of the iran deal, and that may have led iran to retaliate? well, of course, it led iran to retaliate. as we ve said, many times, trump, his favorite weapon is the dollar. the weaponized dollar. now he has turned that up to max, right? he really wants to starve iran as much as possible. okay. what s iran supposed to do. surrender? no, it s not going to surrender. he may want to give it, in fact, i think he is trying to give it a way out by talking to him, but it is not going to go farther or significantly farther than the jcpao, the joint comprehensive plan of action that limited its nuclear development before, under president obama. this is one of these cases where he s created a crisis, and if he resolves the crisis, that he created, it will wind up looking very much like whatever existed before. christopher, the washington post reports that trump is caught between a political