When it comes to the potential of achieving a lasting US-Iran deal centred on the country’s nuclear program, headlines have been changing rapidly, on a daily basis, as the spectre of another US-led regime change war in the Middle East looms. Axios is reporting that the latest big diplomatic option the Trump White House is mulling is a proposal that allows Iran “token” nuclear enrichment – but with no path to a bomb, according to unnamed US officials. But alongside this are the typical ‘military options’ which have been reported for weeks, with Trump currently said to be considering ‘limited’ strikes, or even decapitation attacks to take out the Ayatollah and top leadership – though concerns are this would unleash uncontrollable full war, given Tehran’s retaliation would likely be all-out. Axios says of negotiations and the “token” enrichment option – that “This suggests there could be an opening, if only a small one, between the red lines set by the U.S. and Iran for a deal to constrain Iran’s nuclear capabilities and prevent war.” The unspoken irony and contradiction in all of this – which the Iranians are fully aware of – is that this is precisely what the original Iran JCPOA nuclear deal under Obama aimed for. Trump, of […]