As American forces concentrate in the Persian Gulf for a possible war with Iran, Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t think there’s a point in a tet-a-tet with Tehran, even as negotiations about the country’s nukes are slated for later this week.
“You know, as you look at this regime now tottering, the President has said that he stands with the people who are opposing the regime, and when he says things like that, knowing him, he’s gonna follow through. I don’t think this is a regime where you can do a credible deal with. That is just not how they operate. There’s no way you can negotiate your way out of the fact that ultimately, this is a regime pledged to Islamic jihad. This is what they want. They don’t want to have a peaceful world like we would want to enjoy with our allies. And sothis has been a long time coming.”
He made the comments on Sunday’s edition of “Life, Liberty, & Levin.”
DeSantis has previously suggested that the nation of Iran has a religiously driven suicidal impulse writ large that makes mutual assured destruction an unreliable concept, saying that attacks of the sort that happened in 2025 in coordination with Israel would serve as an “inducement” because of their “very apocalyptic radical ideology.”
Up to 50,000 troops, 14 ships, dozens of fighter jets, 85 fuel tankers, and 170 cargo planes reportedly are in the region, rivaling the buildup to the two invasions of Iraq under successive George Bush presidencies in the 1990s and 2000s.
