Ben Shapiro

That is a major move by the president.

It is not just directed at the Iranian government, it is directed at China.

The president is expected to tell China to cut off their support for the Iranian government.

By the way, there's a very easy way for the president to achieve this.

The best way for the president to achieve a Chinese cutoff in support for Iran is to bomb the Iranian oil facilities.

If Iran no longer has energy to offer to China, China's interest in Iran declines markedly.

It declines even more markedly if Iran not only has no oil to export, but they are holding up all the other oil that China needs in order to power its economy.

At that point, does China really, really feel like upholding the Iranian malocracy for the fun of it?

The president has an enormous number of levers that he can pull right there.

While the president is, it appears, getting more militant with the Iranians because I think that there's sort of a weird catch-22 that exists in foreign policy thought with regard to Iran right now.

On the one hand, there's the idea that there can be a deal, that the nuclear dust will be turned over in a deal.

And on the other hand, the idea is that the United States can stage some sort of operation to go get the nuclear dust.

There'll either be a deal or there'll be no deal, and we'll have to put boots on the ground.

There is, in fact, a third option here, and that is to chop off the arms of the Iranian regime, to chop them off, and basically leave them like the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as I say.

You cut off their entire economic future, barring a reintegration into the world economy and an end to sanctions, which could only come through a deal, and suddenly the math changes pretty radically.

It seems the president may be thinking in this direction increasingly.

Yesterday,

He talks about negotiating with the moderates versus the lunatics in Iran.

Here's what he had to say.

Well, President Trump also pointed out that the ceasefire is on life support at this point, which of course it is.