The Iran Deal Wasn’t Killed by Mistake — It Was Murdered for Your Attention
The collapse of the Iran nuclear deal wasn’t a strategic blunder — it was a deliberate act of domestic political theater. Trump’s withdrawal was engineered to signal strength at home, not to secure a better agreement abroad. The resulting crisis was a feature of the strategy, not a bug. This analysis explains why performative politics is dismantling international security, and what it means for the future of nuclear proliferation.