Regardless whether one believes the Iran nuclear deal was badly crafted, the Iranians were keeping their end of it. A foundation of trust in one area can be used to address other problems. I last discussed Iran in my “The Morning News” post last June. In my view the Trump administration has been trying to bait Iran into a conflict with extended sanctions and Iran has been conducting, directly and through proxies, asymmetric attacks on U.S. interests and allies. Overnight President trump ordered the assassination of the highest ranking Iranian general with a rocket attack on his motorcade at the Bagdad airport. So two questions, plenty of opportunities to kill this guy before so why now? And, supposedly he was planning some wider attack on U.S. interests, so if we knew about it, why not act against the attack rather than assassinate a high ranking leader? A sound defeat is a far greater deterrent to future attacks than making a martyr.
