Tag: USA-Iran Nuclear Deal

NOVANEWS By Jonathan Power TFF   The big mistake, apparently about to be made by President Trump, in undoing the nuclear agreement made by President Barack Obamawith Iran is not just that he intends to go backwards, it is that he doesn’t intend to go forwards. (To be fair, neither did Obama.) What the Iranians negotiated about was not so much the “bomb” – to be or not to be – but about their pride and their position in the world and their right to become a thriving economic and political power inured from sanctions or military threats. (Sanctions were imposed before the nuclear issue came to the fore.) The nuclear program was first and foremost about creating leverage so that Iran could regain the sort of respect that the offspring of the Persian Empire once was given. Secon...