Gingrich: ‘Huge Victory’ for Trump if Iran Backs off from Strait of Hormuz and Turn over Uranium Material

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GINGRICH: “And they are now faced, I think, with a real question of survival without military action, without occupying it, without American troops, and I think they may well be prepared to offer remarkable concessions, more than I would have guessed, because they see that over the next three or four weeks, the writing is on the wall. The test will be whether or not, for example, they are willing to turn over the uranium material they have, that I think is about 1100 pounds, and get it out of the country. The test will be whether they will back off on trying to control the Strait of Hormuz. If those two or three things like that are met, President Trump will have had a huge victory at a relatively modest cost, without the use of American combat troops on the ground, and it will be remarkable. I think, you know, Reagan used to say, 'Trust, but verify.' I think we have to see, one, what are they really offering on this one page, and two, are there benchmarks of verifying it, of checking it? In the long run, you get what you inspect, not what you expect. And so we have to see what are the benchmarks, what dates are the benchmarks, and what happens? But it would be a remarkable historic achievement if the president can get the kind of deal that some people think may be implied by this one-page memorandum."