Trump Promises Netanyahu Will Not Be Arrested In America While NYC Mayor Insists ICC Warrant Should Be Honored

President Donald Trump declared on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested in any way shape or form while visiting the United States. The statement arrived just as New York City Mayor comrade Zohran Mamdani announced that the International Criminal Court arrest warrant against Netanyahu should be honored. 

In a Truth Social post Trump praised Netanyahu for fighting against the Islamic Republic of Iran and made clear that Iranian leaders not the Israeli prime minister are the ones who belong behind bars.

The only ones that should be arrested are the people that led Iran into this unprecedented SPIRAL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION something that should have been dealt with years ago by previous Presidents Trump wrote.The post followed an exchange on Fox News in which Mamdani was asked whether Netanyahu should face arrest if he came to New York City.

Mamdani replied that Netanyahu is the subject of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant over alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes. He described the allegations as facts of public record and stated that ICC warrants should be honored whether they involve Netanyahu Russian President Vladimir Putin or whomever else.

When pressed on whether his own administration would carry out such an arrest Mamdani declined to commit and said New York City would follow all applicable local laws. 

The ICC issued its warrants for Netanyahu in November 2024 over claims tied to the fighting in Gaza. The United States has never been a member of the court--that is an important factor since they have zero jurisdiction over the U.S. Constitution.

Last week Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched efforts to push back against the international body. The State Department described the ICC as an intolerable threat to U.S. sovereignty that now seeks to become the unaccountable global arbiter positioning itself above and beyond the nation state as a supranational enforcement arm of a globalist bureaucracy empowered to persecute American servicemen and officials at will. 

The department added that no diplomatic option will be off limits in the campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the ICC to Americans.

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People go ballistic online after Minnesota paper praises Tim Walz's clemency for child sex offender

In the upside down world of progressive journalism, the Minnesota Star Tribune has decided that pardoning a child rapist is cause for celebration. Their columnist went out of her way to defend Governor Tim Walz for shielding an illegal alien who spent years assaulting a ten year old girl. The piece even tried to equate the crime with January 6 to make the whole thing seem reasonable.

Laura Ingraham and former Acting ICE Director Jonathan Fahey have spent plenty of time pointing out how Democrats handle illegal immigration and criminal justice these days. They keep running into cases where the rights of victims, especially children, get pushed aside while illegal aliens who commit serious crimes receive soft treatment.

One recent example involves a lenient sentence for an illegal alien truck driver in California. This Minnesota pardon fits right into that pattern.The paper's columnist, Rochelle Olson, wrote a section titled "Cheers to Gov. Tim Walz." She praised the governor and failed vice presidential candidate for refusing to back down from his vote.

The Minnesota Board of Pardons, made up of Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, voted unanimously on June 10 to grant clemency to Tou Lue Vang. Vang is a Laotian national who between 2002 and 2004 repeatedly raped a child. He was set to be deported when the pardon came through. Olson noted that Vang needed only two of three votes but received unanimous support. She mentioned a letter from the victim to the pardon board that supported clemency. She left out the details that the victim was a minor and that the assaults happened multiple times over two years.

A spokesperson for the paper defended the decision by saying the Star Tribune regularly publishes a wide range of opinions across the political spectrum. In this case, the columnist simply agreed with a unanimous pardon by the Minnesota state board of pardons, including Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Natalie Hudson.To drive the point home, Olson compared Vang's crimes to January 6.

"Vang’s actions 20 years ago were awful, but so were the violent protests at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and those folks received presidential pardons," she wrote.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer saw it differently. "The Minnesota Star Tribune is cheering on Tim Walz protecting an illegal alien monster who raped a 10 year old girl. No one should read this depraved rag. They are sick," he said on X.

Online reactions were swift and sharp.

Dennis Neale wrote, "The Star Tribune likens repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl to protesting in the Capitol on Jan 6. You fluppin’ idiots."

Another commentator observed, "Minnesota’s largest paper actually figured out a way to shove January 6th into this as a way to excuse an illegal immigrant who sexually assaulted a child. One of the most insane things I’ve ever seen."

