The Iran Strike - "Then What?"
There are no negotiations which will result in peace from any sort of conservative Islamist regime in which the government is run by Islamist clerics - like the mullahs in Iran. The goal of Islam is to bring all nations under submission to Allah, that's what Islam means - submission. They intend to bring the whole world into submission to Allah’s Law - shari'a - and to Allah.
I've known Muslims, and if you get to know them, they'll tell you that directly - one in my old research group, whose father bought his wife from her father at the age of six weeks, whom he met for the first time on their wedding night, when her submission was transferred from her father to him, by the marriage contract. The price paid was one hundred ounces of gold, one new car, and assorted camels, goats, and household goods - at the time, her future husband was two months old.
He owned everything she had - and her children - and could divorce her by saying "I divorce thee" three times in the presence of two male Muslim witnesses, at which point she would go back to her father's house and he could do with her as he pleased - which might result in a quick death. If you think this is a favorable state of affairs, consider that you can forget about having dogs for pets - they're as haram as pigs, listening to music or even worse, making it, drinking any sort of alcohol in public including beer - a friend in Saudi got 1000 lashes with a cane for stepping out of his house with a beer - and so on.
Doing haram - forbidden - things gets you swift and severe punishment, that’s why Hamas and other such groups go after music festivals and venues, like the Nova Music Festival in Israel, the Manchester Music Festival in the UK the Crocus City Hall in Moscow last year, and the Bataclan in Paris - all sites of notorious massacres. Music is haram, making music is haram, and listening to and enjoying and dancing to music is haram, as are scantily-clad and unescorted women outside of their fathers’ or husbands’ houses, never mind the use of drugs or the exhibition of occult or astrological symbolism. Performing death metal music in a place under Shari’a would get you beheaded in short order, atheism and worship of the Shai’tan are death penalty offenses.
They treat those events much as we’d treat public exhibitions of pedophilia and child rape, the evil in their view is of like severity. This is why women can’t go unescorted by males in certain UK cities - they are targets for rape gangs - as they would be in Islamist cities. The enforcement of shari’a in the UK does not yet reach to the public stoning of raped women, though, not yet, anyway. Allah’s Law - the Shari’a - is taken as superior to any laws of men, and if there is a sufficient number of Islamists, it will be enforced - it is their moral duty as they see it.
Some useful background:
“In a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Salah Abdel Haq, named Israel, the US, and other western countries as a common enemy of the Islamic ummah (nation). The letter reflects an ideological affinity with the rhetoric of the Iranian regime and its terror proxies: Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in Yemen. The letter shows that the Muslim Brotherhood has officially endorsed the Iranian regime's slogans of "Death to Israel!" and "Death to America!" Abdel Haq wrote in the letter:
"On behalf of myself and the Muslim Brotherhood, I would like to reaffirm our full support for the Islamic Republic of Iran in the face of the brutal Israeli aggression...
"The Israeli aggression against Iran represents a new phase of aggression against Palestine, where the [Israeli] occupying government is motivated by retaliation due to the support provided by the Islamic Republic to the Palestinian resistance, in addition to other strategic motives represented by the occupying entity's quest to impose its hegemony over the region by undermining its centers of power, exploiting the extensive support provided to it by the USA and other Western countries..."
The Muslim Brotherhood leader said it was time for Sunni and Shia Muslims to put aside their differences and unite against the enemies of the Islamic ummah.
"We are one nation, in the religious, spiritual, civilizational, and geopolitical senses alike...
"Therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood has no doubt that our enemy is the same: the Zionist entity. Our primary weapon, which we must adhere to, is the unity of the Islamic Ummah, and working to unify efforts in a comprehensive strategic vision that directs the Ummah's compass toward its true enemy...
"Today, the Muslim Brotherhood adheres to the call of [Muslim Brotherhood founder] Imam Hassan al-Banna; He defined our approach towards all Islamic bodies and organizations, saying: 'We strive to bring viewpoints closer together and reconcile different ideas in a way that will make truth prevail under the shadow of cooperation and love. No jurisprudential opinion or sectarian disagreement will separate us. We believe that the day will come when names, titles, formal differences, and theoretical barriers will disappear, and in their place will be a practical unity that unites the ranks of the Muhammadan battalion, where Muslim brothers work for the religion...'"
