Why Trump’s Peace Plan Is In Pieces

Trump’s latest attempt at a peace plan was a list of demands tantamount to Iran’s unconditional surrender. It requires Tehran to dismantle not only its nuclear enrichment programme, but also its ballistic missile arsenal, and network of regional alliances. For a country whose air force is obsolete, and whose supreme leader was just killed by Washington’s ally Tel Aviv, ballistic missiles are the last line of conventional deterrence.