Are we near a deal or ground troops in Iran? And as Trumpism dead, we'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors. I'm Rich Lowry, and I'm joining as always by the right, Honorable Charles C.W. Cook, the grillmaster, Phil Klein, and the notorious MbD. Michael Brendan Doherty, you are, of course, listening to a National You podcast or sponsors this episode or Donors Trust and Vera.

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So MBD, we got the Iran war and this classic kind of ambivalent state where Trump has everyone guessing.

We have a five-point peace plan that we've offered to the Iranians.

And also ground troops are streaming towards Iran as we speak.

I guess we'll arrive sometime next week.

So this deal, if they're reporting about it, is accurate, seems very unlikely to be accepted by the Iranians.

It would be not unconditional surrender, but it would be a form of surrender.

Most importantly, giving up their enriched uranium,

and limiting their missile forces and stopping their support for proxies in exchange for an end to

sanctions. Very unlikely they're going to accept that. And then we'll see what happens next. Trump

may know that they're unlikely to accept it,

and this may be a way to string things long

or to show people that he's the one being reasonable.

In regard to the ground troops,

there's a lot of speculation they could be headed to Karg Island.

An island, you mentioned a couple episodes ago,

major transit point for Iranian oil.

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