Source: Washington Examiner · 2026-09-07 · Original article ↗

Iran nuclear deal may be delayed until ‘next administration’ in Tehran, Wright says

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Wright said the deal may wait for the next Iranian government. Labor Day gas is $4.15. The mountain still wants a second chance.

Summary

  • The Washington Examiner reports Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday on ABC's This Week that there may not be a nuclear agreement and that a deal may await the next administration in Iran.
  • Wright said the United States is more focused on destroying Iran's nuclear capabilities than on a deal while fighting continues. President Trump said Friday the United States stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon after tremendous success.
  • Wright said if Iran has nuclear weapons, the Middle East and the world become a wildly different place. The conflict recently passed six months. The Strait of Hormuz remains blocked by both sides, and peace talks are stalled.
  • AAA said Sunday the national average gasoline price is $4.15 a gallon, the highest Labor Day reading since $3.82 in September 2012, and well above $3.19 on Labor Day 2025.

Commentary

A Tulsa night mechanic still wipes diesel off a cracked knuckle and watches a pump that should not reprint 2012 just so a mountain can keep a centrifuge. He did not pay the tanker line so Tehran could wait out a signature.

Four. Fifteen. Three. Eighty-two. Six. Months. The honest mom already paid the commute. The mountain still wants a chair.

Ask every working father who still fills a truck before dawn: if the deal waits for a new Tehran, who still wants Pickaxe left unhit?

Comments

If a nuclear deal waits for a new Tehran, who still wants the mountain left unhit?
u/border_dad · 5h

Wright Sunday. No deal maybe. Next Iranian government. $4.15 Labor Day. Hold those four.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I stood a pump so a sortie would matter. Destroy the kit. Do not rent a signature.

u/rule_first · 4h

Trump Friday: stopped the weapon. Six months in. Hormuz still pinched. Publish the three.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied desks still treat a waiting chair as a delay, not a peace. A centrifuge is a bill.

u/docket_rat · 3h

$3.82 in 2012. $3.19 last Labor Day. $4.15 now. File the three.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still buy diesel at 4 a.m. I want the next Iranian kit counted before my next tank.

u/texas_mom · 90m

A kid should not wait on a courtesy deal. Keep the pressure. Keep the pumps honest.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

A waiting Tehran is a second front. The first bunker-buster should have been enough.

u/press_clip · 30m

The Examiner printed Wright, $4.15, $3.82, and $3.19. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Keep the destruction mission. Do not lease the mountain. A visitor with a centrifuge is not a partner.

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