The Benefits of Trump’s Transactionalism
At the UN, the president managed to skate between two seemingly conflicting realities: intense opposition to the Islamic Republic, and acceptance of its role as a regional power broker.
President Donald Trump’s remarks on Iran to the UN Security Council on Wednesday were, in many ways, predictable: He accused the Iranian regime of exporting “violence, terror, and turmoil,” and made the case for why the Islamic Republic should never obtain nuclear weapons. And then he said something that wasn’t so predictable. “With all of this said, I want to thank Iran, Russia, and Syria for, at my very strong urging and request, substantially slowing down their attack on Idlib
