Trump’s foolish Iran diplomacy

Saturday’s U.S.-Iran proximity negotiations highlighted the choice between two very divergent futures for Tehran’s nuclear weapons program. One path would have Washington re-enter witless negotiations with the ayatollahs, with no evidence they have made a strategic decision to abandon their decadeslong quest for weapons of mass destruction. The alternative is military action against Tehran’s nuclear facilities or the regime itself to eliminate any chance of Iran becoming a nuclear weapons power.

By agreeing to further negotiations next week, President Donald Trump’s delegation took at least one step down the first path. This will prove to be a serious, perhaps deadly, mistake.

The Obama and Biden administrations also followed the first path, leading to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, perhaps the most flawed international agreement in American history.  The

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