In a news conference held after signing the nuclear deal with Iran, President Obama, who had reached the pinnacle of his foreign policy toward Iran, expressed hope “to have conversations with Iran that incentivize them to behave differently in the region, to be less aggressive, less hostile, more cooperative, to operate the way we expect nations in the international community to behave.” He also stipulated that the U.S. would continue to engage Iran to cooperate in resolving issues in Syria and Iraq, and to stop encouraging Houthis in Yemen. Last Thursday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner admitted just how misplaced those hopes were by saying, “[W]e continue to see Iranian behavior in the region that is, frankly, not positive, that is unconstructive.” A year after the nuclear deal came into effect, not only has the Iranian regime failed to manifest a modicum of cooperation on the crises riddling the region, but it has also grown bolder in its...(Read Full Post)