Fmr. State Dep’t Adviser: If Iran Retaliates, Is Trump Going To Hit Them Again and Again? It’s Not a Strategy

‘What is he going to do next now?’

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NASR: “No, I don’t think you’re sort of expecting necessarily that the Iranians would react as he’s done. Two years ago, he came out of the nuclear deal, he put enormous amount of economic pressure on Iran, believing that Iran would come to the table without any need for military action. He was proven wrong. In fact, by killing soleimani, he’s admitting that his policy of economic pressure didn’t work. I mean, let’s not forget that this crisis was created by President Trump. Even if soleimani was an imminent threat, it’s an imminent threat that President Trump created. When he took office, relations between the United States and Iran were fairly stable. In fact, soleimani was tacitly cooperating with the U.S. military in fighting ISIS. Militias loyal to Iran were not lobbing rockets into American bases in 2016. This is all a consequence of a policy that President Trump has followed and every time he fails, he just doubles down on the policy further. And now he’s got to a position where the way Iran reads this, is that the United States is now an existential threat. There’s no room for talking, there’s no point talking to him. And they’re willing to defend themselves. And the very fact that they were able to bring millions of people into the streets gives them the confidence to believe that they have their country behind them in order to stand up to the United States and that actually puts the president in a pickle. What is he going to do next now?”

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