Perhaps we forgot what it’s like when politicians act on their promises.
Perhaps our enemies forgot as well.
For decades, American presidents — Democratic and Republican — have said the theocratic dictatorship in Iran cannot have nuclear weapons.
For decades, those same administrations were strung along by the ayatollahs.
American negotiators — like their European counterparts — sat through years of negotiations.
And every time, the revolutionary government in Iran got closer to the bomb.
Well, not this time.
As Trump envoy Steve Witkoff described in an interview with Fox News this week, even during last month’s negotiations, the Iranians were playing their old games.
The Iranian team sat down opposite Witkoff and Jared Kushner and boasted about how much enriched uranium they had.
The Iranian team wanted America to know they had the capacity to make at least 11 nuclear bombs in a matter of days.
Perhaps the Iranians had become used to weak and ineffectual foreign governments.
Perhaps they thought this administration was like all its predecessors.
Perhaps they imagined this administration in Washington is like all those governments in Paris and London that said they were against crazed fanatics having nuclear weapons but never intended to do anything about it — apart from sitting around another conference table in Geneva.
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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.
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