Five Reasons Why Trump Is Moving Towards War with Iran
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By Dr. Trita Parsi
LobeLog
Make no mistake: We do not have a crisis over the Iran nuclear deal. It is working and everyone from Secretary Mattis and Tillerson to the US and Israeli intelligence services to the International Atomic Energy Agency agree: Iran is adhering to the deal. But Trump is about to take a working deal and turn it into a crisis–an international crisis that very likely can lead to war. While the decertification of the Iran deal that Trump is scheduled to announce on Friday in and of itself doesn’t collapse the deal, it does trigger a process that increases the risk of war in the following five ways.
1. If the deal collapses, so does the restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program
The nuclear deal, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) ...