An Iran Deal 2.0?

It’s starting to look like the 47th president is pursuing a different policy on Persia than was pursued by the 45th president.

White House Via Wikimedia Commons
Left to Right: Vice President Pence, President Trump, and Ambassador John Bolton in 2018. White House Via Wikimedia Commons

Is President Trump seeking an Iran Deal 2.0? Far be it from us to predict the moves of a leader whose principle tenet is unpredictability. Yet several acts in the president’s first days in office could raise hopes among American and foreign supporters of rapprochement with the Islamic Republic. We don’t share those hopes. A wiser and more strategic course would be to eschew efforts to appease the Iranian regime.

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