Last week, my column dealt with U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration that the “Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete” — it isn’t — and the release of the White House’s “Talking Points” on the infamous “Memorandum of Understanding” that has been signed and is now being sold (unconvincingly) by Vice-President JD Vance, who has suddenly reappeared on the scene.

And as we expected, the MOU — supposedly so amazing that the Trump administration refused to publish it until after it was signed — is just awful, demonstrating in 14 vomit-inducing points why Trump has essentially lost the war that he started. All of it is built on the insane assumption that any agreement with the Iranian regime is worth more than the paper it’s printed on. It is also fattened up by the inclusion of an awful lot of promises regarding the respect of sovereignty, the refraining from interfering in each other’s internal affairs and commitments to future negotiations. This also basically amounts to........

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