The negotiations are a disaster from the start

Stephen Bryen Weapons & Strategy Feb 07, 2026

Steve Witkoff (Photo By Unknown author – https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse45/videos/white-house-opioids-summit/1598737246880669/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152740717)

??Special Ambassador Steve Witkoff no doubt talked to President Trump about the US-Iran meeting in Oman. We don’t have a special wiretap on his call to the President, but it is a sure bet Witkoff told the President things were going well and another meeting is planned.

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The Turkish “Kaan” 5th-generation fighter jet is currently under development, with President Erdogan seeking joint defense cooperation with Saudi Arabia.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN | FEBRUARY 5, 2026

Turkey’s ‘Kaan’ fighter jet seen during runway tests at its facilities in Ankara, March 17, 2023
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Iranian FM: ‘If negotiation process continues in this way, an agreed framework can be reached’

All Israel News Staff | Published: February 6, 2026

Screengrab via Youtube 

Representatives from the United States and the Iranian regime convened in Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Friday, exchanging positions through the mediation of the Omani foreign minister in talks that appeared to focus more on outlining preconditions than on substantive negotiations.

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History repeats itself – and Jewish history is rife with tragedy after tragedy. The warning signs are once again unmistakable.

Ronn Torossian | Feb 6, 2026

Zeev Jabotinsky with his wife and son Eri (Ari). Photo by Unknown author – Unknown source, Public Domain, Wikipedia

The key variables here aren’t economic or strategic, they’re Islamic.

by Daniel Greenfield

The problem is simple.

Iran wants nuclear weapons because of its religious belief in Jihad. It’s not going to give up that belief for money. And money is the only thing we have to offer it in the form of dropping sanctions. That puts us right back to the same place where Obama’s Iran Deal negotiations were.

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Peloni:  As I noted previously, American resistance has been interpreted as weakness.  In fact, the Iranians are being emboldened by the manner in which the US has handled their approach toward negotiations, walking back its demand, ignoring its threats of being ‘locked and loaded’ to support the protestors, and its ‘delaying’ an assault which has yet to come in any form greater than striking a drone approaching its carrier in a threatening posture.

Yigal Carmon | MEMRI | Feb 6, 2026

Senior Iranian regime officials and their media mouthpieces are continuing to issue threats, with the aim of deterring President Trump from attacking Iran.[1] These threats are in the form of statements, AI-generated videos, cartoons, and billboards in public squares in Iranian cities with messages about killing hundreds or thousands of U.S. troops in the region, sinking U.S. aircraft carriers, launching missiles against the U.S. itself, blocking global shipping lanes, attacking U.S. diplomatic missions, and targeting President Trump’s personal assets.

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Peloni: The purpose of antisemitism is to delegitimize us, to break the bond of identity which strengthens our people, and to instill a sense of fear and isolation, all of which must be countered with the strengthening of our identity and connection to our heritage, strengthening security, and promoting resistance to the normalization of antisemitic attacks.

In an age of historic surging antisemitism around the world, suggesting the solution to antisemitism is to maximize the sense of victimhood fails on every level and will only add to the damage intended by antisemites.  Meira is correct in challenging Robert Kraft with gaining a better idea of how to counter the threat poised and promoted against the Jewish people.

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Peloni:  Iran’s ballistic missile threat is too great to ignore, even as it was ignored in today’s meeting in Oman.  The US should respond to Iran’s sense of omnipotence by demonstrating that it is the US which has the ability to make demands in these negotiations, not Iran.

The answer may be simpler and more obvious than most of us have thought. It lies in Iran’s ballistic missile program.

Mudar Zahran | Am Thinker | February 6, 2026

Recently, the United States was expected to hold negotiations with Iran in the Gulf Sultanate of Oman. The Trump administration announced the cancellation of the said talks amid disagreements over Iran’s insistence that the negotiations remain strictly limited to its nuclear program, while Washington wanted to discuss a large array of issues. That disagreement alone raises the question: What issue is Tehran even more reluctant to discuss than its holiest of holy, its nuclear program?

