Why Washington keeps hitting a wall with Iran

You know that old temptation in American foreign policy — the idea that if you’re strong enough, you can just force reality to go your way? Under Donald Trump, that belief has turned into the main playbook, especially with Iran. It’s not really a clever strategy anymore. It’s more like a high-risk gamble built on a shaky assumption: that raw power decides who’s right, and if you squeeze hard enough, any opponent will eventually cave. At the center of it all is this “maximum pressure” campaign — crushing sanctions, trying to isolate Iran diplomatically, and always keeping the threat of military action in the background. The aim is to make Tehran surrender on pretty much everything: its nuclear program, its […]