Sanctions on Iran unlikely to get what White House wants
As the US president indicated Saturday, he wants a deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Only he wants "a new, more comprehensive" one. One that suffices to not only freeze Iran's nuclear program, but also reduces that country's influence across the Middle East.
He seems confident that the full reinstatement of sanctions on Monday will achieve that, or he would not have posted a Game of Thrones-inspired poster, featuring himself, in the now-familiar chin-up determined-look pose, declaring "sanctions are coming".
That trademark confidence of his positive thinking has no doubt been bolstered by the success of pressuring Mexico and Canada into renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and transforming it into what is now the more White House acceptable United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
