As Trump attacks Iran, his 2017 abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal looks even worse [View all]

This is what happens when you elect a moron, and he chooses to appoint morons to run the show.


The international agreement with Iran did exactly what it set out to do: The policy dramatically curtailed Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and established a rigorous system of monitoring and verification. Once the policy took effect, each of the parties agreed that the participants were holding up their end of the bargain, and Iran’s nuclear program was, at the time, on indefinite hold.
In broad strokes, Obama set out to use economic sanctions to get Iran to the international negotiating table. That worked, and a breakthrough agreement eventually followed. Trump came to believe he could duplicate the strategy by abandoning the policy, restoring the old sanctions and adding new ones. This was known as the Republican’s “maximum pressure” campaign

That didn’t happen. Trump’s approach failed.

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/as-trump-attacks-iran-his-2017-abandonment-of-the-iran-nuclear-deal-looks-even-worse