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Trump wanted Iran's unconditional surrender. What he got is laughable.

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16.06.2026

Way back on March 6, not long after President Donald Trump hurled America into the dumbest war imaginable, our Nobel-Peace-Prize-deficient leader declared on social media: “There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!”

That was about the same time he said America’s “excursion” into Iran would take “four to five weeks” and “won’t be difficult.”

More than 14 weeks, thousands of lost lives and billions upon billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars later, it appears America is the one surrendering.

Trump is promoting an Iran peace deal that isn't actually a deal

The Trump administration is, of course, spinning an “agreement” with Iran as a peace deal, something it clearly is not. At the moment, the language of the agreement ‒ slated to be officially signed later this week ‒ hasn’t been released, which is dodgy in and of itself.

If this were anything approaching Trump’s previous claim of “unconditional surrender,” do you think Trump and........

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