The president is behaving as if the battleground is the same, but it isn\u2019t. Iran has leverage and knows it<\/p>\n
And so to war. Again. After a ceasefire and a hiatus, Donald Trump is now into the second day of a new phase of bombing Iran, with the US military claiming to have struck 170 Iranian targets in the past 48 hours.<\/p>\n
This is no surprise. Speaking at the Nato summit in Ankara this week, Donald Trump said he believed the US-Iran memorandum of understanding was \u201cover\u201d. He described Iran\u2019s leaders as \u201cevil, sick people\u201d and threatened renewed military action and even a new blockade of Iranian ports, while also leaving the door open to further negotiations.<\/p>\n
Sina Toossi is a senior non-resident fellow at the Center for International Policy, where his work focuses on US-Iran relations, US policy toward the Middle East and nuclear issues<\/p>\n
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