Dustin Grage called the column "Absolutely disgusting." Claremont Institute senior fellow Jeremy Carl captured the larger problem. "The degeneracy of the modern left would be impossible to exaggerate because it is impossible to exaggerate infinity." Nick Freitas added, "Every time I think I despise the main stream media enough, they triple their efforts."

None of the pardon board's work or the column's defense mattered in the end. On July 10, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the illegal alien had been deported to Laos anyway.

Rubio laid out the facts plainly. "Just weeks ago, a foreign child rapist was freed to once again endanger America's children after receiving a pardon from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz," he told Fox News Digital. "Tue Lue Vang admitted to committing heinous crimes against a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. He attempted to pay his victim for her silence and dismissed his acts of child abuse as a 'minor thing.'"

"Just days before he was scheduled to be deported, the Minnesota Governor pardoned him, setting him free to endanger American families once again," Rubio continued. "That's why I terminated his legal status in the United States. Vang has now been removed from our country and will never pose a threat to any American ever again."

Walz was not finished defending his choice. Days after the deportation he asked, "Did that make us any safer? Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can’t all be judged by our worst day?"

The question answers itself when the worst day in question involved years of raping a child. In the progressive mind, that apparently counts as something everyone should just move past, especially if the perpetrator is an illegal alien the government was ready to remove. The Star Tribune cheered the effort anyway. The rest of the country noticed the moral confusion and said so.

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Tampon Tim Walz Board Pardons Repeat Child Rapist So He Does Not Have To Face "No Future" In Laos

State Department officials confirmed this week that they have finally revoked legal status for a convicted child sex abuser from Laos after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his merry band of pardon enthusiasts decided the real victim here was the rapist facing deportation.

A 42-year-old illegal immigrant who admitted to repeatedly raping a child received a full pardon from Governor Tim Walz's board after the state's clemency commission decided "immigration concerns" outweighed, you know, the whole repeatedly-raping-a-child thing.

Fox News Digital obtained the documents, which show the Minnesota Clemency Review Commission voted 4-2 to spring Laotian national Tue Lue Vang. Vang had confessed to raping a girl multiple times over several years, starting when she was just 10 years old. The two commissioners who voted against it cited the "serious nature" of the crimes. The four who voted for it mostly worried about Vang getting kicked out of the country he entered illegally.

One commissioner, Zach Linstrom, explained his yes vote by writing, "Very tough case but the kids not having a father is not in the best interest of society," apparently referring to Vang's six children. Fellow yes-voter Artika Roller added, "The applicant stated the need for clemency related to immigration issues."

With that rock-solid recommendation in hand, the Minnesota Board of Pardons, featuring such legal luminaries as Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, granted Vang a complete pardon on June 10. This wiped his record clean just in time to save him from deportation.

At the time, Homeland Security Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis called it like it was: "Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting. These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting," she said.

Vang had entered the United States through California in 1994 and received legal status under the Clinton administration. Between 2002 and 2004, while aged 18 to 20, he had sexual intercourse with the victim four to six times in St. Paul. The first assault occurred when she was in fourth grade.

Documents show the victim "did not understand what Vang was doing, so she let him." Later she told friends, who described her as "angry and sad." Vang once offered her $10 to stay quiet.

Ramsey County Assistant Attorney Tami McConkey strongly opposed the pardon. She pointed out aggravating factors such as the extended abuse, Vang driving the girl to his home for more assaults, and his failure to use protection. She also noted that Vang had told police, "I made a mistake, but this is a minor thing. It is a cultural thing in Thailand to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12." He further suggested the victim should be arrested too because she was equally at fault.

McConkey observed that "while Mr. Vang expresses shame and regret about what his children experience when then [sic] learn of the offense, he does not share any thoughts or insight about what the victim must have gone through."

Yet several commissioners highlighted that the victim supposedly supported the pardon. Commissioner Nadine Graves wrote, "The victim supports this pardon. His [Vang’s] wife stayed and has forgiven. He also [has] immigration concerns. He has remorse and was discharged from probation."

