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Source: https://sethfrantzman.com/2018/05/09/how-trump-took-away-irans-war-card/
The U.S. Takes Away Iran's "War" Card
(SethFrantzman.com) Seth Frantzman - Iran concluded around 2013 that the U.S. was very reticent to get involved in any more conflicts in the region. So it successfully packaged the Iran deal as the answer to "another war." It gambled that American policy-makers would buy this idea that to stop a "new war" required doing whatever the Iranian regime wanted. This leverage has now been taken away from Iran. There was never a threat of a "new war," at least not between the U.S. and Iran. There was always the threat that Iran's war-mongering might spread throughout the Middle East, as it did anyway, with or without the "deal."