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Avi Benlolo: Trump is handing Iran a noose to hang itself with
By continuing to murder innocents and crack down on citizens, Iran is further providing justification for war
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If the past behaviour dictates future behaviour, there are two possibilities concerning the outcome of negotiations with Iran: either Iran’s well-known tactics of buying time and frustrating the United States will win the day, as it did in the Obama and first Trump administration, or U.S. President Donald Trump will eventually follow through on his threat and attack Iran, as he did Venezuela. If Iran refuses to give up its nuclear ambition and ballistic missile program, my bet is on Trump. He will go to war.
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Following another set of failed negotiations in Geneva, Vice President J.D. Vance acknowledged this week, “It was very clear that the president has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to actually acknowledge and work through.” Drawing on Iran’s past behaviour, America’s clear-eyed Secretary of State, Marco Rubio said earlier this week, “no one has ever been able to do a successful deal with Iran…but we’re going to try.”
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