The Perils of a Grand Bargain with Iran

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The Perils of a Grand Bargain with Iran › American Greatness
Talk of a “grand bargain” with Iran revives a failed playbook of concessions and deception that history shows only strengthens Tehran’s regime.

Ken Timmerman


Both the president and vice president have thrown out the term “grand bargain” in recent days to describe their aspirations for a deal with the Iranian rump regime.

It’s a term fraught with past failures that screams Iranian deception, not the interests of America First.

Bill Clinton was the first to use the phrase toward the end of his second term to describe his aspiration to end a low-intensity conflict that had been simmering for 20 years.

He appointed David R. Andrews as “Special Negotiator” for the mostly secret talks. Just as today, among the top Iranian demands was for the US to lift economic sanctions, which at the time included a total US trade embargo, secondary sanctions on foreign oil and gas companies investing in Iran, and the release of Iranian funds held by the US Treasury.

Those Treasury funds were a carefully kept secret. At the time, I was engaged as a consultant to attorneys representing Stephen Flatow, whose daughter Elyssa had been murdered by Iranian-backed terrorists in Israel in 1996.

We queried the Treasury Department about the existence of Iranian funds frozen since the 1979 revolution to pay for the Shah’s weapons purchases from the US, and were told such a fund did not exist.

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https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/19/the-perils-of-a-grand-bargain-with-iran/

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The Perils of a Grand Bargain with Iran › American Greatness
Talk of a “grand bargain” with Iran revives a failed playbook of concessions and deception that history shows only strengthens Tehran’s regime.

Ken Timmerman

Both the president and vice president have thrown out the term “grand bargain” in recent days to describe their aspirations for a deal with the Iranian rump regime.

It’s a term fraught with past failures that screams Iranian deception, not the interests of America First.

Bill Clinton was the first to use the phrase toward the end of his second term to describe his aspiration to end a low-intensity conflict that had been simmering for 20 years.

He appointed David R. Andrews as “Special Negotiator” for the mostly secret talks. Just as today, among the top Iranian demands was for the US to lift economic sanctions, which at the time included a total US trade embargo, secondary sanctions on foreign oil and gas companies investing in Iran, and the release of Iranian funds held by the US Treasury.

Those Treasury funds were a carefully kept secret. At the time, I was engaged as a consultant to attorneys representing Stephen Flatow, whose daughter Elyssa had been murdered by Iranian-backed terrorists in Israel in 1996.

We queried the Treasury Department about the existence of Iranian funds frozen since the 1979 revolution to pay for the Shah’s weapons purchases from the US, and were told such a fund did not exist.

more
https://amgreatness.com/2026/04/19/the-perils-of-a-grand-bargain-with-iran/

The author worries about not finishing the job, and he's right. But he goes on to say we do not want to fight this war again in 10 years.

If the Demarcates [ the party of Communism and Islamization of America ] retake power, they will do everything they can to undo all of 47's achievements, including making it right for Iran by massive foreign aid and all kinds of goodies, including nuclear.

So in that case we will not be fighting this Iranian war again in 10 years, instead, like 0bama said, we will be figuring out how to absorb a nuclear hit or two from Iran.