Iran rulers’ playing for time is one big reason Trump shouldn’t give them any

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : That includes not just the possible loss of public support that’s built over the last week, but the chance that some unforeseen development will raise the stakes beyond a straightforward strike on a single nuke site.
46% : To be clear, Trump can still hope for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear program, but Araqchi’s ploy reeks of the same bogus game that Hamas has been playing ever since the end of the Gaza ceasefire the prez imposed as he was taking office.
34% : Trump has to look at the bigger picture, including the risks (seen and unseen) of letting Tehran keep playing games.
31% : For what it’s worth, Trump plainly isn’t holding off only because the ayatollah might see reason: He’s also considering the full impact of a US strike, and seeing what else may develop.
29% : That makes it obvious the regime intends to just string this out for as long as possible, hoping that Europe and/or Congress will somehow get Trump to tell Israel to stop its campaign.
21% : Yet that raises another angle that argues against Trump taking his time: Israel’s ongoing total humiliation of the Islamic Republic’s rulers (and its killing of many of them) could trigger a Libya-style “regime collapse” even without a Fordow takeout.
21% : Khamenei and his advisers care only about protecting their own power, so they’ll use every hour Trump gives them searching for some way out of the trap they put themselves in by ignoring Trump’s last deadline.

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