Fallout From the Iran Deal
Trump’s agreement reads like a list of concessions to Iran. Will it damage him politically?
Trump’s agreement reads like a list of concessions to Iran. Will it damage him politically?
The vice president said the United States had leverage to dictate the outcome of the next round of negotiations. But he claimed incorrectly that Iran got no new benefit from the lifting of oil sanctions.
Trump’s agreement reads like a list of concessions to Iran. Will it damage him politically?
The vice president said that the United States was the only powerful ally Israel had left and noted that two-thirds of the weapons that protected Israel were paid for by U. S. tax dollars.
Europe and the larger world will be watching carefully to see if talks produce a lasting agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz.
The preliminary U. S. -Iranian peace deal does not address Iranian rockets or drones, raising questions in the region about relying on Washington as a security guarantor.
Analysts said the agreement accomplishes none of Israel’s war aims and leaves the country in worse shape on each of them.
Analysts and pundits said the agreement accomplishes none of Israel’s war aims and leaves the country in worse shape on each of them.
Plus, the “Obamalisk” opens.
The world doesn’t need a nuclear deal with Tehran.
The two agreements are difficult to compare, because the current memorandum of understanding is an interim arrangement meant to outline a negotiating path to a fuller deal.
The agreement, which punted many of the toughest issues to future negotiations, came after a last-minute scramble.
The agreement outlines a $300 billion plan to rebuild Iran, and says sanctions would be lifted in the future.
The document leaves complicated issues like Iran’s nuclear program still to be decided and a 60-day window to determine them.
A senior U. S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, disclosed what the official said was the full text of the deal between the two countries.
Speaking on the final day of the G7 summit in France, President Trump used an expletive to describe the nuclear deal President Obama brokered with Iran. Mr. Trump is under pressure to deliver a deal that would justify taking the United States to war.
President Trump denied that the United States would be part of a $300 billion rebuilding fund for Tehran and argued that his agreement was better than the one Barack Obama struck in 2015.
How did the world’s richest nation, armed with the most powerful military, arrive at this strategic defeat?
President Trump is under pressure to significantly improve upon the Obama-era deal in order to justify the huge human and economic cost of taking the United States to war.
In a contest of wills, the hard men of Tehran prevailed over the vain man of Washington.