The host expresses skepticism that military pressure from the Trump administration will force the Iranian regime to surrender.

“there, if he does follow through, besides all the legal or the ethical issues, it reportedly might not even work. you've got a well-known political commentator in Iran telling the New York Times that the Trump administration is operating under a false assumption that enough military pressure could f”

Krystal Ball argues that the US is currently in a weak negotiating position and should drop the demand for zero enrichment to achieve a realistic deal.

“If he really wanted negotiation, he would drop the Israeli line of zero enrichment.”

Saagar Enjeti believes the Trump administration's negotiation strategy was destined to fail because it lacked a genuine mandate and relied on contradictory demands.

“I believe that this was basically set up to fail from the very beginning. Real peace talks don't happen this way.”

The current US military actions in Iran were driven by Israeli pressure rather than sound American strategic interests.

“I just think Israel just you know this is this is what Israel does and and and at the same time peers when we're basically our troops this all started let's not forget Marco Rubio on camera said all right he said well we didn't want to strike first. But since Israel was going to go and our assets, o”

The current war in Iran is a quagmire caused by external pressure rather than national interest, and the administration should pursue diplomatic negotiation instead.

“I think there's right now an undue amount of influence from Israel and the Israel supporters to get us deeply entrenched in this war because Israel's strategic objectives are to take down the regime and kind of to bring about uh instability in inside of Iran whereas our our goals are much more limit”

US officials in the Trump administration are traitors for their role in enabling the war with Iran due to their ties to Israel.

“So everybody on that list that was in that room is uh either a coward or a traitor or both.”

The administration's actions regarding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz are unhinged and suggest the president's options are limited.

“The reason all this matters is it's completely unhinged. Uh let's just put it right there where it is. It's just unhinged.”

The United States is forced to end the conflict with Iran on humiliating terms because Iran holds superior leverage, including control over the Strait of Hormuz and global oil reserves.

“Trump was terrified of what he was about to unleash on the world, and he was basically forced I don't want to say into surrendering, but into a posture that is I can't think of a parallel at least in my lifetime where the United States started a war and then was forced to end it on such humiliating ”

Hasan Piker asserts that Donald Trump's decision to implement a naval blockade in addition to Iran's existing blockade is an extremely irrational and counterproductive foreign policy move.

“So for Donald Trump to turn around and decide, "Oh, you're doing you're doing a blockade." Well, guess what? We're doing a blockade on top of your blockade. Is only going to make the crisis worse. Because if Iran is saying, "Oh, we'll let all the uh we'll let all the ships go through as long as they”

Tucker Carlson argues that the war with Iran is a foolish decision that serves foreign interests at the expense of the United States.

“This is the single most foolish thing any American president has ever done.”

Iran's leadership, specifically the Ayatollah, should be removed to make the world safer.

“You can only handle them one of two ways. You either have to kill him and make an example of them publicly in front of everybody, everybody. And to put the fear of death, anything and everything to them, their family, everyone around them publicly, you have to do it that way first.”

The United States can force the collapse of the Iranian regime by destroying its energy infrastructure and ending the myth of a ceasefire.

“It means no money for their IRGC thugs. It means no possible recovery. It means a death spiral. So, why don't we do that? Well, the reason that we don't do it is because Iran has essentially two points of leverage.”

The military actions against Iran are a success because the blockade is severely harming their economy.

“now they're dealing with one of the most punishing blockades in naval history. Uh it's costing them something like $400 million a day”

The President is using aggressive rhetoric as a negotiating tactic from a position of strength to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

“He is in a middle of a negotiation and he is threatening he's threatening the IRGC. He's threatening the Iranian regime or what's left of it with you come to me, you make a deal with me and here's the deal. No nuclear weapons.”

The United States should not trust or negotiate with the Iranian government because it is a terrorist regime.

“We're not screwing around. We don't trust you. You are a terrorist country that sponsors terrorism. You either come to the table and do a sensible deal which allows for us to verify that you're not having a nuclear program or prepare for the consequences of what you guys are doing.”

The Iranian regime has leveraged the conflict to become emboldened, and it is unclear how the US can claim a victory.

“in many ways they are already emboldened by what's happened.”

Any potential peace deal reached by the Trump administration will be demonstrably more beneficial to Iran than it is to the United States.

“if and when there is any deal that is finally announced, maybe in time for Donald Trump's birthday on Sunday or or I don't know what they're they're waiting to un to gift wrap this, you know, unbox this for, but when it's finally announced, it will prove to be to the benefit of Iran over the United ”

Bret Baier expressed skepticism about the US-Iran deal, citing Iran's history of bad-faith negotiations and the risk that the regime may not comply.

“There's so much history, as you know, Pat, that 47 years of of the Iranians negotiating in a way that um is not in good faith and and is always cheating and it's the biggest criticism is the money.”

A peace deal with Iran is currently impossible because Iran is smarter than the US and Trump will not agree to terms that could be publicly scrutinized as worse than the original Obama-era agreement.

“And that's why a deal can't happen because Trump won't agree to something that public publicly will be scrutinized as being worse than the Iran nuclear deal of old”

Mark Esper asserts that the positions of the United States and Iran are currently too far apart to realistically achieve a deal in the immediate future.

“I THINK THIS WILL HAVE TO PLAY OUT OF THE COMING DAYS. I SEE THE POSITIONS, BASED ON MY HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE BOTH SIDES ARE, IS TOO FAR APART TO GET A DEAL DONE HERE IN THE NEXT 48 TO 72 HOURS.”