Former Speaker Newt Gingrich emphasized the importance of the ongoing negotiations between the U.S. and Iran during a Monday interview with Fox News. "I think the president, when he returns from China, is going to have a very difficult choice," he said on the network's "Outnumbered" show. The former lawmaker was then asked…
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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich emphasized the significance of the current negotiations between the U.S. and Iran during a Monday interview with Fox News.
“I think the president, when he gets back from China, is going to have a very difficult choice,” he said on the network’s “Outnumbered” show.
The former lawmaker was asked to respond to President Trump’s earlier comments to reporters in the Oval Office about the war, amid negotiations between Iranian and U.S. officials over a peace deal framework. The president is traveling to China this week to meet with the country’s leader, President Xi Jinping.
The U.S. sent a one-page proposal to Tehran last week, which Axios reported contained provisions to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, lift U.S. sanctions on Iran, and halt Iran’s nuclear enrichment processes.
The reported details were controversial among some within the president’s base, with Fox News host Mark Levin calling the deal “disastrous” for the Iranian people and the Israeli government.
“If the Axios report is close to accurate, the Iranian regime will survive, the Iranian people will face even more extensive brutality, and the Israeli government could fall in the October election. A disastrous result,” Levin wrote on social media.
When pressed by a reporter on Monday about whether diplomacy with Iran was still on the table, the president said it was “very possible” but he acknowledged previous roadblocks in reaching an agreement with Tehran.
“Look, I’ve had a deal with them four or five times,” he said. “They change their mind. They’re very dishonorable people.”
He later added that Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon.”
Gingrich warned that Iran’s leadership will not “give in” easily to U.S. demands.
“[Trump] was very clear again today: I mean, he believes the Iranians having nuclear weapons is a mortal threat to American cities,” Gingrich said. “Well, then, if he really believes that, he better have the Defense Department, or the Department of War, figuring out a campaign strategy that allows us to stop them from doing it.”
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