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Alistair Campbell

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

It's a video.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

It's a stadium full of people watching videos of old martial arts fights.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

And Trump is really weirdly flirting with the male fighters.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

He's hanging out with the ridiculous Infantino.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

Rubio is doing silly poses.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

And it's just not serious.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

And our newsletter, the people apparently really like it when we recommend Reads of the Week.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

My read of the week, as so often, is in Foreign Affairs magazine.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

And I don't know if you saw it, Federica Mogherini, she led the negotiations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

And she's written a piece with Saeed al-Shah, who was one of the people who was involved in the architecture around what became known as the JCPA.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

And so what this article sets out, first of all,

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

They worry that the lesson that Tehran has drawn from the recent weeks is not that restraint on nukes brings security, but that if you're vulnerable, you invite an attack.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

They argue the argument for retaining the nuclear option is probably stronger now than it was.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

They then go on to say that that means that just as it was when they did that agreement,

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

which I think took – going on for 10 years, involving several countries.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

You had China, US, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, and the European Union.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

It went on for more than a decade.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

And it was the only time that Iran actually did start to –

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

identifiably pull back on parts of their nuclear program.

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The Rest Is Politics
521. Trump’s Naval Blockade: Is America Becoming a Rogue State?

They're basically saying that the diplomacy is the only viable way to get this thing back on track.

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