The Trump administration has given Iran a two-month ultimatum for a new nuclear deal, as part of a longstanding U.S. strategy to isolate and weaken Iran in the region.

While President Trump has suggested drastic measures may be applied if Iran doesn’t meet the deadline, neither he nor anyone in his administration has explained under what authority the US has created this deadline, with what authority it intends to enforce it with, or how the threat of this war of aggression differs from the long line of US wars of aggression President Trump campaigned for office vowing to end.

The Trump administration is posing as if its primary motivation is to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons as part of a wider narrative regarding US leadership in maintaining peace and stability worldwide. In reality, this most recent escalation is part of a wider US policy spanning multiple presidential administrations aimed at dismantling Iran’s network of allies across the region, isolating Iran, before pursuing regime change operations against Iran itself.

With the removal of a sovereign Iran in the Middle East, the US can advance a decades-spanning agenda of establishing and maintaining primacy both over the Middle East and well beyond it – an agenda that has served in actuality as the single greatest threat to peace and stability worldwide.

If Real – Iranian Nuclear Weapons Would Be Rational, Not Radical 

It should be noted that the US is the only nation on Earth in human history to use nuclear weapons against another nation – twice. Throughout post-WW2 history, the US has considered using nuclear weapons again – including against North Korea, China, Vietnam, and even Afghanistan. This, combined with a long history of conventional wars of aggression, makes the US the most dangerous nuclear-armed nation on Earth – its belligerence a key factor in driving nations like China and North Korea to develop and expand their nuclear programs in the first place.

Regarding Iran specifically, the US has created a decades-spanning national security threat to Tehran including regime change in 1953 as part of Operation Ajax, decades of economic sanctions meant to strangle Iran’s economy, the sponsoring of armed opposition groups inside Iran including listed terrorist organizations, as well as backing proxy wars against Iran – most notably the deadly 8 year Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, as well as proxy wars against Iranian allies arraying Israel, Al-Qaeda*, and the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS*) against Lebanon-based Hezbollah, Syria, Iranian-friendly militias in Iraq, as well as Ansar Allah in Yemen.

The US has also invaded and destroyed nations bordering Iran to the east and to the west – beginning with........

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