Ben Shapiro

The Iranians are threatening that if we do that, which would basically be taking them out completely, I mean, it would do tremendous damage to them, they would then blow up the oil fields.

And that is the thing that is preventing us from getting to the end of this.

The Iranians are assuming that our pain point is not $100 a barrel oil, it is $200 a barrel oil.

And so if they pressure us by threatening to blow up oil fields in Saudi, Qatar, UAE, and Iraq, then we'll cut some sort of crappy deal.

Right, that is the game that they are playing right now.

Now, if the president does cut that crappy deal, that would be a huge, huge historic error of massive proportions.

I don't think the president's going to do that.

He keeps saying he's not going to do that.

So I have faith that he won't.

But if he does cut that crappy deal, let's just be clear.

He is listening to all the people who hate him.

He's listening to all the people who have been yelling at him this entire time.

He'd be listening to the Tucker Carlson's and the Candace Owens is and the Megyn Kelly's and all those people.

If he cuts a crappy deal that allows Iran to rebuild its nuclear weaponry, allows Iran to rebuild its ballistic missiles, allows Iran to rebuild its terror axis.

And so the question here is really one of time.

How long can the United States take the pain of elevated oil prices and how high can those oil prices go before the United States does something?

Now, if we wanted to get to the end of a negotiation quickly, what we should be doing is we should not be talking about, if I were advising the president, I'd tell him, Mr. President, do not talk about the negotiations publicly.

Every time you talk about the negotiations publicly, the Iranians take that as a sign of weakness.

They take it as a sign that they have found leverage.

And they're unlikely to actually give you more things.