History has proven that claim to be false.
As for giving up anything today, would Israel even surrender a grain of sand if Iran demanded it? Of course not. On principle, as a point of pride, as a matter of sovereignty, not one grain of sand.
Nor would Trump surrender anything. It's a matter of national pride, of winning.
You don't think other nations have pride? That they resent "demands" that impinge on their sovereignty?
> You don’t think other nations have pride? <
You make a very good point.
A while back I read an article about three Iraqi college students. This was after Bush II’s invasion. The three students were happy Saddam was gone, but other than that they were apolitical.
One day the three were sitting in a Baghdad coffee shop when American soldiers burst in. The soldiers were looking for terrorists. Everyone in the shop was lined up and searched, including the three students.
Foreign troops shoving the natives around. It might have been necessary. But it offended the students so much that they pooled their money, and bought an RPG on the black market. Then they fired the RPG at an American convoy.
“History has proven that claim to be false.”
Project AMAD
Ballistic missiles
60% enriched uranium.
Because it is not pertinent.
As to the rest of your false equivalence, whether Iran has pride worth respecting will depend upon whether its people are willing to overthrow their oppressors.