Rosemary Kelanic, the director of the Middle East program at Defense Priorities, said the U.S. military strikes on Iranian boats have “certainly jeopardized” any progress made during the recent talks and provided Tehran with “another data point suggesting” Trump’s intentions “can’t be trusted.”
“Trump doesn’t seem to grasp that the main obstacles here are unrealistic U.S. demands coupled with a deep Iranian suspicion that the U.S. will renege on any deal, just as Trump did with the JCPOA,” Kelanic told The Hill on Tuesday, referencing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Obama-negotiated Iran nuclear deal that Trump pulled out of in 2018.
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