Will Trump's Iran Deal Ploy Work?

But if preventing Iran from acquiring the material needed to build a nuclear weapon is a critical U.S. national security priority, the Trump administration cannot sit on its hands and hope its negotiating partners come around to its position. The Trump administration can’t base a policy on hope. Instead, the White House needs to get real and focus on approaches which have at least a marginal chance of working.

Daniel R. DePetris is a world affairs columnist for Reuters, a frequent contributor to the American Conservative and the National Interest, and a foreign policy analyst based in New York, NY

Image: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about Iran and the Iran nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque​