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Trump’s moment of truth in Iran is coming — and taking a bad deal would burn his legacy

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President Donald Trump is facing a moment of maximum peril in his handling of Iran — one that will shape his legacy, America’s stature and perhaps the course of history itself.

We are now entering the sixth week of a two-week cease-fire that was agreed to on the pre-condition the Strait of Hormuz would be opened immediately.

Yet it never opened, and Iran continues to attack our Arab allies — while it dithers and strings out talks. What gives?

The prez’s big risk: Political pressure over the midterms and the buzzing of isolationists in Trump’s own camp might nudge him to take any deal that lets him declare victory, save face and bug out of Iran.

This would be a catastrophic mistake, comparable almost to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler at Munich in 1938.

It would burn his legacy on the bonfire of political expediency.

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