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Trump’s Iran plan puts Obama’s cowardly nuke deal to shame

President Donald Trump this week announced he’d postpone US strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure to give time to negotiate a ceasefire.

“I think it could very well end up being a very good deal for everybody,” he told journalists.

It’s not entirely clear who exactly the White House is bargaining with, or whether those officials will have the power to implement an agreement.

We do, however, know what a “good deal” looks like, which is, more or less, everything former President Barack Obama’s Iran deal wasn’t.

A popular talking point among left-wing punditry maintains that the off-ramp Trump is seeking for his allegedly unpopular and failed war looks exactly like the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

That’s the deal Obama struck with the mullahs years ago, which Trump ripped up in 2018.

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But it’s clearly untrue.

The Obama deal’s restrictions, as feeble as they were, would have sunset by now.

Under the JCPOA, Iran was not only allowed to continue uranium enrichment — it wasn’t compelled to decommission any of its reactors.

Nor did the Obama deal put any limits on the Iranian ballistic missile program, not even on intercontinental ballistic missiles that could carry nuclear warheads.

Incidentally, though the regime........

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