By voicing support for the genocidal anti-Western regime of the mullahs in Tehran, the Muslim Brotherhood is showing its true colors: It views Israel and all Western countries as the real enemy of Muslims.
The Muslim Brotherhood also considers pro-Western Arab and Islamic regimes as traitors. The group's founder, Hassan al-Banna, accepted the utility of political violence, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood conducted assassinations on Egyptian state figures during his lifetime, including Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud El Nokrashi in 1948. Sayid Qutb, one of the organization's most prominent thinkers, promoted the "takfirism" doctrine, which, according to an internal report commissioned in 2014 by then UK Prime Minister David Cameron:
"... has consistently been understood as a doctrine permitting the stigmatisation of other Muslims as infidel or apostate, and of existing states as unIslamic, and the use of extreme violence in the pursuit of the perfect Islamic society."
This doctrine continues to inspire many jihadist movements, including the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas, which is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The takfirism doctrine's endorsement of "extreme violence" is why several Islamic countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Mauritania have banned the Muslim Brotherhood. While Arab and Muslim leaders understand the threats posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, many Western countries continue to live in denial or choose a policy of appeasement toward the organization and its followers.
The Muslim Brotherhood has dozens of branches, offshoots and affiliates in many countries, including Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Kuwait, Mauritania, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium and the United States.
Qatar has historically provided refuge and support to Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members, especially those fleeing crackdowns against it in countries such as Egypt and Syria. Qatar has publicly funded and supported Islamist groups, and its state-owned Al-Jazeera TV network continues to serve as a platform for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Qatar has for many years provided political and economic support to Hamas. In 2008, Qatar reportedly pledged $250 million to Hamas. In 2012, Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani became the first head of state to visit the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, pledging $400 million to Hamas.” https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21700/ban-muslim-brotherhood
As for the US approach to the Muslim Brotherhood, at least under Trump, it is not seen with quite the same sort of favor as under Obama:
“Since his election, President Donald Trump has shown an unabashed realism about the Middle East and the pursuit of American interests there. The Trump Administration has opposed the revolutionary Islamist regime in Iran and reinforced the U.S.’s alliances with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both of which have repudiated the Muslim Brotherhood as an extremist or terrorist organization. The U.S. and its Arab Gulf allies have also closed ranks in support of President Sisi’s authoritarian regime in Egypt, and they appear united in their efforts to check or roll back the Brotherhood in the region. Meantime, the U.S.’s ties with Qatar—a key U.S. protectorate and security partner in the Gulf, but whose rulers are also major patrons of the Brotherhood and its agenda across the region—have not yet recovered from the 2017-2019 intra-Gulf diplomatic crisis.
This situation, in turn, has prompted many in Washington to more aggressively call for the U.S. to officially designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Blacklisting the Brotherhood would ban its members from traveling to the U.S. and make it a crime for any American to aid the movement. Although a decision on this issue appears to be under consideration, the Trump Administration has not yet formulated a clear policy regarding Islamist actors like the Brotherhood. Given the U.S.’s present diplomatic alignments and priorities, not to mention President Trump’s essentialized and problematic views on Islam (“Islam hates us,” he said as a candidate), it seems that designating the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization is seriously discussed, though likely not something that can be achieved politically.” https://www.hudson.org/national-security-defense/the-unfinished-history-between-america-and-the-muslim-brotherhood
Of course, these sorts of conservative Muslims prefer your submission to be peaceful, but if not, well then, it's war, but submission (or your death) is the intended final result. That's the choice, so far as Islamism is concerned, there's no treaty with infidels which will be honored, it's only a step on the road to absolute surrender - submission. Dar ul-Islam - the land of Islam - or Dar ul-Harb - the land of War - that's the choice. Letting such an Islamist regime have nuclear weapons in light of the above will answer the question - "then what?"