Reading Donald J. Trump and JD Vance on Iran

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Given US President Trump's sterling record in confronting Iran – no other US president has actually gone to war against the radical Islamist regime and repeatedly backed Israel's wars of defense against Iran – one wants to give Trump the benefit of the doubt now too when he seeks to defang Iran diplomatically.

But the trash-talking about Israel by Trump and especially by his Vice President, JD Vance, makes this hard to do.

Dr. Michael Doran of the Washington-based Hudson Institute argues, almost convincingly, that Trump is buying time, not surrendering to Iran.

But Trump is prone to conjuring-up huge and historic "peace" deals, believing his own rhetoric even when it flies in the face of reality, and then moving on – leaving allies on their own to deal with messy, very warlike, aftermaths. See Ukraine and Gaza, and now perhaps Lebanon and Iran too.

Thus, in the real world – not an imaginary world of grand civilizational peace and a "new era of US-Iranian relations with some very nice and responsible Iranian leaders" who whimsically reflect "regime change" in Tehran, according to Trump – America's "temporary concessions" to Iran are not easily reversible.