Wie der Entwurf eines Abkommens zwischen den USA und dem Iran Trumps Kriegszielen nicht gerecht wird

I am still waiting for the US and Iran to even agree about what is in their deal before I judge it.

But the journalist here is all acting “shocked, shocked !” that Iran is not being asked by the deal to limit their missiles, defund their proxies, and renounce peaceful uses of their nuclear program, as if all those were not Iranian political red lines they have repeatedly said they would never agree with.

The only way to change that would have been to overthrow the Iranian government and replace it with an American puppet, which may have been the stated overall goal of the US at the beginning of the war, but clearly did not happen and now has not even the beginning of a chance of happening, thanks to the rally around the flag effect that that war caused in Iran and the fact that the US are clearly politically unwilling to commit the military resources necessary to mount a successful large-scale invasion of the country (and do not even have them in the Middle East right now).

Downblending their uranium in exchange for removal of economic sanctions is clearly the only deal that Iran was ever ready to accept, and no wonder since it basically was the JCPOA that Iran agreed with a long time ago but that the US unilaterally pulled out of.

Trump is still going to tout as a victory the fact that “Iran renounced having nuclear weapons” as if Iran had not repeatedly stated they did not want nuclear weapons (officially).