Graves added that Vang "retracted his prior statement about this being a result of culture. He admits this was wrong then and will always be wrong." Commissioner Perry Moriearty praised "substantial evidence of rehabilitation, remorse and acceptance of responsibility" while noting Vang "is facing deportation" and "victim supports."

In his own pardon application, Vang wrote, "I carry deep shame and regret for the harm I caused." He fretted that deportation would send him "to a place entirely unfamiliar to me, with no family, no home, and no future."Vang added, "My fear is that, if deported, my children will grow up without a father, like I did" and "I will do all that I can to be here and to protect them from the outcomes of my deportation."

Thankfully, the Trump administration was not interested in Walz's compassionate approach to foreign child rapists. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday that he had terminated Vang's legal status and removed him to Laos.

Rubio told Fox News Digital, "Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators — shielded from deportation by their own elected officials — could endanger them or their children. That's why I terminated his legal status in the United States," he continued. "Vang has now been removed from our country and will never pose a threat to any American ever again."

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Marco Rubio Cleans Up Tim Walz's Latest Gift to Criminal Illegal Aliens

If there were an award for making ICE's job as difficult as possible, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz would have to clear some shelf space for the awards he received as a fan dancer.

The governor who never seems to meet an illegal alien he doesn't want to protect found himself at the center of another stunning controversy after helping pardon a convicted child rapist just before he was set to be deported. Fortunately, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped in and did what Walz apparently would not, make sure the predator was sent packing.

In an exclusive report, Fox News Digital said that Rubio revoked the legal status of Tue Lue Vang, an illegal alien scumbag from Laos whose clemency from Walz and Minnesota's Board of Pardons threatened to derail his removal from the United States.

"Just weeks ago, a foreign child rapist was freed to once again endanger America's children after receiving a pardon from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz," Rubio said. "Tue Lue Vang admitted to committing heinous crimes against a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. He attempted to pay his victim for her silence and dismissed his acts of child abuse as a 'minor thing.'"

That is the man Walz's pardon board decided deserved another chance. But another chance at what? Hunting for another innocent child to brutally assault? And this governor has a daughter of his own, so he obviously is incapable of having empathy for the child's parents, much less the child.

According to court records, Vang was convicted in 2006 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct after repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004. Following his arrest, he reportedly told investigators that "it is a cultural thing... to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12."

It's also a cultural thing for child rapists to be 'taken out' in American prisons.

Apparently, somewhere inside Minnesota's ever expanding progressive compassion manual, someone forgot to include a chapter titled "Don't pardon convicted child rapists."

Rubio continued his criticism of Walz's disgusting decision.

"Just days before he was scheduled to be deported, the Minnesota Governor pardoned him, setting him free to endanger American families once again," Rubio lamented.

Instead of accepting that outcome, Rubio took action.

"Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators shielded from deportation by their own elected officials could endanger them or their children."

"That's why I terminated his legal status in the United States," he continued. "Vang has now been removed from our country and will never pose a threat to any American ever again."

Let him get his culture on in Laos.

That statement sounds remarkably like what government is supposed to do.

Walz's anal retentive face

The pardon itself was not Walz acting alone. Minnesota's Board of Pardons, made up of Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, approved the clemency on June 10 after receiving a recommendation from the nine member Minnesota Clemency Review Commission.

The commission even congratulated Vang in writing.

"Being granted a pardon is a notable achievement and a reflection of the work you have done since your conviction," a CRC member said in a letter to Vang informing him of his clemency.

One has to wonder what exactly qualifies as a "notable achievement" these days. Evidently, in Minnesota's political class, serving time for repeatedly raping a child and avoiding deportation earns a congratulatory letter instead of a one way ticket home.

The Department of Homeland Security certainly was not impressed.

"Governor Tim Walz's decision to pardon an illegal alien convicted child rapist so he can remain in our country is disgusting," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said. "These are the criminal illegal aliens he and his Minnesota sanctuary politicians are protecting."

The Democrats would vote for Hitler if he ran against a Republican.

Rubio ultimately ensured that Walz's pardon would not become a permanent shield against immigration enforcement. Vang has now been deported and barred from returning to the United States.

