The Trump administration is once again engaging with the Iranian regime, this time in Oman, to encourage it to end its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs the way Libya’s late leader Muammar Ghaddafi did. As US President Donald J. Trump transparently put it: “I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them.”
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has called for direct talks with Iran, in the apparent belief that a fresh deal — tougher, broader and more binding than the Obama administration’s 2105 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — could prevent Iran from an imminent nuclear weapons breakout.
