(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - The U.S. pursuit of a new nuclear deal looks increasingly bizarre. Another provocation from Tehran came Sunday in a missile attack near a U.S. consulate under construction in northern Iraq. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it carried out a missile attack on what it claimed were Israeli targets inside Iraq, saying it was in response to an Israeli airstrike in Syria last week that killed two IRGC commanders. Iran's missile attack shows the incongruity of the looming nuclear deal. It would do nothing to restrict Iran's support for regional terror groups. It includes no restrictions on Iran's missile program that is growing more sophisticated and dangerous. The U.S. condemned the missile strike, yet is eager to give Iran countless billions that it can use to fund more such attacks.
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