The Guardian view on Trump and Iran: a president’s wishful thinking gives way to uncomfortable realities | Editorial

The memorandum of understanding signed in Versailles lays bare US failure and the pointlessness of this illegal war Donald Trump’s wishful thinking, as much as Benjamin Netanyahu’s persuasion, was responsible for their illegal war on Iran. The US president wanted regime change, the eradication of Tehran’s ballistic missiles programme, to prevent it from ever building a nuclear bomb, and demilitarisation of its proxies. He announced that he would accept nothing less than unconditional surrender.