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On the surface, President-elect Donald Trump’s destructive narrative speaks the language of bridge burning: a redux of the neoconservative years, when the US and its allies tried to coerce and bully Iran into submission. This is a distinct volte face of President Barack Obama’s extension of the olive branch, which culminated in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July 2015.
Trump’s contradictory discourses
Despite the usual soundbites against Iran and the use of sensationalist rhetoric – such as Iran potentially bringing on a nuclear holocaust – Trump was actually an early advocate of talking to Tehran. In December 2011, he told CNN that it was important to talk to Iran, good or bad. His tune was to radically change as expected of a mercurial and manic character: during his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention, he described the nuclear agreement as one of the worst deals in US history. He went so far as to tell the powerful Israeli lobby in the US that he would dismantle the watershed deal with Iran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said the election result will not affect Iran’s policies and that the nuclear accord cannot be dismissed by one government. Indeed, in June 2016, the White House emphasised that no one — including
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By Ghoncheh Tazmini
With protests flaring up around the country over a hike in fuel prices, the atmosphere in Iran is febrile. At the same time, it is eerily quiet with the near-total internet shutdown cutting the country off from the rest of the world. The disarray of the current situation has led to a flurry of speculation. On the Iranian side, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei blamed the violence in the protests on thugs, subversive elements and agitators from abroad, while President Hassan Rouhani declared that street unrest had been put down in a “victory” over “foreign enemies.”
With unbridled optimism,U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo attributed the demonstrations to the effectiveness of President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure campaign,” signaling that Iran was inching closer to fulfilling his illusionary aspirations of regime change. “The United States is with you,” he tweeted to the Iranian people, who have become not just “collateral damage,” but direct victims of Trump’s economic war against Iran. Grappling with economic hardship, Iranians have been cut off from basic necessities including access to life-saving medicines. In a perverse twist of logic, the hope is that human suffering will lead the Iranian people to ri