And it defies common sense. If Iran halted its weapons program in 2003 it seems like the Iranian leadership would use that to avoid the sanctions, as a diplomatic bargaining chip, and as propaganda. They could have gotten all kinds of goodies out of the U.S., the Europeans and maybe the Gulf countries. Instead they have put themselves in the cross-hairs of the U.S. and Israel—who still may attack them at any time.
Couldn't agree more. These Iranians are the wiliest, most nefarious bunch of gangsters that's for sure. Their foreign policy moves have been overwhelmingly successful, Hezbollah in Lebanon, bombings of
US, Israeli interests, Iraq.
Why this abandonment to acquire nuclear weaponry in the face of what has been one foreign policy success after another in a regime hell-bent to wreak as much havoc as possible?
I am overwhelmingly perplexed, stymied by what has been the unraveling of the only way to stop Iran.