Trump's history with the Iran Nuclear Agreement. Source: Digby

Timeline: 2014: Trump says Obama will invade Iran because he’s not a good enough negotiator to get a deal with them
2015: Obama, with the backing of the EU, China, Russia and others, gets a deal with them
2018: Trump cancels deal because it was Obama’s and says he can negotiate a better one.
2018-2020: Trump can’t negotiate one. Arms control experts and Trump officials start to grumble that scrapping Obama’s deal was probably a bad idea.
2025: Trump still can’t negotiate a new deal
2025: Israel launches an attack on Iran. Drags Trump in. Trump claims Iran’s nuclear capacity was wiped out
2025-2026: Trump still can’t negotiate a deal
2026: Trump launches a regime change war on Iran, at Israel’s goading

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