Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“The upcoming negotiations between the United States and Iran may be the only way to avoid military conflict between the two countries. President Donald Trump, assuming that recent large public anti-regime protests have weakened the Iranian government, has taken what he sees as an opportunity to pressure the Iranians over their nuclear and ballistic missile programs and assistance to foreign groups in the Middle East. … The Iranians already seem willing to negotiate a deal similar to the one negotiated by Barack Obama in 2015 but loudly scrapped by the incoming Trump administration: Iran severely limits its enrichment of nuclear material and sends its stockpile of such material to a third country. It would not be the first time that Trump has made threats and then settled for a ‘for-show’ agreement similar to the one he could have gotten without the blustering.” (02/10/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/02/10/iran-art-retread/