Iran’s costly statecraft failures

UANI Policy Director Jason Brodsky writes: "The decision by the UK, France and Germany to trigger the U.N. snapback sanctions mechanism is a symptom of larger failures in Iranian statecraft since President Trump took office. When he assumed the presidency for a second term in January, the Iranian leadership had three objectives: to thwart the European invocation of the snapback sanctions mechanism; to lure the US government into a nuclear deal modelled after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) (despite President Trump withdrawing from that same agreement in 2018), and to avoid an Israeli and/or US military strike. Tehran has failed in all three."