Warning to Trump nuke negotiators about deceptive Iranian version of the 'Art of the Deal’

FIRST ON FOX – Experts connected the Islamic Republic of Iran’s manipulative atomic weapons bargaining strategy issued a dire informing to squad Trump negotiators connected however to debar falling into the trap of erstwhile President Barack Obama’s flawed atomic woody with Iran.

President Trump issued a scathing indictment of Obama’s statement erstwhile helium withdrew from the atomic accord successful 2018, declaring, "This was a horrible one-sided deal that should person never, ever been made." Trump asserted that Obama’s 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the ceremonial sanction for the Iran atomic deal, did not halt Tehran from gathering an atomic bomb.

Experts from United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) published a study that outlines the 10 negotiating tactics Iran exploits to unafraid large concessions portion retaining its capableness to conception a atomic weapon.

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei successful Tehran connected March 21, 2025. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The report, successful an ode to President Trump’s celebrated 1987 publication "The Art of the Deal," is called: "Iran’s Version of the ‘Art of the Deal'" and was authored by Saeid Golkar, Jason M. Brodsky and Kasra Aarabi.

The 10 tactics Iran uses successful atomic negotiations to outorganize the U.S. authorities and its allies, according to UANI, are:

Deception

The Grass Can Be Greener Promises vague aboriginal rewards to support talks live without offering thing concrete.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Exploit the illusion of governmental pluralism – usage "moderates" vs. "hardliners" to extract concessions, adjacent though each powerfulness lies with the ultimate leader.

The Promise of Lucrative Post-Sanctions Business Opportunities 

Dangle phantom concern deals to lure Western governments and companies – past propulsion the rug out.

Fanciful Alarmist Threats 

Issue exaggerated threats to disturbance anti-war sentiment and paralyze pugnacious policymaking successful the U.S.

The Art of Ambiguity 

Resist wide commitments; trust connected vague connection to let deniability portion inactive benefiting from deals. 

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Members of the Iranian revolutionary defender march during a parade to commemorate the day of the Iran-Iraq warfare successful Tehran, Sept. 22, 2011. (Reuters)

Running Down the Clock and Cosmetic Concessions

Engage successful endless, exhausting talks to hold action, offering superficial gestures to debar existent consequences

A Post-Colonial Victimization Narrative

Invoke humanities grievances to warrant existent behaviour and displacement blasted onto the West.

Divide and Conquer 

Exploit rifts wrong Western alliances – betwixt the U.S. and Europe, oregon adjacent wrong U.S. administrations 

Baazar Mentality and Taarof 

Use bazaar-style haggling tactics – commencement high, concede slow, cloak intentions successful mendacious politeness.

Influence and Information Operations 

Leak selectively and rotation the media communicative to contiguous Iran arsenic the tenable histrion driving diplomacy.

The UANI experts explained successful greater item successful their study however Iran’s authorities maximizes gains with minimum concessions via its 10 deceptive bargaining tactics. 

An Iranian subject motortruck carries surface-to-air missiles past a representation of Iran's ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a parade connected April 18, 2018, successful Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)

According to the UANI "These are derived from nonstop accounts from individuals who person firsthand acquisition successful negotiating and dealing with Iranian officials, autochthonal Iranian argumentation experts, arsenic good arsenic from observations from seasoned Iran watchers."

The Trump medication and Iran person conscionable completed a 3rd circular of indirect atomic talks. According to Reuters, Omani officials person said a caller circular of U.S.-Iran talks could beryllium held connected May 3 successful Europe. No ceremonial determination has been taken.

Iran has reached retired to Britain, France and Germany up of the adjacent negotiating session. This suggests Tehran is keeping its options open, but besides wants to measure wherever the Europeans basal connected the imaginable re-imposition of U.N. sanctions earlier October, erstwhile a solution ratifying the 2015 accord expires.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, speaks with an unidentified Omani authoritative upon his accomplishment astatine Muscat, Oman, Friday, April 25, 2025, a time anterior to negotiations with U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. (AP)

UANI says Iran is seeking to play the EU against U.S. to weaken the Western alliance. The experts wrote that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali "Ayatollah Khamenei’s overarching strategy has been rooted successful his alleged ‘West without the U.S.’ method. Grounded successful Khamenei’s and the Islamic Republic’s vehement anti-Americanism, this strategy has sought to disagreement the Europeans from the U.S. to undercut U.S. nationalist interests."

UANI argued that the Iranian regime's "gimmicks are meant to effort to disguise the information that the Iranians are offering thing much than the concessions it made to President Obama nether the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of 2015."

Iran seeks to manipulate atomic talks to diminish the "ideal conditions for Israel and/or the U.S. to instrumentality subject enactment against Tehran," noted UANI. Trump’s subject threats to people Iran’s atomic facilities person forced Tehran to prosecute successful negotiations, according to the experts.

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Steve Witkoff, U.S. peculiar envoy to the Middle East, speaks successful the Oval Office of the White House connected Feb. 3, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump may similar a diplomatic solution to halt Iran’s creep toward a atomic weapon, but precocious claimed he’ll beryllium "leading the pack" to warfare with the authorities if talks falter. 

"I deliberation we're going to marque a woody with Iran," helium told Time magazine in an interrogation published Friday, portion claiming that President Joe Biden had allowed Iran to "become rich." 

Fox News' Morgan Phillips and Reuters contributed to this report.