The episode also was not an isolated incident. In May, Walz and the same pardon board granted clemency to another illegal alien from Laos, this one a convicted armed robber, just before he too faced deportation.

Minnesota voters may eventually have to decide whether their governor's version of "mercy" is really just another word for putting criminals ahead of the safety of law abiding Americans, all for the sake of politics.

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Cuban Operative From Hasan Piker And Code Pink's Luxury Communist Vacation Planning Committee Arrested After Rubio Ruins The Fun

In a shocking development that has leftist activists clutching their Che Guevara T-shirts, the Department of State announced on Wednesday that three Cuban nationals were taken into federal custody after Secretary Marco Rubio had the audacity to terminate their legal status in the US. One of those arrested was a man the department said has "spent more than a decade working as a foreign subversive for the Communist Cuban regime’s premier influence and intelligence front group in the United States."

Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, along with his wife and son, was taken into custody by federal agents. Lloga Dominguez was employed by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP) for over a decade, the department said, and has continued to maintain ties to the network during his time in the US.

Rubio designated ICAP for sanctions in early June. The group "is the central node in a sprawling Cuban intelligence and influence operation, claiming to span more than 2,000 organizations across more than 150 countries," the department said. The current head of ICAP, Fernando González Llort, previously served 15 years in US prison for his role in the Wasp Network, a Cuban spy ring discovered in Florida in the late 90s.

The department said, "Working in close coordination with the Cuban communist regime, ICAP maintains an outsized footprint across the United States, trafficking in vile anti-American propaganda, cultivating pro-Havana regime activists and politicians, and lobbying federal, state and local politicians on behalf of the Cuban dictatorship. The organization facilitates close working relationships between Havana and radical U.S. groups, using America’s far left milieu as a vehicle to export Cuba’s Communist revolution to the United States."

Che got woke

How dare they. Everyone knows the real threat to democracy is mean tweets and insufficient pronoun usage, not actual foreign agents embedded in America's compassion industrial complex.

An investigation by Fox News Digital found that ICAP officials have been closely coordinating with American nonprofits over the last decade to support Cuba’s Communist Party. The nonprofits include People’s Forum, Breakthrough News, Tricontinental, CodePink, the ANSWER Coalition, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, many of which are funded by far-left businessman Neville Roy Singham. Because nothing says "organic grassroots movement" like a trust fund socialist wiring cash from overseas.

In May, the Trump administration's Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control subpoenaed socialist political YouTuber Hasan Piker, as well as CodePink’s Susan Medea Benjamin, over a trip taken to Cuba. One such trip took place in March, with activists being seen partying while much of the island faced a blackout. ICAP worked with US nonprofits to organize this trip. Nothing builds solidarity with the starving proletariat quite like doing the Macarena while grandma sits in the dark.

The March trip was under the banner of the "Nuestra America Convoy," with organizers claiming the trip aimed to deliver humanitarian aid and protest US sanctions. They also painted murals. Of course they did. Revolutionary change begins with tasteful public art.

The federal inquiry is over whether activists who went on the March trip violated US sanctions laws through the financing, coordination or delivery of goods to Cuba, including potential contacts with Cuban government personnel or entities on the island.

Amid news of the subpoena, it was revealed that Piker had admitted in 2025 that the Cuban government had reached out to a contact of his in an attempt to get him to come to the country. "The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy and told them that if the only thing stopping Hasan from coming to Cuba was the consistent internet access, we can make it happen," he said.

Truly, the Cuban regime's willingness to provide reliable Wi-Fi for content creators is the kind of humanitarian outreach that makes America look bad. Thank goodness patriotic federal agents are finally treating these brave truth-tellers like the foreign influence agents they keep proving themselves to be. The revolution will not be subsidized.

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Rubio and Vance Offer Competing Visions While White House Insists Everyone Is Singing From the Same Hymnal

For an administration that likes to remind everyone it's playing four-dimensional chess on the world stage, the Trump White House has found itself looking like a family trying to assemble IKEA furniture after losing the instructions. Everyone insists they're building the same bookshelf, but one guy is holding a hammer while another is convinced the leftover screws are decorative.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spent the past week doing something that used to be considered a basic qualification for running American foreign policy: acknowledging that the Iranian regime is exactly what decades of history say it is. Vice President JD Vance, on the other hand, has been floating a more optimistic theory that suggests the mullahs are just one reconstruction package and a few friendly conversations away from becoming respectable neighbors. What has he been smoking?

