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President Trump has not only led a historic military victory against Iran, but he has asserted control over the Strait of Hormuz, thereby controlling Iran's ability to sell its oil and choke the Iranian economy in hopes of forcing the regime to make a deal or collapse.
Those are two very distinct objectives - to make a deal or collapse.
So the question is, which is preferable?
So let's dig into this further.
If the goal is to take down the regime, two of three most important conditions have already been achieved.
The destruction of virtually its entire military capacity and economic control over their economy.
These are two historic successes on their own, on their own.
If the goal is to get a deal, the issue is not only what kind of deal, but can the deal stick?
That is, how do we know if the enemy will adhere to the terms of a deal, especially after President Trump leaves office?
Well, let's look at the Iranian regime's record.
Rather than recounting the scores of examples, evidence, if you will, that the regime has violated every deal it has ever signed with any international organization, any country or any group of countries, there simply is no evidence that the regime has ever honored ANY deal.
Even the Obama nuclear disastrous deal, which ensured that Iran would have a nuclear weapon within 10 to 12 years of its signing, was violated by the Iranian regime, even though it would hand them nuclear weapons, effectively.
Why would the Iranian regime violate a deal that ensures it would have nuclear weapons in a decade or so?
Because it felt no obligation to adhere to any deal and it wanted to develop nuclear weapons to break out as fast as it could.
So to be clear, even a deal in which the Iranian regime would, in fact, be able to secure nuclear weapons was violated by the Iranian regime repeatedly and in scores of ways.
Monitoring, unannounced inspections, and the like, were all eventually defied by the Iranian regime.