GOP Rep. Issa Reveals What Needs To Happen Before ‘Meaningful Negotiations’ With Iran

Issa said, “[Y]ou’re right about one thing: This has been a sticky conflict, because Iran doesn’t have an off-ramp. And they don’t have an off-ramp because they don’t want one. They are exactly what they’ve been for nearly half a century, a terrorist expansion-based ideological country. And until those leaders change or are changed, we’re probably not going to see meaningful negotiations in spite of President Trump’s leadership.”

He added that the United States has prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but “They’re always just one shipment from North Korea or one rogue scientist away from the possibility of getting it again. The real change has to be a change in how Iran treats the rest of the world, and particularly, its neighbors, both Arab and Jew.”

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Iran has not decided to resume talks with the United States, and messages being exchanged via Qatar and Pakistan do not amount to negotiations, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says. pic.twitter.com/df1NOrrIeU

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) August 15, 2026

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HOW DOES THIS END WITH IRAN? JD VANCE SAYS AMERICA COMES OUT STRONGER.

With negotiations, military pressure and the Strait of Hormuz creating a constant back-and-forth, Vance says the strategy is more deliberate than it looks from the outside.

His endgame: Iran without a… pic.twitter.com/aJMa1vtqcH

— The Will Cain Show (@WillCainShow) August 13, 2026

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In 60 seconds, @MikePompeo cuts through all the noise on Iran. The former CIA Director and Secretary of State pulls no punches:

On negotiations:
“The Iranians are not yet willing to give up because, not because they’re not good business people, but because they’re not business… pic.twitter.com/hjatIAnoT3

— Gerald Posner (@geraldposner) August 12, 2026

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An Iranian official fired back Friday after President Donald Trump said he may eventually declare the Strait of Hormuz “territory of the United States,” insisting Tehran will continue enforcing its blockade of the strategic waterway.

“The Strait of Hormuz cannot be seized by tweet, nor by aircraft carrier, nor by issuing an order, nor by an election speech,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs Kazem Gharibabadi wrote on X. “Iran neither fears threats nor cowers before displays of power.”

Gharibabadi then claimed the U.S. has suffered “strategic and heavy defeats” and asserted that “the Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian.”

“This strait will only be closed and opened under Iran’s command,” he continued, adding that Tehran would maintain the blockade until the U.S. accepts what he characterized as the “reality of defeat.”

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