Jennings ‘not surprised’ Iran deal ‘ending this way’

Conservative commentator Scott Jennings said Wednesday he is “not surprised” that the interim ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran is “ending this way” as hostilities ramp back up.

Jennings said on CNN that Iran has long been as “adversarial to the United States as they could be,” and President Trump “decided to try to do something about it” after giving “diplomacy a chance.”

“I concur that, you know, there was always a high percentage chance the Iranians were never going to come to the table here in a meaningful way, in good faith,” he continued. “I’m not surprised it’s ending this way. You know, the morning that the president signed the MOU [memorandum of understanding], I talked to him and he said to me, as he’‘’d said publicly, ‘Look, if they don’t behave and they don’t meet their obligations, we’ll go back to the military campaign.’ That’s what he has decided to do.”

Jennings added that the administration will likely have to say that there is “not going to be some grand peace deal” and not provide unfrozen assets and lift sanctions as proposed by the memorandum.

“The outcomes here are we destroyed their military and turned all their neighbors against them,” he said. “That’s a way to declare victory in all of this.”

Strikes continued overnight Thursday, with U.S. Central Command stating late Wednesday that it struck about 90 Iranian military targets. Iran retaliated with strikes in Kuwaiti and Bahraini airspace.

“This resulted in material damage due to the fall of debris in several locations across the country, in addition to one human injury, where the injured person is receiving the necessary medical care, and their condition is stable,” Kuwaiti Major Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi said about the country’s interception of 10 hostile drones, three ballistic missiles and one cruise missile early Thursday.

The General Command of the Bahraini military also said it intercepted “and destroyed several treacherous Iranian aerial attacks” Thursday morning.

Trump said Wednesday that the interim deal was “over,” later telling reporters aboard his original Air Force One while departing Turkey that “every time they hit us, we’ll hit them 20.”

Ebrahim Rezaei, a spokesperson for the Iranian Parliament on national security and foreign policy, warned that Iran has no “red lines” in defending its territory.

“The Gulf states that have stood alongside Trump in the Iran-America regime conflict should watch over their oil and gas wells,” Rezaei said on the social platform X, translated from Persian. “In defense of the security of the great Iranian nation, we have no red lines.”