It’s a crisis that President Donald Trump predictably provoked by pulling out of the Iranian nuclear deal just over a year ago — with no real Plan B beyond imposing ever-tougher sanctions on the Iranian regime.
But the story gets more complicated, because in the last few weeks, Trump has sent mixed messages regarding his true intentions.
On Friday, he said he wanted to
talk to the Iranians (which they have rejected). Yet, in contrast, in May, Trump
tweeted that a war with Iran would be “the official end of Iran.” And after the US drone was shot down on Thursday, he
tweeted, “Iran made a very big mistake!”
