE MILITARY, and then let the people attempt to create their own new government.  We need not be involved, at all from that point forward.

No need to yell, I get it @jafo2010 --- you want to turn Iran's ruling class and military to dust.  Okay.  Then what? 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Just pointing out that Iran had a functioning Monarchy that lasted from the 13th century until Jimmuh CaaaTa brought the Mullahs back.

And then GWB takes out Hussein, Iran's firewall, and moves Iran to the head of the power line in the Middle East -- destabilizing the whole damn region.

I'll say it again:  We just ain't no good at this nation building crap ..... and that's always the step after "decapitate the government and bury its military".

[cato potatoe]

No need to yell, I get it @jafo2010 --- you want to turn Iran's ruling class and military to dust.  Okay.  Then what?

Then Iran descends into a boiling cauldron of chaos, misery, and death, like the arab states Netanyahu targeted.  We get half of the refugees, and Europe gets the other half. 

[Wingnut]

Then Iran descends into a boiling cauldron of chaos, misery, and death, like the arab states Netanyahu targeted.  We get half of the refugees, and Europe gets the other half.

We take the women. 

[cato potatoe]

We take the women.

They will all be fighting age men with halitosis. 

[mystery-ak]

CNN’s Keilar: Trump’s Two Week Deadline ‘Verbal Crutch’ He ‘Often Doesn’t Mean’

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar said Thursday on “News Central” that President Donald Trump’s two week deadline for Iran is a “verbal crutch” that “he often doesn’t mean.” At Thursday’s briefing, quoting the president, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said,“Based on the fact that there is a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision on whether or not to go in the next two weeks.”

Keilar said, “We do just need to be clear here, that would ordinarily be quite a deadline, but the president says two weeks all of the time, it’s really this kind of verbal crutch that he uses that he often doesn’t mean, so it’s hard to know exactly what he means here.”

She added, “He’s used this recently when he’s talking about Ukraine, what to do about Ukraine and Putin, it’s going to be in two weeks, all the way back to the beginning of his term, whether it was a healthcare plan to replace Obamacare or it was his infrastructure plan, most of these two week promises never happen. Some of them do, but not within two or sometimes the two to three weeks as he will sometimes say. He makes a lot of these fortnite references. And so this is really tricky as we try to parse this.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/06/19/cnns-keilar-trumps-two-week-deadline-verbal-crutch-he-often-doesnt-mean/

[rustynail]

’ He ‘Often Doesn’t Mean’, what happened on the 61st day?

[Timber Rattler]

Seriously?   

[240B]

Karoline Leavitt said today, 'Iran is two weeks away from a functioning nuclear weapon.'
Donald Trump said today, 'I am giving Iran two weeks before I get serious.'

[Lando Lincoln]

Karoline Leavitt said today, 'Iran is two weeks away from a functioning nuclear weapon.'
Donald Trump said today, 'I am giving Iran two weeks before I get serious.'

I don’t know how to make sense of those two statements.

[bilo]

No need to yell, I get it @jafo2010 --- you want to turn Iran's ruling class and military to dust.  Okay. Then what?

This is the problem that is not getting reported. Iran has several different ethnic groups in it. I'm sure the Kurds will want to become a part of Kurdistan. Of course Turkey will not be agreeable. What do we do if they then take military action?

We can not move in troops to help with the establishment of a new govt.. If we do that we are right back to nation building.

[bilo]

Then Iran descends into a boiling cauldron of chaos, misery, and death, like the arab states Netanyahu targeted.  We get half of the refugees, and Europe gets the other half.

It's a much better strategy to keep killing those that get promoted to leadership, until the next in line decide they will be better off eliminating the top people and forming a new govt.. In the meantime Israel keeps destroying their military infrastructure and when they are done starting on their civilian infrastructure.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11

There's some confusion developing in the base right now about regime change — perhaps thanks to war hawks deliberately muddying the waters.

The Iranian regime is bad. We support popular sovereignty. If the Iranian people want to bring down their government and put in a new one that respects human rights and desires peace with its neighbors, they will have our full support.

But there is a vast difference between a popular revolution and foreign-imposed, abrupt, violent regime change. We learned that difference 22 years ago. Saddam was never popular. But when America violently toppled him, we became the enemy invaders, and the government we installed became the unpopular occupation government. The government we installed was linked inextricably to a humiliating military defeat — which badly undermined its legitimacy.

Forced regime change creates a power vacuum that is filled by the most violent forces in a society. It exacerbates ethnic tensions — especially when there is a foreign power picking winners and losers while being totally unfamiliar with a nation's complex social dynamics. It happened to us in Afghanistan, it happened to us in Iraq, it happened to us in Libya, and it would happen again in Iran.

Anybody who tells you regime change is easy is kidding themselves. Every country has its government for a reason. Abruptly throwing that into turmoil isn't just risky, it's reckless.


10:32 AM · Jun 19, 2025
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1935707178855440536

@jafo2010

[Hoodat]

But there is a vast difference between a popular revolution and foreign-imposed, abrupt, violent regime change. We learned that difference 22 years ago. Saddam was never popular. But when America violently toppled him, we became the enemy invaders, and the government we installed became the unpopular occupation government. The government we installed was linked inextricably to a humiliating military defeat — which badly undermined its legitimacy.

Pure revisionist history.




Iraqis celebrating Saddam's execution.

[jafo2010]

Right_in_Virginia,

No need to yell, I get it @jafo2010 --- you want to turn Iran's ruling class and military to dust.  Okay.  Then what?

Then let there people rise up and organize a new government, one with some level of freedom for all in the country.  And that is where I say the USA does not belong, in the aftermath.  Let the surrounding nations provide aid or advice to rebuild.

[DB]

It isn't that complicated.

It is what we should have done in Iraq.

Take out the terrorist government, take out their weapons of mass destruction and leave.

Simply state that we'll do it again if they pursue those things again.

Rinse and repeat.

[Smokin Joe]

It isn't that complicated.

It is what we should have done in Iraq.

Take out the terrorist government, take out their weapons of mass destruction and leave.

Simply state that we'll do it again if they pursue those things again.

Rinse and repeat.

Yep.

[bigheadfred]

unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
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Iran's foreign minister says the US 'asked us to negotiate and we refused'

[Timber Rattler]

unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
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Iran's foreign minister says the US 'asked us to negotiate and we refused'

Trump's response this morning will be fun!

With that said, I think our military establishment is now reflexively being risk adverse.  I checked, and the USS Ford left for the Middle East yesterday.  Probably waiting for it to get on station and begin flight ops before hitting anything in Iran.  That'll take exactly about two weeks I believe.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/uss-ford-to-sail-for-european-deployment-giving-us-a-3rd-carrier-option-if-iran-israel-conflict-widens/

[Wingnut]

unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
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Iran's foreign minister says the US 'asked us to negotiate and we refused'

This Tehran Tom is good.  But not near the caliber of Baghdad Bobs nuanced delivery of State news.  Who could forget these gems from Bob: “Let’s go and do jihad”

“Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven.”

“Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil”

“We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

[BobfromWB]

When Iran is days away from a nuke, 47 gives them up to 2 weeks to negotiate ...