The Iran Regime-Change Crew Is Back
That probably spells doom for the nuclear deal.
Among the most strident critics of the nuclear deal with Iran are those who believe it furthers the survival of its leadership. By throwing Iran’s rulers an economic lifeline, they believe, the deal is an abject failure. America’s goal, they say, should never have been “denuclearization,” but regime change.
These days, those regime-change evangelists having shrugged off the lessons of the Iraq war, are back at the helm of U.S. foreign policy. John Bolton, Donald Trump’s new national-security adviser, has long advocated regime change in Iran, and more recently has that the administration should openly embrace it as a foreign-policy goal.At the same time, Bolton and his ilk are pushing for a denuclearization
