Donald Trump’s long-awaited deal with Iran is here. While the U.S. and Iran are essentially kicking the can down the road with an extension of the ceasefire agreement, the two sides are beginning to reveal what an eventual permanent agreement could look like.
A neoconservative, pro-Israel coalition of Washington Republicans and commentators in the media sphere has been some of Trump’s loudest defenders since the war with Iran began on February 28. In the House and Senate, many were eager to defend the objectives of Trump’s war with Iran even as those objectives shifted from their original lofty aims of ending Iran’s ballistic missile threat and potentially even toppling the government to reopening the Strait of Hormuz and eradicating Iran’s nuclear stockpile.