The answer may be simpler and more obvious than most of us have thought. It lies in Iran’s ballistic missile program.

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Sinan Ciddi & William Doran | Feb 5, 2026

By kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia

While Washington searches for ways to weaken Iran’s murderous rulers, our supposed NATO ally Turkey is working overtime to keep the mullahs alive — and in power.

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Peloni:  The failure to pursue a full accounting for what took place in the lead up to, and aftermath following, October 7 is a political albatross which will plague this govt and likely the next, til such an accounting has been completed.  Meanwhile, the Supreme Court’s efforts to control such an inquiry demonstrates the fact that even those out of power have a reason to control the narrative from such an inquiry.

This is the text of a speech given by MEMRI President and Founder Yigal Carmon in the Israeli Knesset on February 4, 2026.

Yigal Carmon | Memri | Feb 6, 2026

MEMRI’s Yigal Carmon. Screengrab via Youtube 

On the morning of Saturday, October 7, 2023, over 1,200 of our brothers and sisters were slaughtered by butchers from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and their collaborators. Men, women, girls, boys, infants, the elderly, and young people at a music festival were murdered. They were butchered, shot, suffocated, burned alive, raped, and slaughtered in grotesque ways, and their limbs were hacked off. Children were murdered in front of their parents, and parents in front of their children. To all these victims – and to those who survived, wounded in body and soul – we owe an accounting.

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Roamnrab: Jewish New Yorkers-
WAKE UP! And Small the Coffee, before it’s too late.

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Ousted NYC antisemitism czar: Mamdani replaced me because I’m a ‘proud Jew’ who doesn’t hate Israel

In my meandering imagination, I was a liberal, yearning to join the anti-ICE peaceful protest in Minneapolis…

Joan Swirsky | Am Thinker | February 6, 2026

Image via Public Domain Pictures.  Licensed by CC0 Public Domain.  Kennet Kjell Johansson Hultman has released this “Daydream Art Deco Girl 1910” image with permission in the public domain.

In my meandering imagination, I was a liberal, yearning to join the anti-ICE peaceful protest in Minneapolis and trying to figure out how I would let our government know how strenuously I object to their policy of deporting illegal aliens.

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Peloni

Iran refused any movement on the only topic on which Iran was willing to talk.  So the ‘negotiations’ would appear to have been more of an Iranian dictation to US. In the few hours which have passed since then, Iranian provocation have continued (see tweets below).  The Iranians have no interest in avoiding war – they are seeking a confrontation with the US.  Will this be the weekend in which their fantasies are fulfilled?

Iran FM spokesman Ismail Baghaei:

"Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. in Muscat were concluded with an agreement between the two sides to continue the talks.

The parties, while explaining their perspectives and demands, reached an understanding to make decisions regarding… pic.twitter.com/Ld4VnFSLYY

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 6, 2026

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Defense and trade agreements between Turkey and Arab nations reduce dependence on US

J. Micah Hancock | All Israel News | Published: February 6, 2026

Erdogan and MBS meet in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Youtube 

Peloni:  Details for the content of his full statement can be read in TOI’s report, with the expected anti-Bibi context as usual.

Prime Minister Netanyahu reveals to the public his answers to the State Comptroller’s questions as part of the examination of the events of October 7.

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Rabbi Pesach Wolick provides context around which today’s meetings with Iran has unfolded.

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When Islamists get good value for their money.

by Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 5, 2026

Georgetown University.  Photo by Daderot – Self-photographed, Public Domain, Wikipedia

Qatar is that nasty little emirate on the Persian Gulf, owned by the Al-Thani family, that owes its hold on the world’s attention solely to the fact that it sits on the third largest reservoir of natural gas in the world. Culturally, it does not exist. Qatar has made hundreds of billions of dollars from this accident of geology, and some of those billions are used to corrupt institutions and individuals in the Western world, to make them susceptible to Qatar’s propaganda campaigns and to cause them to overlook Qatar’s role both as the chief financier of Hamas and as the place of luxurious refuge for the senior Hamas leadership.

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