Why Saudi Arabia, Israel praise Trump’s Iran nuclear-deal strategy

If it’s a choice between Iranian nuclear weapons some time after 2025 or in one or two years’ time, why would they prefer the latter? Yet they do.

United States President Donald Trump, pictured in August, says Iran has gone against the 'spirit' of the nuclear treaty it reached with world powers including the U.S. in 2015.White House photograph by Andrea Hanks

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 18, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—Five months ago, during Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, he was invited to open the “Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology.” (I’m not making that up.) The huge, darkened room he was in looked like a cross between a starship bridge and a television control room. A...

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