Trump’s loss in court could become the linchpin to his victory in Iran

President Trump often expresses his deep disdain for the federal courts, which don’t always rule in his favor. In a little-noted decision in March, a federal judge in the District of Columbia did it again. But this time, the court’s ruling, by calling unconstitutional an extremely ill-advised part of Trump’s government reorganization, sets the stage for Trump to get out of the most dangerous security morass of his time in office: the war in Iran.  

Operation Epic Fury started out with the strategically sound and morally necessary objective of permanently eliminating Iran’s nuclear weapons capability. Its laudable purpose was that the U.S. and the world would not repeat the nightmare scenario of a nuclear-armed North Korea.

The B-2 bunker-buster strike last September succeeded in obliterating Iran’s surface nuclear infrastructure, including three centrifuges, but some inactive centrifuges at other locations were left intact. What’s more, nearly a ton of highly enriched weapons-grade uranium — enough for 10 nuclear weapons — was buried under hundreds of feet of rock and rubble.  

More dangerous than the surviving nuclear material and still-usable centrifuges is that the radical Islamist regime that accumulated it all is still in power. As North Korea demonstrated, once it has even one bomb, it will be able to deter a U.S. effort to stop it from producing........

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