Tehran’s longtime allies like Syria and Qatar were cozying up to the American president with lavish celebrations and salutes and ponying up $1.2 trillion in U.S. investments, shifting them further toward an Arab-Israeli-U.S. alliance. On Thursday, Tehran blinked. Top Iranian official Ali Shamkhani said that his country is ready to make a deal with Trump. Under the deal, Iran would agree to never make nuclear weapons and destroy their existing stockpile in exchange for Trump lifting crippling sanctions against Iran.

“I don’t think that they bent. I think that they folded,” Rep. Brad Knott, R-N.C., a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, told Just the News on Thursday when asked about Iran. “There was nothing voluntary. “President Trump came in. He immediately put diplomatic pressure. He immediately put financial pressure, and he basically had two barrels loaded, metaphorically, of course, at the Iranian regime, and said, ‘you can roll the dice, but you’re not going to have a country left, and you’re not going to have any ability to survive this if you keep playing this game.’”

The President made many deals to get to this point. Just the News notes that he worked to befriend the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Lebanon on his trip. He even announced an end to American sanctions on Syria, provided the Syrian government meets his demands. One of those demands includes recognizing the state of Israel and joining the Abraham accords.

Let’s pray. Let’s thank God for President Trump’s wise leadership that brought Iran to heel, but let’s also pray that he is not influenced by dangerous, Islamist nations. Above all else, let’s pray that the President never comprises or abandons Israel, the Lord’s beloved and chosen nation.