Hudson Instutute:
Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He specializes in Middle East security issues.
In the administration of President George W. Bush, Doran served in the White House as a senior director in the National Security Council,
Donald Trump has a well-articulated strategy toward Iran. Like almost every other Republican candidate for president in 2016, he argued that President Barack Obama empowered Iran at the expense of America’s traditional allies and its own vital interests. Trump has implemented instead a policy of containment.
When critics claim that his strategy lacks an “endgame,” they are really expressing nostalgia for the clarity of Obama’s vision. The Iranian regime, Obama told us, was moderating, it was willing to dispense with its ambitions to become a nuclear weapons state and was eager to stabilize the Middle East in cooperation with the West. Taken together, these trends inevitably led to an attractive endgame: strategic accommodation between Washington and Tehran.
This vision, however, was a mirage. Events in Syria during Obama’s administration gave us a preview of the true consequences of his strategy. Out of a misguided belief that recognition of Syria as an Iranian sphere of interest would transform Tehran into an agent of stability, he made no attempt to counter the provocative new moves that Iran and Hezbollah made to save the Assad regime.
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We saw how much progress was made by the criminal GWB administration hard line on Iran vis e vie Nuclear enrichment. Thanks to them, Iran capability went from a few centrifuges to many thousands with the capability of enriching to a much higher level.
We of course saw the result of a push for diplomacy by the Obama admin and the results it achieved, IAEA has reported multiple times as how Iran is under the most observed nation regarding their nuclear program AND that they were abiding by the agreement.
Now, back to another hardliner not only breaking the US agreement, hence making the US untrustworthy but also pushing Iran to go where they did not want them to go.
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Embrace BDS movement and Reject occupation, If the bar code starts with 7 29 put it back on the shelf
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“The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King
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