Reuters ran a long story yesterday on how what Trump is seeking is “JCPOA 2,” an agreement that is very close to the original 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but with a much longer time frame. Trump killed the first JCPOA in 2018, much to the delight of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who tried every trick he knew to get it killed in 2015. Now, Netanyahu wants to bomb Iran, but is not getting the support he needs from Trump to do so..
“The pivot to negotiations with Iran in April was a shock for Netanyahu, who had flown to Washington seeking Trump’s backing for military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities and learned less than 24 hours before a joint White House press event that U.S. talks with Iran were starting within days, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.”
