Isolated and besieged

摘要

IT IS dear whom President Donald Trump blames for the Middle East's problems. Iran's "corrupt dictatorship", he told the un General Assembly on September 25th, "sows chaos, death and disruption" in the region. It used the economic benefits of its deal with America and other world powers, which curbed Iran's nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief, to raise military spending and support terrorism, he claimed. So his administration pulled America out of the deal in May and launched "a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda".