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Tehran: Dog Day Afternoon Redux

From Iran to Space X to the World Cup, it's been a good week. 

Clarice Feldman | June 14, 2026

Every day, the negotiations with Iran remind me more and more of that wonderful movie Dog Day Afternoon, in which a couple of crazy guys pull a botched bank robbery, hold hostages, demand preposterous concessions to surrender the hostages, and finally, while under the impression they are being escorted to a plane that will carry them to freedom, one gets shot and the other arrested. In the matter of Iran, the hostages are the millions of Iranians being held by nutters who think that if they blow up the world, the 12th Imam, who is hiding in a well (Bi'r al-Ghayba) will return to eradicate evil and create world peace.

President Trump has been economically and strategically squeezing the loony leaders and their proxies, while destroying as much as we (and Israel) can without harming the hostage population and without keeping them destitute for decades. Some critics assert that those leaders’ promises cannot be trusted, and, at best, they are just playing for time. (Hint: Trump knows this and will not agree to anything that does not assure compliance with the agreed-upon terms. Others say he must free the hostage population. Do you imagine landing troops on the Iranian mainland is more or less likely to save them than economic pressure and a negotiated end to the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions and piratical stranglehold on the Gulf of Hormuz? When you deal with irrational people, negotiations necessarily take longer than when you have rational negotiating........

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