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U.S. Goes It Alone to Keep Weapons Out of Iran
Having burned bridges with Europe, the Trump administration will have to get by without even a little help from America’s friends.
Going it alone.
Photographer: Alex Ellinghausen/The Sydney Morning Herald
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The foreign-policy chickens are coming to the White House to roost, as the U.S. makes its final, doomed effort to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Iran.
Having needlessly antagonized European leaders from the start of his presidency, Donald Trump cannot now rely on them to back the U.S. in any effort to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring powerful new weapons.