The deal that Obama struck with Iran that curbed that country's nuclear ambitions for at least a decade, was far from perfect.....but highly necessary to avoid an Israeli-Iran hot war.
What the deal was also meant to induce, was the instability of the current regime in Iran, since hardliners there hated the deal....thereby ALSO allowing for the moderate wing of Iranians to sow enough domestic discord to prompt a needed possible change in Iran's hard-line policies.
BUT, in walks Trump screwing things up...as usual, based on his envy of ANYTHING that Obama had worked out along with our allies.
What Trump has done is solidly UNIFY all Iranians to support the current regime....much as GWB's (Cheney, really) rhetoric against Iraq certainly did.
Threatening an entire country with war....as Trump just did...... UNIFIES ALL IRANIANS to oppose any peaceful initiatives and moderation......
Of course, WHO is most pleased with Trump's ignorance and bullying???.....PUTIN....who wants Iran's current leadership's help in Syria and to sow discord among us and our allies......
Once again....."thanks" Trump, for being a damn idiot.
You have missed key realities in your hyperventilated hatred of our President.
Iran has acted as the Soviet Union lite of the Middle East for decades. Iranian elite military advisors train jihadist fighter groups poorly formed and lacking unit cohesion and command infrastructure to become expert guerilla fighters and saboteurs, who in then return to their places of origin or infiltrate non-radicalized Muslim communities in Western nations and near Western nation diplomatic missions, and then radicalize and train them. These radicalized Islamic terror fighters then carry out unconventional warfare campaigns against their own people--people previously willing to negotiate with the US and her allies, and Western civilian populations and infrastructure.
All of that being said, why in hell would any sane, patriotic American President negotiate with State sponsors of murderers of Western peoples or risk such individuals developing small nuclear weapons and disseminating them through anti-Western cells to be deployed against our allies and our own civilian populace?
The other side of the modern Iranian coin is Russia. Russia has contemporarily backed Iran as a proxy through which to oppose and check Western, and in particular NATO, advances along her extended sphere of projected regional power and sovereign geographical breathing room. In developing better and better diplomatic currency with Putin, our President has set into motion the potential for global peace unprecedented in all of world history, without the spread by sword juggernaut of gunfire imperialism. How can the world not see the beauty and long term geopolitical benefits of this strategy?
In engaging with Putin our President has opened the door to withdrawal and recall of Russian proxy meddling through the militaries and intelligence agencies of rogue States such as Iran. With a hypothetical physical withdraw of U.S. forces from central and eastern Europe, trading nuclear weapons rather than exchanging them, removing sanctions, and negotiating missile shield placements,
could come as one of many concessions or rewards, irresistible Russian pressure on Iran to cease and destroy any and all active production of weaponized nuclear technology. The final and possible steps through Russian/American geopolitical mutual acts of
goodwill could result in a bubble for the Iranian people wherein their government refuses to do business with Putin, and finds Putin going to the people instead to make things happen for themselves, for Russia and--on the back end--for the U.S. and the rest of the West.
What most seem to be missing in their all consuming hatred of our President is the hand holding the leash tied around Iran's neck: Russia. Why negotiate with the pet when its master is the one who steers it?
