The New Barbary Pirates
The Iranians are clearly not negotiating in good faith, and they never will.
Kenneth R. Timmerman | May 23, 2026
President Trump this week called Iran's new leaders "lunatics," because they just didn't seem capable of making a deal.
As he told Fortune magazine, "[T]hey make a deal, and then they send you a paper that has no relationship to the deal you made. I say, 'Are you people crazy?'"
The latest Iranian response to the U.S. was "leaked" to the Saudi daily al Arabiya on Thursday, and it's as much a non-starter as every other Iranian "plan" to end the war. The U.S. makes all the concessions, and Iran gets all the goodies.
If you read the details, it doesn't even mention Iran's nuclear weapons material, its enrichment capabilities, or its missiles. Talk about arrogant!
At the same time, the Iranians were telling the Saudi media of their agreement to guarantee freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz they published their own map, which showed them claiming the entire Strait -- right up to the shoreline of the United Arab Emirates and Oman -- was in Iran's territorial waters.
They are behaving like the Barbary Pirates.
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