Posted on 05/10/2019 9:05:17 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
One year ago today, President Donald Trump formally pulled the United States out of the deal that his predecessor had made with Iran to lift sanctions in exchange for Tehran easing its nuclear activities. Since then, Trump has introduced some of the most robust economic sanctions that have ever been placed on Iran and last month labeled the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, the first time the U.S. has so designated part of another country’s government.
After Trump pulled out of the deal, which rewarded Iran financially for making narrow and temporary promises to curtail aspects of its nuclear program, critics of the president warned that his policies would put the U.S. on a path to war with Tehran and that the U.S. would be isolated in the world.
But a year on, war hasn’t broken out and it’s worth looking at what has — and hasn’t — happened for a clear-eyed assessment of the president’s “maximum pressure” strategy.
Doomsday hasn’t come. War is most certainly not on the horizon. America is in a stronger position and Iran’s capabilities are weakened. Opponents of the president’s policies should be honest and acknowledge the success of his approach. Doing so simply acknowledges a truth that will help improve U.S. national security and create bipartisan support for what the president is doing.
We need to stay the course and double-down on policies toward Tehran that restrict Iran’s activities and at long last compel changes that make the world safer.
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Who are you and what have you done with the real nbc news?
Bush League Republicans are the ones who stood the Constitution on its head so the Kenyanesian Usurper could get his Iran “deal”.
Tell it the EU.
Ping to Freep the poll!
“YOU want to go to war against IRAN?!” the Fraud’s worshippers responded when anyone questioned why their god was PAYING Iran.
And the Hussein Heads here pontificated, “Meh, it’s their (Iran’s) money anyway.”
Hussein Heads at FR are SO reliable.
What deal? The one Iran never signed? Or the same one that the senate never ratified? Again, what deal?
What deal? The one Iran never signed? Or the same one that the senate never ratified? Again, what deal?
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The deal with ourselves to unilaterally hobble ourselves.
What a deal.
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