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Instead, the US is now in talks with the Islamic Republic, with the focus of American efforts having unaccountably shifted from preventing the ayatollahs from massacring their own people and expediting the regime’s downfall to trying yet again to lock them into an agreement ensuring they cannot build nuclear weapons — the kind of deal, that is, that experience shows the regime will evade and breach without compunction. The talks don’t even cover Iran’s revived ballistic missiles production, or its ongoing support for proxies, including Hezbollah and Hamas, that exist solely to expand Iran’s rapacious ideology.
It’s as though Iran holds the upper hand in setting the framework for this interaction, when it is a failing regime, loathed by its own people, facing off against the most powerful military force in the world.
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Trump has set his heart on acting as global peacemaker, ending conflicts rather than starting them. Where Iran is concerned, peace and stability require effectively supporting an Iranian citizenry that has shown, time and again, that it will put its lives on the line for freedom, and where, to date, the supposedly enlightened, life-affirming West has failed, also time and again, to play its vital part in the struggle.
As US senator and close Trump ally Lindsey Graham told ToI’s Lazar Berman on Monday, “If having said all the things we’ve said and done all the things we’ve done, if the ayatollah is still standing after all this bluster, then it would be a strategic victory for Iran and the force of radical Islam.”
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how many levels deep of leopards-eating-faces is this? It is a leopard-face onion that extends so far down into delusion it gives you vertigo...