Ed Morrissey: Finish What We Started in Iran
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Friday, June 12, 2026
The Iranian regime has waged war against the United States for nearly 47 years.
The president clearly thought that we had sufficiently weakened the regime—and he’d be able to strike a deal. Indeed, he spent 60 days trying.
But the shootdown of our Apache helicopter may have changed things.
The Iranian regime has given Trump plenty of reasons to walk away from the negotiating table, starting from the very first hours of the so-called ceasefire in the Persian Gulf. Vahidi violated the agreement from the very start, imposing an extortionate "fee" system for sailing through the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz and firing on commercial vessels that refused to comply.
Trump has invested a lot of his credibility and trust in the IRGC's negotiations. Now, however, Trump sounds as though he suddenly woke up to the Sunk Cost Fallacy, saying they’ve taken too long and “now they will have to pay the price!!!”
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: This war has to be fought to the finish.
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