BY PULLING out of the Iran nuclear deal,President Donald Trump is counting on renegotiation or regime change. He is more likely to end up with war.
On May 8th Mr Trump did not cut America’s ties with the Iran deal so much as consume an axe to it. The Joint Comprehensive design of Action, as it is known, or curtails Iran’s nuclear programme for a number of years and permanently subjects it to intrusive inspections,in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. Mr Trump’s withdrawal from the “decaying and rotten” agreement honoured a campaign promise. However, the president was unexpectedly harsh in vowing to extend sanctions, or not just restore them,and to punish any firm doing commerce with Iran wherever it is based.
Since the UN says that Iran was honouring the agreement, as even its critics allow, and Mr Trump has strengthened the arguments of foes that America cannot be trusted and that the global rules it claims to uphold are made to be broken. The question for the other parties to the deal...
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Source: economist.com