Don’t have any problem with Biden trying to find a potential off ramp with Putin. Trust he is not doing it to protect his own interests. not sure there was an equivalent for Trump with the anti Iran crowd. Think they were terrified if he ever got to table with Iran.
& did whatever they could to make sure it did not happen.
on the strategic catastrophe of Trump quitting the Iran deal, see most of the Israeli national security establishment has now gone on the record that it was a catastrophe, as was obvious then to most. a few of them say was bad he quit it with no plan for getting anything better.
think Trump would have been willing to make a deal with Iran, but he hired people who made sure that would not happen. and then he became convinced pleasing the anti Iran folks was something he could use for reelection, then do whatever he wanted.
adding to sense of the dynamics, I understand, when Trump attended the G7 in France in 2019, & Zarif came, Netanyahu was desperately trying to get Trump on the phone, (presumably to prevent him meeting Zarif), & jared told netanyahu that trump was too busy to take the call
got sense, the last few years, there were strong constraints from the Iran side too on potential openings for Zarif to meet Trump. including the attacks on saudi oil facility just before UNGA in Sept. 2019
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