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We Led Successful Negotiations With Iran. Trump’s Approach Isn’t Working.

Coercive diplomacy has worked before, but coercion without diplomacy will not.
Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

A year after abandoning the Iran nuclear agreement, President Donald Trump is doubling down on a risky and an ill-fated “maximum pressure” campaign. He’s tried to brand this strategy as a kind of coercive diplomacy, purportedly aimed at an elusive “better deal.” But so far, his strategy is all coercion and no diplomacy. His aggressive escalation of sanctions, the blustery rhetoric of his senior officials, and his administration’s lack of direct engagement with Tehran betray a fundamentally different

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