The White House would like everyone to stop noticing.

Rubio has consistently defended Israel's campaign against Hezbollah for what any honest observer can see it is: a response to years of rocket attacks, terrorism, and the bizarre international expectation that Israelis should quietly absorb missiles because it makes European diplomats feel more comfortable and besides, Jews need to be annihilated because, you know, the Qur'an and stuff.

While visiting the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain, Rubio worked to reassure nervous allies following the preliminary U.S.-Iran agreement signed on June 17. Critics have questioned whether the deal hands Tehran far too much for far too little. Rubio answered those concerns with a sentence so grounded in reality that it almost sounded old fashioned.

"While we want a deal, we don't want a deal at any price," Rubio said.

Imagine that. A Secretary of State who remembers that negotiations are supposed to benefit America instead of serving as therapy sessions for hostile dictators.

That practical approach stands in pretty stark contrast to the messaging coming from the vice president.

Vance, on the other hand, has defended the agreement against Israeli criticism while arguing that Israeli strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in Beirut could complicate American diplomacy. That assumes Hezbollah is simply misunderstood and that their biggest obstacle to peace is poor calendar coordination with U.S. negotiators rather than an obsessive commitment to wiping Israel off the map.

Does he know nothing about Islamic anti-Semitism?

The vice president has also spoken favorably about Gulf nations helping finance Iran's reconstruction and has entertained the possibility of a more cooperative relationship with the Islamic Republic. Apparently decades of hostage taking, proxy wars, terrorism, and "Death to America" chants are now considered minor misunderstandings that can be smoothed over with enough infrastructure spending. He needs to forget about running for POTUS in '28.

Then came Thursday's interview.

Vance revealed that Washington had invited an Iranian intelligence official to serve as a deconfliction liaison with the Pentagon in Qatar. That's one of those ideas that sounds like it came out of a brainstorming session where someone asked, "What's the foreign policy equivalent of letting the bank robber install the security cameras?"

Naturally, everyone in the administration insists there isn't even the slightest disagreement.

"There is one camp, President Trump's camp, and the entire administration is fully behind the president's efforts to ensure Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon," spokeswoman Anna Kelly said.

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott dismissed reports of friction as a "tired and fake" narrative before adding, "The entire administration is 100% in lockstep behind President Trump."

Rubio offered the same assurance Thursday.

"Everyone here is aligned behind the president."

Maybe they are.

But from where everyone else is sitting, this doesn't look like perfect harmony. It looks like one side is reading Ronald Reagan while the other is speed-running Barack Obama's Middle East playbook. Both keep insisting they're singing the same song, but one sounds like "God Bless America" while the other is humming "Kumbaya" with the ayatollah.

If this really is one unified strategy, somebody might want to hand out the same script before the next press conference.

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Marco Rubio Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About Iran's Ruling Fanatics

One of the more refreshing things about Secretary of State Marco Rubio is that he doesn't waste everyone's time pretending obvious things aren't obvious. In a political world where diplomats often communicate in layers of carefully polished mush, Rubio looked at the ruling regime in Tehran and described it with refreshing accuracy.

"Religious-theocratic lunatics."

That's a reasonably concise description of a government run by radical clerics who have spent decades funding terrorism, threatening America's allies, chanting "Death to America," and treating basic human rights like optional suggestions.

While speaking during his Middle East trip on Thursday, Rubio was asked whether he still stood by those remarks.

"You used to call them religious theocratic lunatics," a reporter said. "Do you still believe that language applies to the leadership today?"

Rubio didn't blink.

"Well, look, it's not that I believe it. It's the fact of the matter," the Secretary of State replied. "I mean, the Iranian system is led by clerics, radical clerics. That's what it's always been led by, and that's what it continues to be led by. That said, we also have to manage the geopolitics of the situation. And if they've changed their mindset or if they've changed their approach to their relations with the United States and their neighbors, then we're going to give this thing a chance to work."

