No, Trump Isn't Going to Make a Deal with Iran

To believe that Trump is interested in or capable of securing any new agreement with Iran requires us to ignore everything we know about him and his Iran policy.

Reuters reports that Trump made a new claim about dealing with Iran that no one can take seriously:

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday raised the idea of making a deal with Iran aimed at ending hostilities if he is elected president on Nov. 5.

"I would do that," Trump said, without offering details on what sort of deal he was talking about [bold mine-DL].

Trump talked about making some sort of a deal with Iran for years when he was president, but everything he did was designed to make an agreement impossible. First he tore up the existing agreement that Iran was adhering to, and then he launched his “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran for no good reason. In short order, Trump proved that he could not be trusted to honor an agreement with Iran and then poured salt in the wound with punitive sanctions aimed at wrecking Iran’s economy. Then he boasted about how much devastation the sanctions were causing. All the while he and his administration lackeys kept talking about the “better deal” that they were supposedly interested in having, but this was meaningless in light of Trump’s actual Iran policy.