{"id":11224,"date":"2018-06-12T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11224"},"modified":"2018-06-12T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T20:06:14","slug":"the-bad-iranian-deal-was-always-going-to-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-bad-iranian-deal-was-always-going-to-get-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Iranian Deal Was Always Going to Get Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">The more we learn about it \u2014 as Iranian and Obama-administration deceptions are uncovered \u2014 the more we know it was a disaster from the start.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>hen Donald Trump withdrew from the so-called Iran deal in early May, almost all conventional wisdom in Washington was aghast.<\/p>\n<p>The Left thought nullification would fast-track Iranian proliferation, incite more Iranian terrorism and adventurism, estrange our allies, and alienate a possible new friend.<\/p>\n<p>Many on the conservative side (aside from Never Trumpers who are against anything Trump is for, including their own prior policies) thought it would have been wiser to back out slowly, or at least to have waited first for the duplicitous Iranians to get caught in clear violations, or to coordinate a joint withdrawal with the Europeans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/06\/iran-nuclear-deal-disaster-from-the-start\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The more we learn about it \u2014 as Iranian and Obama-administration deceptions are uncovered \u2014 the more we know it was a disaster from the start. When Donald Trump withdrew from the so-called Iran deal in early May, almost all conventional wisdom in Washington was aghast. The Left thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1092,124,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2V2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11876,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/we-hold-all-the-cards-in-the-showdown-with-iran\/","url_meta":{"origin":11224,"position":0},"title":"We Hold All the Cards in the Showdown with Iran","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In May 2018, the Donald Trump Administration withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran, popularly known as the Iran nuclear deal. 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