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Can the United States repeat its Venezuela success in Iran?

Can the Trump administration do in Iran what it pulled off in Venezuela last month?

That was the tantalizing question posed by Paul Pillar, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies (with 28 years’ experience in the CIA before that), at a Thursday gathering in Washington, DC.

The occasion was a Center for the National Interest panel on what comes next for Iran, with experts Sina Azodi, director of Middle East Studies at George Washington University, and Alex Vatanka, Middle East Institute senior fellow, weighing in.

Pillar is a longtime critic of America’s foreign policy, and no one would mistake him for a MAGA supporter — but his question showed how President Trump has changed the conversation in Washington.

A week earlier, in the same room, I was shocked to hear an alumnus of the Clinton and Biden administrations — former State Department official James Rubin — likewise acknowledge how Trump has remade the foreign-policy game, in ways even his opponents sometimes have to admit are for the better.

Jacob Heilbrunn, the editor of The National Interest magazine, asked Rubin whether Trump’s successful capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro has cured America of the modern equivalent of “Vietnam syndrome” — a reluctance to use force born of the nation’s bitter experience with “forever wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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