With Trump conflicted and Iran emboldened, vital bid to end regime’s nuclear drive is being botched
The Islamic Republic retains its highly enriched uranium stockpile, has 10 tons of lower-enriched uranium that nobody’s even asking for, and is holding the world to ransom at the Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump has repeatedly contradicted himself regarding the progress of the Iran war.
He has said that the war is won, just not won enough.
He has said that the Iranian regime has changed, replaced by a leadership that is less radical and very reasonable, but also that the current leadership, if it attains nuclear weapons, would blow up Israel and the region and create a “nuclear holocaust.”
He has insisted that Iran must be prevented from attaining nuclear weapons, and criticized his vice president for offering a deal under which Iran would be prevented from enriching uranium for only 20 years, and subsequently said that a 20-year limitation on enrichment would be sufficient...
...As far as most of the international community is concerned, by extension, the key imperative now is to reach some kind of accommodation with the regime that enables the stable reopening of the strait. But, of course, so long as the regime is in power, there can and will be no credible guarantees of stability.
Far worse, the essential goal with which the US and Israel went to war — ensuring that this regime has no path to nuclear weapons — has not been achieved. To the contrary.
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