For all the dramatic flourishes and threats of military action, we're watching a bizarre cycle of destruction and recreation. Trump tore up a functional, if imperfect, agreement that had Iran's nuclear program in check. Iran responded by accelerating toward weapons capability. Now, Trump must negotiate a new deal to solve the very crisis his actions helped create.

https://www.cosmopolitics.news/p/trumps-revolutionary-recycled-iran

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  1. Labott highlights the irony of Trump creating an Iran deal suspiciously similar to Obama’s which he tore up. But more ironic is the fact that Trump could succeed because he has what Obama lacked: credibility on military action, a willingness to walk away, and immunity from accusations of appeasement.

    >In this bizarro world of international relations, Trump’s unorthodox approach could transform a diplomatic crisis largely of his own making into a personal triumph.

  2. The entire premise of this article hinges on the false claim that the deal, as it was agreed to, was actually being upheld by Iran. The United States, the EU, the CIA, the UN, every single watchdog org has shown that Iran was not abiding by the nuclear deal that they signed and were speeding towards a nuclear weapon.

    So what were the options? Allow Iran to continue to fund its terroir proxies with billions of dollars of unsanctioned oil sales, all while they were still building a nuclear weapon? Or reimpose sanctions on Iran while they were still building a nuclear weapons?

    If we can get a version of the Obama era nuclear deal with **guaranteed compliance** that would be a huge win for the US, and the entire world.

  3. Should have let Israel destroy their nuclear sites. Iran is a threat to the region and global stability. A nuclear Iran should not be allowed to happen. Diplomacy is unlikely to prevent a nuclear Iran.

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