'The avalanche-like failure of Trump’s Iran policy has never seemed more unstoppable'
An Iranian flag in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant during an official ceremony to kick-start works on a second reactor at the facility. Photo: Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images Iran announced on Sunday that it will no longer honor its commitments from the 2015 nuclear deal and said it has removed all limits on its uranium enrichment program.
In 2018, Trump withdrew from the deal and made the unsubstantiated claim that Iran had violated its terms. America’s JCPOA partners in Europe disagreed and tried, but ultimately failed, to preserve the agreement thanks to the numerous obstacles Trump and his Iran-hawk advisors erected as part of their maximum pressure campaign against Tehran.
What followed was a steady escalation of tensions between the U.S. and Iran as the U.S. worked to isolate Iran and damage its economy, while Iran stepped up its aggression in an effort to force the U.S. to return to the deal. Iran launched cyberwar operations, exchanged drone shoot-downs with the U.S., helped make Yemen a humanitarian disaster-zone via a proxy war with Saudi Arabia, targeted ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and launched an attack on a critical Saudi oil facility.
While President Trump and his administration have contributed plenty of bluster and confusion to these affairs, they have maintained that everything they have done has been to force the regime in Tehran to abandon its nuclear program and cease its efforts to promote violence in the Middle East, as well as — perhaps — spur some kind of political evolution within Iran. Instead, the Trump team’s efforts have had the opposite effect.
It’s not clear if President Obama’s landmark nuclear deal with Iran is now totally dead, or just mostly dead, but the avalanche-like failure of Trump’s Iran policy has never seemed more unstoppable.
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