First, hawks in Washington told us Iran wouldn’t comply with the nuclear deal. But Iran did. Then they told us that it didn’t matter that Iran was complying because the deal was lousy and the US could secure a much better one if it pulled out and imposed even harsher sanctions, thus denying ordinary Iranians things like life-saving medicines. But rather…
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