Gorka: Trump hasn’t met Iran timeline because US ‘too effective’

Sebastian Gorka claimed the Trump administration had been “too effective” in its war in Iran in explaining why the conflict has stretched beyond President Trump’s initial prediction of a four-to-five-week timeline. 

Gorka, the senior counterterrorism director at the National Security Council, was responding to a question on how the American public should reconcile the original timeline with the current reality of a now eleven-week war.

“There’s a very simple answer to your question — we’ve just been too effective,” Gorka said on News Nation on Sunday.

He blamed the delay on the two sides coming to a peace deal on the destruction of Iran’s traditional leadership.

“This is a regime in ultimate collapse at the top. As a result, it makes communicating and getting that final deal, that acquiesces, that surrender a little bit more complicated. But rest assured, it is coming imminently,” he said.

Washington and Tehran are currently in a ceasefire as Trump seeks an off-ramp to the........

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