How novel--the truth be told.

That's about as sensible as foreign policy gets. Recognize reality first. Explore diplomacy second. Don't confuse wishful thinking with evidence.

The Secretary of State continued: "Maybe this changed. I'm not saying it has. I'm saying the president wants to explore whether that's the case. And if it has, we're going to find out. But we're not going to find out because of what they say. We're going to find out because of what they do. We're going to judge them by their actions."

Imagine that. Judging the Iranian regime by its actions instead of its press releases. What a concept.

The Trump administration is trying to reassure America's Middle Eastern allies that Iran will be handled appropriately following last week's memorandum of understanding. That's understandable, because Tehran hasn't exactly been behaving like a government eager to join the civilized world as much as they appear to want to destroy it in order to welcome in the Twelfth Imam.

Instead, Iran has continued acting as though it somehow has leverage. During negotiations in Switzerland over the weekend, the regime reportedly treated American negotiators with its usual mix of arrogance and theatrical contempt. Then on Thursday, it attacked a cargo vessel attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz using a route that wasn't blessed by the ayatollahs.

That's less the behavior of a government seeking peace than one testing how much mischief it can get away with before someone reminds it that actions have consequences.

President Trump has repeatedly insisted that Iran holds no cards. Fair enough, but there comes a point where the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism has to stop being told where the line is and start discovering that crossing it carries a price.

Everyone wants peace. Rational people always do, which obviously leaves out the Iranian Regime.

The problem is that peace only works when both sides value it. The Iranian regime has spent nearly half a century demonstrating that what it respects isn't goodwill or carefully worded diplomatic communiqués. It respects strength.

Rubio's blunt assessment may offend the professional pearl-clutchers in Washington, but pretending the ayatollahs are misunderstood statesmen has never produced results. Calling reality by its proper name is a much better place to start.

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Trump admin may be willing to make 'significant accommodations' on sanctions relief for the terrorists

WASHINGTON—In a stunning display of 21st-century diplomacy that somehow hasn't collapsed into a mushroom cloud yet, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz now depends on "full Iranian acceptance and then compliance" with negotiated terms. Of course, trusting the ayatollahs to keep their word is like the scorpion carrying the frog across the stream, for you fable fans.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, evidently moonlighting as a Trump hype man, commended President Donald Trump for leading "extraordinary efforts to pursue peace" after a high-level multilateral phone conference that rounded up the usual suspects from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates. Sources confirm the call went swimmingly, with zero participants threatening to turn anyone into a parking lot.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated on Saturday that the main U.S. objective remains preventing Tehran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon, ambitious stuff, considering Iran views "nuclear weapon" the same way a kid views a participation trophy, as in 'everyone should get one.'

President Trump, never one to undersell a deal, declared that the Iran agreement to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been "largely negotiated," which in diplomatic terms means "we're basically there except for the part where they keep lying."

The U.S. may be willing to make "significant accommodations" for Iran on sanctions relief if the nation's leaders are willing to make similar accommodations to the U.S. on enriched uranium, a senior administration official told Fox News on Sunday, in what historians are already calling "the most polite game of nuclear chicken ever played."

The official downplayed reports that the deal could be signed on Sunday, saying Tehran's system "does not move fast enough."

"Our plan is to deal with all of their stockpile of the enriched material," the official said. "We see the Iranians making some serious accommodations on these questions that we didn't see before." And if you believe the Islamic Regime at their word, I have a bridge to sell you.

"If the Iranians make significant accommodations on the enrichment question then we will make significant accommodations on sanctions relief," the official continued.

"Even in the IRGC's own propaganda, they did not talk about tolling the Strait of Hormuz. Our position is quite clear. We don't think that a toll is an acceptable outcome," the official added. 

At the time of this writing, Iran was reportedly nodding along while secretly spinning more centrifuges, and Washington was pretending this time would be different.

And snakes have hips.

If the Islamic Regime of Iran is allowed to remain in power, nothing will have been accomplished and this will be a waste of blood and treasure.

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