Matthew Boyle, Breitbart's Washington bureau chief, has spent months talking to people inside the administration, and he shared what they keep telling him. In that telling, Trump already won this war.
The nuclear program is buried, the objective is met, and the only puzzle left is the door out.
The exit he keeps hearing about runs through energy.
The rough model is Venezuela, where one quick operation ended with Chevron on the ground and business flowing, and the idea is that any lasting arrangement with Iran will eventually include American energy giants like Chevron and Exxon developing oil and gas fields Iran has never gotten full value from.
He heard the logic from Steve Witkoff directly in an interview last year: Iran can keep spreading chaos, or it can "join the League of Nations" and get rich instead.
Money is green, as Matthew puts it, and he believes the first deal collapsed partly because it had no money in it.
His most striking claim: well-known figures outside government privately urged Trump to use NUCLEAR weapons on Iran, and Trump laughed them out of the room.
Restraint, he argues, has been the untold story of this war.
So his forecast is more rounds of escalation and calm, and then an ending that may never be signed at all. It just stops.
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