"Maybe the people in Iran are influenced by economic pressure, but the mullahs and the people that, you know, the next supreme leader, unless he is the supreme leader, they're not influenced by economic pressure. I feel like at the end of the day, you have to kill them. You really do. These aren't people that are gonna negotiate."
"The radicals. 100 percent. That's why every Middle Eastern country came to the negotiation with the president. Because they don't subscribe to that. They are Muslims, but they are not Islamists; these are Islamists. They don't want to negotiate for economic prosperity. They are willing to die for the cause."
During a Fox & Friends segment discussing Iran's leadership and ongoing conflict, Lawrence Jones contended that radical Islamist leaders cannot be swayed by economic sanctions or diplomatic negotiations. He distinguished between ordinary Iranian citizens who might respond to economic pressure and the regime's leadership, particularly the new supreme leader. Jones emphasized that radical Islamists are fundamentally different from moderate Muslims in other Middle Eastern countries who participated in negotiations with the U.S. president. He argued these extremists are willing to die for their cause and therefore require military action rather than economic or diplomatic strategies.
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