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Michael Goodwin: Trump’s steadfast approach to ‘no nukes’ for Iran shows his unwavering resolve
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The Democratic left’s favorite caricature of President Trump describes him as recklessly impulsive, wildly inconsistent and addicted to shooting from the hip.
The image is powerful boob bait for the uninformed, but it is demonstrably false when it comes to matters of great importance. Exhibit A is Trump’s consistent and decade-long patient policies toward Iran.
For years he has been saying the mullahs would never be allowed to get nuclear weapons on his watch.
It was a major theme of his first campaign and first term.
He proved he was serious in 2018 when he withdrew the United States from Barack Obama’s sketchy pact, which would have at best slowed Iran’s march to nuclear weapons, but not prevented it.
The excessively generous terms also provided the ayatollah with sanctions relief and pallets of cash, as much as $1.4 billion over all.
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Yet after America’s shameful wooing, bribing and begging, Iranian negotiators refused to promise they would not seek nukes, nor would they promise not to use the money to fund Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other terror proxies in the region.
Later, John Kerry, who had helped negotiate the pact, admitted the administration knew some of the American money would go to fund terrorists.
Which, of course, is exactly what happened, and ever since, Iran has reaped buckets of blood in Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
It also put out assassination contracts on Trump and former aides Mike Pompeo and John Bolton.
When he sought the White House again........