The United States and Iran had been negotiating a new nuclear deal, and Iran was finally ready to say, OK, here is what we are willing do. But Russia, asked by President Joe Biden to play an intermediary role, delayed action. The Iran deal should not embody any of the U.S. economic and other sanctions against Russia because of its Ukraine invasion, the invader insisted, meaning it would be out from under in a host of ways pleasing next to no one.
Well, this whole Iran business has long been proceeding in strange ways, and what we really need is not just a deal excluding Russia, but a treaty requiring a two-thirds approval in the Senate, a constitutional requirement safeguarding us and rule of law instead of rule by incompetent presidents.
If the original deal blessed by President Barack Obama had been a treaty, President Donald Trump could not simply have said, sorry, no more. And he would not have had to because there is no way a treaty would have contained such a lineup of stupidities.
