Trump’s Iran Strategy Is Helping China
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July 12, 2019
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The Trump administration tends to view Iran in isolation or as a Middle Eastern problem—a regional nemesis with nuclear ambitions that threatens Israel and America’s Arab allies. This is a mistake. Iran sits at the critical cross section of the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and the vital trade routes cutting across the Asian continent. At the moment, though Donald Trump doesn’t seem to see it, the administration’s Iran policy is reverberating across the globe and helping China in particular, in part by hurting the U.S.’s staunch ally, India.
Iran is a foreign-policy priority for the administration. Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal among Iran, the U.S., and five other world powers, and now wants Iran to come to the table for fresh negotiations in pursuit of a stricter agreement. Trump’s advisers may also be aiming for more: regime change in Tehran. Their instrument of choice is maximum economic pressure—ever-tightening sanctions that will cut Iran off from the world economy. But Iran has so far refused to budge; it has responded by escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf and threatening to resume full-scale nuclear activity.
Iran is a foreign-policy priority for the administration. Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal among Iran, the U.S., and five other world powers, and now wants Iran to come to the table for fresh negotiations in pursuit of a stricter agreement. Trump’s advisers may also be aiming for more: regime change in Tehran. Their instrument of choice is maximum economic pressure—ever-tightening sanctions that will cut Iran off from the world economy. But Iran has so far refused to budge; it has responded by escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf and threatening to resume full-scale nuclear activity.
By Vali Nasr | 12 July 2019
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