{"id":189367,"date":"2026-04-08T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189367\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:45:30","slug":"trumps-iran-cease-fire-makes-the-left-lose-its-mind-but-lets-just-take-the-win-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189367\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iran cease-fire makes The Left lose its mind but let’s just take the win\u2026 for now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTACO,\u201d anti-Trump crackpot Rick Wilson posted on social media, shortly after the president announced a two-week cease-fire that has Iran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This \u201cTrump always chickens out\u201d sentiment was repeated by left-wing pundits, who only hours before were furious that Trump was threating to \u201cblow up the whole country.\u201d<\/p>\n

So which is it? You\u2019re mad when he threatens to bomb a country, then mock him when he doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n

No matter how many times Trump turns to the same playbook \u2014 maximum pressure and outrageous threats to force a deal \u2014 Democrats and the press are shocked, shocked by his actions.<\/p>\n

While the left was losing its mind, however, Trump\u2019s tactics prodded China and Pakistan out of their stupor, and forced them to get involved. Those two nations, which use far more Iranian oil than the West, landed an agreement just 88 minutes before Trump\u2019s deadline Tuesday night, and pushed the conflict out of limbo.<\/p>\n

A key issue has been at least temporarily resolved \u2014 Iran will allow escorted traffic through the strait, taking pressure off the oil markets.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Trump should have continued bombing the Iranians<\/a> to increase his leverage against a regime expert at lying, cheating and obfuscating.<\/p>\n

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Most of Iran\u2019s 10-point peace plan is an absolute non-starter (such as Tehran saying it wants to continue to enrich uranium).<\/p>\n

Trump knows he must strike a verifiable and enforceable deal that doesn\u2019t look as doomed as those that have gone before.<\/p>\n

Trump has clearly set out his red lines, has undoubtedly caused long term damage to Iran\u2019s military capability and degraded the regime\u2019s leadership. Most importantly, he has shown he is not scared to use America\u2019s military might against one of the world\u2019s foremost threats against peace and democracy.<\/p>\n

For now there are two weeks of free trade and clear skies with which to negotiate even if it is highly likely US and Israeli jets<\/a> will soon be over Iranian targets yet again. We should be willing to take the temporary win, but there is much work to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTACO,\u201d anti-Trump crackpot Rick Wilson posted on social media, shortly after the president announced a two-week cease-fire that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,304,14670,72882,9,11,10,299,62208],"class_list":{"0":"post-189367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-editorial","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-deal","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-opinion","16":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}