With ‘warmonger’ John Bolton gone, will Trump soften on Iran?
Bolton’s presumed primacy in formulating Trump’s Iran policy made it easy for critics to dismiss the assertions by Trump that he did not want a war
15 September 2019 - 07:45
Critics of the Trump administration’s Iran policy despised John Bolton. Now they’re going to miss him.
Ever since US President Donald Trump abrogated the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the major world powers,the world has assumed his administration has been itching for a war with the Islamic Republic. Among Iranians, many Europeans, and not a few of Trump’s domestic opponents, the administration’s actions invited facile comparisons to the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq...
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