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What Trump should tell Netanyahu.

A few weeks ago, I urged President Trump to make a deal with Iran that would satisfy his stated goal of no nuclear weapon production and would allow

Iran to continue its lawful pursuit of civilian nuclear energy.

The deal on the table as described by the Iranian Foreign Minister himself was a win-win

update of Obama's JCPOA nuclear deal that he could have

avoided a costly and counterproductive war with Iran. Unfortunately, the negotiations were cut

short by an Israeli sneak attack on Iran that led to a 12-day war that did not turn out as Israel imagined.

This often happens in war, especially wars of aggression.

After a day or so, Israel found itself overwhelmed by an Iran that proved

to be more than capable of defending itself, and Netanyahu called up Uncle Sam begging for

assistance. The resulting U.S. bombing run on Iran's nuclear sites did not lead to the end

of this country's capabilities, but to the expulsion of the UN monitoring organization

and the emergence of Iranian strategic ambiguity regarding its program.

In short, the bombing has blinded the world to what Iran may do in the future.

That is, not a wind for Trump.

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, the Iranian president confirmed what most

people understood at the time. President Trump promised Iran that while they were engaged in

negotiations, the United States would not allow Israel to attack the country.

With the sixth round of negotiations just two days away, however,

Israel thumbed the snows at the United States and launched an attack on Iran anyway.

Considering that Israel's military capabilities are almost entirely provided by the United States,

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