Rule of thumb in any negotiations — the party that walks away first is the one in the position of power. Trump just proved this again by bringing Vance home after 21 hours of Iranian intransigence and promptly announced a US Navy blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Here’s VP Vance:
If ya need the video : pic.twitter.com/98WBMkyzTO
— Patria Gardener🩺🇺🇸 (@PattiaGuarder17) April 12, 2026
It appears that the Iranian delegation — in the throes of hubris or possibly believing all the anti-American media within America who have been braying the war is LOST — did not come to negotiate but to demand.
Vice President JD Vance presented a “final offer” to Iran during negotiations in Islamabad Saturday, outlining six U.S. “red lines,” according to U.S. officials.
The demands included an end all uranium enrichment, dismantling all major nuclear facilities and retrieving highly enriched uranium.
The fourth was to accept a broader regional peace and de-escalation framework that includes regional allies. This was followed by stopping funding proxy groups including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis.
The sixth demand was to fully open the Strait of Hormuz, charging no tolls for passage.
Keeping nukes out of the hands of the Islamoterrorists has been the number one goal of the Trump administration — and we know pallets of cash haven’t worked out as advertised. Hence, military strikes that have wiped out Iran’s navy, decimated their airpower, and destroyed 13,000 military targets. Yet, somehow, the current IRGC junta has taken Monty Pythons’ satiric Black Knight as a how-to strategy, screaming demands ever louder for “reparations”, guarantees that no one ever attack them and that they get full control over the Strait of Hormuz right down to who gets to use it and how much to charge anyone allowed to pass.
Iran continues to assert that transits require prior coordination with its armed forces.
It should also be noted that Iran has declared that they’ve forgotten where all those mines they dropped into the Strait of Hormuz are.
Yeah, right.
President Trump is having none of it.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) April 12, 2026
Two US warships have already sailed through the strait, more expected.
USS Frank E. Petersen (DDG-121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) operated in the Persian Gulf after transiting the strait as part of the U.S. plan to “ensure the strait is fully clear of sea mines,” according to a Saturday U.S. Central Command news release. Frank E. Petersen is part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, while Michael Murphy is an independently-deployed destroyer, according to USNI News’ Fleet and Marine Tracker. The pair of ships transited back through the strait to the Gulf of Oman, according to ship spotters.
Additional U.S. forces, to include underwater drones, according to the release.
The two ships transited the gulf to begin “setting conditions for clearing mines,” reads the release.
President Trump is also well aware that his enemies are not just Islamoterrorists like Iran but Democrats at his back.
Iran and Democrats are united on a great many things, but none more than the desire to see President Donald Trump fail. The Iranian regime, or whatever remains of it, is trying to survive, and Democrats are, well, pretty much in the same boat. The two places in this country where the terrorists in Iran and the terrorists in the Democratic Party are most welcome are college campuses and cable news studios. That’s not a coincidence.
Indeed, it’s not. Democrats, like the increasing psycho-reptilian James Carville, aren’t the “loyal opposition”, they are straight-up anti-American when they aren’t in charge.
So let’s control the Strait of Hormuz and set our eyes on taking Kharg Island. Let’s see how long the Iranian Black Knight lasts after that.
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