What Jon Favreau has said about United States war with Iran

Favreau argues Trump is shifting blame for high fuel prices that were caused by his own war with Iran.

“He knows that he can't blame himself, which is where the responsibility lies because he started the Iran war, and Iran is why the gas prices and the diesel prices are so high”

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Favreau argues the Iran war has achieved none of its stated objectives, including regime change or setbacks to Iran's nuclear program.

“They didn't destroy the regime. They didn't get the, they didn't make any progress on their nuclear program”

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Favreau predicts the Iran war supplemental funding bill will not pass given vulnerable Republican senators.

“I got to say, I think that supplemental is never getting through”

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Favreau argued Iran knows Trump will not resume bombing as the midterms approach, undermining his threat.

“iran knows that as we get closer to the midterms he's not going to go back to bombing them”

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Favreau interpreted Condoleezza Rice's op-ed as an attempt to flatter Trump about the war while steering him away from a deal that releases money to Iran.

“anti-anti-Trump Republican thing of being like, I think we can play him, right?”

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Favreau argues the White House's public pre-spinning of a deal is likely hurting negotiations with Iran.

“I don't think that all the pre spinning of what the deal is going to include from the White House is actually helping the negotiations”

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Favreau argues the war did nothing to set back Iran's nuclear program beyond Trump's earlier strikes.

“is Iran any further from developing a nuclear weapon than when this war started in February? No, we did nothing to push back the Iranian nuclear program”

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Favreau argues successive U.S.–Iran peace drafts amount to little more than ceasefire extensions.

“each new draft of the peace proposal looks less like peace and more like a meaningless extension of a ceasefire”

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Favreau argues that even the best-case outcome of the Iran negotiations would yield little beyond what the Obama deal provided, at great cost.

“But it doesn't seem like we would have gotten much from this best, best, best, best case scenario”

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Favreau described bombing power plants as a humanitarian catastrophe affecting hospitals, water treatment and food supply.

“People die in hospitals right away if all the power is gone. It hurts water treatment”

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Favreau says a president seeking an off-ramp would have to pretend the war is going well and that Iran is begging for a deal.

“So you have to act like everything is going wonderfully and they're the ones who are begging for a deal”

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Favreau said Trump treats the war like an episode of a television show whose run has ended.

“it's another episode of The Trump Show, and he feels like the episode has run its course and it's time for a new episode because otherwise he's going to lose the audience”

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Favreau predicted Trump will keep postponing the deadline to destroy Iran's power plants because doing so would send energy prices soaring across the Middle East.

“my guess on this like pushing back the deadline thing is the deadline is just going to keep getting pushed back”

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