Does that mean the next president is going to be the first one since Jimmy Carter started the cold war with Iran, who is going to admit that we are actually in a cold war with Iran instead of like his predecessors pretending it isn't happening?
Jimmy Carter did not start the cold war with Iran.
Jimmy Carter in the feckless, pusillaminous guise of chicken-sh*t naif, gave rise to, spawned, created, what has metastized into the Cold War with Iran.