If
there can be a lethal game of Russian roulette in international
politics, this is it — what just began on May 8, the first anniversary
of the United States’ withdrawal from
the Iran nuclear deal of July 2015. Iran exercised “strategic patience”
for one full year, as President Hassan Rouhani noted, upon the request
from the five remaining signatories of the nuclear deal — Britain,
France, Germany, Russia and China. [ 1,534 more word ]