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The only Iran deal Trump can get is no better than Obama’s ‘horrible’ JCPOA
In May 2018, US President Donald Trump shocked European allies — while exhilarating many Israelis — when he announced that he was withdrawing from predecessor Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which also included Germany, France, Russia, China and Britain, was a “horrible one-sided deal that should never ever have been made,” the president insisted.
“The deal lifted crippling economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for very weak limits on the regime’s nuclear activity, and no limits at all on its other malign behavior, including its sinister activities in Syria, Yemen, and other places all around the world,” he said from the White House.
And he blasted the JCPOA for failing to “address the regime’s development of ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads.”
Eight years later, after a massive bombing campaign against Iran that the US carried out alongside Israel, Trump appears to be chasing a deal along the same contours he once complained about.
Even that problematic outcome seems beyond his reach, as Iran appears singularly unbothered by the president’s increasingly stale threats of destruction if the Islamic Republic doesn’t make a deal.
On Sunday, Trump took to his Truth Social site to warn Iran of the consequences of not making a deal.
“For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!” he wrote in a social media post.
New media post from Donald J. Trump ( TruthSocial: May 16 2026, 4:03 PM ET ) pic.twitter.com/dgXKB5ZeTJ — Commentary Donald J Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) May 16, 2026
New media post from Donald J. Trump
( TruthSocial: May 16 2026, 4:03 PM ET ) pic.twitter.com/dgXKB5ZeTJ
— Commentary Donald J Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) May 16, 2026
It was the latest of a series of threats — some verbal, some on social media, and many rather bizarre or cryptic — that Trump has issued since he declared a ceasefire on April 8.
The same day, after........
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